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 * Lists of Free Open Education Resources Compiled by Ilene Frank and Barrett Havens**

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for use by anyone. Some materials are truly open access in that they can be re-mixed and re-used by anyone. Some materials may need to be be accessed by specific devices (iTunes U) or used only as is - no changes allowed. Check licenses even for those materials labelled as OER.

Online Business & Management Journals and Reference Books
 * Resources by Subject:**


 * SEARCH TOOLS**


 * List of OER search tools - Tidewater Community College**

Try "OA paper version lookup by DOI" : oadoi.org
 * DOI (Digital Object Identifier)** Do you have a doi - a digital object identifier - for an article? Find out if the article is available open access by using OADOI.ORG

**BASE** One of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources from over 2,000 sources. Use the **ADVANCED** search tab and scroll down and make sure that "open access" is checked and "uncheck" non-open access and "uncheck" unknown.

Mason OER MetaFinder (from George Mason University) Use to find open textbooks and other OER materials from sites ranging from OpenStax to Project Gutenberg

@https://core.ac.uk/ "The mission of CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public..."
 * CORE**


 * JURN** @http://www.jurn.org Search tool for open access content (Includes links to some sites such ResearchGate.net that require free registration)

"A [rather small] search engine that returns OER including images
 * SOLONAUTS** @http://solvonauts.org/

Scroll down to "refine your search" and leave journals and books checked - and check "open access articles only"
 * ScienceDirect** @http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/search

Find magazine articles
 * Virtual Learning Resources Center** VLRC []

@https://www.semanticscholar.org/ covers computer and neuroscience. No obvious way to limit resuts to open access only. Adding *.pdf to search terms seems to work. number of results All Computer Science (538,603) Neuroscience (13,252)
 * Semantic Scholar**
 * **Sample search** || ** user interface design **

number of results All Computer Science (30,123) Neuroscience (427) ||
 * user interface design *.pdf **


 * Browser Extensions**

Open Access Button (search engine - and browser extension available) @https://openaccessbutton.org/

Unpaywall (browser extension) from oadoi [] If you are doing a search and find a research article, the Unpaywall icon will turn green indicating that there is an open access copy of the article available. Click on the icon for access.


 * Other Guides and Tutorials:**

Library Research Guides

Grand Valley State University

Humboldt State University

Lansing Community College

Oklahoma

SJSU

[|University of Mass]

DiscoverEd  A search prototype developed by Creative Commons

Georgia: Affordable Learning - GALILEO search tool, information about including library resources, finding open textbooks, etc. @http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/ Georgia Affordable Textbooks  @http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/find_textbooks/open_textbooks

OPEN (Open Professionals Education Network. Find OER (Tends to be course related material).
April 8, 2017:

De Gruyter makes some material available for free on occasion. Instructions for getting to some material – some articles and university press books available for free from March 1 – December 30, 2017. This program of materials is called the “Rights, Action and Social Responsibility” initiative: I registered at the **de Gruyter** site at ** @https://www.degruyter.com/ ** and picked password I got the email back from de Gruyter confirming my registration and clicked on the link to confirm that it was me. Then… try logging in to My DeGruyter and scroll down to the information about those free resources


 * 2017-04-06 **
 * De Gruyter and Publisher Partners support fact-based analysis **
 * Launch of “Rights, Action and Social Responsibility” initiative **

Then… scroll to the bottom of THAT screen (URL ** @https://www.degruyter.com/page/1419 ** ) And I got a token by doing **MORE** registration waaay at the bottom of that web page about the free material THEN I got email back with a “token” //Then // I got information about how to use the token ** @https://www.degruyter.com/page/267 ** Then.. I got logged on **My DeGruyter** with my username/password per that first registration - and then put in that token number somewhere <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">I had clicked on the title of this book from Harvard University Press **Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?** <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">And after all that, it finally said "free access" ! I could have downloaded a chapter at a time <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">The token for is good for that collection from March 1 – December 2017. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Apparently de Gruyter provides some free access to their materials off and on. I spotted something about a program they have calls “10 tokens” that will let users download 10 items – It’s one token per chapter if it’s a book. So I suppose by signing up with them, I will get email once in a while about other free material.

This collection of resources was developed by Barret Havens and Ilene Frank to assist course development for University of the People. http://www.uopeople.edu Send suggestions to Ilene Frank ilene.frank at gmail.com Last reviewed 2016. Some additions made in 2017