Electronic Resources at The Evergreen Library: Open Access & OER

Open textbooks in mathematics, including: Liberal Arts Math, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra and Precalculus, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Introduction to Proofs, Discrete Math, Combinatorics, Computing and Numerical Analysis, Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Geometry and Topology, Probability, Statistics, and Logic.

Curated collection of open textbooks that align with the 40 highest enrolled, post-secondary subject areas in British Columbia, including: Academic/Career Success, Adult Basic Education, Art and Design, Biological/Physical Sciences, Business, Communication/Writing, Computer Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health and Medical, Hospitality/Tourism, Humanities, Language Learning, Law/Criminal Justice, Math/Stats, Social Sciences, Support Resources, and Trades.

Open language learning materials including: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, K'iche', Malayalam, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, and Yoruba.

A database of open access books from various academic publishers that submit content.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

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

Database of open and interactive textbooks in the subject areas of: Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Espanol, Geosciences, Humanities, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Social Sciences, and Statistics.

Open catalog of course materials and curriculum in the subject areas of Academic Support Services, Art, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, and Workforce Development.

Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.

A public, digital library of OER materials in the following subjects: Applied Science, Arts & Humanities, Business & Communication, Career & Technical Education, Education, English Language Arts, History, Law, Life Science, Mathematics, Physical Science, and Social Science.

A collection of textbooks published under Creative Commons licensing -- most are free to use in PDF and HTML format. Subjects include: Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, Art and Music, Cinema and Photography, Classics Textbooks, Digital Humanities, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Education, Environmental Studies, Health, History and Biography, History of the Book, History of Science, International Relations, Law, Literature, Language and Culture, Mathematics, Media Studies and Journalism, Open Field Guides, Philosophy, Sciences, Theatre, Women and Gender Studies.

Database of open, peer-reviewed textbooks in the following subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies, Humanities, Business, Essentials, College Success, and High School.

Developed by the University of Minnesota Center for Open Education, textbook selection includes the following subjects: Business, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Journalism, Media Studies, Communication, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Student Success.

Free and open access mathematics textbooks by Washington CTC faculty.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

Open textbooks with a community-based approach, including subjects such as Computing, Humanities, Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Languages, Engineering, and Miscellaneous.

If you have a documented print disability, you can register for a free Bookshare.org account through Evergreen Access Services to access audiobooks and request them.

Public domain audiobooks read by volunteer readers across the globe.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Website contains free audiobooks, as well as free e-books, podcasts, movies, and MOOCs.

Spotify has its own playlist filled with free public domain audiobooks.

Digitized books, journals, images and collections from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries creating a global “biodiversity commons” of significant biodiversity materials. Includes the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.

Covers journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Database of open access scientific journals.

International library consortium with the sole mission of advancing open access to research in academic journals across the humanities disciplines. All academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.

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

Khan Academy hosts free academic videos organized by discipline.

The Open Video Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection contains numerous documentaries and films shared by 20 universities and institutions.

The PEN America Digital Archive captures more than 50 years of cultural programming at the intersection of literature and freedom of expression advocacy. With generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the digital archive makes available long-inaccessible but valuable public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.

TED allows users to freely watch and download TED Talk videos.

Free popular films and television shows with minimal advertising.

Free videos on Vimeo that have Creative Commons licensing.

After performing a search, you can filter by Creative Commons licensing.

A collection of contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists.

A list of multiple sources to find open images with Creative Commons licensing.

Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.

The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.

Images from the Library of Congress that are free to use and re-use.

NASA's new image library consolidates imagery spread across 60 collections into one searchable locations. Users can embed content in their own sites and choose from multiple resolutions, including the original size, to download. Users can see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.

Provides open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.

Home of the Choral Public Domain Library

Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

"The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain."

International Music Score Library project "virtual library containing all public domain music scores as well as scores from composers willing to share their music without charge"

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 638,000 music incipits. These primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. They are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.