Open Education Resources

Open Educational Resources are "teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions."  -- UNESCO

EDUCAUSE:

7 Things you should know about Open Educational Resources

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 62 different sources and contains 160,354 records.

This extensive collection is backed by a community of faculty and instructional designers committed to sharing academic resources.

Search the rich resources of Creative Commons licensed community.  

JStor has partnered with leading presses on a project to add open access ebooks. Thousands of titles are now available from publishers such as University of California Press, Cornell University Press, NYU Press, and University of Michigan Press.