OER and Open Access Books

On this page, you can find links to OER and open access books created, modified, or hosted by faculty at Western Oregon University.

If you are a WOU faculty member and would like to add your OER content to this page, please email Stewart Baker.

What are OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others." (From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)

What is Open Access?

Open access materials are electronic texts and other files that have been made freely available for use online. Open access does not necessarily permit remixing or revision, and is narrower in scope than OER.

Questions about OER?

To learn more about OER or to participate as a faculty member in WOU's OER stipend program, please visit our OER Overview page or contact WOU's Open Educational Resources Librarian.