This Research Guide by the Mina Rees Library provides a comprehensive overview of Open Educational Resources.

The Open Educational Resources section of the Office of Library Services website contains contact information for each campus’s OER representative, a collection of resources organized by campus, and Zero Textbook Cost Guidelines.

The Academic Works Open Educational Resources series collects instructional materials — from textbooks to syllabi — created by the CUNY community.

Our Manifold instance serves as a free digital publishing platform for the entire CUNY community, where you can create and share your own scholarship, custom classroom versions of texts and textbooks that are openly licensed or in the public domain, Open Educational Resources (OER), journals, or use Manifold Reading Groups to build your own course reader from materials already available on our instance of Manifold.

The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning.

Pressbooks is a platform built on WordPress that allows you to create and publish works as online resources incorporating multimedia and interactive activities. This instance of Pressbooks is available to all CUNY students, faculty, and staff—just use your CUNY Login to sign in and check out the CUNY Pressbooks Guide for information on how to get started.

OpenEd CUNY is a curated digital library of open educational resources. Join a network of CUNY educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly licensed educational resources.

This guide was created to assist CUNY Librarians, faculty, staff & OER developers create accessible content and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER). On this guide you will find information on creating accessible content, the pros and cons of different platforms, determining the accessibility of your OER site, and Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs).