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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)

Guide for instructors interested in adopting Open Education Resources for ZTC courses.

General Research Skills Open Education Resources


Open access textbook published by California Community College faculty.

Finding Open Access Articles

This video explains how to find open-access articles for college research using the open access research databases: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PLOS ONE, and Hindawi. it also describes how to filter for open access articles on Google Scholar. A brief description of open access is provided. Open-access and hybrid search engines are explained. 

Open Image Collections

Subject-specific image platforms can be found in the OER LibGuide for that subject.


Wikimedia Commons

Millions of freely usable media files contributed by users.


Creative Commons License Search

Search for media that is published under a CC license.


Unsplash

High-resolution images. Note: Avoid "iStock" and "Unplash+" which are NOT free to use.


Pexels

Free, high-quality stock photos and royalty-free images.


Library of Congress Free-to-Use and Reuse Collection

Content from the LC digital collections that is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.

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