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Open Educational Resources

A "getting started" guide overviewing open, editable, and lower-cost textbooks and open teaching & learning resources for faculty, students, and librarians.

Open Peer-reviewed Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals
Online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals in all fields.

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Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses. Search engine indexing free and open access ejournals in the arts and humanities. Recently added science, biomedical, business, and ecology ejournals

Sciences and Math

InTech - World’s largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher.

The iLumina Digital Library a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.

MedEdPORTALa free peer-reviewed publication outlet provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The site can be used to access various educational materials like tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, videos, and assessment tools.

American Inst. of Mathematics : Approved Textbooks  a list of "open-source or open-access textbooks have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.

National Science Digital Library OER Commons high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
 
HHMI's BioInteractive Video, lectures, animation, interactive exploration, interactive online labs, and more from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Art History Teaching Resources Peer-populated resources for art history teachers

Smarthistory: Cave painting, contemporary art and everything in betweenContinuously developed since 2005, Smarthistory is a free multimedia web-book for art history created and edited by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

Digital History Developed at the University of Houston, Digital History is interactive website meant to support the teaching of American History at the high school and collegiate level. The sites various resources are searchable by topic and historical era.

InTechOpen : Social Sciences and Humanities free online access to high-quality research.

OAPEN Library a collection of Open Access books in the humanities and social sciences

digitalculturebooksan imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and digital humanities
Open Humanities Press an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide