Open Educational Resources
Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly materials, including theses/dissertations, books, and journal articles. According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB):
ROAD: (the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) serves:
- There are more than 10,000 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the world, about a third of all peer-reviewed journals. These journals are published in more than 100 countries, and contain over 1.7 million articles.
- There are close to 50,000 free-to-read journals of academic interest (including fully open peer reviewed journals, journals with free back issues, and journals of academic interest that are not peer-reviewed).
- Open access monographs is an area experiencing rapid growth, an annual growth rate of over 40% for both books and publishers. Currently there are over 2,200 open access books from over 70 publishers.
ROAD: (the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) serves:
- to provide a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.
- to provide information about the quality and prominence of OA resources by indicating by what services or journal indicators they are covered
- to give an overview of the Open Access scholarly production worldwide
As more scholars create, study, and teach with digital objects; engage in collaborative work; or use technology for pedagogy, professional associations are developing guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship.
Modern Language Association. Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media.
The MLA Committee on Information Technology evaluation wiki includes materials from periodic MLA evaluation workshops, a “Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work,” suggestions for candidates preparing an evaluation file, example guidelines from selected universities, and a list of resource links and bibliography related to digital scholarship in the humanities.
College Art Association.
Conference on College Composition and Communication
American Historical Association. Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion.
Modern Language Association. Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media.
The MLA Committee on Information Technology evaluation wiki includes materials from periodic MLA evaluation workshops, a “Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work,” suggestions for candidates preparing an evaluation file, example guidelines from selected universities, and a list of resource links and bibliography related to digital scholarship in the humanities.
College Art Association.
Conference on College Composition and Communication
American Historical Association. Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion.
University of Minnesota, Open Textbook Catalog
OpenStaxCollege Free course materials for five common introductory classes. The textbooks are open to classes anywhere.
Flat World Knowledge College textbooks full-text online for free and in a variety of affordable formats
Connexions
Platform for shared educational texts -- view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, or reports. Anyone may view or contribute.
WikiBooks An online wiki-based collection of over two thousand open-content textbooks. Fully editable, published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Internet Archive Includes links to over 430 billion web pages and 6.5 million texts.
OpenStaxCollege Free course materials for five common introductory classes. The textbooks are open to classes anywhere.
Flat World Knowledge College textbooks full-text online for free and in a variety of affordable formats
Connexions
Platform for shared educational texts -- view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, or reports. Anyone may view or contribute.
WikiBooks An online wiki-based collection of over two thousand open-content textbooks. Fully editable, published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Internet Archive Includes links to over 430 billion web pages and 6.5 million texts.
There are two modles of Open Access that apply to Journals:
GREEN Open Access - Content is posted to an online repository or website.
GOLD Open Access - Content is delivered by journal publishers and is freely available to the public.
For a detailed explanation of Open Access, see Peter Suber's Open Access Overview.
Open Library of Humanities
PLoS: Public Library of Science
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Lists over 10,000 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
SHERPA/RoMEO Database
A regularly updated database of peer-reviewed journal publishers’ agreements. Use it to find publishers or journals that permit deposit of a final version of a paper in a public repository, such as PubMed Central or in an institutional repository, allowing scholars to find the full-text version through a Google search. Authors are able to compare and select the most author-friendly and dissemination-friendly publisher agreement before submitting a paper for publication.
PubMed PubMedCentral has more than 3.2 million free fulltext documents.
Social Sciences Research Network. A website devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. On SSRN, authors and papers are ranked by their number of downloads, which is an informal indicator of impact on prepress and open access sites. SSRN, provides access to preprints of research papers to the scholarly community at an early stage, permitting the author to incorporate community comments into the final version of the paper before its publication in a journal. While access to the published paper may be restricted, access to the original working paper remains open through SSRN. Requires free registration.
GREEN Open Access - Content is posted to an online repository or website.
- The author saves a preprint version of an article and posts it to a repository. Links and metadata are added to the hosted version of the article.
- No Article Processing Fee (APC) is assessed for the author.
- Access is granted to the postprint after the publisher's embargo period has expired (Standard embargo period is 12 months).
GOLD Open Access - Content is delivered by journal publishers and is freely available to the public.
- Authors or scholarly societies cover the costs (APC) inherent in producing a scholarly publication.
- Journals conduct peer review process.
For a detailed explanation of Open Access, see Peter Suber's Open Access Overview.
Open Library of Humanities
PLoS: Public Library of Science
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Lists over 10,000 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
SHERPA/RoMEO Database
A regularly updated database of peer-reviewed journal publishers’ agreements. Use it to find publishers or journals that permit deposit of a final version of a paper in a public repository, such as PubMed Central or in an institutional repository, allowing scholars to find the full-text version through a Google search. Authors are able to compare and select the most author-friendly and dissemination-friendly publisher agreement before submitting a paper for publication.
PubMed PubMedCentral has more than 3.2 million free fulltext documents.
Social Sciences Research Network. A website devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. On SSRN, authors and papers are ranked by their number of downloads, which is an informal indicator of impact on prepress and open access sites. SSRN, provides access to preprints of research papers to the scholarly community at an early stage, permitting the author to incorporate community comments into the final version of the paper before its publication in a journal. While access to the published paper may be restricted, access to the original working paper remains open through SSRN. Requires free registration.
- NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
An international collaborative effort, the NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations, and promotes open access publishing of these documents. - ETD Center - OhioLINK
Full-text electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from several universities and colleges across Ohio have been deposited in the Center, which makes the ETDs freely available to all. You can search by subject (e.g. occupational therapy) or granting university. - Worldwide ETD Index A global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. Search by author, title, and abstract information. It does not search the full text of the ETDs.
- Open Access Electronic Theses and Disserations An index of 1.5 ETDs. OATD stores the first 30 pages of the documents, not the full text.
- Open thesis A free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents from around the world.
- Digital Commons Network
Full-text access to 125,000 theses and dissertations. - In addition, many electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are made available to web crawlers to show up in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
Open Access/Peter Suber, MIT Press, 2012. Library also has print copy.
Open access : what you need to know now / Walt Crawford, American Library Association, 2011.
Open access to STM information : trends, models and strategies for libraries / edited by Anthi Katsirikou.
De Gruyter Saur, c2011.
Open content licensing: from theory to practice / edited by Lucie Guibault & Christina Angelopoulos.
Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Open access : what you need to know now / Walt Crawford, American Library Association, 2011.
Open access to STM information : trends, models and strategies for libraries / edited by Anthi Katsirikou.
De Gruyter Saur, c2011.
Open content licensing: from theory to practice / edited by Lucie Guibault & Christina Angelopoulos.
Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
- Flickr: Creative Commons A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
- NY Public Library Digital Gallery
Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the new York Public Library's collections.
- U.S. Government Photos and Images
A vast collection of photos and images from the U.S. Government, many of which are in the public domain and free to use.
Moving Image Archive -
A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
- The Open Video Project
A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.
- freebookspot is an online source of free ebooks in categories such as science, engineering, programming, and fiction. No registration is required to download free e-books.
- freecomputerbooks.com Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and tutorials.
- freetechbooks.com Computer science, engineering and programming ebooks.
Academic Earth Free online lectures from universities such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
Berkeley Webcast Freely available online course lectures from the University of California Berkeley
CITE A blog on course materials, innovation, and technology in education
Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources Khan Academy Video tutorials on subjects such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
Open Courseware Consortium "a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model."
Berkeley Webcast Freely available online course lectures from the University of California Berkeley
CITE A blog on course materials, innovation, and technology in education
Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources Khan Academy Video tutorials on subjects such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
Open Courseware Consortium "a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model."
