Open Access Resources

• Acta Medica Philippina
  "Acta Medica Philippina is an open-access, international peer-reviewed, general medical and health science journal in English language that is published monthly by the University of the Philippines Manila. It is publishing continuously since 1939. The journal publishes original scientific papers in the field of basic and clinical medical or human health-related research." Learn More

• HERDIN Plus
  HERDIN Plus, hosted by DOST PCHRD, is recognized as the National Health Research Repository by virtue of Republic Act 10532 institutionalizing the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS). It is a health research information management system and collaboration platform for Higher Education and Research and Development Institutions to collect, organize, and disseminate research information. Learn More

• Philippine Journal of Health Research and Development (PJHRD)
  "The Philippine Journal of Health Research and Development (formerly, the UP Manila Journal), is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish researches with a broad scope covering all aspects of environmental and human health. This quarterly journal aims to reach broader readership and provide easy access to high-quality articles from multiple disciplines that include, but are not limited to, the allied health sciences, such as rehabilitation sciences, dental medicine, nursing and health care, pharmacy and natural products, food science and nutrition, health informatics, as well as public and environmental health, ecotoxicology, health social sciences, health professions education, health policy, and governance. Learn More

• Academic Medicine
  The official, peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal’s areas of focus include: education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings.

• Advances in Medical Education and Practice
  An international, peer reviewed, open access journal that aims to present and publish research on Medical Education covering medical, dental, nursing, and allied health care professional education. The journal covers undergraduate education, postgraduate training, and continuing medical education including emerging trends and innovative models linking education, research, and health care services. The main focuses are curriculum development, teaching methodology, student assessment, curriculum evaluation, career planning, teachers’ training, and continuing professional development. 

• BMC Medical Education
  An open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.

• The Clinical Teacher
  The journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting. It provides easy access to the latest research, practice and thinking in clinical education across the health professions, presented in a readable, stimulating and practical style. There are sections on specific teaching approaches, reports and evaluation of innovative learning activities, brief overviews of the latest research published in Medical Education and other relevant journals, reports of innovative thinking and advances in clinical teaching from around the world, and expert commentary and discussion on challenging and controversial issues in today's clinical education.

• ERIC
  The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) website is offered free for public use by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education. It indexes education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature.

• Evaluation & the Health Professions
  A peer-reviewed journal that provides health-related professionals with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical protocols or tools for conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and problems, and developing, implementing, and evaluating health programs, teaching and training services, and products that pertain to a myriad of health dimensions. It is designed to provide a forum for keeping health professionals abreast of the latest technological advances in evaluation research methods as well as provide the results of important evaluations. 

• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

• Health Professions Education (HPE)
  Elsevier's HPE open access journal aims to be an open forum for sharing new empirical findings and new ideas in the emerging field of health professions education. Indexed and abstracts included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

• Internet Archive
  Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Titles such as: Sociology of health and illness by Peter Conrad, Saber-tooth curriculum by Peddiwell, Experience and education by John Dewey, A Primer in theory construction by PD Reynolds, The Art of problem solving by RL Ackoff, Educational evaluation: alternative approaches and practical guidelines 1987 by Worthen & Sanders,  to name a few.

• Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC)
  Disseminates research and new developments in the scientific field of interprofessional studies in health and social care, encompassing interprofessional education (IPE), and collaborative practice. From its inception, the Journal has maintained a social mission to promote collaboration in education, practice, and research worldwide, and a responsibility to fostering interprofessional developments across established and emerging regions.

• Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE)
  The premiere forum for higher education leaders, administrators, educators, researchers and policy makers interested in all facets of the internationalization of higher education. Articles discuss theoretical, conceptual and practical aspects of internationalization including regional, national and institutional policies and strategies, internationalization of the curriculum, issues surrounding international students and cross-border delivery of education. 

• Medical Education
  The journal is the senior international scientific journal for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. Covered are all issues of current interest, including teaching methods, curriculum reform, the training of medical teachers, the selection of entrants and assessment techniques. It is the main forum for teachers of medicine worldwide. Readership consists primarily of teachers of medicine, medical educators, administrators of faculties or medicine workers and researchers involved in the development of medical education as a whole.

• MedEdPortal
  MedEdPORTAL is a MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership with the American Dental Education Association. MedEdPORTAL publications are stand-alone, complete teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with medical or dental trainees or practitioners. Each submission is reviewed by editorial staff and external peer reviewers using a standardized review instrument grounded in the tenets of educational scholarship. The Interprofessional Education (IPE) Collection is designed to foster the identification, development and deployment of educational resources aimed at supporting team-based or collaborative care essential to training an interprofessional workforce. The Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Collection features peer-reviewed educational resources for educators to advance institutional efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive culture and climate for all in order to drive clinical, educational, research and service excellence.

• The National Academies Press (NAP)
  Publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy. Offer more than 8,500 titles in PDF format--almost PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.

• NIH-NLM Resources for Educators and Trainers
  The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) offer a wide variety of training resources. These include live classes, webinars, and online videos and tutorials. Resources for Educators will direct you to the History of Medicine Education Resources, Kids Environmental Health portal, ToxTown Science Classroom and the NIH Science Education.

• Perspectives on Medical Education
  Official journal of the The Netherlands Association of Medical Education (NVMO). Perspectives on Medical Education is a non-profit Open Access journal with no charges for authors to submit or publish an article, and the full text of all articles is freely available immediately upon publication.

• PubMed®
  PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

• SAGE Research Methods
  Put research concepts into real world context. Written by researchers in the field, cases focus on how they designed their studies, including method selection and application. Users can search cases by keywords to find projects on similar topics to their own to find inspiration on the best methods to use. Users will also learn how researchers need to make constant decisions throughout the course of their study and pivot when a method or data source is not working out. With more than 2,000 cases, SAGE Research Methods Cases has a multitude of research examples from across the social science disciplines.

• Teaching and Learning in Medicine (TLM)
  An international forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions. Its international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all medical educators: fostering the development of capable, well-rounded, and continuous learners prepared to practice in a complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environment. 

• UNESDOC
  UNESCO Digital Library. The repository of UNESCO’s institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information). Purpose is to share knowledge and to transmit it to future generations. 

Some useful documents on the future of teaching, learning and networking shared by UPVPAA 2022 April were: 2021 Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education; 2015 The Role of higher education in promoting lifelong learning; 2015 Rethinking education: towards a global common good?

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

• A design thinking, systems approach to well-being within education and practice: proceedings of a workshop, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25151

• Exploring the role of accreditation in enhancing quality and innovation in health professions education: proceedings of a workshop, 2017. Doi: 10.17226/23636

• Graduate medical education outcomes and metrics: proceedings of a workshop, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25003

• Health professions faculty for the future: proceedings of a workshop, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26041

• How people learn II: learners, contexts and cultures, consensus study report, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24783

• Improving health professional education through technology: proceedings of a workshop, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25072

• Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25821 

• Emerging stronger from Covid-19: Priorities for health system transformation, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26657

• Lessons learned in Health Professions education during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 (part 1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26210

• Lessons learned in Health Professions Education during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 (part 2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26484

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27174

PROJECT MUSE

• Bert van der Zwaan. (2017). Higher Education in 2040 : a global approach . Amsterdam University Press

• Bishai D, Schleiff M.  (2020) Achieving Health for All: Primary health care in action. Johns Hopkins University

• Carnell, B., & Fung, D. (2017). Developing the Higher Education Curriculum: Research-Based Education in Practice. University College London

• Fung, D. (2017). Connected curriculum for higher education. University College London. 

• Gupta, A., & Brooks, R. (2022). Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe. Bristol University Press.

• Halvorsen T. (2017). North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between: Academics, Donors and Universities. African Books Collective

• Heijnen, A., & van der Vaart, A. (2018). Places of Engagement: Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach. Amsterdam University Press

• Hellerstedt, A. (2018). Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Amsterdam University Press

• Karaganis J. & 5 others (2018). Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. MIT Press

• McConlogue, T. (2020). Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: A Guide for Teachers. University College London

• McKenna, S. & Bowie, C. (2021). Understanding higher education: alternative perspectives. African Minds Publishers.

• Rovers M & 2 others, eds (2018).  Touch in the Helping Professions: Research, Practice and Ethics. University of Ottawa Press. 

• R. van der Vaart (2018). Places of Engagement: Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach. Amsterdam University Press

• Tedeschi P. (2019). Transforming Trauma: Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals. Purdue University Press.

• Tong, V.C.H., Standen, A., & Sotiriou, M. (2018). Shaping Higher Education with Students: Ways to Connect Research and Teaching. University College London.

• Wallace L. (2020). Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South. African Books Collective

GALE

• Anthony Herrington and Jan Herrington, eds. (2005). Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education. Information Science Publishing. 

• Bioethics. (2014). In B. Jennings (Ed.), Bioethics (4th ed., Vol. 1, p. 331). Macmillan Reference USA. 

• Roisin Donnelly and Fiona McSweeney, eds. (2009). Applied E-Learning and E-Teaching in Higher Education. Information Science Reference.

• EBSCO Open Dissertations
  A collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. Contains H.W. Wilson's indexed American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-present. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. 

• EThOS
  The UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. Aims to 1) provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions 2) Free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.

• OATD.org
  Open Access Theses and Dissertations aims to be the best possible resource for finding published open access graduate theses and dissertations around the world. Over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions contribute to the metadata or information about these theses.

• PQDT Open
  PQDT Open is ProQuest's UMI Dissertation new publishing platform. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access, so you can read the full text of their dissertations and theses free of charge.