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Useful Websites for Finding Open Educational Resources (OER)

3D Objects in the Public Domain, Browse by museum (from Sketchfab)
2020 OER Tutorials
2022 OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
2025 Listing of OER Resources (from Zillman)
2025 Massive List of Thousands of Free Certificates and Badges
2025 Public Domain Day Resources (Duke Univ.)
AAAS Science Partner Open Access Journals
ACC Learn OER (Self-Paced Modules (from Austin Community College)
ACM Digital Library
ACRL Listing of Preprint Resources, 2019
AI2 OpenScholar Search
AI2 PaperFinder
American Institute of Mathematics, Open Textbooks by Subject
Anatomy Tool (Open Anatomy Learning Resources)
arXiv.Org (Open Access Archive of Scholarly Articles)
Audiobooks from Project Gutenberg
BarnImages (Free Stock photography)
Basic Guide to OER Resources
BioArt Source (2,000+ Medical Art Visuals)
Biodiversity Heritage Library Collections
BioMed Central (BMC) Journals, A to Z
Boundless OER Course Archive, Browse by Subject
Burst (Free Stock Photo Collection)
Cambridge Open Engage
Cambridge Open Engage, Browse Subjects
Caselaw Access Project, 1658- 2019 (Harvard)
Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (Univ. of Texas)
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
CiteSeerX (Open Access search engine)
Clip Safari
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources
Communications of the ACM (Open Access)
CORE Search (Access Millions of Open Access Research papers)
Creative Commons, Openverse Search
Creative Commons, Search Portal
Creative Commons, Use & Remix
Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians (eBook)
CRS Reports Search (Congressional Research Service)
Democracy's Library (Internet Archive)
Digital Commons Network
Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories
DPLA, Browse Digital Collections by Partner
DPLA, Palace Bookshelf
eBooks@Cambridge (List of Free eBook Collections)
EBSCO Open Dissertations
EdTech Books.Org (Open Access eBooks Collection)
Education/OER Resources (Creative Commons)
eLife Sciences
English Language & Literature Commons (45,000+ free articles)
ERIC Database
ERIC Journal and Non-Journal Sources by Topic Area
Evoke Music
Find OER (Open Professionals Education Network)
Find OER by Subject, LibGuide (from Iowa State)
Find Sounds
Flickr Commons
Flickr Creative Commons Search
Freepik Video Collection (More than 2.5 Million Videos Available)
Free to Use and Reuse Sets (from the Library of Congress)
Frontiers, Open Access Journals A to Z
Fugue Music
Getty Art Collection, (90,000+ Art Images Free to Use)
Glaze Stock, Free Illustrations
GoOpen Michigan, OER Commons
Graphic Design Collection, (Internet Archive)
HathiTrust Digital Library, 1929 Digital Publications
Historical American Medical Journals (1797- 1923)
Humanities Digital Library
Intech Open Access Science eBooks Collection (7,500+ titles)
Internet Archive, Books in Microfilm Collection (more than 250,000+ items)
Internet Archive, Newspaper Collection
Internet Archive Scholar
Internet Archive Text Archive (More Than 20 Million+ eBooks)
Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy (eBook)
JAMA Open Network
JSTOR Collections List
JSTOR Early Journal Content Collection (Internet Archive)
JSTOR Images Search
JSTOR Open Content (13,000+ eBooks)
Law Archive, Browse by Subject
Learn OER Modules (Open Washington)
Lens.Org (Free and Open Patent and Scholarly Search)
Library of Congress, Open Access eBooks
LibreTexts, Browse by Subject
Mason OER Metafinder
Mathigon Free Mathematics Textbook
Mazwai, Free Stock Video Footage
MDPI, Browse Journal List
MedPix, Open Access Medical Image Collection (National Library of Medicine)
MERLOT, SmartSearch
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 490,000+ Images of Artworks in the Public Domain
Michigan OER Network, Resources page
MIT Press Journals, Open Access Browse by Topic
MIT Press Open Access, Books
Mixkit
Musopen
National Academies Press, Browse by Topic (Free to Read Online)
National Science Digital Library, (OER Commons)
National Technical Reports Library
Nature Communications, Browse by Subject
OAPEN, Open Access eBooks Library
OASIS, OER by Subject (SUNY)
OASIS OER Directory, Browse by Content type (SUNY)
OER, A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
OER By Discipline Directory (BCcampus Open Education)
OER Commons, Hubs & Featured Collections
OER Commons, Nursing
OER Commons, Open Author Creation Tool
OER Commons, Open Textbooks Hub
OER Commons, Search
OER Commons, STEM Literacy Resource Hub
OER Starter Kit (Iowa State Univ.)
OER Tutorials, 2020
Open Access, Peter Suber (MIT Press, eBook)
Open Access Directory
Open Access Journals & Repositories webliography
Open Access on Project MUSE
OpenAIRE Explore (Search Open Access Science publications)
OpenBibArt
Open Book Publishers
Open Casebooks H20 (Harvard)
OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenEd CUNY
Open Educational Resources (OER) Elon University
Open Educational Resources (OERs): OERs by Subject (Furman University)
Open Educational Resources LibGuide (from Furman)
Open Educational Resources LibGuide (from Grand Valley St. Univ.)
Open Education Global
Open Geography Education, eTextbooks & Resources
Open i. Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
Open Math Notes (from AMS)
Open Michigan
Open Research Library (14,000+ eBooks, Browse by Category)
Open Research Library, Browse eBooks by Category
Open Research Library, Browse eBooks by Publisher
Open Source Physics, Browse by Subject
OpenStax, Browse by Subject
OpenStax, Nursing Open Textbooks Collection
Open SUNY (Open Textbooks)
Open Syllabus Project Explorer
Open Textbook Library, Browse by Subject
Open Think Tank Directory
Openverse (Creative Commons Search)
OSTI.Gov
Pexels (Free Stock Photos)
PhET Interactive Simulations
Photos for Class
Pikwizard, Free Stock Photos
Pixabay
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
PLOS Collections, Article Collection (Browse by Subject)
Preparing Teachers & Students for Online Learning (MERLOT)
Pressbooks Directory (8,300+ Free eBooks)
Project Gutenberg (75,000+ Free eBooks)
Project MUSE, Open Access Collection
PsyArXiv Preprints
Public Domain Image Archive
Public Domain Resources LibGuide (Schoolcraft College)
Public Domain Review
Purdue University Press, Open Access
Pure PNG Image Library
RawPixel, Public Domain Collections by Theme
Sage Open Access Journals
ScienceOpen
Semantic Scholar (Academic Search Engine)
Skills Commons, Workforce Development Open Digital Library
Smithsonian Image Gallery
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives - Digital Library (Internet Archive)
Smithsonian Online Books by Topic
Smithsonian Open Access Collection
Smithsonian Scholarly Press
SocArXiv Papers
SPARC Science
Springer Open Access eBooks
Standard eBooks, Browse eBooks
Stockio
Teaching Commons (Browse OER by Subject)
Think Tank Search: U.S. think tanks and research centers
Unminus (Music)
Unsplash
Unsplash for Education
USGS Publications Warehouse
Virginia Tech, Open Textbooks by Subject
Wikimedia Commons
Wiley Open Access Journals, Browse Titles
Writing Commons, Open Access eBook (Browse Resources by Chapter)
ZapSplat (Royalty Free Music)
zbMath Open

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