The UVA Library supports the creation of educational materials that are freely available to use, adapt, share, and reuse. These Open Educational Resources (OER) can include textbooks, syllabi, course modules, videos, assessment tools, and more. Characteristics of Open Education Resources are described in this document.
This guide contains information about ways to find OER for use in the classroom, or making OER to use, share, and distribute.
How can the Library help?
We can help you find OER for your discipline, answer questions on copyright and fair use, facilitate training, share funding sources, and more.
LibraOpen is the library-maintained online archive of UVA scholarship, open for deposit to the UVA community. Resources in Libra, including OER, are discoverable through the Library's online catalog, Virgo.
Copyright essentials for scholarly work: Copyright law governs many uses of scholarly and other creative works. Getting to know a few key concepts will help as you pursue publication of your work on the web or in a journal article, book chapter, thesis, or dissertation.
Pressbooks is a publishing solution for Open Educational Resources, open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Undergraduates may have access for course projects with the permission of the instructor.