Adopting alternatives to traditional textbooks can make a difference in students lives. It can increase student engagement too. We are here to help as you consider what OER and Open Access materials may be right for your class
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that supports open access and works to enable open access sharing. Creative Commons helps people create free copyright licenses that provide a simple, standardized way for you to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. Creative Commons licenses let you easily change your copyright terms on your work from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a wiki directory of factual lists about open access (OA) The OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
Open Access Week (in October) is an annual event offering the academic and research community an opportunity to share information about the potential benefits of open access.
Blog that seeks out the best free cultural & educational media on the web. Dan Colman, the lead editor, is the Director & Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication
This site's purpose is to support open access initiatives and the free access to scientific publications in an electronic form and to other academic material. It is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.
