Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and accessible teaching, learning, and research resources that are found in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their use and re-purposing by others.
McGaw Library Catalog
Click on the above link “McGaw Library Catalog” to view our library’s webpage, to access its online catalog, and to access the resources listed below.
- OPAC
- EBSCO A to Z
- CMMC (Communications and Mass Media Complete)
- JSTOR
- NEWSBANK
- New York Times
- Digital Library of Appalachia
- Kentucky Virtual Library
- (FirstSearch Included-See Quick Clicks A to Z List of Resources)
- Access World News
- Lexington Herald-Leader (search dates 4/25/83 to current)
- Proquest Criminal Justice
- Choice Reviews
Alice Lloyd College faculty, staff, and students can access McGaw Library’s resources remotely. For instructions on how to access the library’s databases 24/7, click here.
Textbooks
- OpenStax
- OpenStax contains peer-reviewed, openly licensed, free textbooks.
- Open Textbook Library
- Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are open because they are free to use and distribute and licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
- LibreTexts
- BCCampus Open Ed
- https://milneopentextbooks.org/
Textbooks and Other Resources and Support Materials
- https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
- http://teachingcommons.us/
- https://www.hathitrust.org/
- https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- https://www.saylor.org/books/
- https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&uiLanguage=en
- Where to Find – Open Educational Resources – Library Guides at University of Nevada, Reno (unr.edu)
Discipline Specific Resources
- https://www.nap.edu/ – Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books – Medicine/Biotechnology Information
- American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Textbooks – Mathematics
- NOBA Project (Psychology) – Psychology
- SCIREA- Publisher of Open Access Journals – Mathematics and Science
Other OER sites and Open Libraries
- OER on OER (google.com)
- GALILEO Open Learning Materials (usg.edu)
- OER Commons
- Open Research Library
- OER Search Basics – Open Educational Resources (OERs) – Research Guides at Fort Hays State University (fhsu.edu)
- https://www.oercommons.org/groups/iowa-colleges-and-universities/6023/
- https://mason.deepwebaccess.com/mason__MasonLibrariesOpenEducationResources_5f4/desktop/en/search.html
- http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- https://guides.library.unr.edu/az.php?t=1482
- Homepage – Open Education Network (umn.edu)