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Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

This guide introduces OER, reasons for their utilization, and resources for their discovery.

Oasis OER Search Engine

Created by SUNY Geneseo, Oasis searches approximately 80 college-level OER repositories, including OpenStax (Rice), the Open Textbook Library (UMinnesota), and our own Wesleyan University Press open ebooks.

Mason OER Metafinder

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
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An even more expansive search engine from George Mason University, MOM includes OASIS in its search results, as well as MERLOT (California State University), HathiTrust Digital Library, the Digital Public Library of America, and other large repositories of open access material.

Open Textbook Collections

Open textbooks are free, online learning materials with Creative Commons licenses. 

OER Repositories

OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks.  All content featured within these pages is free but usage rights vary. Materials in these repositories are released under a Creative Commons license while some are in the public domain.