9  Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources, or OERs as they are commonly known, are resources for educating yourself or others that are available under permissing licenses, such as CC-BY (see Chapter 8).

Producing OERs, therefore, is as simple as applying such a permissive license. Many OERs already exist, so you may also want to re-use an existing resources instead. Similarly, if you want to produce an OER, you may want to consider how to make sure people can find it. One way of doing so is exploring whether you may want to contribute chapters to existing open access textbooks, or submit your contribution to a diamond open access journal that accepts didactic materials such as tutorials.

To get you started, and if you happen to be a psychologist (such as the authors of this guide), this is a list of open access resources:

• The Noba Project collects chapters that you can then combine into a textbook: 🔗 https://nobaproject.com

• The Open Textbook Library lists open access psychology textbooks: 🔗 https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/psychology

• The second edition of the Psychology textbook at OpenSpax: 🔗 https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e

• Open Education Resources Commons has many OERs: 🔗 https://oercommons.org/

• For more advanced topics, there the Diamond Open Access journal The Quantitative Methods for Psychology has useful articles: 🔗 https://tqmp.org