Open Content Search

Search for Open Content '''Look for openly licensed content that allows you to adapt and modify the content. This means you should not use content that is free to view but All Rights Reserved nor Creative Commons licenses that contain "ND" or "No Derivatives". '''

Highlights/Overview

 * http://open.umich.edu/education/open-michigan/infosheets/materials
 * http://open.umich.edu/share/use

Mixed Content

 * http://search.creativecommons.org/
 * http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories
 * http://open4us.org/find-oer
 * http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia
 * http://www.archive.org
 * http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/oer-websites Process Arts ALTO list of OER websites
 * http://open4us.org/find-oer/
 * Global List of OER Initiatives

Course Materials or Learning Objects

 * http://open.umich.edu/education/
 * http://www.oercommons.org/oer - an aggregator of a variety of content types for multiple levels of education, only some of it is CC licensed
 * http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm - an aggregator of a variety of content types for multiple levels of education, only some of it is CC licensed
 * http://ocwconsortium.org/courses
 * http://fedsearch.merlot.org/fedsearch/ - a federated search of multiple Learning Object and OER repositories, mixed Open Access and CC licensed content
 * http://www.ocwsearch.com/
 * http://ocw.tufts.edu/
 * http://ocw.mit.edu/
 * http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ Most of this content is CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0
 * http://www.khanacademy.org (CC BY NC SA)
 * http://www.softchalkconnect.com/ CC BY
 * http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0
 * http://academicearth.org - only some is CC licensed
 * http://cnx.org/ - all content is CC:BY 3.0

Books

 * http://www.lib.umich.edu/espresso-book-machine/reprints?title=&amp;author=&amp;date=&amp;isbn=&amp;series=&amp;order=title - Espresso Book Machine Local Catalog
 * Connexions - http://www.cnx.org/
 * http://cnx.org/content/m15767/latest/
 * http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
 * http://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog/
 * http://openstaxcollege.org/
 * http://oer.avu.org/
 * OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
 * Saylor.org: http://www.saylor.org/books/
 * http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Book:Lists/Subjects
 * http://www.intratext.com CC-licensed texts and corpora
 * http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/hierarchy.do?topic=d37c6ed5-3822-84a6-721c-6d9033a88541&amp;page=1

Scholarly Articles and Papers

 * http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu - Deep Blue, University of Michigan's institutional repository
 * http://www.doaj.org - Directory of Open Access Journals
 * http://roar.eprints.org/ - Registry of Open Access Repositories
 * BioMedCentral.com - large collection of peer reviewed, open access journals for health sciences

Images

 * http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ (great for everyday photos)
 * http://www.flickr.com/commons (collection of publicly-held photography collections)
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/ (images and video from Wikipedia)
 * http://compfight.com/ (a great search interface for the flickr CC image collection)
 * http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ (another front-end for finding CC-licensed content on flickr)
 * http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search (use the "Usage Rights" pull down list to search for open content on Google Images)
 * http://pixabay.com/
 * http://creativity103.com (useful for finding patterns and backgrounds)
 * http://www.geograph.org.uk (photos specifically of Britain and Ireland)
 * http://images.wellcome.ac.uk (creative commons licensed images, mainly science-related)
 * http://xkcd.com/ (Comics, CC BY NC)
 * http://abstrusegoose.com/ (Comics, CC BY NC)
 * http://unsplash.com/ (CC 0)

Clipart/icons

 * http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
 * http://www.clker.com/
 * http://openclipart.org/
 * http://thenounproject.com/
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/ - Great set with character graphics for teambuilding and other corporate activities. Many, but not all, are CC licensed.
 * http://dryicons.com
 * http://www.opengraphicdesign.com/ (CC BY)

Audio/Music

 * http://ccmixter.org/
 * http://jamendo.com/
 * http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio
 * http://www.freesound.org/
 * http://freemusicarchive.org/ (select the "modify, adapt and build-upon" checkbox)
 * http://www.musopen.com/
 * http://www.librivox.org - public domain audio books

Video

 * http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Video
 * http://open4us.org/find-oer/#VideoSearch

Medical

 * https://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/mediabank/ University of Michigan Health System image collection
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray%27s_Anatomy (use this to substitute out Netter's images)
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_illustrations_by_Patrick_Lynch Anatomy drawings of the Heart, Lungs, Thorax, Head, and Neck (under Creative Commons Attribution license)
 * http://www.plosone.org All articles, and associated content (eg: images) are CC:BY (unless otherwise noted).
 * www.youtube.com/user/WorldMedicalSchool - CC BY videos
 * http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1
 * http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ (OCW collection from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
 * http://ocw.jhsph.edu/imageLibrary/ (image library from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
 * http://wikipremed.com/image_archive.php (allows you to search for images by category: genetics, repro, endocrinology, etc)
 * http://mwdl.org/collections/1282.php Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
 * http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ (National Library of Medicine - good encyclopedia)
 * http://phil.cdc.gov/ (great for public health and population-type images/graphs/charts)
 * http://www.bartleby.com/107/ (Gray's Anatomy - 1918)
 * http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm
 * http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/
 * http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=search/index.html (great images of protein structures, folds - all public domain)
 * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez (another NIH site for protein structures, nucleotide and protein sequences, etc)
 * http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html (anatomy image database)
 * http://www.open-ecg-project.org Most content is CC:BY-SA
 * http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Most of this content is CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0
 * http://www.trauma.org/ - uses a modified CC BY NC SA license (CC+)
 * http://vhp.med.umich.edu/links.html (Visible Human Project)
 * http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm (Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
 * http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ (National Cancer Institute - VisualsOnline) Public Domain images
 * http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures.html (Hardin MD - Medical Pictures / Disease Pictures)
 * http://goldminer.arrs.org/ (ARRS Goldminer) Radiological images published in selected, peer-reviewed journals
 * http://www.healcentral.org/ (Heal IAMSE's digital library) Free, openly licensed digital materials
 * http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu/imagefinder/page.svc?page=Home (Yale Image Finder) Open Access material from PubMed Central
 * https://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=ad7570f980020c6900098a91a5d18b8e
 * http://portal.campusvirtualsp.org/virtualcampus/drupal/
 * http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/
 * http://www.softchalkconnect.com/search?query=Keywords&amp;submit_changes=&amp;subject_Health+Sciences=on&amp;content_type_Learning+Objects=on&amp;content_type_Quiz+Groups=on&amp;content_type_Lessons=on&amp;content_type_Courses=on
 * http://healthsciences.merlot.org/
 * http://www.sharinginhealth.org/
 * http://ourmed.org/
 * http://www.publichealthinafrica.org/
 * http://www.ajhpe.org.za/index.php/ajhpe
 * http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/mimcomhomepage.html
 * http://data.worldbank.org/
 * http://www.biomedcentral.com/gateways/globalhealth
 * http://oerc.merlot.org/index.html - OER for Cancer
 * http://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/ - Open University UK Health Education And Training in Africa (CC BY NC SA)
 * http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/vgec/education/post18
 * http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/psychology
 * http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/projectpartners_AllResources.aspx
 * http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk
 * Curricula Organizer for Reproductive Health Education http://core.arhp.org/ CC BY, unless otherwise noted
 * http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine (CC BY NC SA)
 * http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/medicine (various CC)
 * Yale: Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging http://www.yale.edu/imaging/ (CC BY)
 * AnaQuest - CDC http://anatquest.nlm.nih.gov/ (public domain)
 * The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library http://novel.utah.edu/ (CC BY NC ND)
 * WikiPremed MCAT Course http://www.wikipremed.com/ (CC BY SA)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/VicGovHealth?feature=watch (CC BY)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/NIHClinicalCenter?feature=watch (CC BY)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/ircwater/videos (CC BY)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldMedicalSchool (CC by)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/sgulcso (CC BY NC ND)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/PhysicianHealthBC/videos?view=0&amp;sort=dd&amp;flow=list&amp;live_view=500 (CC BY)
 * http://www.youtube.com/user/MSF (CC BY)

Biology

 * http://www.saylor.org/majors/biology/
 * http://species.wikimedia.org Text CC:BY-SA, Images either BY-SA, BY, GFDL, or Public Domain
 * http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html CAUTION: Check each image, they vary from CC:BY to All Rights Reserved
 * http://www.eol.org/ CC:BY, BY-SA, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA
 * http://www.plosbiology.org/ All CC:BY unless otherwise noted.
 * http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Physical Sciences

 * http://wikipremed.com/image_archive.php

Engineering

 * OER for Engineering and Agriculture - EHELD

Software

 * http://sourceforge.net
 * http://github.com/

Images that Illustrate the Concept of Open Content

 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/with/3156792001/
 * http://wikieducator.org/File:Recyclethis-185807557.jpg

Print-on-Demand Services

 * Espresso Book Machine http://www.lib.umich.edu/espresso-book-machine
 * Blurb http://www.blurb.com/
 * Lulu http://www.lulu.com/

Maternal and Child Health Resources

 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/nursing/midwifery
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/med/ob-gyn/
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/med/paediatrics
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/maternal/ (CC BY NC ND)
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/child/ (CC BY NC ND)
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/endo-repro/winter2008
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/embryology/winter2009
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/humangrowth/winter2009
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m2/endocrine/winter2009
 * http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m2/repro/2010
 * http://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/heat-resources (CC BY NC SA)
 * http://globalhealthmedia.org/newborn/videos/ (CC BY NC ND)
 * http://www.glowm.com (some are free to access but all rights reserved; others have a custom license for noncommercial use)
 * http://www.global-help.org/publications/books/book_pedsurgeryafrica.html (free to access but all rights reserved)
 * http://core.arhp.org/ (CC BY, unless otherwise noted)
 * http://www.arhp.org/Publications-and-Resources/ (CC BY NC ND, unless otherwise noted)
 * http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/ (CC BY)
 * http://www.human-resources-health.com/ (cc by)
 * http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9617 (CC BY)
 * http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ (All rights reserved but free to access)
 * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books (All are free to access. Most are all rights reserved but some are Creative Commons licensed)