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 Library: The 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.