STEM Open Educational Resources
SUNY’s Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier by searching multiple sources for OER (Open Educational Resources) and other open content at once. OASIS currently searches for open content from 79 source types and contains approximately 330,000 records.
CloudSource OA is a curated collection of Open Access digital content from the world’s leading scholarly publishers, covering a wide array of subjects. Begin your search for Open Educational Resources by entering your topic in the Cloud Source OA box below. You can search by Subject, Abstract, Author, DOI, Field of Study, and more. Open Access Content found in Cloud Source OA include open journal articles, dissertations, reports, data sets in addition to other formats. Click in the search box below to begin your search.
- OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low-cost in print.
- The Open Textbook Library is an excellent resource for finding open textbooks. This is the place to start if you want a textbook and nothing more.
- BCCampus Open Textbooks collects resources created, reviewed, or adopted by instructors at British Columbia universities. Materials can be filtered by Accessibility and whether they have been adopted by BCCampus courses, include ancillary materials, or have been reviewed by faculty.
- Curated lists of OER, like the Iowa State University Library Guide to OER, can be useful for exploring a selection of open content in your subject area.
- George Mason OER Metafinder The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) links to open content, including open-access books and articles, documents in the public domain, and OER. Because of its extensive resources, we recommend starting your MOM search with only a selection of the “OER-specific sites” checked rather than all the materials it can include.
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) MERLOT is a project started in 1997 by the California State University system. The repository includes thousands of resources from members, including original content and links to resources found through other platforms.
Institutional repositories (IRs) are not just for sharing copies of research articles and student theses. They can also be used to store and share OER. Although not every college shares OER through their institutional repository, the colleges below do share collections of OER specific to their institution:
- SUOL4Ed (Southern University's Open Library for Education)
- LOUIS OER Commons (The Affordable Learning LOUISiana OER repository)*
- Galileo Open Learning Materials (Georgia higher ed institutions)
- OpenMichigan (University of Michigan)
- MIT OpenCourseWare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
*The LOUIS OER Commons is a repository of open resources aligned with the Louisiana statewide common course catalog. This repository also facilitates the creation of OER by Louisiana educators.
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National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on (STEM) disciplines
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AAPT ComPADRE Digital Library A network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers in Physics and Astronomy Education.
Includes links to open textbooks which have been approved by AIM to serve as the primary text in a mainstream mathematics at the undergraduate level. Also includes links to AIM's evaluation criteria and a guide for authors of open textbooks.
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Wolfram MathWorld Open resources in math education.
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Open Textbook Library – Computer Science & Information Systems
Free, openly licensed computer science texts by O'Reilly Media author Allen B. Downey.
NOTE: Works created by U.S. federal government agencies are usually, but not always, in the public domain. These works may be protected by copyrignt, in whole or in part, especially if they were created by private subcontractors or include any content originally created by private third parties. Always check to confirm that the resource does not contain any copyright notices before assuming that it's free to use as an OER.
Current and archived e-books in history, physics, astronomy, and space exploration
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NASA For Educators: Search Educational resources for teachers and students, by topic, type, or grade level.
NASA multimedia science and technology resources.
Science and science education videos from astronomy to zoology.
Physical, environmental and life science research reports and multimedia from the Department of Energy.
Educational material and resources from the U.S. Geological Survey
Portal to resources from research repositories across the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration