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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Information for Students and Faculty about Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER Audio

Internet Archive

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

Historical Voices

Historical Voices (www.historicalvoices.org) is part of the Digital Library Initiative II funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Historical Voices is one of the first fully functional, multi-media, interoperable digital libraries available online. The primary goals of each of these projects will be the development of a rich set of both online exhibits and educational curricula, utilizing audio files as a key component of these resources.

Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet. It was launched in 2009.

Jamendo Music

On Jamendo Music, you can enjoy a wide catalog of more than 500,000 tracks shared by 40,000 artists from over 150 countries all over the world. You can stream all the music for free, download it and support the artist: become a music explorer and be a part of a great discovery experience!

Free Music Archive

Archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a curatorial approach.

ccMixter

This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Music on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons license. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.

Library of Congress: Digital Collections

The Library of Congress collections contain over 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources. To find audio materials, refine your results by selecting "Audio Recordings" under the "Original Format" category.

National Jukebox

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

*All descriptions are taken from the corresponding organization's website.