Library Guides: Psychology: Open Educational Resources

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, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Textbooks

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Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

Merlot OpenTextbook
Selection of open access textbooks from MERLOT
OER Commons
A selection of psychology textbooks from OER Commons

Open Courses and Videos

MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Open Yale Psychology
Provides access to introductory courses and materials used by instructors at Yale.
TED Talks on Psychology
These TED Talks — from psychologists and journalists, doctors and patients — share the latest research on why we do what we do.

Open Access Social Work Journals

Archives of Scientific Psychology
The subject matter of articles published in Archives of Scientific Psychology® spans the entire discipline of psychology.
Collabra: Psychology
Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that shares not only the research it publishes, but also the value created by the psychology community during the peer-review process.
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences.
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
An official journal of the European Health Psychology Society, publishing international open access research on psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical health.
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology publishes manuscripts with a basic and applied emphasis, involving both theoretical and experimental areas contributing to the advancement of Clinical and Health Psychology.
Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology
The Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote innovative and high quality research that advances understanding of clinical and developmental psychology from different cultural contexts.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice.
Psychology, Community & Health
Psychology, Community & Health (PCH) is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses particularly on research developed in community- and health-related contexts.