Open Resources Search

Textbooks & Books

• Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians
• eCampus Ontario
• BCcampus
• Directory of Open Access Books
• OASIS
• OpenStax – (Rice University)
• Milne Open Textbooks – SUNY (State University of New York)
• Open Textbook Library
• Pressbooks Directory

Journals / Academic Resources

• Arxiv - (Cornell University Library)
• The Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• BASE - Academic Search Engine
• Digital Commons Network
• DOAJ - The Directory of Open Access Journals
• eThOS: eThesis Online Service
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

Images

• Creative Commons Image Search (enter a search query and click on the where you want to search, such as "Flickr" or "Pixabay")
• Flickr Creative Commons
• Library and Archives Canada (Creative Commons)
• Pexels (CC0 license)
• Anatomy Image Bank
• Historical Images
  • UBC Library Digitization Centre
  • Library of Congress
  • The British Library
  • The National Archives UK
  • The U.S. National Archives
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons
  • New York Public Library

Business Case Studies

• MIT Sloan School of Management
• USC Annenberg – (Strategic Communication)
• Open Access Business Case Studies by Toronto Metropolitan University

Music

• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) – (Musical scores in the public domain in Canada)
• MusOpen

Online Teaching and Learning Materials

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Open Yale Courses
• Khan Academy - (Close-Captioned videos)
• MERLOT
• OER Commons 
• PhET Interactive Simulations – (Math and Science simulations)
• Open Learning Initiative – (Online courses created by Carnegie Mellon University)

Videos

• Ted Talks
• Vimeo – (Not all videos are closed-captioned)
• YouTube (Use Filter option and select Creative Commons)

Art

• Brooklyn Museum (Creative Commons licence on images in which the Museum owns the copyright)
• J. P. Getty Museum (Come Creative Commons licensed pages and Open Content policy on images in which the Museum owns the copyright)
• Met Museum (Look for images with a OSCA license)
• National Gallery of Art (US) (Images of public domain paintings and sculpture)

Cartoons

• xkcd ("A Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language")

Odds and Ends

• The Public Domain Review
• Project Gutenberg