Finding OERs
You can find OERs in various places, depending on the format or subject specific information required.
These range from multidisciplinary OER repositories to our Library Search facility.
- Finding OERs through Faculty Select
- Finding Open Access material through the Library
- Finding OERs through Internet search tools
- Finding OERs through multidisciplinary repositories
- Finding OERs through the CAUL Open Education Resources Collective
Finding OERs by subject
The following lists include examples of OERs for subjects taught at the University. These are by no means comprehensive.
Finding OERs through Faculty Select
Faculty Select provides OERs and DRM-free ebooks.
Simply search by topic, title or author.
Locate the item you want, then request the course friendly link to include in My Unit Readings list, or request the Library to purchase an unlimited user ebook.
Faculty Select includes DRM-free titles from:
- EBSCO Unlimited User frontlist eBooks (with DRM protections)
- Taylor and Francis DRM-free e-books
- Wiley DRM-free e-books
- Cambridge DRM-free e-books
OER search tools
- OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) currently searches open content including textbooks, course materials, videos and interactive simulations from 114 sources.
- The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)Searches OER repositories such as DOAB, OASIS and MIT OpenCourseWare along with sites like HathiTrust and Project Gutenberg.
Multidisciplinary OER repositories
OERs from the sources below are generally available under a Creative Commons (CC) license which allows for distribution, remix and adaptation (e.g., CC BY, CC BY-NC-SA).
- BCcampus OpenEdHosts open textbooks and other OERs selected for post-secondary curricula in Canada.
- HathiTrust Digital LibraryA collaboration of academic and research libraries who preserve millions of digitised public domain and openly licensed works.
- InTechOpenPublishes peer-reviewed books in physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. Funders include the Australian Research Council (ARC).
- MERLOTCollects OERs contributed and reviewed by the MERLOT member community.
- Milne Open TextbooksA catalogue of full courses and texts authored and peer reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty.
- MIT OpenCourseWareAn openly licensed digital collection of resources which includes online textbooks produced for MIT courses.
- OER CommonsA public digital library of OERs provided by universities and other organisations with collections curated by digital librarians.
- OpenStaxPublishes peer-reviewed openly licensed textbooks. Subjects include science, social sciences, humanities and business.
- Open Textbook LibraryA colllection of peer reviewed textbooks used by multiple higher education institutions or affiliates of university, scholarly society or professional organisations.
Finding Open Access material through the Library
You can search the Library for Open Access (OA) resources. These are generally free to copy and distribute in unadapted forms.
- For OA databases, go to the Databases page and select Databases for: Open Access.
- To find an OA resource, enter your search terms in Library Search. To the left of your results, select Open Access.
