Open Access Educational Resources (OER)

Click here to view the entire collection of Health Sciences materials in MERLOT 

Accessible Archives

Primary source materials from 18th & 19th century publications reflecting broad views across American history.

American Digital History

An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.

Digital Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World

An original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space.

EuroDocs

Links to primary sources for European history.

Have Fun with History

Free videos and activities for students, educators and lovers of American History.

History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877

A downloadable, free, open-access textbook

HyperHistory

Over 3,000 files covering 3,000 years of World History with an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.

Internet History Sourcebooks Projects

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use.

AIMS (Agriculture Information Management Standards) OER

Appropedia - Free books for agriculture

Free agriculture textbooks

Free ebooks and guides on agriculture

Open Educational Resources for Agriculture Extension

SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (Downloadable ebooks and Fact Sheets.)

UNL Extension in Lancaster County-Precision Agriculture

Journals:

Agriculture Sciences

Open Agriculture Journal

Precision Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture Research

Trends in Agricultural Economics

• MIT Open Courseware - Sociology

  MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

   

   

• BCcampus OpenEd - Sociology

  The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it. A goal of the Project is to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources in B.C. by making available openly-licensed textbooks in the highest-enrolled academic subject areas. 

   

• World Digital Library

  The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

   

• Europeana

  Europeana.eu is the EU digital platform for cultural heritage. More than 3,000 institutions across Europe have contributed to Europeana. These range from major international names like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library and the Louvre to regional archives and local museums from every member of the European Union. Together, their assembled collections let users explore Europe's cultural and scientific heritage from prehistory to the modern day.

• OERs for Psychology - Rajiv Jhangiani

  A list of Psychology-specific OER based on an Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology symposium in 2014 by Rajiv Jhangiani and Farhad Dastur.

   

• NOBA Project

  Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials.

   

• Open Yale Courses - Psychology

  Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

   

• OER Commons - Psychology Higher Ed

  OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.

   

• MIT Open Courseware - Psychology

  MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

   

• InTech - Psychology Books

  InTech publishes more than 2,300 open textbooks and 6 journals in a variety of subjects that fall under the heading of science, technology, and medicine.

   

• InTech - Earth & Planetary Sciences

  InTech publishes more than 2,300 open textbooks and 6 journals in a variety of subjects that fall under the heading of science, technology, and medicine.

   

• Open Educational Resources from the Penn State College of Earth & Mineral Sciences

  The "courseware modules" linked below represent substantial portions of the resources provided to students who register in participating Penn State classes. These resources are available for reuse by teachers and learners worldwide who do not intend to apply for admission, register for classes, or pursue a certificate or degree at Penn State.

   

• Digital Library for Earth System Education

  The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more.

   

• UMass Boston OpenCourseWare - Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences

  UMass provides a variety of its courseware online for educators to use. These materials can be freely downloaded, shared, and altered. Credit must be given to the source, however, and works must be distributed noncommercially and under the same licensing as the original.

   

• MIT Open Courseware - Earth Science

  MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

   

• HippoCampus.org - Environmental Science

  Hippocampus offers educators a wide variety of multimedia content online, including videos, animations, and simulations. An additional feature offers educators the ability to create "playlists" for their students, which correlate specifically to their particular instruction material.

   

• Open Learn - Nature & Environment

  Open Learn is an initiative of The Open University, UK. It provides supplemental materials for educators, including articles, podcasts, videos, games, and much more. In addition, it offers more than 700 free online classes.

• Open Textbook Library - Computer Science & Information Systems

  These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

   

• InTech - Computer & Information Science

  InTech publishes more than 2,300 open textbooks and 6 journals in a variety of subjects that fall under the heading of science, technology, and medicine.

   

• Bookboon.com - IT & Programming

  Bookboon.com contains free eBooks and textbooks that can be downloaded as a pdf, no registration needed. These books cannot be altered, but can be freely printed, shared, or embedded in non-commercial ways. They are intended only for individuals, colleges, and schools.

   

• Open Culture Free Computer Science Textbooks

  Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of Free Computer Science Textbooks, part of our larger collection 200 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection. Also see our online collection, 1200 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.

   

• MIT Open Courseware - Computer Science

  MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

   

• Computational Science Education Reference Desk

  The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate it into the classroom.