OA books, OA articles, OA journals
OA books, OA articles, OA journals
Affordable course content describes any free, low-cost, or openly licensed educational resources that can serve as alternatives to high-cost resources. Affordable course content can include textbooks, digital courseware, course modules, videos, journal articles, and any other materials used to support…
An overlay journal or overlay ejournal is a type of open access academic journal, almost always an online electronic journal (ejournal), that does not produce its own content, but selects from texts that are already freely available online. While many…
The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content. It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby ensures quality and encourages compatibility between different pools…
LOV stands for Linked Open Vocabularies. This name is derived from LOD, standing for Linked Open Data. Let’s assume that the reader is somehow familiar with the latter concept, otherwise a visit to or will help to figure…
Open pedagogy is the practice of engaging with students as creators of information rather than simply consumers of it. It’s a form of experiential learning in which students demonstrate understanding through the act of creation. The products of open pedagogy…
Open Access Monographs An open access monograph is a scholarly monograph which is made freely available with a creative commons licence. Open Access monographs offer a real opportunity for long-form humanities and social sciences scholarship to reach a wider audience.
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Journal level metrics – metrics that apply to all papers published within a journal. A common example is Thomson Reuters’ journal impact factor.
H-index – a personal metric that relates the number of citations to the number of published papers for an academic.