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Environment: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaption and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.  Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

OER for environmental topics

Environmental Studies resources on MERLOT - MERLOT provides access to curated online learning and support materials.

Environmental Science resources on MERLOT.

Resources related to the environment on OER Commons - OER Commons is a public digital libraryof open educational resources.

The chapter on Earth & Environmental Sciences from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Directory available on Pressbooks.

Other "environment" titles available on Pressbooks

OER Research Guide

Dacus Library has a Research Guide on OER that contains lots of information about OER and links to collection of OER materials.