OSU Library Open Textbook Author Guidelines: Free Images, Media and Text Resources

It is easy to enhance your ebook with links to other materials that serve as referenced articles, concept maps, images, videos, etc. However, you may also incorporate content into your ebook depending on terms/permissions and copyright. If you have any questions about the use of the materials in your open textbook, please send me an email with the details.

Articles:

• Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/
• Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/
• PLOS: http://www.plos.org/publications/journals/
• Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ Search for articles of interest. Those with links that appear with .edu [PDF] are generally open access repositories.

Open Textbooks:

• Connexion: http://cnx.org/
• Collegeopentextbooks.org: http://collegeopentextbooks.org/
• OrangeGrove: http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do

Books:

• WikiBooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
• HathiTrust (over 3M free ebooks): http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Advanced (select Full view only)
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search (select Full view only)
• Internet Archive: http://archive.org/index.php
• Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections

Multimedia, Images, and Learning Objects:

• Internet Archive (images, sound, videos, websites) : http://archive.org/index.php
• Wikimedia Commons (images, sound, videos): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Library of Congress (digital collections: images, sounds, videos): http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch‐digital.html
• Microsoft Images: http://office.microsoft.com/en‐us/images
• Morgue File (images): http://www.morguefile.com/
• FreeRange (images): http://freerangestock.com/
• Creative Commons Yahoo (images): http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• Open Educational Resources: Learning Objects, Open Textbooks, Open Courseware
• OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
• MERLOT (learning objects): http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Image creation & manipulation resources:

• Free alternatives to Photoshop: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics‐design/10‐excellent‐open‐source‐and‐free‐ alternatives‐to‐photoshop/
• Inkscape (drawing and graphics): http://www.inkscape.org/en/