Research Guides: Open Educational Practices: Find & Adopt OER

Find Open Textbooks

OpenStax
Free and open textbooks (able to be edited/adapted) published by Rice University. Great for general education courses.
Open Textbook Library
Free and open textbooks (able to be edited/adapted) supported by the Open Education Network.
Pressbooks Directory
A searchable catalog of open books. Check the license to determine if books can be edited/adapted.
BC Open Collection
Find free, open, and customizable materials by course or subject.
SUNY Geneseo Milne Open Textbooks
A collection of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
LibreText Commons
Open Educational Resources from a collection of libraries.
Open Research Library
Free and open access (OA) collection of books representing different disciplines.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.

Find Other OER (learning objects, curricula, etc.)

OER Commons
A public digital collection of open educational resources from all disciplines.
MERLOT
Access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.
Mason OER Metafinder
Search multiple open repositories for open educational content.
Teaching Commons
This repository brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities.

Find Open Images

Wikimedia Commons
A collection of over 1 million freely usable media files.
Flickr Creative Commons
A collection of images available for use under a Creative Commons license.
Pexels
Includes free stock photography and video, much of which is licensed under a CC0 License -- free to use for any purpose without attribution.
Unsplash
Over 6 million free high-resolution photos and illustrations.
Pixabay
Over 4.9 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music. All are royalty-free.
Smithsonian Open Access
More than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from Smithsonian collections.
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore this hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
Nappy
Free stock photos featuring beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people.
PICNOI
Free stock photos featuring diverse multi-racial images.
The Gender Spectrum Collection
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models.
Disabled and Here Collection
Free and inclusive stock images celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).
UK Human Development Institute
Free stock photos featuring people with disabilities in all aspects of society.
Youth in Health: Inclusive Stock Photography Collection
A set of inclusive youth-centered stock photos where authentic youth voices are featured and capture their unique identities and experiences in the health care system.
All Go
Free stock photos featuring plus-sized models.
Openverse
Search for Creative Commons licensed and public domain content from a variety of sites, including Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, and museums around the world.

Free or Open Media

‘Free’ may refer to videos or other media that do not have an open license but can be used as course materials. Be sure to pay attention to the license for each material and adhere to licensing restrictions.

YouTube
Search your term on YouTube, then click Filter under the search bar. Within the list of Features, click on Creative Commons.
Wikimedia Commons
A collection of over 1 million freely usable media files.
Freesound
Contains collections of sounds (audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, and more) licensed under Creative Commons and/or available in the public domain.
ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Videvo
Contains completely free stock video footage and motion graphics for use in any project, commercial or non-commercial, through use of its own license or CC 3.0 license.
The Public Domain Project
Download historical media files for your creative projects.
TED Talks
A collection of presentations on a variety of topics.
Listen Notes
A podcast search engine. Note: Content on this site is freely available, but not openly licensed. Individuals should reflect on whether their intended use would be considered fair use. More information can be found here: https://guides.temple.edu/copyright/Fair_Use.