Research Guides: Open Educational Resources at LCC: Finding OER

Open Textbook Collections

Open textbooks are free, online learning materials with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each will have a particular focus, and items you can't find in other collections.

BC Campus OpenEd
Open textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year subject areas in the British Columbia's public, post-secondary system.
GoOpenMichigan
Browse curated collections, open textbooks and full course, or remixable lessons and activities.
MERLOT Open Textbook
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated resource of free and online textbooks for use in teaching and learning.
OER Commons
Provides college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Openstax College
Initiated by Rice University, their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed to ensure they meet the scope and sequence requirements of college courses.
Open Textbook Library
Created by the University of Minnesota to support development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects.
OpenTextbookStore
A free collection of mathematics-related open textbooks. Includes supplements and a link to order print copies of the book.
Saylor Academy
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
State University of New York (SUNY) Open Textbooks
With the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
Textbook Equity
Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.

OER Repositories

OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks. All content featured within these pages is free but usage rights vary. Materials in these repositories are released under a Creative Commons license while some are in the public domain.

AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.
California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed)
Library of free open source textbooks and other materials from the State of California Higher Educations Systems.
Internet Archive
This library contains downloadable free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities across the globe.
Lumen Learning
Supports faculty in identifying and selecting high quality OER, aligning these to learning outcomes, and assembling them to create OER-based courses.
MERLOT II
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Open Course Library
Collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
Openstax CNX (formerly Connexions)
Contains textbooks, articles, supplements, and other learning resources that can be read online or downloaded for free.
The OrangeGrove
Florida's digital repository for instructional resources.

Find OER

The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources by searching across 22 different sources of open educational materials.

Finding Images

Find Images
Find images for use in your classroom or in your OER.

Before you use an image, check the usage rights. Some sites require that you ask permission to use images, while others do not as long as you use the images for educational purposes and give credit to the creator.

Library & Open Access Resources

The Library subscribes to databases which contain e-books, e-journals, images, videos, and more. These resources are free to use by LCC students, faculty, and staff. However, they do not contain the copyright permissions to allow for customization, re-use, remix, or redistribution in the same way as open educational resources. Although online library resources are not "open," they are resources you can make available at zero cost to your students.

Learn more about Library & Open Access Resources.