OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” ― B.B. King

Open educational resources (OER) are openly licensed, freely available educational materials that can be modified and redistributed by users. They can include any type of educational resource, from syllabi to full courses.

Open Access Resources are available in various forms and types such as e-journals, e-books, Electronic Theses & Dissertations, Directories, e-print archives, digital repositories, open education resources, search engines and blogs, etc., All these resources are scholarly and useful to support our academic and research work and are available on the web. Most of these being free, can be accessed without any restrictions at the user end.

Open Access Publishing Directories

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) : http://doabooks.org
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : http://www.doaj.org
Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) : http://www.opendoar.org
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) : http://roarmap.eprints.org ROAD http://road.issn.org
Open Access Directory : http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

Databases and search engines

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides access to scholarly and peer-reviewed academic literature from all areas of scholarly research - https://scholar.google.com
OAIster contains millions of records harvested from open archives across the world, such as Bond's
open-access repository e-publications@bond. Journal articles, theses, research papers and other
digital items are available. - https://oaister.on.worldcat.org/
BASE is a Both a database and search tool, BASE includes Australian and international university repositories in its searches. - https://www.base-search.net/