Open educational resources (OER) are free, openly licensed educational resources, including textbooks, videos, tutorials, and more. Users of OER are permitted to use, adapt, and redistribute the material with minimal restrictions based on Creative Commons licensing. This page highlights specific examples of OERs suitable for the study of Classics and Archaeology.
Faculty interested in incorporating OERs into their courses, and/or to learn more about how Queen's University Library supports OERs, please contact your subject librarian.
There are a number of generic and subject specific repositories and websites where you can find free openly licensed content which can be adapted to your teaching and learning.
For example:
Book intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings, such as lectures or lab courses. Can be used as a supplementary or primary text. Chapters are brief, providing concise and to-the-point information. CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial) license.
Refer to the page Find Openly Licensed Content for Re-Use for more information.
For additional information on OERs, please refer to the Open Educational Resources library guide.
Digital Classics Books is a series of Open Access monographs that is open for contributions such as documents written as part of an academic qualification, produced in the context of a Digital Humanities project.
Digital Classics Online is an e-journal that is free for authors and users. It publishes articles from ancient history and related areas of classical studies in connection with the application or development of methods from the digital humanities.