What are Open Educational Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are in the public domain or have been released under a copyright license that permits anyone to freely use them. OERs often also allow users to reuse, repurpose, adapt, and redistribute them. These resources will continue to be freely available to you after you graduate.
Open Textbooks
Open textbooks are helpful both for learning concepts for the first time and for reviewing and revisiting material you've previously learned.
- BC Open TextbooksDirect link to Media textbooks available via BC Open Textbooks.
- IntechOpenDirect link to Social Communication textbooks available via IntechOpen.
- OAPENDirect link to Communication Studies textbooks available via OAPEN.
- OER Commons: Public RelationsDirect link to Public Relations textbooks available via OER Commons.
- Open Textbook LibraryDirect link to Journalism, Media Studies & Communications textbooks available via the Open Textbook Library.
Open Journals
- International Association for Media and Communication ResearchDirect link to journals available via the International Association for Media and Communication Research.
- MediArXivOpen archive of scholarly publications in media, film, and communication studies.
- MERLOTDirect link to communication studies journal articles available via MERLOT.
