Open Content Repositories

Finding OER!

Explore the list of links provided to search for materials under a collection of open resources online. This is aimed at providing a guide to find the best OER suitable for you under any course subject, or types of OER such as videos, images, presentations, course books, journals, etc. - [part of the content has adapted from "Finding Open Content handout", courtesy of open.michigan under CC license: CC-BY ]

 

Whether for teaching, learning or research, you can view and download open content materials from a vast collection of resources.

 

Open Educational Resources (OER)

• https://open.umich.edu/education/

• http://www.oercommons.org/oer

• http://www.merlot.org/

• http://ocw.mit.edu/

 

 

Health Sciences Content

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray’s_Anatomy

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Patrick_Lynch

• http://www.healcentral.org/healapp/browse

• http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

• http://phil.cdc.gov/

• http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm

• http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/

• http://pubmed.gov/

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

• http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html

 

 

Images

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image

• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ (finds CC licensed images)

• http://www.flickr.com/commons/ (finds public domain images)

• http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search

Audio/Video

• http://ccmixter.org/

• http://jamendo.com/

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio

• http://www.freesound.org/

• http://freemusicarchive.org/

• http://www.musopen.com/

• http://soundbible.com/

 

 

Mixed Content

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

• http://search.creativecommons.org/

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/

• http://spinxpress.com/getmedia

• http://www.archive.org/

 

 

Textbooks

• http://www.cnx.org/

• http://www.opentextbook.org/

• http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

• http://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog/

 

ClipArts/Icons

• http://www.clker.com/

• http://openclipart.org/

• http://thenounproject.com/

 

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