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Textbook Alternatives & Open Educational Resources (OER): Home

Overview

Search library resources and open educational resources (OER) and find the best materials for your course.

Quick Start Guide: this two-page document is a great overview of how to approach textbook affordability and how to get started in looking for OER and other alternatives.

Note: Miami offers Open Educational Resource (Affordable Textbook) Grants to faculty who adopt or adapt OERs for use in their courses.

You are invited to complete a self-paced course in Canvas! “Impact Student Success: Finding Alternatives to Textbooks” is available now for you to self-enroll (for Miami users, or email me at burkejj@miamioh.edu and I’ll add you to the course site). Work through five modules on your own schedule.

Best Bets

Open Textbook Library
"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."
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
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 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records.
Mason OER Metafinder
Search several collections of OER materials at once.
MERLOT Smart Search
"MERLOT is the place to find online learning materials, web sites and educational digital libraries. Here you can perform Federated searches of other Learning Object Repositories."
Search for E-books Owned by Miami University
Articles & More
Searches more than 80 library resources across many disciplines and formats from a single search box. Users can search for books, articles, multimedia and more using this search tool.
Openverse (CC-licensed images)
"All Openverse content is under a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain."