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Open Educational Resources (OER) Sustainable Learning

Resources for finding open and sustainable teaching and learning materials.

Places to Find OERs

Use the ISBN of Your Current Textbook to Find Free Alternatives
ISBN:

CSU Affordable Learning Solutions

 

  • UnPaywall is a browser extension that connects you to open access versions of articles when they're available.

  • Open Access Button is a browser extension to help find open access articles and open data. If an item is paywalled, the project will start a request for you to access the research.

Open Textbook Collections

Courses and Videos

Additional Resources

Discipline Specific OERs

Are you interested in working to curate the best OER for your discipline? Help us make this page better and send your favorite resources to HSUpress@humboldt.edu.

The HSU Sustainable Learning initiative is aimed at supporting faculty adopting or creating OER. Participants are provided with support from the Library and College of eLearning- become part of the campus community working on creating and adopting OER, and earn a $300 stipend for participating. Find out more at https://library.humboldt.edu/about/sustainable.html.

Creative Commons Licensing 101

Most Open Educational Resources have Creative Commons licenses, which allows you to use the content freely- but there are some requirements to be mindful of. Watch for these different types of restrictions:

Choosing a Creative Commons License

Creating an OER and don't know how to license your content? Take a look at these useful resources from creativecommons.org: