Finding OER For Your Class
Finding the right open educational resources (OER) is the most challenging part of using OER in your classroom. These resources are a great place to start.
New OER
Below is a collection of new resources, published within the past six months and curated for Emory class offerings. For even more, please visit our guide to Open Educational Resources.
Biology Laboratory Manual: Introduction to Molecular, Cellular, and Physiological Principles. This lab manual is designed for students enrolled in the second lab course in the introductory biology sequence at Iowa State University. It is a semester-long lab course, required by most life-science-related majors at ISU, and includes activities on the scientific method, molecular and cellular biology, energetics, genetics, plant anatomy and physiology, and animal anatomy and physiology. (11/2025)
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An Interactive H5P Pressbook is an innovative, learner-friendly resource designed to help Mandarin learners of all levels build a solid foundation in Chinese pronunciation. This book features interactive H5P activities, engaging multimedia content, and step-by-step guidance through the Pinyin system, consonants, vowels, tones, and pronunciation rules. Divided into two parts, this pressbook offers targeted instruction on the building blocks of Mandarin sounds—vowels, consonants, tones, and tone sandhi—paired with fun stories, tongue twisters, and comprehensive exercises to boost accuracy and fluency.
(11/2025)
Functions, Trigonometry, and Systems of Equations (Second Edition). This is the second edition of a Precalculus textbook. (July 2025)
Interdisciplinary Textbook Collections
Start here to find resources for all subjects:
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Mason OER Metafinder: Searches across dozens of sites for OER and other openly licensed scholarly materials
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OpenStax: Affiliated with Rice University and publisher of some of the most widely used OER focused on lower division, general education courses
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Open Textbook Library: Free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks for higher education
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OER Commons: Public digital library of OER
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MERLOT: Free, international, and open peer-reviewed collection of OER
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BCcampus: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in British Columbia, Canada
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Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): developed by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS is a search platform that aims to make discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains more than 440,000 records.
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GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Resources created by Georgia educators, some with grants from Affordable Learning Georgia
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OpenOregon: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in Oregon
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Open Michigan: Collection of OER and ancillary resources from University of Michigan
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Milne Open Textbooks: (previously called Open SUNY Textbooks) is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff.
Course Materials and Ancillaries
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MIT OpenCourseware: Open, web-based publication of MIT courses
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Saylor Academy: Open textbooks and open courses
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LibreTexts: OER in a range of subjects plus ancillary materials such as laboratory experiments, case studies, simulations, demonstrations and techniques, and interactive fossils.
Not finding what you need? Here are more places to search:
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American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative: Open textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics Editorial Board
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): OERs for foreign languages
OER-Related Information and Resources
Find more specific resources
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Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA): Open access research assignments for your class
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OPEN Washington: Pathway to learn, find, use, and apply OER
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Wikiversity’s Portal for Tertiary Education: A Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research
Open Books
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Internet Archive: Millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
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HathiTrust: Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
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Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free eBooks
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Pressbooks Directory: Provides an index of thousands of titles published across almost 100 PressbooksEDU networks
Evaluating OER
Unsure if an OER is the right fit? Not all OER are created equal. Use the Affordable Learning Georgia guide to Selecting Textbooks to help you find the right match.
OER from the Emory Community
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ActivEpi by David Kleinbaum
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German Grammar by Hiram (Max) Maxim
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Extended Readings on Copyright by Matthew Sag