Searching for OER can be frustrating at times because there are so many different places to find it! If you are able to, it is a good idea to sit down with Lemoore College’s OER Librarian at the beginning of your OER journey and get a run-down of the best places to go for your particular needs.
Google Advanced Search
Google has an advanced search function that allows users to get very specific about what they want to find. One of the options given in the advanced search is the ability to restrict the results to only those that are licensed in a certain way.
The “usage rights” drop-down menu will give you different options that correspond with the different Creative Commons licenses (i.e. “free to use, share, modify, even commercially” would be the CC BY license).
General OER Search Tools & Repositories
- CC Search
- George Mason University OER Metafinder
- Internet Archive OER Library
- LibreTexts
- Merlot
- OASIS
- OER Commons
- Wikipedia
Open Textbooks
- Affordable Learning Georgia/Galileo
- BC Campus
- Open Oregon
- OpenStax
- Open Textbook Store
- Open Textbook Library
- Wikibooks
Open Courseware
- CK-12
- Lumen Learning
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- OER Commons
- Open Course Library
- Open Yale Courses
- Saylor Academy
- Skills Commons
Open Media
- Flickr (filter by license)
- Khan Academy
- Pixabay
- TED Talks
- The Met Public Domain Collection
- Wikimedia Commons
- YouTube (use the Creative Commons filter)
Discipline-Specific
- CTEOnline (CTE)
- Digital Public Library of America (US History)
- MathisPower4U (Math)
- Noba Project (Psychology)
- PhET Simulations (Physical Sciences)
- Project Gutenberg (Literature)
- Skills Commons (CTE)
- The American Yawp (US History)
- Writing Commons (English)
- San Bernardino Valley College’s large list of resources
Ancillary Material