LibGuides: Open Education: Find Open Educational Resources

When starting your search for open educational resources (OER), it's helpful to know where to look. OER repository databases are excellent starting points, offering a wide range of materials across various subjects and education levels. These repositories aggregate high-quality, openly licensed educational content, making it easier to find what you need. Here are our top 5 recommended OER repository databases, which are ideal for general or broad searching. These platforms will help you access a wealth of resources to support your learning and academic projects.

OASIS
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 115 different sources and contains 455,499 records. Use the widget below to search it quickly!

BC Open Collection
Course materials developed by educators in B.C.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Searches well-known OER repositories but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked open educational materials may be found.
OER by Discipline Directory
Lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline.
OER Commons
Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.

Searching for OERs in Google

It is possible to narrow your Google search by type of license. Here are the steps:

Go to Google search at www.google.ca
Before you do your search, look for Settings (may be in different places depending on your browser and browser version)
Choose Advanced Search from the settings menu
Scroll down the page to the Usage Rights drop down. You should see 5 options where you can choose to narrow by different type of license.
Select the Creative Commons licenses option and then perform your search.

KPU Library

Open Education

Searching for OERs in Google