"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” Peter Suber

Overivew of Open Access by Peter Suber author of  SPARC Open Access Newsletter

JURN - A curated academic search-engine, indexing 3,670 free open access ejournals in the arts & humanities.

PLoS- Public library of science - a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

INASP - International Network for the Ability of Scientific Publications, site allows for cross-searching of collections of Institutional Repositories.

DOAJ - Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals with the aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 5718 journals in the directory.

Free Medical Journals - Unrestricted full-text access to medical journals

Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization working to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.

View CC descriptive video "Get Creative" about the concept of "creative commons."

• Creative Commons licenses
• Creative Commons license for Education

Open Education.net  Forum and news site

OER Commons - a network for teaching and learning materials, having alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need.

Open Education News - Open Education News is essentially a group blog. A number of individuals from the US, South Africa, and eventually other locations daily monitor the internet for news related to open education.

Creative Commons Search (beta)

Flickr creative commons images website

Google directory open content

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

OpenCourseWare Consortium

Online College Classes - A collection of college courses and educational material from around the web.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

WikiMedia commons

SoundCloud  place for creators looking to share and distribute music and audio online.

Scholarly Open Access - Jeffrey Beall - Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013

Open Access News blog - Peter Suber