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Open textbooks, manuals, annotated texts and guides available in a wiki editor. Wikibooks contains nearly 2500 books available freely for editing.
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Part of Rice University, Connexions is a repository of free learning materials organized and easily exported as textbooks. Content is modularized and can be mixed and combined to make custom resources.
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MERLOT = Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching; peer reviewed open and online resources for faculty, staff and students in higher education.
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Funded by Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) An independent non-profit institute dedicated to helping educators share information since 2007. The OER Commons search engine allows you to search multiple repositories at once and gather resources from multiple institutions.
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Flatworld Knowledge claims to be first and largest publisher of open and free textbooks. The former publisher aims to offer cheap print and free digital versions of high quality textbook titles. The catalog as of October 2012 contains over 100+ titles.
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Specific to Health Sciences is the database of images from Patrick Lynch from Yale University which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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If you are looking for images specific to Health Sciences the Gray’s Anatomy database of images in Wikimedia is a fantastic place to start. All of these images are now available in the public domain.
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Free-loops much like Freesound is a collaborative database of audio snippets, samples and loops openly licensed for use. There is a wide array of audio available but most of the categories are built around instrumentation, so this could be a great resources for electronic musicians and audio programmers.
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Freesound has less audio in full song format and more in the way of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps and loops openly licensed for use. This is actually where I ended up finding the audio I needed for my project. There is a wide variety of audio available here from samples of nature and industry, to audio jingles and riffs.
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ccMixter is a community remix site sponsored by ArtisTech Media and created by Creative Commons. ccMixter offers a bit of everything including remixes, podcasts, samples and a-cappellas which can be used for remixing or in mixed media projects.
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