Open Educational Resources (OER): Arts, The

100,000+ digitized books from world libraries

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Through a partnership with Vans Custom Culture, Americans for the Arts has designed the Arts Education Navigator, Read more about our partnership with Vans.a series of e-books designed to help educators, students, and advocates navigate the complex field of arts education.

AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.

An OER textbook from Lumen Learning covering ancient through Postmodern art across the globe

This is an exploration of visual art forms and their cultural connections for the student with little experience in the visual arts. The course includes a brief study of art history and in-depth studies of the elements, media, and methods used in creative process and thought.

This bookshelf presents a selection of art books and books about artists, including practical methods and specialties, as well as general works on art and art history, plus visitor guides to art expos, galleries, and museums

Featuring over 1,700 artworks by more than 625 artists, the Collection Online presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim's permanent collection of approximately 8,000 artworks.

Browse the collection, library, special collections, and over 100,000 open content images.

The Museum's Open Access initiative, [] makes more than 406,000 images of public-domain artworks from The Met collection available for free and unrestricted use.

NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art

Archival files, audio files, bibliographies, and more from across the Smithsonian institutions

Provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

Scores from the Library of Congress online catalog

Free sheet music for everyone

The purpose of this course is to help students further enhance their appreciation for music as a creative tool of the imagination, as entertainment, as a window into who we are as social beings.

Sharing the world's public domain music

Music biographies, collections, history, instruction, and other resources

The Sheet Music consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.

The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings

A variety of one-act plays

A collection of public domain plays