Open Educational Resources

What is Open Access (OA)? OA is making research publications freely available so anyone can benefit from reading and using research.

• Bentham Open - Peer-reviewed, open access journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences.
• BioMed Central - Free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the healthand life sciences.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Free full-text journals for many subjects.
• Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
• Hindawi
• Open Library of Humanities
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• SpringerOpen
• Tu Delft OpenCourseWare
• Wiley Open Access - Authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.

What is Open CourseWare (OCW)? OCW are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet.

• Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative - Free peer reviewed active learning courses.
• John Hopkins School of Public Health OpenCourseWare
• Lumen Learning
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Free courses from MIT
• Mountain Heights Academy Open Courseware (9-12)
• The Open Academy
• Open Course Library
• Open Education Consortium Course Search
• OpenLearn
• Open.Michigan
• Open University - Free Courses from Open University.
• Open Yale
• Saylor Academy
• Wikiversity - devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education

Except for the PPT, this guide is adapted from the work of Lauren B. Collister at the University of PIttsburgh, Portland Community College, Virginia Tech, and UMass Amherst Libraries.

This content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.