Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Florida Open Academic Library provides a statewide searchable database that includes an inventory of digital archives and collections held by public postsecondary education institutions (§ F.S. 1006.73 (2)(a)4.). Through collaboration with Florida Virtual Campus Library Services member libraries, we are pleased to bring you over one million unique and valuable resources to discover. Developed to include multiple platforms across our members, harvested content includes all collections contained in the Inventory of Digital Libraries and Collections held by Florida Public Universities and State Colleges.

Peer-reviewed, quality open textbooks with interactive components.

Open textbooks reviewed by subject matter faculty and available in at least one portable format.

Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 5,901 open access books published by 162 organizations and networks using Pressbooks. Nearly all books are highly accessible, and many include interactive H5P learning activities to engage learners.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Project Gutenberg’s bookshelves are hand-curated collections of eBooks that have similar topics.

The California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed) is more than just a large repository for a variety of OER. It also connects faculty to the wider spectrum of Open Education by sharing faculty testimonials and how-tos for adopting OER in various disciplines (see Faculty Showcase section).

This search engine from George Mason University is connected to 15 major OER repositories.

Peer-reviewed OER collection of online teaching and learning materials. Merlot is a program of the California State University System.

A large user-friendly OER search engine that allows users to search by subject or by course material type.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.

Access a range of complete courses, course materials, videos, lectures, student work, and more.

A repository of OER for workforce development programs offered by community and technical Colleges.

Low or no-cost digital courseware.

A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download once access is granted by the course designer.

Courses that are curated from free-to-use and OER content created by others.

Search for courses, materials, and teaching resources.

Includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, exams, and problem sets.

Provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.

Online course management and assessment system for mathematics and other quantitative fields.

Select "Audio" from the "All content" dropdown menu.

After doing a search, click on "Filters" at the top, under "Features", click on "Creative Commons."

In the last field at the bottom of the page, "usage rights," choose "Creative Commons licenses" from the dropdown menu.

Select "Images" from the "All content" dropdown menu.

Select any of the options that say "Image."