Open Education Resources (OER), E-Textbooks, & Library Materials

Reporting and documentaries to help understand the financial crisis, Wall Street, the middle class, personal finance matters and more, plus investigations exposing global corporate corruption.

Open textbooks in business and economics.

Find OER, OA, in Business, Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Management and Finance.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

From Boston University, find a list of links to open access business cases.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Over 1,000,000 open access resources, including case studies, articles, and books.

List of open textbooks in economics.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Over 200,000 full-text working, conference papers, & more.

The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet.

Three-dimensional photographic images of human anatomy using innovations in dissection

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.

Collection of open access books in the health sciences.

Searchable collection of scientific photos, illustrations, and videos.

Find open textbooks on nursing, allied health, anatomy & physiology, medicine, health and fitness, nutrition, pharmacology, and more.

Open textbooks in all aspects healthcare.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Find freely available online sources in architecture.

Check this page for images and more.

Peer-populated platform for art history teachers.

List of open art from Open Florida, FLVC Library Services.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of pieces of art, and share your own collection.

An education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined modern through contemporary art.

Discover the story of art and global culture through The Met collection.

Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, and contemplate the façades of the Louvre.

Publishes and provides free digital content about a variety of subjects on histories of art.

Read online or print out for free or order bound copies.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages.

Discover images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

A digital anthology of early visions of Florida from the USF St. Petersburg.

Public domain images, historical information, & more.

Contains cultural heritage materials, freely accessible online.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Check this page for content.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

A LibGuide on OA and OER resources from the Women and Gender Studies Section of ACRL.

Resources and programming created and curated for instructors and students.

Open Educational Resources for the public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.).

Thematic dictionary comparing the lexical features of the contemporary Uzbek literary language and the Tashkent dialect.

Find reviews and links to OER materials for Haitian Creole language learning.

Find reviews and links to OER materials for Japanese language learning.

Find reviews and links to OER materials for Korean language learning.

Find reviews and links to OER materials for Mandarin language learning.

Wide range of OER for teaching and learning including online activities, textbooks, workbooks, and readings across many languages.

Network of open educational resources including instructional language teaching materials and professional development.

Find reviews and links to OER materials for Portuguese language learning.

by Tomonori Nagano, LaGuarida OER Seminar.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Video instructional series from Annenberg Learning, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.

Find open textbooks in psychology.

Free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials in the field of psychology.

Open and free platform for computational research, education, and collaboration in nanotechnology, materials science, and related fields. Includes simulation tools & more.

Online educational resources for teaching and learning in STEM disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.

Offers more than 4,000 titles in PDF format. All of the PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.

Textbooks, video and interactive content experiences for STEM education.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Open-code resource using dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and other fields.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Short videos about various aspects of biology. Includes transcripts and subtitles for hearing impaired.

Aims to support teaching practical biology in Higher Education, and the resources featured on the site include lab and field work protocols, data handling exercises, videos of techniques and multimedia alternatives to wet lab work.

Data-rich activities, case studies, videos and interactive media, the resources are designed to connect students to big ideas in biology, promote engagement with science practices, and instill awe and wonder about the living world.

A project from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the goals are to support instructors interested in improving chemistry education through interactive and engaging online activities.

Digital chemistry tutorials developed by Dr. Sarah Sheeley to explain common sticking points for general chemistry students.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, guides through the entire laboratory experience, from before entering the lab to after receiving a report.

Online workbook developed for senior undergraduate and graduate students learning to solve the structures of organic compounds from spectroscopic data.

Free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations that are tested and evaluated by students.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Open chemistry database with information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and more.

Open computer and information technology textbooks from NAP.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Free and open access to biodiversity data.

Explore birds, amphibians, mammals, and more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.

Free suite of math software tools including graphing and scientific calculators, as well as free digital classroom activities.

Digital library of transportation information and information products and services for use by US DOT, other Federal agencies, and the public. Check the Digital Repository (ROSA P) for books, pamphlets, and more.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Includes one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science, taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates, as well as more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

Joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists. The BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos are primary research data in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.

A software system for numerical analysis of the incompressible Navier-Stokes flow in channel geometries, written in C++.

Free suite of math software tools including graphing and scientific calculators, as well as free digital classroom activities.

Designed to help teachers and learners find, and use, high quality resources through web-based collections and services tailored to their specific needs.

Public lectures, teaching material, interviews with leading academics, and more. All material is arranged within a series of related talks or lectures and may be in audio, video or document format.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Online, free to use physics website developed primarily for beginning physics students and teachers.

High-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.

High-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.

Use the search limiters to narrow by education level, material type (i.e. Textbooks) and subject.

From the University of Washington Libraries.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Videos on science and research, archaeology, cultures of the world and more.

A collaborative project with Indiana University and the University of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnographic video. Consists of video collections that have been selected by an editorial committee, and annotations have gone through a scholarly review process.

Videos on the study of human history and diversity sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Multimedia resources for K-12 classroom instruction and teacher professional development.

Video-based educational content in one YouTube Channel covering subjects at all levels of education.

Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

From the American Geophysical Union (AGU), video series of short Earth and space science-related videos, complete with teacher guides and other resources.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

Includes textbooks, courses, interactive simulations, videos, course materials, & more.

A resource for using video and pop culture to teach and learn sociology.

Find music to go with sociological concepts.