Repositories & Research

  • Google Arts & Culture: Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative that works with cultural institutions and artists, globally. The Cultural Institute platform only accepts copyright free or copyright cleared content.
  • MERLOT: Gives users access to curated online learning support materials and content creation tools; led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
  • OER Commons: A public digital library of OER and a single search source that pulls from multiple OER collections, including MERLOT and OpenStax.
  • Open Research Online: The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) is the Open Access repository of research outputs from The Open University’s research community. The service is publicly accessible and can be browsed and searched freely.
  • Skills Commons: Created by the U.S. Department of Labor, a free and open online library containing open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.
  • Teaching Commons: OER from colleges and universities; includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, etc.
  • VIVA Open: OER adopted, adapted, and/or created by faculty and higher education professionals at Virginia institutions.
  • WikiSource Portals The top level portal for Wikisource. Portals are divided by classes based on a locally-adapted version of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system.
  • Colorado OER Curation Guides:  Funded by a grant from the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Colorado’s Top 40: OER Curation Guides are discipline expert-reviewed, librarian-curated OER guides for the most popular courses in Colorado.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) :  Articles on technology, science, art, business, history, law, psychology & more filtered by CC licenses.
  • eCampusOntario Open LibraryThe eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 500 free and openly-licensed educational resources.
  • Open Humanities Press:  Peer-reviewed monographs and journals.
  • PLOS Science & Medicine Journals:  OA journals and articles, everything on the PLOS website is also licensed under CC BY.

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