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, published within the past six months and curated for Emory class offerings. For even more, please visit our guide to Open Educational Resources.

    Academic Writing & Publishing

    Preparing to Publish. This book offers a wealth of instructional material on the topic of research article writing for publication and thesis or dissertation completion. The text provides graduate student writers with helpful information, strategies, and tips on navigating disciplinary writing in their fields and how to understand, dissect, and ultimately, construct their own research article. The text is organized according to a standard research article format, breaking down each section of the empirical research in a simple and straightforward manner to help graduate students build a quality, argument-driven manuscript as they write up their empirical study findings. (4/2026)

    Surviving Research Publication: A guide for new scholars. This handbook provides the hidden information needed to successfully navigate your first research publications. From the basics of a literature review, through ethics and the use of technology, this book is an essential guide for graduate students and early career researchers. (4/2026)

    Arts Administration

    The Creative Social Entrepreneur’s Field Guide is for artists, creative workers, and cultural organizers who want to treat their practice as a vehicle for social, environmental, and community change. It walks readers step-by-step from early idea to minimum viable project, blending clear concepts with prompts, worksheets, and real-world tools. Organized around mapping, listening, shaping, resourcing, innovating, and adapting, it supports learners in building creative social ventures that are grounded and ethical. (7/2026)

    English

    Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition. This curriculum bridges the gap between personal expression and academic inquiry. This course focuses on using research-driven exploration to shape informed perspectives. (6/2026)

    Writing and Rhetoric: Second Semester Composition. This course builds upon the foundation established in the Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition course, continuing the trajectory from personal to academic writing. While Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition introduced students to academic writing contexts and taught them how to use research to explore topics before forming perspectives, Second Semester Composition advances these skills by focusing on developing well-researched academic arguments. (6/2026)

    Biology & Environmental Sciences

    Molecular Techniques: A Project-Based Undergraduate Laboratory. Techniques for molecular biology research and applications have advanced rapidly over the past decades, and undergraduates need hands-on experiences in this vital field of science. This text provides a structured approach to learning and practicing those techniques, covering DNA, RNA, and protein across five modules and is tailored for a one-semester undergraduate lab course. Students will become familiar with techniques widely used in molecular biology research, such as degenerate PCR cloning, Southern blot, probe labeling, bacterial recombineering with and without CRISPR-Cas9, RT-qPCR, SDS-PAGE, and Western blot. Most lab exercises were adopted from published research projects to ensure the feasibility and success of the experiments conducted by inexperienced undergraduates. (4/2026)

     Practical Experimental Microbiology: Laboratory Manual. Microbiology Experimental Laboratory Manual is comprehensive in teaching students basic microbiological techniques, i.e., how to grow and stain bacteria, how to identify bacteria and fungi, and means of identifying different species of bacteria microscopically. Further experiments enable students to identify the most effective soap/detergent from those readily available; to discover which spices have the most anti-bacterial activity; to identify which sources of milk provide 'good' vs. 'bad' bacteria; and grow common micro-organisms from samples of soil, raw meat, and milk products. In addition, the lab course is designed to help students think scientifically and develop independent thinking skills by designing their own microbiological experiments to carry out during the course of the semester. The present manual is suitable for students pursuing paramedical professions, and is adaptable for those in a distance-learning course with limited access to laboratory resources. (4/2026)

    Data and Decision Sciences

    Introduction to Data Science: A Structured Methodology covers data science fundamentals, examining core principles, methodologies, and applications that organizations use to extract insights from datasets. Topics include data types, preparation techniques, analytical methods, and communication strategies. (7/2026)

    Languages

    Advanced Indonesian addresses the dearth of advanced Indonesian language resources by delving into current topics and events related to gender, lifestyle, human rights, environment, economy, and language preservation. The authors utilize authentic materials sourced from online newspapers, editorials, blogs, vlogs, journals, and YouTube, ensuring that learners engage with real-world language contexts. (7/2026)

    Basic Bangla is a theme based, interactive, open-source online textbook designed for beginning level learners of Bangla language. By using this book, a learner will learn Bangla vowel and consonant sounds and letters, basic grammar of the language, important vocabulary, useful expressions, and—most importantly—communicative skill. (7/2026)

    Basic Punjabi is an online interactive theme-based textbook for the true beginner of the Punjabi language. It promotes communicative, linguistic, and cultural competence. It has a mixture of pedagogical approaches to fit all types of learning and teaching philosophies/styles to achieve intermediate low to mid-ACTFL proficiency levels within a semester. (7/2026)

    Basic Tibetan is a first-of-its-kind, multimedia interactive online textbook designed for learners of Tibetan in higher education. Learners are encouraged to listen, repeat, and internalize the sounds of Tibetan through audio recordings. To support vocabulary and sentence structure acquisition, the book offers a wide range of interactive exercises, making learning both effective and enjoyable. (7/2026)

    Elementary Chinese 2 Workbook is designed to help beginning learners lay a solid foundation for the natural development of the Chinese language skills necessary to excel in their learning journey. At the heart of this method lies a focus on Chinese receptive skills that are essential for the development of communicative competences: listening and reading, seamlessly integrated with typing. This unique combination, unlike the traditional handwriting approach, not only fosters accuracy in listening and reading comprehension but also enhances accurate pronunciation and typing in Chinese communication. (7/2026)

    Intermediate Arabic I is designed for undergraduate students who are taking Arabic in their third semester. It addresses language structures in theme-based modules that cover the four language skills. The book can be used as a self-study resource or as the main textbook in intermediate Arabic classes. (7/2026)

    Intermediate Persian is an online, interactive theme-based textbook for intermediate students in the Persian language that promotes communicative, linguistic, and cultural competence. It has a mixture of pedagogical approaches to fit all types of learning and teaching philosophies and styles to achieve the Intermediate High ACTFL proficiency level within a two sequence semester. (7/2026)

    Por Nuestras Manos: Un recetario de la clase Español para Hablantes de Herencia: This cookbook, the second in a series, was produced in the class Spanish for Heritage Speakers in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. In this class, students dedicated themselves to strengthening their writing abilities and expanding their use of Spanish. We hope readers find a new recipe to try and the project serves as a model for other Spanish classes.  (7/2026)

    ¡Tengo Hambre! Un Recetario de la Clase Español para Hablantes de Herencia: This cookbook, third in a series, was produced in the class Spanish for Heritage Speakers in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. In this class, students dedicated themselves to strengthening their writing abilities and expanding their use of Spanish. We hope readers find a new recipe to try and the project serves as a model for other Spanish classes.  (7/2026)

    Nursing

    Be Prepared for Your Nurse Practitioner Clinical Readiness Exam contains case studies and review questions for nurse practitioner students; focusing on the 3Ps of nurse practitioner education (Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, and Physical (Health) Assessment) to help NP students prepare for their clinical courses and pass their clinical readiness exam. (6/2026)

    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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    Open Books

    • 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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