Open Educational Resources

The following are curated collections specific to subject areas in the arts and humanities. This is not an exhaustive list, and you can also search for subject-specific OER in the search platforms on the Find Open Educational Resources page.

• OpenStax Textbooks - Humanities
  • High quality, peer-reviewed textbooks. Openly licensed and 100% free.To access faculty-only materials, create a free OpenStax account.
• Open Textbook Libary - Humanities
  • Complete textbooks that have been reviewed by a variety of college and university faculty, and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

• OER Commons - History
  • A large repository that includes all kinds of Open Educational Resources. Use the search limiters to narrow by education level, material type (i.e. Textbooks) and subject.

• Literature in Context
  • From Marymount University and the University of Virginia, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Collection of digitized public domain texts with annotations by faculty and students
  • Goal is to provide "authoritative, contextualized works that teachers and students can use with confidence"
• Project Gutenberg
  • Over 70,000 free eBooks (most of which are in the public domain)
  • Some materials are still under copyright, so some restrictions apply
  • Versions of materials are not necessarily in the exact format of the original (ex: some versions of Robinson Crusoe are divided by chapters, unlike the original)
• Open Textbook Library - Literature, Rhetoric, & Poetry
  • Complete textbooks that have been reviewed by a variety of college and university faculty, and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.
  • All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
     

• LibreTexts - Philosophy & Religious Studies & Mythologies 
  • From the University of California - Davis
  • Peer-reviewed textbooks in numerous disciplines
  • Includes features like collaborative annotations and importing into Canvas
  • OER remixer enables you to adapt content to your own courses
• Everett Library Religion Research Guide - Websites
  • Freely available sacred texts, commentaries, and other primary sources

• MERLOT - World Languages Community Portal
  • From Cal State University Long Beach
  • Peer-reviewed by discipline-specific editorial boards
  • Open textbooks, content, learning activities, quizzes, technology platforms, etc.
    • Includes fee-based content as well, but you can filter this out
  • Advanced search enables you to search by discipline, audience, material type, and more
• OER Commons - World Languages
  • From the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
  • Open textbooks, content, learning activities, assessments, etc.
  • Enables you to filter by subject, content type, format, and educational standard
• Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL)
  • From the University of Texas
  • Lesson plans, assessments, recordings, and texts
• LibreTexts - World Languages
  • From the University of California - Davis
  • Peer-reviewed textbooks in numerous disciplines
  • Includes features like collaborative annotations and importing into Canvas
  • OER remixer enables you to adapt content to your own courses