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Finding OER For Your Class

Finding the right open educational resources (OER) is the most challenging part of using OER in your classroom. These resources are a great place to start.

New OER

Below is a collection of new resources, curated for Emory class offerings. For even more, please visit our guide to Open Educational Resources.

    Business and Finance

    Revenue Management Illustrated. The book aims to demystify the process of maximizing revenue by providing a clear and accessible approach tailored to current economic and business conditions. 

    Chemistry

    Organic Chemistry II. This book focuses on providing a strong understanding of the reaction mechanisms of common organic functional groups, which includes alcohols, aldehydes and ketones, conjugated systems, aromatic compounds, carboxylic acids and derivatives, as well as carbohydrates.

    English

    The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Though specifically designed to fit Eastern Kentucky University’s ENG 101, 101R, and 105, The Commons: Tools for Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric is a versatile text that focuses on critical reading and metacognition. Each reading includes a headnote written by an EKU instructor or graduate student in the Master of Arts in English and Writing Professions. These headnotes are written with students in mind and include helpful information for practicing the critical reading strategy of previewing. The Commons also includes guides for using other critical reading strategies; these strategies are linked to specific readings to use as models for practicing the strategies, but each strategy can be used productively with any of the other readings as well.

    Foreign Language

    D'Accordo! Intermediate Italian. As an Open Education Resource, D’Accordo! offers an especially useful tool for language teaching and learning. First, by replacing a commercial textbook, D’Accordo! guarantees significant cost savings for students, a cause to which the Italian program at the University of Iowa has always been committed. Secondly, by providing materials that can be accessed online, downloaded in pdf format, and integrated into the university Learning Management System, the book is a flexible resource that responds to the different needs of a language course.

    Law

    Introduction to Intellectual Property Law. This book includes one or two judicial opinions per chapter with descriptive notes. Intellectual property cases often involve an array of legal, factual and policy considerations, and focusing on one or two opinions per class will allow for more in-class time discussing individual cases and the issues they present.

    Medicine & Public Health

    Hands-on Anatomy. Hands-on Anatomy targets undergraduate or graduate students who have completed an introductory anatomy course and are beginning to apply their anatomical knowledge to the human body, as well as healthcare professionals engaged in patient assessment and treatment.

    Anatomy and Physiology II: Student Resources and Lab Manual. Within this package students will find a study guide in the form of student learning objectives. Also contained with are weekly laboratory activities related to the following; urinary system, nervous system and special senses, immunity and response to injury and infection, reproductive systems, pregnancy and embryology.

    Localization & Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy. Localization and Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy provides an overview of patient simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery. The goal of the book is to educate learners on conventional and modern simulation procedures, treatment planning fundamentals and considerations, and treatment delivery techniques and technologies in an ever-evolving field. The content is designed for radiation therapy students, professionals, and all communities of interest.

    Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing: An Editor’s Advice. This book is a useful companion text to comprehensive style guides for the biomedical sciences. This book walks authors through best practices for writing scientific papers and grant proposals in a concise and accessible format. Authors and teachers worldwide will benefit from these shared insights of an experienced scientific editor.

    Culinary Medicine: 2025 Edition. This peer-reviewed Culinary Medicine textbook is aimed at individuals and communities seeking to implement food-based disease prevention programs.

    Music

    Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing is based on coursework developed at the Peabody Conservatory, and serves as a crucial resource for early career musicians navigating the complexities of the digital era. This guide bridges the gap between creative practice and scholarly research, empowering musicians to confidently share and protect their work as they expand their performing lives beyond the concert stage as citizen artists. It offers a plain language resource that helps early career musicians see where creative practice and creative research intersect and how to traverse information systems to share their work. As professional musicians and researchers, the authors’ experiences on stage and in academia makes this guide an indispensable tool for musicians aiming to thrive in the digital landscape.

    Multimodal Musicianship is an open educational resource for learning music theory and ear training. The content engages concepts related to tonal harmony, suitable for a two- or three-semester music theory and ear training curriculum in a liberal arts college or other higher education setting. This collection of materials offers multiple modes of engaging content—with text, musical examples, audio examples, video content, application activities, and links to supplemental content—designed for users to learn and reinforce their knowledge according to their learning styles and needs.

    Nursing

    Optimizing Population Health: Strategies for Advanced Level Nurses. This resource provides an overview of population health concepts along with health promotion strategies utilized by advanced practice nurses. Resources are intended to be exemplary, but not exhaustive and introduce the reader to strategies that can be practiced while in graduate school as well as in healthcare settings.

    Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education: Integrating Into Curriculum and Practice. This workbook was established with nurse educators and nursing students in mind to provide knowledge, guidance, and support for integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) across the nursing education spectrum. Contents from this workbook are applicable to pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs, RN-to-BSN programs, and graduate education.

    Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Practitioner Educators: A Faculty Guide. This text provides 15 complete simulation scenarios in a template format for the following populations: pediatric, women, and adult. Also included in this text are how to conduct pre-briefing and debriefing sessions, faculty planning for pre- and postsimulation, faculty and student evaluation tools, and incorporating simulated patient actors (SPAs). It is the intent of the authors that those using this text will be able to incorporate the simulation scenarios and other content into their NP programs to help students meet learning objectives and practice clinical and communication skills using a variety of patient situations.

    Psychology

    Introduction to Human Development. An introductory textbook on developmental and psychological principles, focusing on applications to healthcare professions.

    Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Making Sense of a Global Pandemic - 2nd edition: Relationship Violence & Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society. This book provides a critical understanding of relationship violence. It is used at KPU in the BSN program, at Douglas College in Early Childhood program, Gender and Sexuality Studies at SFU and Criminology at KPU and SFU. It has chapters on the NEVR Model used for collaboration, on violence against all genders, in the workplace, in post-secondary institutions and a chapter on burnout.

    Interdisciplinary Textbook Collections

    Start here to find resources for all subjects:

    • Mason OER Metafinder: Searches across dozens of sites for OER and other openly licensed scholarly materials

    • OpenStax: Affiliated with Rice University and publisher of some of the most widely used OER focused on lower division, general education courses

    • Open Textbook Library: Free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks for higher education

    • OER Commons: Public digital library of OER

    • MERLOT: Free, international, and open peer-reviewed collection of OER

    • BCcampus: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in British Columbia, Canada

    • Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): developed by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS is a search platform that aims to make discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains more than 440,000 records. 

    • GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Resources created by Georgia educators, some with grants from Affordable Learning Georgia

    • OpenOregon: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in Oregon

    • Open Michigan: Collection of OER and ancillary resources from University of Michigan

    • Milne Open Textbooks: (previously called Open SUNY Textbooks) is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff.

    Course Materials and Ancillaries

    • MIT OpenCourseware: Open, web-based publication of MIT courses

    • Saylor Academy: Open textbooks and open courses

    • LibreTexts: OER in a range of subjects plus ancillary materials such as laboratory experiments, case studies, simulations, demonstrations and techniques, and interactive fossils.

     

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    • Internet Archive: Millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

    • HathiTrust: Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world

    • Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free eBooks

    • Pressbooks Directory: Provides an index of thousands of titles published across almost 100 PressbooksEDU networks

    Evaluating OER

    Unsure if an OER is the right fit? Not all OER are created equal. Use the Affordable Learning Georgia guide to Selecting Textbooks to help you find the right match.

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