OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
The book, Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians, is now published under CC BY and offers an additional way to access the openly licensed CC Certificate content. It’s available in print at the ALA store, or it can be downloaded…
Research in information science and scholarly communication strongly relies on the availability of openly accessible datasets of metadata and, where possible, their relative payloads. To this end, CrossRef plays a pivotal role by providing free access to its entire metadata…
The National Library of Sweden has produced a series of educational videos on Open Access. These short videos will give you a basic understanding of Open Access in scientific publishing. Whether you are a researcher, a postgraduate student, a teaching…
Open Science is a new research paradigm facing many challenges, mainly the ingrained research habits accompanied by non-incentive institutional and funder reward systems, the lack of embedded tools and services, the connection to non-academic communities. OSFair2019 is organized as an…
Practical Guidelines on Open Education for Academics: modernising higher education via open educational practices These guidelines are for the academic staff of higher education institutions, with the goal of helping them move towards the use of open educational practices (OEP)…
COAR is pleased to announce the release of the Resource Type Vocabulary, Version 2. This vocabulary, which is now available in 15 languages, provides standardized terms for different types of content contained in a repository. Controlled vocabularies ensure that “everyone…
This guidebook was prepared as a final publication of the EduGIS Academy project focused on promoting use of GIS/ICT at schools, in particular for biology, geography and science education. The book includes methodological guidelines for implementation of geoinformation in school…
This graphic is an adaptation of Kramer and Bosman’s Rainbow of open science practices and Stanley and Vandegrift’s Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. It is meant to inspire and invoke ongoing discussions about what a community- or academy-owned research infrastructure…
“This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER.…