GSU Library Research Guides: A Toolkit for Open & Affordable Education @ Georgia State University: Finding Open & Affordable Materials

Did You Know?

You can make an appointment for a consultation with a librarian for help finding, evaluating, and integrating open and affordable learning materials into your coursework!

Message cmartoni@gsu.edu to contact GSU Library's Librarian for Open Knowledge, Charlene Martoni. Include a description of your interest in open and affordable education, as well as any questions or needs you may have.

USG Catalog of Open Learning Materials

Try searching the University System of Georgia's catalog of open learning materials, Galileo:

Galileo Open Learning Materials

GSU's Openly Accessible Scholarship

Access ScholarWorks
ScholarWorks is Georgia State University's open-access institutional repository, which includes journal articles, book chapters, books, conference proceedings and presentations, data sets, technical reports, audiovisual materials, and electronic dissertations & theses created by GSU faculty, students, and staff.
Learn About ScholarWorks
Learn about ScholarWorks and open-access, and discover how to submit your work or host a journal/conference.

GSU's Openly Accessible Digital Archive Collections

Access the Digital Collections
The library’s Digital Collections provide open-access to unique and rare material within our special collections and archives, including: manuscripts, photographs, periodicals, newspapers, oral histories, audio/visual materials, maps, and printed materials.
Learn About the Digital Collections
Discover the scope of Georgia State University Library's Digital Collections and learn about our efforts to preserve Atlanta's history.

GSU's Openly Accessible Projects on Atlanta

Access digATL
digATL is the library's portal housing projects, collections, and data about the metro area, produced by Georgia State University faculty, staff, and students working with and within their communities.
Learn About digATL
Discover the portal's scope and objectives, and submit recommendations for new recources.

Fully Adaptable Open Textbooks

Open Textbooks and Learning Materials for USG Core Curriculum Courses
OpenStax
OpenStax is an ever-growing library of open textbooks and ancillaries that are available for free online, are high-quality and peer-reviewed, and are openly licensed -- which means faculty can adopt or adapt them to their course needs.
California Community Colleges OER by Discipline
Milne Open Textbooks
A catalog of open textbooks that have been authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Northwestern Selected Open Textbooks
A list of open textbooks by discipline.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

Openly Accessible Indices, Repositories, and Archives

eCore
Check out open educational resources in-use by USG eCore Courses: eCore is a cooperative academic arrangement between 21 SACSCOC accredited colleges and universities within the University System of Georgia.
COERLL
Open educational resources for language learning.
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
An international association of repositories and repository networks.
CORA
A community of online research assignments.
Core Games
An arcade of free games, experiences, and events designed by a global community of creators.
Digital Public Library of America
Over 50,645,126 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Intech Open
Open access books and open science journals.
Knowledge Commons
A network for knowledge creators across disciplines.
LibreTexts
LibreTexts is the adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform that educators trust for creating, customizing, and sharing accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials.
LIS Scholarship Archive
A free, open scholarly platform for library and information science.
MERLOT
Openly accessible online learning, content creation, and support materials.
myOpenMath
MyOpenMath has pre-built courses created by users based on popular open textbooks. Some of these course only include online homework, while others include videos, handouts, and instructor resources.
nanoHUB
Founded in 2002, nanoHUB is an open and free online platform for computational education, research, and collaboration in nanotechnology, materials science, and related fields.
National Archives of the US
All of these materials are preserved because they are important to the workings of Government, have long-term research worth, or provide information of value to citizens.
OAPEN
An online library of quality-controlled open-access books.
Open Science Framework
A free-open platform for research sharing and collaboration.
OpenStax Hub
A repository of ancillary open educational resources.
Project Gutenberg
Free ebooks.
Public Library of Science
A nonprofit, open access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
RIMA - Russian Independent Media Archive
Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day. The archive holds content of over 55 media outlets, much of which is translated into English.
The Scholarly Communication Notebook
An inclusive community of practice for teaching scholarly communications, including a resource hub.
SocArXiv
A repository for the social sciences.
Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology
The TRAILS Resource Collections highlight syllabi, activities and assignments around important topics in sociology. Click the collection titles below to see a hand picked set of TRAILS resources.
UCL Press
An open access collection of textbooks and journals based out of the UK.

Collections in the Public Domain (No Attribution Required)

The Internet Archive
The Library of Congress
LibriVox
Audiobooks in the public domain.
Public Domain Review

Openly Accessible Images

Attribution is required for works in the following collections:

CDC Public Health Image Library
An openly-accessible collection of images and visualizations from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Europeana
An openly-accessible collection of European cultural heritage artifacts.
NASA Images
An openly-accessible collection of scientific images and visualizations from NASA.
NIH Image Gallery
An openly-accessible collection of medical images and visualizations from the National Institute of Health.
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
An openly-accessible collection of images curated by the New York Public Library.

No attribution is required for works in the following collections:

Open Audio Collections

ccMixer
A collection of open-source music.
Community Audio
An openly-accessible collection of community-created audio recordings.
Free Music Archive
This archive contains two collections: one full of open-source music and one full of openly-accessible music created by independent artists.
LibriVox
Audiobooks in the public domain.
Musopen
A collection of free recordings, sheet music, and textbooks.
The National Jukebox
Historical sound recordings available free of charge from the collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.

Open Video Collections

Critical Commons
A public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.
Hippocampus
Thousands of free videos in over 13 disciplines.
Moving Image Archive
Free movies, films, and videos captured by the Internet Archive.
Open Video Project
A collection of open digital videos.
Vimeo Creative Commons
A collection of openly-licensed videos.

Keywords and Phrases Relating to Instruction

Academic achievement
Academic development
Accessibility
Achievement
Achievement gap
Action research
Active learning
Adult learning
Analysis
Andragogy
Annotation
Anxiety
Assessment
Assignments
Assistive technology
Asynchronous instruction
At-risk
Attention
Attitude
Authentic
Authentic learning

Backwards design
Beliefs
Behavior
Behavior management
Behavioral challenges
Blended learning
Bloom's taxonomy
Book
Book clubs

Case method
Case study
Challenges
Change management
Class size
Classroom climate
Classroom design
Classroom management
Cloud-based learning
Cognition
Cognitive development
Cognitive load
Cognitive strategies
Collaboration
Collaborative learning
Collaborative research
College
Communication
Communication disorders
Communities of practice
Community service learning
Compare
Concepts
Conceptions of learning
Conceptions of instruction
Conceptions of teaching
Confidentiality
Construction of knowledge
Constructivism
Contrast
Cooperation
Counselling
Course design
Course evaluation
Course outline
Critical thinking
Culture
Cultural competency
Culturally responsive pedagogy
Curriculum
Curriculum design

Data-based
Debate
Decoding
Degree
Defend
Description
Diagram
Differentiation
Disabilities
Discipline
Discussion
Discussion post
Discussion thread
Distance learning
Diversity

E-learning
Education
Educational development
Educational technologies
Employment
Epistemology
Equity
Essay writing
Ethics
Etiquette
Evaluation
Evidenced-based
Examples
Exams
Expectations
Experiential learning
Extrinsic motivation

Faculty
Faculty development
Failure
Fairness
Feedback
First-year student
Fixed mindset
Flipped classroom
Flowchart
Formative assessment
Formative feedback

Game-based learning
Gamification
Gatekeeping
Gender
Global design
Goals
Grading
Graduate students
Group work
Growth mindset

Hidden curriculum
High-impact practices
Higher Education
Hybrid course
Hybrid design
Hybrid learning

Illustrate
Inclusion
Inclusive teaching
Individualized instruction
Information literacy
Inquiry
Inquiry-based learning
Inquiry research
Instruction
Instructional design
Instructional goals
Instructional strategies
Instructional technology
Instructors
Intellectual
Intelligence
Interactive learning
Interdisciplinary
International
Internationalization
Internet
Internship
Interpret
Intrinsic motivation
Inverted classroom

Justify

Knowledge
Kolb's learning cycle

Lab work
Laboratory
Language
Leadership skills
Learner characteristics
Learner-centered
Learning
Learning disabilities
Learning goals
Learning management system (LMS)
Learning objective
Learning outcomes
Learning spaces
Learning styles
Learning technology
Learning tools
Lectures
Lesson
Lesson planning
Literacy

Marginalization
Media literacy
Memory
Mental models
Meta
Metacognition
Minute thesis
Mixed methodology
Mixed methods research
Motivation
Multidisciplinary
Multimedia
Multimodal learning
Multiple choice

Needs assessment
News literacy
Non-disclosure

Object-based learning (OBL)
Objectives
Online learning
Open access
Open data
Open education
Open education resources
Open learning
Outline

Participation
Pedagogy
Peer assessment
Peer observation
Peer review
Pivot
Plagiarism
Portfolio assignments
Prior knowledge
Problem-based learning
Professor
Professionalism
Program outcomes

Qualitative analysis
Qualitative research
Quantitative analysis
Quantitative research
Question
Quiz

Read
Reflection
Reliability
Report
Research design
Research methodology
Retrieval
Review
Risk
Rubric

Scaffolding
Scholarship
Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM)
Self-assessment
Self-regulation
Service learning
Simulation
Skills
Small group
Social constructivism
Social learning
Social learning systems
Stereotyping
Storyboarding
Storytelling
Student
Student engagement
Student success
Study skills
Summarize
Summative assessment
Survey design
Synchronous instruction
Syllabus
Synthesis

Taxonomy
Teach
Teacher
Teaching
Teaching and learning communities
Teaching assistant
Teaching controversy
Teaching development plan (TDP)
Teaching evaluation
Teaching methods
Teaching portfolio
Team-based learning
Technology
Testing
Textbooks
Threshold concepts
Transfer of knowledge
Transfer student
Transformative teaching
Transparent assignment design
Trauma-informed
Trigger warnings

Underachievement
Undergraduate
Understand
Universal design
University
Unprepared

Validity
Values
Vocational
Vulnerable populations

Webinar
Wellness
Working knowledge
Workplace learning
Writing

Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

Looking for an OER on a Niche Subject?

Try searching the CCCOER community email exchange for discussions on the subject. You can also post to the discussion board to ask for suggestions from the community.

CCCOER Community Email Exchange
CCCOER is a public discussion list intended for community college faculty, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and other educators who are interested in open education policy, practices, and resources.
Browse this List of Pre-Print Repositories in Various Disciplines

Submit a Resource!

Have an openly accessible resource to share?

To submit a resource for this page, email Librarian Charlene at cmartoni@gsu.edu.

To publish your work with GSU Library, email Laura Burtle at lburtle@gsu.edu.

Open Data

Air Quality and Pollution
Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency
Bureau of Labor Statistics
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
The annual data release provides a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work, and play. The snapshots provide communities a starting point to investigate where to make change.
Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center Data
To facilitate easy access and promote the use of publicly available data resources at DBIC, Dartmouth hosts several datasets on the Dartmouth Research Computing file system where they are readily available to DBIC users for analyzing on the Discovery cluster.
Data World
The enterprise data catalog that CIOs, governance professionals, data analysts, and engineers trust in the AI era.
Dewey Data
Curated people, place, and company datasets from industry-leading providers.
Dryad
Institutions, publishers, and academic societies partner with Dryad to sponsor data curation, publishing, and preservation for researchers.
Electric Power Data
The survey Form EIA-923 collects detailed electric power data -- monthly and annually -- on electricity generation, fuel consumption, fossil fuel stocks, and receipts at the power plant and prime mover level.
FiveThirtyEight
A selection of ABC News data.
Global Health Data Exchange
Data made available for download by IHME can be used, shared, modified, or built upon by non-commercial users in accordance with the IHME FREE-OF-CHARGE NON-COMMERCIAL USER AGREEMENT.
Google Dataset Search
Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
Kaggle
Explore, analyze, and share quality data.
Local Climatological Data
Hourly, daily, and monthly climatic data for many U.S. cities.
NYC Open Data
Open fMRI - OLDER DATA
Open Neuro Data
A free and open platform for validating and sharing BIDS-compliant MRI, PET, MEG, EEG, and iEEG data.
Plane Crash Database
r/datasets
A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.
Resources on Data.gov
Resources.data.gov is an online repository of policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal government.
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program produces single-year estimates of income and poverty for all U.S. states and counties as well as estimates of school-age children in poverty for all 13,000+ school districts.
Stanford Open fMRI Datasets
The OpenfMRI database (https://openfmri.org) is a repository of human brain imaging data collected using MRI and EEG techniques. It has been accepting data since 2010.
U.S. Open Data
Find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
UN Data
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data.
World Health Organization Data
These databases and platforms provide access to understandable and timely data, transforming lives by making health and inequality data findable, browsable, and usable.

Check Out PIDLit OER

PIDLit OER

Open Software

Audacity
Open audio editing software.
Biblioshiny
Biblioshiny is a shiny app providing a web-interface for bibliometrix. Bibliometrix gives all the instrument sto pursue a complete bibliometric analysis, following the Science Mapping Workflow.
CCleaner for Windows
Open software to clean unwanted files and invalid Windows registry entries from computers.
Core Games Creator
A game creation portal, as well as thousands of free, professional music, art, and sound assets.
Gimp
Open raster graphics editor.
Harvard Catalyst
Open source tools for biomedical informatics.
JASP
JASP is a software for data analysis and statistical testing. Learn how to use JASP with introductory videos, data sets, variable types, and analyses.
Omeka
Open-source publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich exhibits.
Open Book Publishers
Open software for metadata, usage data, and publishing and distribution.
OpenRefine
OpenRefine lets you clean, transform and extend your data with web services and external data.
PhET
Interactive simulations for science and math.
PhET Interactive Simulations for Science and Math
A project at the University of Colorado Boulder, PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
RStudio
Used by millions of people weekly, the RStudio IDE is a set of tools built to help you be more productive with R and Python.
Shiny
Let users interact with your data and your analysis, all with R or Python.
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Taguette
Taguette is a free and open-source tool for qualitative research. You can import your research materials, highlight and tag quotes, and export the results!
Visual Molecular Dynamics
VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting
Zotero
Open R-based software for citation management.