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Open Educational Resources: HUMANITIES & ARTS

How to find, adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources.

OERs

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

This guide includes collections of OERs and other freely available online educational resources. Quality, accessibility, and copyright of the materials may vary.

Try the California State University: Course Materials Finder Tool  - Enter a book's ISBN to search for freely available related materials related to the book.

Featured Resources: Humanities OER

Finding OERs by Discipline

Open Texbooks

AU Press: History

  • Creative Commons licensed ebooks from Athabasca University

AU Press: Literary Theory & Criticism

  • Creative Commons licensed ebooks from Athabasca University

AU Press: Literature & Poetry

  • Creative Commons licensed ebooks from Athabasca University

BC Open Collection (BCcampus): Humanities

  • curated selection of open educational resources (OER) from British Columbia

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Humanities

  • (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access books. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited collections published under an open access license, with links to the full texts

Lever Press: Humanities ebooks

  • fully open access press with all works freely available

LibreTexts: Humanities

  • highly collaborative Open Access textbook environment under constant revision by students, faculty, and outside experts

Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity

  • OER from Open SUNY Textbooks

OAPEN: Humanities

  • OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books

OER Commons: Arts and Humanities

  • Textbooks -a public digital library of open educational resources

Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative

  • complete text of peer reviewed humanities and related topics ebooks

Open Book Publishers

  • independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK

Open Humanities Press

  • open access books under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License

OpenStax: Humanities

  • Peer-reviewed, openly licensed, 100% free textbooks

Open Textbook Library: Humanities

  • textbooks that are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution

Standard Ebooks

  • high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks

Ubiquity Press Open Scholarship: Humanities

  • from the University College of London, an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and more
 

Open Courseware

Open Courseware

Humanities Commons: Syllabi & more

  • from Michigan State University

National Humanities Center Resources

  • materials & resources for teaching (e.g. courses, activities, lesson plans, etc.)

LibreText Humanities

  • Offers course shells, textbooks and Learning objects (e.g. content items, practice items, and assessment items)

Lumen Learning Courses: Humanities and Languages

  • course text is freely accessible; other materials may not be open 

MIT OpenCourseware: Humanities

  • courses, materials & teaching resources

MERLOT Materials: Humanities

  • discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, webpages, etc.

Teaching Commons: Arts & Humanities

  • open educational resources from leading college and universities

 

General Humanities-related OER

General Humanities-related OER

CORE: Open Access for the Humanities

  • from Michigan State University, open-access scholarship and teaching materials

English Community Portal in MERLOT

  • an educational resource for teachers and learners of English at any level

History Community Portal in MERLOT

  • an educational resource for teaching and learning

OER Commons Arts & Humanities collection

  • a curated collection of teaching & learning resources

Project Gutenberg

  • a library of over 60,000 free eBooks

 

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

             *many of the simulations and videos are view/use only (i.e. not adaptable)

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

  • free exchange site of public domain image resources for and among members of the educational community

Librivox

  • free, public domain audiobooks

Open Culture: Literature

  • free cultural and educational media; curated materials from the web

Theater and Drama - Crash Course video playlist

  • Crash Course video series of 50 videos (each video around 10 mins.) with innovative graphics, Not openly licensed but freely available to view, link, and embed into courses