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BCcampusOpenEd - The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties. Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet our accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
LibreTexts - LibreText's web-based origins allow powerful integration of advanced features such as embedded multimedia, dynamic figures, Jupyter, Hypothesis, Print on Demand, Complete Printed Version, One Minute Import into LMS, etc. It is up to instructors to decide which ones are the best fit for their classes.
Merlot - Search among 5,600 textbooks and over 80,000 open course materials. Can also create a course and add to Merlot collection.
Cool4Ed - Find many recommended textbooks and CA higher ed faculty reviews from the UC, CSU, and CCC.
JHSPH OPEN courseware - Find open public health courses and materials from John Hopkins University's Open Courseware.
OpenStax - Focuses mostly on mathematics and science.
Open Textbook Library - These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. Download for no cost, or print at low cost. All textbooks are either used at higher education institutions or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
Open SUNY Textbooks - Many disciplines, including Business, Education, English and Communication, General Studies, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences.
OER by Discipline Guide - Lists a broad range of open educational resources organized by disciplines at McMaster University.
OER Commons - A public digital library of open education resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world.
QUBES - Hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapts using open Creative Commons licenses.
SkillsCommons - SkillsCommons’ mission is to accelerate the democratization of education for all through open educational services and resources enabling individuals, communities, educational institutions, organizations, and businesses to prepare people for successful employment in the 21st Century.

Digital Commons Network
From website, "The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Searches OER-Specific Sites such as AMSER, BC Campus, Merlot.org, MIT OpenCourseware, OASIS, OER Commons, OpenStax, OTL, Teaching Commons on top oc American Memory (Library of Congress), HathiTrust, JSTOR OA books, Project Gutenberg and more...

Are your course materials inclusive? culturally relevant? accessible? intentional OER?

Consider the following criteria when reviewing OER resources for adopting into your courses. The following list is from the Open Textbook Library's Open Textbooks Review Criteria.

Cultural Relevance
Comprehensiveness
Content Accuracy
Relevance/Longevity
Clarity
Consistency
Modularity
Organization/Structure/Flow
Interface
Grammatical Errors

The below resources and their descriptions were created by the Open Language Resource Center. "The Open Language Resource Center (OLRC) is one of sixteen federally-funded National Foreign Language Resource Centers working to increase the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages. Founded in 2018, the OLRC focuses on the creation of Open Educational Resources for language learners at the secondary and post-secondary level." Learn more about the Center here: http://olrc.ku.edu/

OER Projects from the Open Language Resource Center

Language Resource	Titles
Mandarin-Chinese	Ting Yi Ting; Listening Makes Perfect
French	Le pont Resource for students to move from an intermediate level of proficiency to the advanced level. Au Boulot! A beginning-level college French program consisting of two textbooks and four workbooks with an accompanying audio supplement and reference grammar guide. Chapeau!. A beginning-level college French program consisting of a textbook and workbook with accompanying audio exercises.
Haitian Creole	ChitaPa Bay. Readings in elementary Haitian Creole focused on an abridged version of Jacques Roumain's novel Mèt Lawouze but also includes proverbs, jokes, folktales, riddles, and an illustrated dictionary. Haitian Creole - English / English - Haitian Creole Medical Dictionary. A bilingual medical dictionary of approximately 12,000 words intended specifically for English-speaking physicians, dentists, nurses, and paramedics treating Haitian patients. One of three sources for the Ultralingua Haitian Medical Reference Guide app. Haitian-English Medical Phraseology. A compendium of 1,300 questions, answers, and instructions collected during the course of several hundred medical interviews in rural Haiti. One of three sources for the Ultralingua Haitian Medical Reference Guide app. Survival Creole. A brief, practical guide for speakers of English in Haiti on a short-term basis. Includes common phrases for introductions, asking directions, making purchases, dining in a restaurant, and discussing illness. Ti Koze Kreyòl: A Haitian-Creole Conversation Manual. A tongue-in-cheek story of boy meets girl (in Haitian Creole class!), and of their honeymoon adventures and misadventures across the Haitian scene.
Portuguese	Baticum! Curso avançado de português brasileiro, língua estrangeira, a partir de textos da MPB. A textbook for advanced learners of Brazilian Portuguese focused on topics of advanced grammar in the context of exploration of Brazilian popular music.
Spanish	Acceso. An intermediate-level Spanish curriculum designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language. Winner of the 2012 Focus Award from the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. A complete revision of the curriculum is in process. El español en los Estados Unidos. Supplementary materials for beginning-level Spanish that focus on issues of cultural identity of Spanish speakers in the United States. Palabras propias:La historia cultural del mundo hispanohablante a través de textos primarios.
Additional Languages	Explore the Open Language Resource Center's pages on OER Projects & Other Language OER page at KU.

OER Database to Explore	Description of OER Database	Highlights (upcoming)
MERLOT MERLOT: Health Sciences MERLOT: Public Health	Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
OpenStax OpenStax - Public Health	Part of Rice University, publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. Collection focuses mostly on mathematics and science.
OER Commons OER Commons: Public Health	A public digital library of open education resources. Offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
John Hopkins University Open Courseware https://ocw.jhsph.edu/	Find open public health courses and materials taught at the John Hopkins University. Content varies but generally includes a syllabus, lecture materials and reading lists.

OER Database to Explore	Description of OER Database	Strengths of the Collection
MERLOT: Social Work	Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.	Allows you to browse the collection by discipline.
Mason OER Metafinder: Social Work	Launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button. The results returned are up-to-the-minute for each search target. Additional results will continue to trickle in as the search continues running and you begin examining your results.	A distinct feature of the Mason OER Metafinder is the scope of discovery service. It searches well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked (and often “open”) educational materials may be found.
Open Social Work	Building information equity in social work with open educational resources and open access to research.	Provides textbooks potentially of interest to social work educators organized by core domains of social work education.
Digital Commons Network: Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons	Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.	Includes peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Social Work Commons

AfricaBib.Org
"AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research. The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature) and African Women's literature (African Women). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa). In June 2012 two bibliographies were added, one on Islam in Africa, compiled by Paul Schrijver, the other on the Kenya Coast, compiled by Jan Hoorweg. In July 2014 Water and Africa was added. Followed in September 2017 by Education in Africa."
African Digital Research Repositories
"The following list of known repositories within the African continent has been compiled by the International African Institute as a service to African studies research and scholarship in line with our remit to promote the dissemination of knowledge from and on Africa. It is unlikely to be comprehensive and will be regularly reviewed and updated."
AfricArXic Preprints
"AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works to catalyze the African Renaissance. We partner with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally."
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
"OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world."
redalyc.org
"Redalyc por un Acceso Abierto Diamante (no APC) propiedad de la academia. Redalyc, surge en América Latina pero indexa y provee servicios a revistas científicas de calidad certificada que no cobran por leer ni por publicar, brindando acceso abierto a los artículos científicos a todo el mundo. El modelo que sigue redalyc se basa en el enfoque de la ciencia como bien común y público donde la comunicación y publicación científica sea no comercial y esté en manos y control de la comunidad académica para lograr un ecosistema académico y científico sostenible, inclusivo y participativo."
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
"The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The Open Access Policy and the OKR represent the third major development in the World Bank’s Open Development Agenda, joining these earlier initiatives: Open Data Initiative (launched in April 2010): a range of reforms enabling free access to thousands of development indicators, as well as a wealth of information on World Bank project and finance, and Access to Information Policy (launched in July 2010): a groundbreaking change in how the World Bank makes information available to the public.

Alameda County Open Data
Open Data portal for Alameda County
Dryad
"The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types."
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Open Data Catalog
"The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, created this site to provide local agencies and the public with their data needs. Below are a list of services provided by the Open Data site."
Open Data Repository (ODR)
"The Open Data Repository (ODR) has created a database creation platform with an easy-to-use interface that allows researchers to quickly create online databases to share data for collaboration, for publication, or as a citable repository."
World Bank Open Data
"Free and open access to global development data"

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Resources for Finding ALS/OER Materials

Merlot - Search among 5,600 textbooks and over 80,000 open course materials. Can also create a course and add to Merlot collection.

Cool4Ed - Find many recommended textbooks and CA higher ed faculty reviews from the UC, CSU, and CCC.

JHSPH OPEN courseware - Find open public health courses and materials from John Hopkins University's Open Courseware.

OpenStax - Focuses mostly on mathematics and science.

Open SUNY Textbooks - Many disciplines, including Business, Education, English and Communication, General Studies, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences.

OER by Discipline Guide - Lists a broad range of open educational resources organized by disciplines at McMaster University.

OER Commons - A public digital library of open education resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world.

QUBES - Hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapts using open Creative Commons licenses.

Are your course materials inclusive? culturally relevant? accessible? intentional OER?

OER Projects from the Open Language Resource Center

OER Database to Explore

Description of OER Database

Highlights

OER Database to Explore

Description of OER Database

Strengths of the Collection