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July 11, 2025 7:49 pm
This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]
July 11, 2025 7:49 pm
This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]

June 25, 2025 10:31 am
Hello! I’m Sanika, and it’s been three weeks since I’ve started on as the Open Textbook Creation Intern at the Information Services Group at the University, working with the Digital Skills, Design and Training section. In these three weeks, I’ve edited educational resources for primary and secondary school students, formatted a digital handbook, and learnt what all those tiny symbols at the bottom of the page mean about copyright. I’ve been eager to implement the things I know from my previous experiences, and even more excited to discover how much I didn’t know about academic publishing and graphic design.

May 29, 2025 5:18 pm
Many thanks to Klara Finnimore and Vicky Drew from UKSG for inviting the University of Edinburgh's OER Service to speak on our experiences of sustainable strategic support for OER at their UKSG OER Online Seminar 2025. Below are the slides and transcript of the presentation.

May 27, 2025 11:32 am
As the ’24/25 academic year comes to a close we review the excellent range of OER created by students across the University. We have four new fabulous resources to share created by undergraduate students as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute course Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City.

March 5, 2025 10:32 am
As part of our Open Education Week celebrations this year, we’re highlighting the publication of the 2nd Edition of the [...]
OER Channels
Edinburghs OERsOERs from across the University
TES Resources
Award winning open resources for school teachers.
Short Online Courses
Free short online courses.
Edinburgh Diamond
Open Access ebooks & journals.
Open Media Bank
Videos from our MOOCs & free short online courses.
Media Hopper Create
Creative Commons licensed videos.
Open Media Stock Footage
Open licensed media snippets for downloading & reuse.
Wikimedian in Residence
Videos from our Wikimedian in Residence.
3D Models
Open licensed models of heritage, geology & anatomy artefacts.