What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.
Open license refers to a license that respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner and provides permissions granting the public the rights to access, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute educational materials (source from The UNESCO).
TextBooks
- Open Textbooks by OER Commons (created by educators and subject matter experts from around the world)
- BCcampus Open Textbooks (a program that provides free, open access textbooks for post-secondary courses in British Columbia, Canada.)
- Open Textbook Library by University of Minnesota (a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.)
- OpenStax (OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is an nonprofit charitable corporation. OpenStax textbooks are peer-reviewed and developed by experts in their respective fields. They cover a range of subjects, including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and social sciences.)
- Open Access at the MIT Press (The MIT Press has been an open access leader for over two decades, publishing hundreds of books and articles openly, and working with authors, editors, societies, and universities to disseminate their works as broadly as possible.)
- FreeBookCenter.net (free online technical books, which Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more...)
- Open Textbooks by Australian National University (ANU) Press (the first and largest open-access university press in the world. Its authors publish peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, Indigenous studies and science.)
- Sydney Open Library (SOL) (hosts academic monographs and textbooks published by Sydney University Press in open access, covering subjects across the humanities and social sciences.)
- Open Textbooks by UTS ePRESS (the digital, open access scholarly publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). It publish high quality scholarly titles across a wide range of academic disciplines, with particular strengths in the humanities, arts and social sciences.)
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