Alphabetical List of Online Repositories

Current Repositories
As of June 30, 2011

The following list was accurate as of June 30, 2011, the date this FIPSE grant was concluded. For an updated listing of repositories, please visit The Orange Grove: Florida's Digital Repository at: http://www.theorangegrove.org. The number of open access repositories is very large; this is not a complete listing. It is provided as a guide to assist you in your background research.

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library.

arXiv – is a discipline repository for the sciences such as physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computer science, quantitative biology.

ARIADNE (European Knowledge Pool System) Developed to deliver educational content throughout Europe, the KPS facilitates the sharing and reuse of educational resources. This encouragement of the discovery and reuse of these materials encourages an increasing recognition that learning object production is a valid field of activity for academics. The collection contains materials of a wide variety of interactivity levels in many European languages, primarily English, French, Italian, German, and Dutch.

CITIDEL (Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library) Created by a consortium led by several universities, CITIDEL serves the computing education community, including computer science, information systems, information science, software engineering, computer engineering, and all other variations of title and substance in these and related fields.

CLOE (Co-operative Learning Object Exchange) is a learning object repository collaboration between Ontario universities and colleges. 

Connexions is project at Rice University to provide an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Educational materials vary in level from children to college students to professionals. Information is organized in small modules that can be cobined into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

Digital Marketplace This initiative seeks to enable the effective distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of California state university academic programs.

DLESE(The Digital Library for Earth System Education) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels.

DSpace the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) institutional repository which provides access to MIT's entire intellectual output

edna – (Education Network Australia) is a joint initiative of the Australasian state and territory governments and the Australian Government to provide free news, resources, networks and online tools for educators.

Educational Repositories Network - The objective of this European Union-funded network is to bring together web-based repositories of learning resources with content owners and other stakeholders within education.

EducaNext is a service supporting the creation and sharing of knowledge for Higher Education. It is open to any member of the academic or research community.

Electronic Literature Directory is an extensive database listing electronic works, their authors, and their publishers.

GEM (Gateway to Education Materials) is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. GEM provides access to a large collection of materials for educators, including: lesson plans, curriculum units and other web-based educational resources.

iLumina  - is a digital library of undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. Resources range in type from individual images and video clips to entire courses.

InternetArchive - is a non-profit entity founded to build an Internet library with permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.

LOLA Exchange (Learning Objects, Learning Activities) LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.

MaricopaLearningExchange - is an online repository contains many downloadable packages/files of learning materials for higher education.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials.

MITOpenCourseWare provides open access to almost all MIT course content under the Creative Commons license.

OER Commons Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college covering a variety of subject areas. It features lesson plans, lectures, labs, and syllabi that are open to adapt for your own use.

OCWConsortium collection contains open online courses from several institutions around the world such as UC Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, MIT, and other internationally-recognized schools

OpenYaleCourses is a collection of open online courses which provide access to video, audio, reading lists, and text transcripts from every class session.

PubMedCentral a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

The Orange Grove is Florida´s operational repository project. It provides a single point of access for learning resources designed to be used by Florida´s K20 teachers and educational institutions. Content can be searched by a Sunshine State Standard, Statewide (K12), Course Number (higher education), subject area, resource title, and by many other descriptive fields.

Trails a digital repository for sociologists created in 2010, provides faculty an opportunity search for or post syllabi, lesson plans, bibliographies, and other teaching resources.

Wisc-Online The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of learning objects. These resources are accessible to all Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission.

WorldDigitalLibrary provides a collection of materials from countries and cultures around the world. Contents include resources such as manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, etc.

Repository Search Engines and Listings:

• OpenDOAR is a search engine for locating open repositories. View America -->US.
• DirectoryofOpenAccessJournals and the Public Library of Science offers open access journals in the fields of science and medicine.
• A listing of repositories is maintained at Wiki Educator.