Open Educational Resources

The following resources do not necessarily have all of the 5 R's of open educational resources. However, they are generally freely available resources to use as an alternative to costly textbooks or subscription materials:

• Open Research Library
  • Collection of over 14,000 peer-reviewed open-access scholarly monographs on a variety of subjects
  • Hosted on the BiblioBoard platform
• Directory of Open Access Books
  • Run by OAPEN, a nonprofit based in the Netherlands out of the National Library in The Hague, and governed by representatives from various universities
  • A curated collection of over 76,000 open-access peer-reviewed scholarly books
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  • A searchable global database of freely available peer-reviewed scholarly journals across broad disciplines
  • Independent nonprofit governed by representatives from universities across the globe