Mikkelsen Library: Open Educational Resources (OER): OER Collections

Library Resources

You can use library ebooks, periodicals, and streaming videos as course materials. Check with a librarian to make sure an item's license will allow for multiple concurrent uses. Popular databases include:

EBSCO e-books This link opens in a new window A collection of e-books focused on dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, and reference books covering a variety of topics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window A digital archive includes more than 3,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are generally not available.
EBSCO Mega-File This link opens in a new window EBSCO MegaFILE searches Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News databases. It includes contains more than 85,800 biographies, 118,000 primary source documents, 10,150 company profiles and an image collection of more than 502,000 photos, maps and flags.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window Search a comprehensive file of periodicals for a broad range of subject areas including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films on Demand provides access to streaming videos in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health and Science.

Library Linking

The subscription library resources are only accessible on-campus or via a log-in for off-campus students. In order to make your links useable to everyone, it's necessary to append the library's proxy information.

Use the link below to find out how to create accessible links. [Linked to an augie-only document-- you may be prompted to sign in with your augie email].

You are also welcome to email your liaison librarian or librarians@augie.edu and we can make sure your link is formatted correctly.

Resource-Specific Linking Instructions

Resources for Open Textbooks

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges OER Initiative The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI).
American Institute of Mathematics OER The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses. The Editorial Board maintains a list of Approved Textbooks which have been judged to meet these criteria.
BC Campus OpenEd Collection of Open Access textbooks developed in British Columbia.
Big Ten Open Books Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies. Participating presses are Indiana University Press, Michigan State University Press, Northwestern University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press.
California Open Online Library for Educatoin (COOL4Ed) Find Free & Open eTextbooks Free & Open Course Materials Free & Open Online Courses Free & Open Access Journals and Articles Colleagues in Your Discipline
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) 100% Free. Creative Commons licensed. Peer-reviewed. And backed by additional CALI resources. Review our eLangdell® Press casebooks and decide if they are right for your course. Simple to adopt or even modify. We make it easy to improve student access to legal education.
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) was inaugurated in 2010 as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program (National Foreign Language Resource Centers). The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings. Today, COERLL is funded by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Directory of Open Access Books DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Mason OER Metafinder The OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 19 different sources of open educational materials. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content; however, as compensation the results returned are absolutely up-to-the-minute for each search target. Additional results will continue to trickle in as the search continues running and you begin examining your results.
MERLOT SmartSearch The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
Milne Open Textbooks (SUNY) Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
MIT OpenCourseware Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.
National Science Digital Library The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. The NSDL collection contains structured descriptive information (metadata) about web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers. These providers have contribute this metadata to NSDL for organized search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services.
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Most resources in the library adhere to principles of Open Educational Resource (OER) access, although some resources are restricted to provider site membership, or may have a cost associated with them (indicated in the full record of the resource)
OER Commons OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 455,492 records.
OpenRN The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated virtual reality scenarios.
OpenStax OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
Open Textbook Library The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
PressBooks Directory Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 5,901 open access books published by 162 organizations and networks using Pressbooks. It's easy to copy, revise, remix, and redistribute any openly licensed content found here using Pressbooks' publishing platform.

Resources for Open Courses

Khan Academy A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Open Course Library A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
Open Education Consortium The Open Education Consortium in collaboration with MERLOT offers a search engine on OER. General search yields results from the integrated database of the Open Education Consortium and MERLOT. Click on “OEC member courses only” to see courses and resources from the Consortium member institutions only.
Open Oregon This page lists course materials that Oregon community college and university instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses.
Open Yale Courses Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Saylor Academy Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. We offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each of which is available right now -- at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.

Resources for Open Access Journals

MedEdPortal A peer-reviewed, open-access journal that promotes educational scholarship and dissemination of teaching and assessment resources in the health professions
Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Open Access Journals Open Access Initiative is committed to make genuine and reliable contributions to the scientific community without restricting the access of published content. This publisher hosts over 700+ leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals and organizes over 3000 International Conferences all over the world.
SpringerOpen SpringerOpen is our portfolio of over 200 peer-reviewed, fully open access journals and over 600 open access books covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication. Springer’s high-level peer-review, publishing and production processes apply for our SpringerOpen journals and books in precisely the same way they do for titles with the subscription-based model, guaranteeing the quality and reliability of the work.

Resources for other Open Educational tools

ChemCollective Resources to Teach and Learn Chemistry The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.
Creative Commons CC Search ccMixter, Europeana, Flickr, Open Clip Art, SoundCloud, Thingiverse, Vimeo, Wikipedia Commons...
Digital Public Library of America DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
Government Documents Mikkelsen Library Government Document LibGuide
Hathitrust Digital Library HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Internet Archive The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Library of Congress Open Access Books This is a growing collection of contemporary open access e-books. The books in this collection cover a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. Most of the books in this collection were published in English, but there are some titles in other languages. All of the books in this collection were published under open access licenses and may be read online or downloaded as a PDF or as an EPUB.
Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks
Smithsonian Open Access Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
VIsual Intellectual Property Search (VIPS) A comprehensive, searchable database of innovation where you can explore software and inventions from more than 20 Department of Energy national labs and sites in one convenient place.

Open Images / Media

Creative Commons CC Search ccMixter, Europeana, Flickr, Open Clip Art, SoundCloud, Thingiverse, Vimeo, Wikipedia Commons...
Internet Archive The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
OpenVerse Explore more than 700 million creative works An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.
Unsplash Over 3 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
Pixabay Download Free Music, Stock Videos, Sound Effects, Photos, and more.

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Open Educational Resources (OER): OER Collections