Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching and learning materials freely available online using Creative Commons licensing.
There is a Library guide for open educational resources (OERs): Explore the Library's Open educational resources.
Many educational resources can be used free of charge in teaching, including open access textbooks. Before using or modifying these resources, check the licence permissions.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Biomed central
- PLOS (Public Library of Science)
- Open Access Law Journals
- OpenDOAR (a global Directory of Open Access Repositories)—a collation of open access research repositories from around the world
- Oxford University research archive (most items in this archive are open access, but not all)
- Saylor Open Access Courses
- MIT Open Courseware—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
- OpenStax—open access text books
- SaylorOpen—access text books
- BC Campus open text books—open textbooks for first and second year subject areas in BC Canada.
- Open culture—200 open source textbooks
- Open Textbook library
- College Open Textbooks
- Project Gutenberg—free e-books including historic texts
If you know of some other open source educational material that is not included in the list above, email it to copyright@vuw.ac.nz.