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 t​o 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 “no​n­profit 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. B​rings 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 m​ultiple 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 eve​ry 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 Educ​ation 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 C​ollege 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 r​epository 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