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Open Educational Resources

Learn about the potential impact of open educational resources (OER) on student engagement, and how to adopt, adapt and create your own for use in the educational environment

Start Here - the Pressbooks Directory

Why start at the Pressbooks Directory?

The Pressbooks Directory is an index of thousands of public "books" published across dozens of PressbooksEDU networks. When Pressbooks uses the term "book" they actually mean a website, with a unique URL. So consider a book on the Pressbooks Directory as an electronic resource - it can be any length, and it can be edited, based on the copyright license.

When you find a resource that you think will work for your information needs, based on the copyright permission, you may be able to clone it (copy it) to OpenEd@JWU. This allows for you to retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute it (5 Rs). OpenEd@JWU is the place where you can customize the resource for your purposes.

Pressbooks has created a guide on How to Use the Pressbooks Directory, or you can Take the Tour from the landing page (see below)

OER Repositories for Textbooks and More

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OER Commons

This single point of access allows you to explore resources (over 50,000) from multitude of OER platforms. Browse collections in areas of criminal justice, culinary, graphic design, nursing, and much more.

B.C. Open Collection

A nonprofit supporting OER initiatives in British Columbia providing curated collection of textbooks and other course materials

Open Textbook Library

The Open Education Network offers this collection of high-quality open textbooks


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COERLL

The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at the University of Texas at Austin provides language learning OER

Hathi Trust Digital Library

Digital preservation repository containing open access works on all subjects

LibreText Commons

Provides full range open access books and materials in full range of subjects including business and food production service

MyOpenMath

A collection of math books which include practice and test materials

OpenStax College

Free, open-source, peer-reviewed an high-quality textbooks for your college course

Open SUNY Textbooks

Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo that are authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff through Milne Library Publishing

Project Gutenberg

Library of open access ebooks, including creative works in the public domain

SmARThistory

Art history textbooks, videos, and essays and provides a variety of curated themed collections