Faculty/Staff Resources: OER and other resources

College Open Textbooks has peer-reviewed more than 100 open textbooks for use in community college courses and identified more than 550: College Open Textbooks has already peer-reviewed several new open textbooks for use in community college courses and identified more than 250 others for consideration. Open textbooks are freely available for use without restriction and can be downloaded or printed from web sites and repositories.

The Louisiana Library Network - LOUIS worked with EBSCO to create a one-of-a-kind search interface to identify Open Education Resources and eTextbooks that faculty can select as no-cost course texts for students to use instead of costly, traditional textbooks. Magale Librarians will work with faculty to search the database and select free course textbooks for their students.

Yum, Merlot! The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Open Textbooks developed by Rice University

OER Commons forges alliances between trusted content providers and creative users and re-users of OER. In addition to content partnerships, OER Commons, and its creator, ISKME, builds strategic relationships with organizations, consortia, states, districts, and others, in order to develop innovation and new research focused on OER, to advance the field of open education, and to build models for its sustainability.

Explore the expanded Black Lives Matter Learning Resources from Exact Editions and partner publishers to create a list of freely, open access available articles from archived issues in support of the Black Lives movement. This database contains a wide selection of topics from literature, music, politics, and activism.

ProQuest invites your institution to explore this FREELY AVAILABLE research tool. Researchers have available selected primary source documents, historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in United States history illustrating the opposition African Americans have faced on their road to FREEDOM.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.