Although the topic of authoring of open educational resources has many perspectives (like the social “motivational” perspective, the technological perspective, the legal perspective etc.) one of the most important aspects is how the widely distributed open educational resources can be accessed within authoring environments. In this regard I see the example of the eXe editor as a best practice example for open educational resources: Within eXe so called iDevices (instructional devices) allow to access and load articles from many different Wikipedia projects or from Wikieducator into the authoring environment for easy reuse of this material. Similar to the creativecommons search engine this could be the basis to integrate many different open educational content repositories and to allow users also to search for material that fits to their purpose of reuse (commercial, non-commercial etc.).