Open Educational Resources

More than math and science

"The Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open repository of information, resources, models, and research related to blended learning."

Educational resources that includes some college-level content

Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. Invisible Histories believes archiving is resistance to oppression and history leads to liberation. In our work, we center joy and community while never erasing the painful and complicated experiences of our folks. We WILL save our stories, one box at a time.

A cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER)

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching

"OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it."

A search tool that currently searches open content from 117 different sources

A database of resources that can be filtered by educational level

OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. Discover projects, data, materials, and collaborators on OSF that might be helpful to your own research.

Free eBooks.

"Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.4 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo."

"The internet’s source for visuals. Powered by creators everywhere."

"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. Since 2008, the Zinn Education Project has introduced students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. With more than 140,000 people registered, and growing by more than 15,000 new registrants every year, the Zinn Education Project has become a leading resource for teachers and teacher educators."

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

This tool is called the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. The tool has an interactive map and uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. The tool uses this information to identify communities that are experiencing these burdens. These are the communities that are disadvantaged because they are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.

The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and understandable. Our mission is to empower researchers to publish high quality data in an ethical and FAIR way, collaboratively advance the art and science of data curation by creating, adopting, and openly sharing best practices, and supporting thoughtful, innovative, and inclusive data curation training and professional development opportunities.

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

We document, contextualize, and analyze current changes to environmental data and governance practices through multidisciplinary and cross-professional collaborative work; foster the stewardship and expansion of public knowledge through building participatory civic technologies and infrastructures; create new communities of practice to enable government and industry accountability; and promote models and tools that emphasize community participation at all scales, both within EDGI and in our public-facing tools.

Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data. In essence, FRED helps users tell their data stories. The purpose of this article is to guide the potential (or current) FRED user through the various aspects and tools of the database.

This is a regularly updated mirror of all data files linked from data.gov.

ICPSR is an international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 350,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 23 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.

Provides free access to data generated from efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporting projects and partnerships.

The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them.

Our mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and around the world.

Archives of public data sets, including: National Institute of Health, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Social Security Administration, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and more

White House websites are Presidential records. The official files that make up a Presidential administration's website are preserved in our Executive Office of the President Electronic Records Archive. In order for the public to easily access the websites, the National Archives has taken an additional step to "freeze" the White House websites and make them available online. Because the archived websites are hosted by the National Archives and are historical material, they are no longer updated.

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the ERIC research repository. ERIC was defunded on the 23 April 2025 and the maintenance contract is set to expire soon, meaning that ERIC is likely to shut down. The PDFs were rescued using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by a volunteer of the Data Rescue Project.

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.

Here is gathered bibliographic information about 22,695 research items (journal articles etc.) as compiled by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS; part of the US federal government's National Institutes of Health) for its Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal (CCHHL).

ntermediate data files for computing heat index and heat waves downloaded from URLs starting with https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/societal-impacts/heat-stress/ on 2025-01-17. These were produced by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in support of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Search for open textbooks by subject and download them to your computer.

Pressbooks Directory provides an index of 4,095 books published across 135 Pressbooks networks. Learn to use the Directory by taking a self-guided tour or reading our guide.

Courses from a variety of higher education institutions. Individual courses are free, certification are not.

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

"MITx is designed for the MIT community and runs on Open edX"

"OERu connects learners around the world with defined pathways to education, created by recognised educators and assessed by renowned global institutions. The learning is free and credentialing is very affordable."

A large, international, online university based out of the UK

Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.

"Saylor Academy’s mission is to open education to all. This goal is sustained by the continuing growth of a broader open education ecosystem. We are dedicated partners in this movement — creating and curating open educational resources (OER), piloting innovative credentials, and deploying open source technology, all toward supporting learning opportunities for all who seek them."

"ACS Central Science publishes the most compelling, important primary reports on research in chemistry and in allied fields, wherein chemical approaches play a key role. It is also the first fully open access journal published by the American Chemical Society."

"ACS Engineering Au is an open access journal that reports significant advances in chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and energy covering fundamentals, processes, and products. The journal's broad scope includes experimental, theoretical, mathematical, computational, chemical, and physical research from academic and industrial settings. "

"ACS Environmental Au is an open access journal, which publishes experimental research and theoretical results in all aspects of environmental science and technology, both pure and applied."

"ACS Omega is an open-access global publication for scientific articles that describe new findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science, without any perceived evaluation of immediate impact."

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to share and advance related theories and practices, and serves those interested in and contributing to citizen science across all disciplines, including scientists, educators, community organizers, evaluators, information technologists, and resource managers.

Community Science is an equitable collaboration of science aimed at outcomes for the benefit of communities.

This journal is part of the Community Science Exchange. The other arm of the Community Science Exchange, the Hub, is a multimedia venue for people from all kinds of professional and community backgrounds to learn about, engage in, and share the processes, impressions, and results of community science. It hosts resources including case studies, guides, curricula, data-sets, blogs, videos, and art, that illustrate the work of community science around the globe.

"In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal founded and run by a team of librarians working in various types of libraries. In addition to publishing articles and editorials by Editorial Board members, Lead Pipe publishes articles by authors representing diverse perspectives including educators, administrators, library support staff, technologists, and community members."

"JACS Au is a monthly open access multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the publication of manuscripts reporting significant research discoveries in all fields of chemistry. The journal considers submissions in traditional core fields such as analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry, as well as areas such as biological, medicinal, environmental, catalytic, computational, and theoretical chemistry; materials and nanoscience; chemical engineering, chemical education, and other multidisciplinary research as it applies to chemistry."

"Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal is an open-access, anonymously peer-reviewed, middle-state publication for activist students, teachers, and researchers in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Such activist work may be localized within a public school, neighborhood, or campus, or as far-reaching as regional and international efforts. It may intersect with movements such as Black Lives Matter, or campaigns, such as Immigrant Rights. Ultimately, the activism addressed in the journal should speak to the power of intersectional and collaborative efforts at political change."