Library Research Guides: * Human Services & Cultural Studies Resource Guide: OER: Finding Resources

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and contain a legal framework that gives permission for open use in teaching, learning and research. Unlike a non-vetted free website or a pricey subscription database, OER's are scholarly, free of cost, and have open access.

Textbooks

Online Labs and Demonstrations

Additional Teaching and Learning Resources

MERLOT

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Statistics, Data and Writing Reports

Research Methods

Sociology

Textbooks

Social Work Textbooks

Gerontology Textbooks

CORA- Community of Online

Research Assignments

Animations for Teaching (Allow Flash)

Purdue Online Writing Lab for MLA

If you want to try searching on your own, the box below allows you to directly search OASIS, a tool to help locate OER.

Interactive Open Educational Resources : A Guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What's Out There to Transform College Teaching
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor's curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution's learning management system.
OpenStax
Social Sciences subject area open textbooks
Open Textbook Network
Social Sciences Textbooks for open use. The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.