Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed course materials, such as free textbooks, that can help ensure that all of your students, regardless of their financial situation have free access to your course materials on the first day of class. OER include traditional textbooks, lesson plans, videos, quizzes and more. There are many ways to use OER including: adopting an existing OER, adapting an OER to meet the needs of your specific class, or creating a new OER. You can even work with your students to create an OER as a course open pedagogy project!

As part of the Libraries' goal to enrich the student experience we support interested faculty in lowering student costs through the adoption of low-/no-cost materials, and where there may be gaps in a discipline, faculty can work with the library to author new OER. Learn more about searching for OER on the OER Research Guide.

Funding and Support

UO Libraries offers funding to faculty for adopting, adapting or authoring Open Educational Resources on a rolling basis. Faculty who adopt an existing OER are eligible for a $1000 award, faculty who adapt an OER or combine multiple OER are eligible for $2000, and faculty who author a new OER are eligible for $4000. To review the award types, eligibility requirements and additional grant information in more detail, see the 2025-2026 OER Development Awards description. Preference will be given to courses that are high cost, high enrollment, Core Education, and/or have high DFNW rates. Funding is limited, and grants are awarded on a first come, first served basis. Apply here or get in touch with the OER Team (oer@uoregon.edu) with any questions. 

The OER and Textbook Affordability team can provide support finding OER to adopt or adapt and publishing support for faculty interested in publishing OER. To learn more about OER or start an OER project, sign up for a consultation with the OER team or email oer@uoregon.edu. To learn more about OER, including where to search for high quality OER, curated lists, and information about OER publishing tools and resources visit the OER Research Guide.

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Publishing Platforms

UO Libraries supports two open source OER publishing platforms that faculty and staff can use to publish new OER or adapt existing content to fit their needs. To learn more about either platform, request access, or get a demo contact the OER team or set up a consultation anytime.

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Pressbooks

Pressbooks is a WordPress-based OER platform that makes it simple to create polished eBooks and generate export formats including PDFs and EPUBs. Check out OER published by UO authors on Pressbooks.
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Manifold

Manifold is a digital publishing platform used for journals, OER, open access books and other digital projects.
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Explore OER published by UO authors in Pressbooks

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