Open textbooks are free, online materials with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each will have a particular focus, and items you can find in other collections.
Collection of openly-licensed textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the University of Minnesota Center for Open Education and the Open Education Network.
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low-cost in print.
Collection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties from the B.C. Campus OpenEd. The open textbooks have been reviewed by faculty, meet accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.)
A non-commercial open textbook organization was initiated at the University of California, Davis. Their collection is used across the nation as primary course textbooks and as supplemental learning resources.
An open-access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. They publish high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.
Provides educators and learners with access to more than 250 free and openly-licensed educational resources. The library was launched in 2017 in partnership with BCCampus.
OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks. Learning materials in these collections include full courses, syllabi, images, presentations, videos, simulations, and many more.
A digital public library and collaboration platform launched by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). OER Commons allows searching by material types, educational or grade levels, and subject disciplines.
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
A collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. This collection was developed by the Washington State Colleges.
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Its mission is to produce and disseminate OER for the public.
Expertly compiled from Noba modules to fit the scope and sequence of common courses. Use them as-is or customize them to fit your needs. Instructor manual, PowerPoint presentations, and test bank available for many modules.
PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Proton Guru offers open access to a full free organic chemistry course made up of an online textbook, video lessons with printable slides, problem-solving videos, and online multiple-choice quizzes for self-assessment; as well as materials to prepare for the MCAT, PCAT, AND PA-CAT.
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Date coverage varies. Fulltext. Subjects covered include ecology, microbiology, genetics, biochemistry and medicine.
Date coverage varies. Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. There are more than 16,000 journals and 6.5 million article records in the directory.
The sources listed here have images and photos that can be downloaded for free with no or limited restrictions.
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. Aggregates results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés.
Beautiful, high-resolution photos of black and brown people.
Provides high quality and completely free stock photos. No attribution required.
A coop of stock image photography featuring images of people of color.
Provides royalty free photos and videos. Pictures are shared as part of the public domain with people all over the world.
Millions of free high-resolution images created by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
Free photos of women of color working in technology.