Open Educational Resources

Provides courses, video lectures, documentaries, images, books, and other multimedia material.

EdX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. Currently, EdX is offering thousands of courses in various subjects for different study levels. Subjects include Biology & Life Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Data Analysis & Statistics, Electronics, Energy & Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Math, Physics, and Science.

FutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop. Subjects include Nature & Environment and Science, Engineering & Maths.

Peer reviewed open access learning materials organised by subject. Registration is free.

Access a range of course materials, videos, lectures, student work and more. Nearly all of the content here is openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons. Resources are available for subjects including Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics.

Offers public health courses and materials

Featured Open Access Journals

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) maintain a list of repository contacts and links for repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities.

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Lists institutional repositories around the world which contain electronic versions of theses.

The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference tool for those wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. It provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook. Copyright, open-copyright licences, and the differences between citation and attribution are discussed as well as the importance of copy editing and proofreading. Checklists and templates are also provided. This guide replaces the BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide.

Open-access, peer-reviewed teaching materials for health professions education. Also includes iCollaborative, educational resources that have not undergone the formal MedEdPORTAL peer review process. MedEdPORTAL is included in Medline.

Free Online Fulltext Articles

De Gruyter Open publishes fully open access journals and books in all major academic disciplines.

Open access scholarly papers from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Including medicine, social & behavioural sciences.

Free full text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Directory of peer-reviewed, open access journals published by Elsevier.

Open access journals available from the ScienceDirect publishing platform.

Over 200 peer-reviewed fully open access journals published by Springer.

Collection of Open Access journals published by Taylor & Francis.

Search for video and then filter by 'creative commons'

Creative commons subset of the Flickr image and video hosting website. Browse or search through content under each type of CC licence.

Online access to digitised image material, video and audio from the collections of the New York Public Library.