Textbook Alternatives & Open Educational Resources (OER): Home

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.

Search several collections of OER materials at once.

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.

"Find content you can share, use and remix."

"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."

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"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."