A collection of resources and information for ACMI - useful for anyone looking to replace costly educational materials with freely-available alternatives
This page is based on the excellent libguide at UMass Amherst, adapted with their permission. This content will evolve and expand as the initiative uncovers additional sources of free material.
Community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who collectively have create this comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education via free digital tools
Collection of open-access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools; offers access to more than five hundred open textbooks as well as a guide to creating and implementing your own
Contains educational materials for children, college students, and professionals organized in small modules that can be connected into larger collections or courses; all content free for use and reuse under the Creative Commons attribution license
Free online peer-reviewed publication service of the American Association of Medical Colleges; contains medical resources including teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development that users can to download and utilize
Open teaching and learning resources in nanotechnology, including online presentations, course material, learning modules, podcasts, and simulation tools; created by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology
Enables instructors to create customized textbooks with book chapters, case studies, journal articles, and instructor-created content; offers purchase options including digital and print
Free library of thousands of texts on subjects covered in a university undergraduate program; instructors can open and modify individual book chapters as needed; joint venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver
Contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks, lectures, and other resources from higher education institutions around the world; created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
Catalog of open-access textbooks for faculty review, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development; all textbooks with open licenses, complete, and available in print at low cost
Flickr: Creative Commons
class="linkdesc">A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
class="linkdesc">Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
U.S. Government Photos and Images
class="linkdesc">A vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.