OER: Supplemental materials

The Encyclopedia of Life is an online collaborative encyclopedia providing global access to knowledge about biological life on earth. Entries are composed as written content with one or more pictures usually in the form of colour photographs. Content is provided by a wide variety of contributors but is reviewed for accuracy. All content on EOL is licensed under Creative Commons (CC) licenses, but each contributor defines what level of CC licensing is applicable to their content. Specific licensing information can be found adjacent to media or by clicking on desired media. If no reuse information is included then it is understood that there are no reuse restrictions other than providing credit when reusing the image.

You can browse content under different CC licenses.

Free stock photos. This Getty Images site, which upsells to iStock by Getty Images, is a place where photographers share images with others at no charge.

At the bottom of search screen, you'll see "Usage rights." Select "free to use or share" or "free to use or modify" to find CC licensed images.

This page Features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page.”

The Noun Project is a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language of icons and symbols that everyone can understand. Symbols and icons on The Noun Project are licensed using Creative Commons.

Over 550,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Vimeo lets you post and find creative commons videos.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. On TED.com, the best talks and performances from TED and partners are made available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

A collection of instructional videos and practice exercises on topics including
math, science, programming, history, English, economics, and standardized test prep.

Your librarians have created guides highlighting resources for specific classes. If you don't see a guide for your class, contact us and we will create one. We can also create guides for specific assignments.

Program guides highlight library resources for each program.

Digitized materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. The collection includes images, texts, videos, and sounds. All content found through DPLA is made available and licensed under the CC BY 3.0 License.

A fantastic collection of primary sources from around the world that came out of the World Digital Library project. The materials are free to use and reuse.

Images, sounds, videos

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Open Access Journals

The growing demand for open access publishing has led Springer to expand our open access program to fully open access books as a further addition to our already established SpringerOpen journal portfolio. Authors in all disciplines now have the opportunity to publish open access books, including complete monographs, edited volumes, proceedings and SpringerBriefs.

Over 53,156 articles to search! The DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

This is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service

A great source for books to borrow. Users must create an account.

Over 60,000 free e-books.

From the advanced search you can limit to full view only (free). Google Books has over 10 million free ebooks that are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free,