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Open Access and Free Resources: Finding Open Access Material

Welcome

The resources listed in this guide are Open Access, which means they are freely available for anyone to read online.

Journals and Articles

Subject Research Repositories

Images

Lancaster EPrints

Books and Textbooks

Open Access Tools

Google Scholar Button

The Google Scholar Button provides quick access to Google Scholar from any web page via a pop-up window that finds citations when you click on the Google Scholar icon

Theses

OER Commons

someone working at a cluttered desk with the OER Commons logo overlayed

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights.

In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students. In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. How do you know your options? OER often have a Creative Commons license or other permission to let you know how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.