Oasis: An integrated worldwide search for OER

Meet OASIS.

The goal of the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search is to facilitate the discovery of OER.

Co-developed at SUNY Geneseo by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones, digital resources and systems librarian, in consultation with SUNY OER Services Executive Director Alexis Clifton, OASIS currently searches open content from 61 different sources and points to more than 160,000 records,

The Geneseo news release shares:

OASIS offers users worldwide the ability to search a range of OER materials including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos and podcasts on a variety of topics – from anthropology to zoology. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review.

Users can search across all the aggregated portals or browse by type of material or subject.  An Advanced Search allows users to refine by author, title, specific subject, a growing number of source portals, or to search by link.

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