Research Guides: Open Educational Resources at LCC: Find OER

Open Textbook Collection

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.

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.
OER Commons
Provides college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Saylor Academy
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
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.
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.
OpenTextbookStore
A free collection of mathematics-related open textbooks. Includes supplements and a link to order print copies of the book.
Textbook Equity
Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.
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.

Finding Library E-Books

Use OneSearch to find e-books from multiple databases.

Advantages of ebooks include:

accessible 24/7 from anywhere with your username and password
can search the text of the book to find information
never any library fines

Help with eBooks

Finding Images

Creative Commons Search Tool
Search websites for images you can share, use, and remix. Creative Commons allows creators of works to release them into the public domain or license works by placing some restrictions on their use.
Google Advanced Image Search
Limit your Google image search to images that that you can reuse.
Openclipart
All images in this website are all available copyright free since all are in public domain.
Pexels
All photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
Pixabay
Free images or videos that you can use anywhere.
Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media
Provides links to many copyright-free or public domain image collections.

Open Educational Resources at LCC: Find OER

Open Textbook Collection

Finding Library E-Books

Finding Images

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