A Homegrown Tool for Finding Open Resources

by Bill Jones

OASIS is an search tool built by Milne Library to help eliminate barriers to finding relevant OER materials. Visit OASIS at oasis.geneseo.edu to discover OER through a collection of 385,000 items from 97 different sources. 

OASIS front page

Since OASIS was released in September 2018, there have been 76,000+ unique users from 165 countries. Currently, there are 501 institutions with linking webpages to OASIS.  

Special features of OASIS include filtering results by type, subject, source, license, or review, as well as searching within results, emailing results to a colleague, and suggesting new resources to be added to OASIS. •