# Open educational resources

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- [Introduction](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/introduction "This guide has been developed by UNSW Library to provide unmediated support for finding resources suitable to use for open online courses. ")
- [Search tools](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/search-tools "This page highlights key directories that you can search for open access academic material.")
- [Collections & repositories](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/collections "Examples of multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections of open online course resources.")
- [Images & illustrations](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/images "Find open source images for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")
- [Music & sound effects](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/music "Find open source music and sound effects for use in online courses and to support student learning.")
- [Videos & simulations](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/video "Find open source videos and simulations for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")
- [Books & journals](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/journals "Find open source books and journal articles for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")

Find open source books and journal articles for online teaching and learning support. Always consult the terms of use of specific resources for your purposes.

You can explore the menu for other types of open resources.

- [Books](#s-lib-ctab-23076558-0)
- [Journals](#s-lib-ctab-23076558-1)

- [Library collection](https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/collection)

  Find open access books in UNSW Library collection. UNSW Library provides access to open access content sources such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), BASE, and SciELO. Easily identify open access items in your search results by the OPEN ACCESS logo. Refine your results by selecting the Availability item Open Access.
- [UC Davis LibreTexts libraries](https://chem.libretexts.org/)

  A collaborative UC Davis collection of open access e-texts in science, technology, engineering and medicine. Libraries such as [Biology](https://bio.libretexts.org/), [Geosciences](https://geo.libretexts.org/), [Statistics](https://stats.libretexts.org/), [Physics](https://phys.libretexts.org/) and [Mathematics](https://math.libretexts.org/) available. Unless otherwise indicated, content is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/).
- [InTech](https://www.intechopen.com/)

  Open access books and journals in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities. Works are licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 or CC BY 3.0 licences depending on their date of publication. See [Copyright Policy](https://www.intechopen.com/page/copyright-policy) page for full details and disclaimers.
- [OAPEN Library](https://www.oapen.org/home)

  Open access academic books in a number of languages including English. Search results can be refined by subject areas such as society and social sciences, humanities, economics, arts, literature, law, mathematics, language, earth sciences, and more. Terms of use vary - Creative Commons licence and conditions of use information is provided on the details page for each title.
- [Project Gutenberg Australia](http://gutenberg.net.au/)

  Free eBooks which are in the public domain in Australia.
- [DOAB: Directory of open access books](https://www.doabooks.org/)

  An online directory of academic, peer-reviewed open access books. It can be searched or browsed by title, subject or publisher. Results can be refined by license type. Terms of use vary - see individual items for license information.

- [UNSW Library collection](https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/collection)

  Find open access articles and journals in Library collection. UNSW Library provides access to open access content sources such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), BASE, and SciELO. Easily identify open access items in your search results by the OPEN ACCESS logo. Refine your results by selecting the Availability item Open Access.
- [Wiley open access journals](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

  A collection of open access journals. Conduct a search and refine the results on the left-hand-side to 'Open access content'.
- [InTech](https://www.intechopen.com/)

  Open access books and journals in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities. Works are licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 or CC BY 3.0 licences depending on their date of publication. See [Copyright Policy](https://www.intechopen.com/page/copyright-policy) page for full details and disclaimers.
- [PLOS journals](https://www.plos.org/)

  Open access journals in the fields of science and medical research. Unless indicated other wise articles and accompanying material are licensed under the CC BY licence. See [Terms of Use](https://plos.org/terms-of-use/) for full details.
- [CORE](https://core.ac.uk/)

  Open access articles and research papers.
- [BASE](https://web.archive.org/web/20250322035529/https://base-search.net/about/en/index.php)

  Indexes more than 130 million articles and more than 60% are open access.

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