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UCL's OER is published on OpenEd@UCL and the university's research is being published on UCL Discovery as an integral part of its open access policy.
Other OER related to higher education can be found on websites or specialist repositories for research, learning, and teaching resources.
- UCL
- All Projects (UCL Culture)
- Future Learn
- GitHub
- Grant Museum of Zoology Catalogue: This is the searchable catalogue of the specimens held by the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is an ongoing work in progress, and currently records around twenty-five percent of the Grant Museum collection. All images (except where specifically noted) and text in the catalogue can be used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence.
- Institute of Archaeology Collections: The Institute of Archaeology houses fine teaching and reference collections.
- Institute of Education LibGuides
- iTunes U: Download and watch over 164 interviews, lectures and other UCL content via iPods or computers. Topics range from business to science, with the free lunch hour lectures proving most popular.
- Materials Library (UCL Institute of Making): The Materials Library is a collection of some of the materials on Earth. It is a resource, laboratory, studio, and playground for the curious and material-minded to conduct hands-on research through truly interdisciplinary inquiry and innovation.
- Mikrotax: The mikrotax.org website currently hosts three main databases - Acritax, Nannotax and pforams@mikrotax sharing the same system but with separate identities.
- PortiCast: UCL Mechanical Engineering tutorials
- ReadingLists@UCL: Gives students easy access to materials on their reading lists wherever they are and gives academic staff the freedom to create and update their lists whenever they need.
- Self-Access Centre Database from the UCL Centre for Languages and International Education - CLIE. This resource features around 3,500 films, documentaries, lectures, and other OER in a wide variety of languages (login may be required).
- TEDxUCL
- TEDxUCLWomen
- UCL Art Museum Catalogue: UCL Art Museum holds over 9,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures dating from the 1490s to the present day. All images and text can be used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence.
- UCL (CampusPress) Student Blog: This blog gives UCL students the opportunity to write short reviews of OER that are relevant to their studies.
- UCL Culture Resources
- UCL Discovery
- UCL Ethnographic Collections Online Catalogue: Created in the 1940s, about 2000 objects and 3000 photographs represent cultures from all five continents, with particular strengths in Africa and Oceania. The collection is a resource for teaching and every student in the anthropology department engages with the objects during their courses. All images and text can be used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence.
- UCL Events
- UCLeXtend
- UCL Geography blog
- UCL Imagestore (login may be required)
- UCL Lecturecast (login may be required)
- UCL Life Learning
- UCL MediaCentral (login may be required)
- UCL Micropalaeontology Unit: The purpose of this site is to provide an introduction to the subject of micropalaeontology based on microfossil images. It draws on over fifty years of experience teaching and researching into all aspects of micropalaeontology.
- UCL Moodle (login may be required)
- UCL MyPortfolio (login may be required) can be used as a portfolio, CV builder, blog, or for social networking; it connects UCL students and staff and supports the creation of online communities. MyPortfolio provides you with the tools to set up a personal learning environment and can also be used to support group work.
- UCL News
- UCL Press
- UCL Reflect (login may be required) allows students and staff to use blogging for teaching and learning purposes.
- UCL Research Data Repository
- UCL Software Database (login may be required)
- UCL Special Collections: UCL Library Special Collections is one of the foremost university collections of manuscripts, archives and rare books in the UK (login may be required).
- UCL Sound (SoundCloud)
- UCLTV on YouTubeEdu: UCLTV is UCL's official channel on YouTube EDU, showcasing mini-lectures and student-focused features. The channel contains around 150 videos, which have been viewed over half a million times.
- UCL Wiki
- Vertebrate Diversity: The following web-book contains a series of information pages broadly outlining the diversity of living vertebrates, with a few notes on their fossil relatives.
- Vertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution: This resource is designed to familiarise you with the structure, diversity and evolutionary history of vertebrates through analysing images of specimens held at UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology
- Virtual Educational Resource for the Biosciences (VERB) resource ‘Eutherians’
- UK
- Glasgow Caledonian University edShare@GCU
- HumBox: This project was part of a wider Open Educational Resources initiative funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the HEA, to showcase UK Higher Education by encouraging teachers within HE institutions to publish excellent teaching and learning resources openly on the web.
- London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Public lectures and events: podcasts and videos
- Open University OpenLearn
- OWLTEH catalogue: This is a catalogue of instances of the Open Web covering applications and platforms that can be relevant for teaching and learning.
- University of Cambridge Language Centre Open Courseware
- University of Cambridge Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS): Promotes access of all supplementary teaching material and is a library of exemplar teaching and learning packages (TLPs) covering common topics related to Materials Science.
- University of Edinburgh Open.Ed
- University of Leicester OER Repository
- University of Nottingham U-Now Open Courseware
- University of Oxford OpenSpires
- University of Southampton Free online courses and MOOC
- International
- Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)
- College Open Textbooks
- Delft University of Technology OpenCourseWare (OCW)
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Europeana Collections
- Google Open Online Education Resource Library
- HathiTrust
- Kanopy
- Kyoto University Kyoto-U OCW
- LibreTexts
- Lumen Learning
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) MERLOT
- Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
- National Science Digital Library (NSDL) NSDL
- OAOpen.org
- OER Commons Open Textbooks
- OER on the Internet Archive
- Open Culture Free Textbooks
- Open Textbook Library
- Project Gutenburg
- Rice University OpenStax (formerly Connexions)
- Saide OER Africa
- University of British Columbia BCcampus OpenEd
- University of the Phillipines TVUP
- World Digitial Library
- Yale University Open Yales Courses (OYC)