Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0)?
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Anthony Hornby:
Here is another one you might look at: ANU Press
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OER Repositories & Platforms List
This is an open list which contains platforms and repositories that host OA content or help you to discover Open Access content. The content on this list will be updated and we invite and encourage external contributions. For suggestions, contact [email protected].
Published onJun 01, 2020
OER Repositories & Platforms List
OER METAFINDERS:
Search tools that make the cross-platform discovery of open content easier.
OER REPOSITORIES
About: “Textbooks every student can access and afford. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 721 textbooks, with more being added all the time.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: “Creative Commons licenses. The library no longer accepts new open textbooks that include a CC ND (No Derivatives) license component. The vast majority of open textbooks have a Creative Commons license that allows for editing, adapting and making derivatives. We believe the ability to make changes to an open textbook is integral to its definition as open. That’s why we no longer accept open textbooks that include a CC ND (No Derivatives) license component.”
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. Here are some curated collections to start exploring: Full university courses; Interactive mini-lessons and simulations; Adaptations of existing open work; Open Textbooks; K-12 Lesson Plans, worksheets, and activities.”
Focus: Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Other:
OER Commons Hub: “A Hub is a custom resource center on OER Commons where groups can create and share collections associated with a project or organization. Projects, institutions, states and initiatives make use of Hubs to bring groups of educators together to create, organize, and share collections that meet their common goals.”
Open Textbook Working Group: “An open community for educators interested in building open textbooks into curriculum. Find tutorials for adapting and authoring textbooks, as well as research and case studies focusing on the process of adoption and implementation of open, at both classroom and administrative levels.”
About: Open Access Textbooks repository with all content available to read and download for free.
Focus: Open Access Textbooks
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: “Most licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, which means you are free to share and adapt the content, as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.”
Sign-in needed for download? No
The Orange Grove: Florida’s Open Educational Resources
About: This collection offers open books and textbooks from many sources. They may also have non-restrictive licenses that allow for customization and derivative works.
Focus: Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section:
Click here for the Open Textbooks Collection
Click here for Higher Education Resources
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Merlot Open Textbooks Collection
About: “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.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks ; For OA Monographs & General Collections visit https://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Galileo: Open Learning Materials
About: “GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials. This repository is administrated by Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO and the University System of Georgia which aims to reduce the cost of textbooks to students and contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation. ”
Focus: Ancillary materials, grants collections & open textbooks
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “GoOpenVA is a collaborative initiative that enables educational entities throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources.”
Focus: Open Access Monographs & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative
About: “Campus Manitoba launched the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative in 2015. The goal of the initiative is to make higher education more accessible by reducing students costs through the use of openly licensed textbooks in Manitoba. Campus Manitoba and BCcampus have partnered to build a website that allows students and faculty to browse, view, and download open textbooks for use in their courses. The textbooks in our catalogue have all been created, reviewed, or adapted by faculty at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
RMIT University OER - Textbooks
About: Listing of OER from various platforms.
Focus: Open Textbooks
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? NoAbout: “The eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 250 free and openly-licensed educational resources.”
Focus: Open Educational Resources
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: Internet platform for downloading free scientific and technical books.
Focus: Open Access Scientific & Technical textbooks.
Subjects Section: Click here for general OER, here for open textbooks and here for resources in Spanish.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
Licenses: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “Worldreader is a non-profit championing digital reading in underserved communities to help readers build a better world.”
Focus: Open Access Books & Open Educational Resources.
License: Various CC Licenses
Subjects Section: Click here to download app.
Sign-in needed for download? Click here to download app.
About: “OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.”
Focus: Open Access Books & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various types. Click here.
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. ”
Focus: Open Access Books & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here for subjects & here for textbooks only.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
OER PUBLISHERS
Open Book Publishers - Textbooks
About: Free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via the website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere.
Focus: Open Access Monographs & Textbooks.
Subjects Section: Click here.
Licenses: CC-BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: CC-BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “High-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print [and] low-cost, research-based courseware that gives students the tools they need to complete their course the first time around, and a new online math homework system with step-level feedback.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses.
Sign-in needed for download? No
MIT Open Courseware Online Textbook
About: “This page is an index to the online textbooks in 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.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Open Access: Various
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “The open textbooks on this page include several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge and a collection of titles re-published by Saylor Academy in 2012.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: “These books are available for you to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses. Saylor Academy does not own the copyright to any books on this page. Each book’s open license is an agreement between you as the end user and the copyright holder. Except as specifically noted, the textbooks are reproduced without attribution to the authors or original publisher, as requested by the licensor, and are available under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.”
Sign-in needed for download? No
University of Minnesota Open Textbooks
About: “The open textbooks have been published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing and are licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: CC-BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “The La Trobe eBureau publishes engaging, high quality, open-access ebooks. The mission of the eBureau is to invest in the development of quality open access resources to support online and blended learning. All eBureau resources are written by La Trobe University academics for La Trobe courses and subjects.”
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Virginia Tech Open Textbooks
About: “VTechWorks provides global access to Virginia Tech scholarship. VTechWorks includes journal articles, books, theses, dissertations, conference papers, slide presentations, technical reports, working papers, administrative documents, videos, images, and more by faculty, students, and staff.”Focus: Open Access Textbooks & Open Educational Resources.
Subjects Section: Click here.
License: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: “affordable course materials designed to strengthen learning using open educational resources (OER). Lumen’s OER course materials are engineered to improve subject mastery, course completion and retention.”
Focus: Open Access Courses with OER & OA textbooks within each course.
Subjects Section: Click here.
Licenses: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
Some Subject-specific OER Repositories & Publishers
About: “Lyryx products are driven by subject matter experts: instructors with lengthy experience in both educational content and online homework. ”
Focus: OER focused on Mathematics, Business & Economics
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: “This site contains materials created, developed, or commissioned by Lyryx, and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. No material (including but not limited to the text, images, and/or audio) and no software (including but not limited to any images or files incorporated in or generated by the software) may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way or decompiled, reverse engineered, or disassembled, except that one copy may be downloaded for your personal, non-commercial use on a single computer.”
Sign-in needed for download? No
Language Science Press
About: “High-quality peer-reviewed open access books in linguistics.”
Focus: OA books focused on Linguistic Studies.
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: CC BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
E-International Relations (E-IR)
About: “open access website for students and scholars of international politics, featuring high quality scholarly content and student-facing resources. ”
Focus: OER focused on International Relations.
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in needed for download? No
American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbooks Initiative
About: Textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics..
Focus: Open Access Textbooks & OER focused on Mathematics
Availability: Click here.
License: Various CC-BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
Other: Some titles available in multiple languages.
About: “Our mission is to create and enable engaging, integrated, high-quality learning experiences in Mathematics and the Sciences; to have a long-lasting, enriching impact on learners and teachers in South Africa and globally; to constantly seek out and build the most relevant, effective technology whilst remaining rooted in the science of learning and instruction; and to engage and motivate young minds, helping them to master and develop the skills our future needs.”
Focus: OER for Primary & High School levels. Available in Afrikaans and English in the fields of Mathematics & Sciences.
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: CC-BY-ND & CC-BY
Sign-in needed for download? No
About: Textbooks focused on Economics which were licensed under Creative Commons cc-by-nc-sa.
Focus: OER in Economics
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: CC-BY-NC-SA
Sign-in: No
The WAC Clearinghouse Writing Resources
About: “The WAC Clearinghouse provides a range of resources for writers. Many of these are adapted from the Writing@CSU website, which supported writers and teachers from its initial establishment in 1993 at Colorado State University.”
Focus: OER focused on Writing including Open Access Textbooks
Availability: Click here.
Licenses: Various CC Licenses
Sign-in: No
CURATED LISTS OF OER (Institutional Creation) - BY SUBJECT
Sacred Heart Curated list of OA titles: Click here
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Curated list: Click here.
Open Textbook Initiative Curated List: Click here.
Springer Nature Curated list of OA textbooks: Click here.
Open Culture OA textbooks by subject Curated list: Click here.
Marshall Library’s Open Economic Subject Repositories List: Click here.
Eastern Michigan: Click here.
INSTITUTIONAL OA PUBLISHERS - MONOGRAPHS & ACADEMIC BOOKS
Open Access Academic Books Publishers: The ScholarLed Consortium
