DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the STEM disciplines.
New Prairie Press was founded by Kansas State University Libraries in 2007, joining a growing number of libraries in the world of open access publishing.
Journal of Forest Research is the field dealing with coppicing, forest ecology, forest service, water management, plantation and lot more.
Using Google to find OER
Using Google Advanced Search to find OER
On the Google Advanced Searchpage, scroll to the bottom and look for the "usage rights" field.
Change the "usage rights" field to "free to use share or modify" or "free to use, share or modify, even commercially" depending on what type of license you want.
Use the other fields to plug in key words and to narrow your results.
Hit the "Advanced Search" button.
The results page should show only Creative Commons resources. Make sure to verify exact license type and terms of use.
You can watch the following video for a demonstration of a Google Advanced Search:
Here are a few more Google search tips:
To find specific types of websites such as .gov or .edu type in the search box Site:.gov or Site:.edu.
To eliminate specific websites or words you can use a minus symbol before the word. For example if you want to search for something but do not want Wikipedia to show up in the results simply type in the search box -Wikipedia.
Use quotations around a phrase to search for results containing that exact phrase. For example search for "climate change" will return less, but more relevant results than searching for the phrase without quotation marks.
