Finding and Evaluating OER
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources.The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different OER repositories, including OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 97 different sources and contains 385,629 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
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Pressbooks Directory
As an institutional Pressbooks subscriber, UTSA faculty can search the Pressbooks Directory in order to discover OER textbooks across all PressbooksEDU networks. The beauty of these OER is they can be easily cloned on the UTSA Open Textbook network, depending on the level of Creative Commons licensing, and can also be tailored for a course. The Pressbooks Directory will indicate the Creative Commons License for each book, indicating how and if the book can be cloned. Pressbooks will also show the number of H5P activities in a book if you are interested in books with ready-to-go engagement questions.
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Texas Learning OER: Module 5: Finding and Evaluating OERLearning outcomes: recognize the different types of OER; apply effective search strategies when looking for OER; identify several online repositories for OERl; utilize other OER search tools available; investigate the available reuse options for OER-adopt, adapt, combine and create; Identify perspectives on evaluating and defining 'quality' as it relates to course materials; and utilize relevant rubrics for evaluating OER.
Multidisciplinary Open Textbook Repositories
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Merlot II Advanced SearchRich open education site. Search by keyword and limit by material format. Use the open textbook filter to find open texts. The MERLOT project began in 1997, when the California State University Center for Distributed Learning (CSU-CDL at www.cdl.edu) developed and provided free access to MERLOT (www.merlot.org). Under the leadership of Chuck Schneebeck, CSU-CDL's Director, MERLOT was modeled after the NSF funded project, "Authoring Tools and An Educational Object Economy (EOE)".
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Merlot II ISBN SearchBy using an ISBN, you can find MERLOT Open Educational Resources (OER) that can be used to supplement most textbooks.
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Merlot II Meta-SearchA meta-search of Merlot, OpenStax CNX, MIT Open Courseware, OER commons, Orange Grove, and more. Filters are also available for Physics materials, faculty development, and information technology.
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OER CommonsSearch by subject and education level. Includes learning materials K-16, grad learning materials and more. Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and formed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education.
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Open Book PublishersOBP books are published in hardback, paperback and ebook editions, but they also publish free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via our website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere. Check the Copyright tab for licensing and permissions for each title.
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Open MichiganOpen.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community.
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OpenStax CollegeOpenStax College is a nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Our free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course.
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Open SUNYSUNY OER Services is a scaled-up, networked, and sustainable approach to digital learning and publishing within the SUNY system, using curated OER content, faculty course supports, and instructional technology development and design.
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Open Textbook LibraryThese 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 Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
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Orange Grove Texts PlusOrange Grove Text Plus (OGT+) is a joint initiative of the University of Florida Press and the LibraryPress@UF imprint, which is in development as of 2016.