Open Educational Resources (OER) and Creative Commons: General, Mixed, Data

A search engine for Creative Commons licensed materials (images, audio, video, text, etc.)

Do a search for your topic using the Everything search box. Then on the left of the search results under Format, check Downloadable Article and Downloadable Archival Material. You'll get open access and institutional repository content from all over the world.

An online journal highlighting and reviewing public domain materials. Includes articles (CC licensed) written about materials and links to collections, films, images, audio, texts, and whatever else they find.

An experimental search across all the Open DOAR repositories, which contain articles, presentations, dissertations and theses, and other institutional documents and collections. On the same site, you can also search for repositories, and get a lot of information about institutional repositories.

DocuTicker collects abstracts from 'grey literature': PDF reports published by government agencies, think tanks, NGOs, research institutes and other public interest groups.

Less of a collection and more of a paradigm, CC licenses are more flexible than standard copyright and publishing licenses, many allowing free use without consigning the work to the public domain. Various searches are available through this site. Be sure to consult the exact text of the license before use.

OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.

Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. Collections include texts, letters, oral history transcripts, etc.

an online public library with freely available software and information, for topics such as music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

The CIA World FactBook and the Occupational Outlook Handbook are just a few of the many government documents available online. Other agencies have collections of historical material, such as the National Parks Service Parks History site. USA.gov will search the whole federal government. Science.gov searches just the science related agencies (NASA, EPA, FWS, NOAA, etc.)

The EServer is a digital humanities venture, founded in 1990 and based at Iowa State U, where writers, editors and scholars publish over 35,000 works free of charge.

The collections consist of digitized images of books, serials, pamphlets, photographs, diaries (images of pages, not transcripts!), manuscripts, and catalogs. Keyword searching is available, and browsing by collection, material, and theme/subject.

Over 130 digital collections funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Program. Includes Connecticut History Online and the recently released New York Public Library Picture Gallery. Browse by Subject, Object (type of resource), Place, and Title, or search by keyword (very general topics work best).

articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, theses, and dissertations from CalTech's faculty and students. There are over a dozen collections and more coming. CODA is particularly strong in engineering, but covers all subjects.

Text, audio, video, images, websites, etc.

A developing open access project in folklore studies. The project itself is still in development, but there are links to the existing online collections in each category.

Government documents, reports, books, and other resources on library science/knowledge management, H1N1, natural disasters, and cyberbulling. New collections added occassionally.

Resources from PBS, Archives.org, and other archival sites.

Many resources on education technology.

Agricultural and food related data from over 200 countries, as compiled by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. The dataset is searchable and downloadable.

A huge collection of data from the World Bank, from agriculture to urban development. Click the Data Catalog to see a list of datasets, tables, and topics.

A collection of open data and open content packages.

A community driven collection of datasets.

Data from many UN organizations.

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 30 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

open access databases for molecular biology data. Descriptions of the databases, including new databases and changes, are available in the annual Databases supplement to NAR.

A searchable collection of data repositories (beta).

An experimental portal for government, private sector, and non-profit data of economic importance

Repository for all file formats and types of data--searchable, browsable, and taggable.

US health data searchable by topic, geography, and project. A real treasure trove of data.