Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.

arXiv

A preprint server open to anyone. It hosts over two million scholarly articles in subjects like Physics, Maths, Computer Science, and more.

bioRxiv

An open access preprint repository for life sciences research articles not yet peer-reviewed.

CiteSeerX

A scientific literature digital library and search engine focusing on computer and information science.

Indian Patent Search

Government of India’s platform to search for granted and published patents.

INFOPORT

A curated gateway for Indian scholarly resources across multiple disciplines, categorized and indexed.

NDLI

A digital library of learning resources across levels and disciplines. Available freely with registration.

Newspapers

A directory of global online newspapers organized by region and language.

OAIster

A massive union catalog of millions of open access resources harvested from repositories worldwide.

Project Gutenberg

A digital library offering thousands of free public domain eBooks in various formats.

PsyArXiv

A free psychology-focused preprint server for sharing new research prior to peer review.

SocArXiv

An open archive for social science research papers created by and for the scholarly community.

World Wide Science

A global science gateway providing federated search of national and international scientific databases.

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals – a searchable index of high-quality, peer-reviewed open access journals.

OpenDOAR

Directory of Open Access Repositories. Search by country, content type, software, and more.

DOAB

Directory of Open Access Books. Indexing scholarly peer-reviewed books from open access publishers.

OALib

Open Access Library – supporting global access to scientific knowledge through open publications.

NDLTD

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations – promotes e-theses and open access scholarship.

OKR

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository – access to thousands of research and development publications.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Increases visibility and accessibility of student theses and dissertations hosted by universities.

AMS Free eBooks

American Mathematical Society offers access to open eBooks and mathematical research material.

Bookboon

Free educational eBooks and business guides written by leading academics and professionals.

IntechOpen

A leading publisher of open access books in science, technology, and medicine.

JSTOR Open Access

Provides free access to scholarly content including journals, books, images, and more in multiple disciplines.

Free Management Books

A collection of free eBooks, templates, and checklists focused on business and management skills.

Taylor and Francis Open Access

Full-text open access journals across many disciplines, freely available online permanently.

Springer Open

Offers over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals across science, technology, and medicine.

BMC

BMC hosts 300+ open access journals in biomedical, life sciences, and health disciplines.