The OER community is vibrant with educators, librarians, and other advocates sharing their knowledge. These listservs provide many opportunities to discover newly-published OER materials and ask questions of other open practitioners.
"The eTexts Community Group discusses the rapidly evolving domain of digital textbooks, multimedia supplements, tutorial websites, e-reader/annotation software, and related materials—that we may collectively refer to as "eTexts" for short. "
The OPENNESS listserv is used for those interested in issues relating to open education - including open educational data and open educational resources.
The SPARC Open Education Forum (formerly LibOER) is a public discussion list intended for individuals interested in open education. Highly recommended!
The Northeast Regional OER Summit is a multi-state collaborative event for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
The Open Education Conference (“OpenEd”) is an annual conference for sharing and learning about open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives.
The OER Advocacy Toolkit was created by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). Despite it being created as a reference for academic librarians seeking to advocate for OER at their institutions, it is broadly applicable to other stakeholders involved in the strategic planning of campus-wide OER initiatives.
In 2021, the Student Senate at Roger Williams University passed a resolution to initiate coursemarking in RogerCentral, the portal in which students search and register for classes. This resolution is licensed CC-BY, in hopes that other student governments can benefit from seeing model language.
This toolkit was created by OER student leaders in the CCC and CSU systems. The toolkit's purpose is to motivate students to get involved in OER advocacy and the Open Education movement, as well as make it known that students can make a difference in their education.
StudentPIRGs have written research reports and toolkits on the impact of the rising cost of textbooks, including information on publisher "inclusive access" textbook models.