OAR & OER
Open Access Resources & Open Educational Resources
OAR/OER
OAR (Open Access Resources) and OER (Open Educational Resources) are articles, lesson plans, videos, and more that are free use.
These items still must be cited when used, and may have Adapt but Cite copyrights, but are great resources for research and instruction.
Check out the lists below for lists of some Open Resources!
Subject Guides
Librarian-curated lists of resources that support specific subjects are available through the Bryan College Library Subject Guides.
These guides include a section of related Open Access Resources that relate to the subject area.
- Business
- Criminal Justice
- English
- and more!
- View the Full List
Have Questions?
If you are looking for an article or resource that pertains to a specific topic, assignment, or other research project, please contact the library for more information.
Open Educational Resources
- OER Commons
- OpenStax
- OA textbooks, Rice University
- STEM OER Resources
- List of resources compiled by Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Open Access Resources
Free Educational Tools
Digital Image Collections
- Academic Info's Digital Libraries List
- ARTSTOR (part of JSTOR)
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- Must be logged into Bryan WiFi or My.Bryan to access
- An image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Resource Center
- Classroom Clipart
- Creative Commons
- Freely available images. Its "CC Search" Project offers access to more than ten million images across 13 providers.
- Digital Collection of the University of Washington
- Library of Congress
- Includes a number of collections of documents, audio, video, photos, and maps.
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
- Arts, business, education, humanities, math and stats, science and technology, social sciences
- The New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Pixaby
- Over 960,000 free stock photos, vectors, and art illustrations
- Smithsonian Open Access
- Unsplash
These lists are currently being added and edited. Please check back later for more resource suggestions, or contact the library if you are looking for a specific resource.