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Open Everything: How to find free, reusable content online Rhode Island Library Association Conference 2016, “Color Outside the Lines” Andrée Rathemacher • Julia Lovett • Angel Ferria University of Rhode Island Open Culture General Resources: Sites, Portals & Guides Digital Public Library of America — http://dp.la/ Aims to be a national digital library for the USA. Harvests metadata and content in all formats from other digital libraries and databases (HathiTrust, Internet Archive, state/consortium repositories, govt repositories etc. full partner list here http://dp.la/partners) Does not yet allow searching/filtering by rights information. Europeana — http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ Europe’s portal to cultural collections: “Explore 52,219,831 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.” Can filter search results by reuse rights. Internet Archive — http://archive.org Founded in 1996. A “nonprofit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.” Searchable by Creative Commons license or Public Domain: See https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#1069 Open Culture — http://www.openculture.com/ Founded in 2006. Brings together free/open resources from around the web. Geared for a popular audience, with frequent blog posts and active social media presence. OpenGLAM Open Collections — http://openglam.org/opencollections/ A searchable index of open cultural her itage collections with freely reusable content. Shared Shelf Commons — http://www.sscommons.org Freely available images and oth er digital content from libraries, archives, and museums participating in Shared Shelf by Artstor. Copyright restrictions vary. Creative Commons Search — https://search.creativecommons.org/ Search CClicensed content from multiple sites such as Flickr, Google, and YouTube. Selected Online Museums List (guide from University of Colorado) — http://cuart.colorado.edu/resources/vrc/find/museums/ A list of museums with high quality online collections. Public Domain Review — http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ From the Open Knowledge Fou ndation, a curated collection of public domain works and essays on these works. Google Cultural Institute — https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home “Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world.” State Digital Resources (guide from LoC) — https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/statememory/ Library of Congress web guide to state and regional digital collections in the U.S. Cultural Institutions Library of Congress Digital Collections — https://www.loc.gov/library/libarchdigital.html Library of Congress American Memory — https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Smithsonian Institution — http://collections.si.edu/search/ and http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/index.cfm New York Public Library — http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ National Archives — http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/exhibitslist.html British Library on Flickr — https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ British Museum Images — http://www.bmimages.com/index.asp Getty Publications Virtual Library — http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html Getty Open Content Program — http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html Los Angeles County Museum of Art — http://collections.lacma.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art — http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection National Gallery of Art — https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html Rijksmuseum — https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en Yale University Art Gallery — http://artgallery.yale.edu/ MoMA — http://www.moma.org/collection/ Museum of New Zealand — http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections Victoria & Albert Museum — http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ The Walters Art Museum — http://art.thewalters.org/ Yale Center for British Art — http://britishart.yale.edu/ The Morgan Library & Museum — http://www.themorgan.org/collection Dallas Museum of Art — https://dma.org/collection Folger Shakespeare Library — http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6 2 Books HathiTrust Digital Library — https://www.hathitrust.org/ A shared book repository of academ ic and research institutions; most of the content digitized by Google. View any public domain or CClicensed book, or search copyrighted material. Partners may log in to download full books. Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org/ Over 50,000 free ebooks, downloadable in multiple formats including Kindle and epub. Mostly public domain but some incopyright; see detailed Terms of Use https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use Directory of Open Access Books — http://www.doabooks.org/ An initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. H arvests metadata and links to Open Access books from publisher sites. Books must have an OA license (such as Creative Commons) to be included. OAPEN Library — http://www.oapen.org An initiative of the OAP EN Foundation. A central repository of open academic books primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Open Library — https://openlibrary.org/ Aims to catalog every book published; also contains a variety of ebook lending options including accessible books for printdisabled patrons. A project of the Internet Archive. Journal Articles OpenDOAR — http://www.opendoar.org/ A searchable direc tory of open repositories and repository content. One of the SHERPA services. Directory of Open Access Journals — http://www.opendoar.org/ The best place to look for information about highquality Open Access journals. The DOAJ promotes OA best practices and sets high standards for inclusion. Sister project of OpenDOAR. CORE (COnnecting REpositories) — https://core.ac.uk/ Harvests openly accessible content from rep ositories and OA journals worldwide. BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) — https://www.basesearch.net/ Harvests and indexes open scholarly content. Provide s access to “more than 90 million documents from more than 4,000 sources”. Digital Commons Network — http://network.bepress.com/ Search across content from all Bepr ess Digital Commons repositories. OpenAIRE — https://www.openaire.eu Provides open ac cess to Europeanfunded research and data. PubMed Central — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ A “free archive of biome dical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).” PMC is the designated repository of articles published under the NIH Public Access Policy and policies of participating funding agencies (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/publicaccess/) OAIster — http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html 3 A union catalog of over 30 million Open Access resources. Started at the University of Michigan and now implemented by OCLC. Open Educational Resources Textbooks Open Textbook Library — http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ From the Center for Open Education at the University of Minnesota, Open Textbook Library offers textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. OpenStax College Textbooks — https://openstaxcollege.org/books Based at Rice University, OpenStax College creates peerreviewed open textbooks for common college courses, written by professional content developers. All textbook content is licensed under CC BY; the textbooks can be modified by users. Open SUNY Textbooks — http://textbooks.opensuny.org/ “Open SUNY Textbooks is an op en access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes highquality, costeffective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peerreviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.” MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks — http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/onlinetextbooks/ BCcampus OpenEd — https://open.bccampus.ca/ Tidewater Community College open textbooks — https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/tidewater Grand Valley State University open textbooks — http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/ College Open Textbooks — http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks — http://aimath.org/textbooks/approvedtextbooks/ Collections & repositories OER Commons — http://www.oercommons.org/ An online repository o f over 50,000 highquality open educational resources for all subject areas and education levels. Can be searched and filtered by education standard, subject area, education level, material type, conditions of use, media format, etc. MERLOT — http://www.merlot.org/ The MERLOT repository is a curated collection of metadata that describe open online teaching, learning, and faculty development materials that have been contributed to the repository by MERLOT members. OpenStax CNX — http://cnx.org/ Maintained by Rice U niversity, OpenStax CNX includes “modules, which are like small ‘knowledge chunks,’ and collections, which are groups of modules structured into books or course notes.” All content may be freely used and reused. 4 Cool4Ed California Open Online Library for Education — http://www.cool4ed.org/ Open Course Library (Washington State) — http://opencourselibrary.org/ Internet Archive Open Educational Resources — https://archive.org/details/education