Open Educational Resources: Citing OERs

The information below is from "Open Educational Resource References" on the APA Style Blog. 

Best Practices

• Create a reference to an OER only when the materials are available for download directly (i.e., the materials are on the page and/or can be downloaded as PDFs or other files). If you are directed to another website, create a reference to the specific webpage on that website where the materials can be retrieved. Use this format for material in any OER repository, such as OER Commons, OASIS, or MERLOT.
• Provide as specific a date as is available on the webpage. This might be a year only; a year and month; or a year, month, and day.
• Italicize the title of a webpage.
• When contents of a page are meant to be updated over time but are not archived, include a retrieval date in the reference.
• In the case of open textbooks, the publisher will be the organization that makes the resource available; BC Campus, eCampus Ontario, and OpenStax are all examples of publishers.

Format
Author, A. (Year of publication, Month and day if available). Title. Publisher. Retrieved date from link.

Example 
Doyle, G.; McCutcheon, J. (2015, November 22). Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care. BC Open Collection by BC Campus. Retrieved August 30, 2023 from https://collection.bccampus.ca/textbooks/clinical-procedures-for-safer-patient-care-bccampus-74/

Source: "Open Educational Resource References". (2020, February). APA Style Blog. Retrieved August 30, 2023, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/open-educational-resource-references.