Tools and technology

Search engines for journals:

• SHERPA/RoMEO- Search by journal/publisher to learn its copyright and self-archiving policies.
• Journal Selector - offered by Cofactorscience to search journals by choosing various options.

Open Access

Here is a 9-minute video explaining what open access is about. 





The Budapest statement defined open access as follows:


There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Source: "Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative". Budapest Open Access Initiative. Retrieved 23 October 2013. For further reading, please click here.


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Some readings about open access:

• Berlin declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge
• Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Access to Scientific Information and research

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Below are a list of Open Access Repositories for journals:

• Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) – is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) – is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
• InTech – World’s largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) – promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.
• Open Access Repository Publications of Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences – This website attempts to collect, preserve and disseminate the intellectual output of the Academy available as publications by its Fellows in peer-reviewed journals.

Open access journals for Science

• BioMed Central – publishes 277 open access journals which between them cover all areas of biology and medicine.
• Royal Society Open Science – publishes original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer review.
• GigaScience – An online open-access open-data journal, publishes 'big-data' studies from the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences. 
• PeerJ – publishes the world's scientific knowledge through open access licensing. Published more than 800 peer-reviewed articles and 1000 preprints.
• F1000Research – an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication and transparent refereeing, avoiding editorial bias and ensuring the inclusion of all source data.
• Life – an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of scientific studies related to fundamental themes in Life Sciences, especially those concerned with the origins of life and evolution of biosystems, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
• BMJ Open Respiratory Research – an online-only, peer-reviewed Open Access respiratory and critical care medicine journal, published by BMJ in partnership with the British Thoracic Society. The journal is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer-reviewed, medical research in all disciplines and therapeutic areas of respiratory and critical care medicine.
• eLife – is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences.

Open Courseware

OpenCourseWare is the name given to open educational resources that are presented in course format, often including course planning materials, such as syllabus and course calendars, along with thematic content, such as textbooks, lectures, presentations, notes and simulations. (cc by OCW)

In Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC), there are free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. A collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a board and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. 

Some Asian countries' open courseware are listed below.

China Open Courseware 

国家精品课程 http://www.jingpinke.com/

Netease 网易公开课 http://open.163.com/ – This website is linked to the following universities, click at the each university to view the open course offered.

• Zhejiangilin University 吉林大学
• Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 北京航空航天大学
• Fudan University 复旦大学
• Jnmin University of China 中国人民大学
• Nankai University 南开大学
• Northeastern University 东北大学
• Peking University 北京大学
• Re University 浙江大学
• Shandong University 山东大学
• Wuhan University 武汉大学
• Shanghai Jiaotong University 上海交通大学

Hong Kong Open Courseware 

Open University of Hong Kong 香港公开大学 http://freecourseware.ouhk.edu.hk/fc/php/index2011.php

Taiwan Open Courseware 

Chung Hua University 中華大學 http://ocw.chu.edu.tw/

Fu Jen University 輔仁大學 http://ocw.fju.edu.tw/

Hung Kuang University 弘光科技大學 http://podcast.hk.edu.tw/

KaoHsiung Medical University 高雄醫學大學 http://wm.kmu.edu.tw/learn/custom/course/public_list.php

National Central University 國立中央大學 https://sites.google.com/site/ncuocw/

National Cheng Kung University 國立成功大學 http://140.116.203.51/site2/newocwcourse/course_OCW1.php

National Chiao Tung University 國立交通大學 http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/

National Chiao Tung University 國立交通大學 http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/

National Chung Hsing University 國立中興大學 http://140.120.2.227/nchu_oc/OCW/

National Dong Hwa University 國立東華大學http://opencourse.ndhu.edu.tw/moodle/

National Hsinchu University of Education 國立新竹教育大學 http://ocw.nhcue.edu.tw/

National Ilan University 國立宜蘭大學 http://ocw.niu.edu.tw/moodle/

National Open University 國立空中大學 http://ocw.nou.edu.tw/moodle/

National Sun Yat-sen University 國立中山大學 http://ocw.nsysu.edu.tw/bin/home.php

National Taiwan Normal University 國立臺灣師範大學 http://ocw.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/

National Taiwan Ocean University 國立臺灣海洋大學 http://moodle.ntou.edu.tw/course/index.php; http://podcast.ntou.edu.tw/podcast/channels_by_category/20

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 國立臺灣科技大學 http://ocw.ntust.edu.tw/

National Taiwan University 國立臺灣大學 http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/index.php

National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學 http://ocw.nthu.edu.tw/

Providence University 靜宜大學 http://igtplus.lib.pu.edu.tw/

Soochow University 東吳大學 http://elearning.nttlrc.scu.edu.tw/portal/learn/course/curriculum.php

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology 南台科技大學 http://ocw.stust.edu.tw/

Taipei Medical University 臺北醫學大學 http://www.xms.tmu.edu.tw/home/index.php

Taiwan Open Courseware Consortium 台灣開放式課程聯盟 http://www.tocwc.org.tw/

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Japan Open Courseware 

Osaka University OCW 大阪大学 http://ocw.osaka-u.ac.jp/front-page?set_language=en

Kyoto University OCW 京都大学 http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en

OCW University of Tokyo 东京大学 http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Waseda University OCW 早稲田大学 http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/index_e.html

Kyushu University OCW 九州大学 http://ocw.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

Nagoya University OCW 名大の授業 http://ocw.nagoya-u.jp/index.php?lang=en&mode=g&id=&page_type=top

Hokkaido University OCW  北海道大学 http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/index.php?lang=en&page=home

Japan OCW Liaison Committee
Tokyo Institute of Technology 東京工業大学 http://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/

Indonesia Open Courseware

Universitas Indonesia (UI)

University of Sumatera Utara (USU)

Open Textbooks and E-books

Open Textbooks

• Bartleby – the preeminent Internet publisher of literature reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

• Boundless – has 21 college level subjects textbook

• CK-12 Flexbooks – contains of K-12 open textbooks and variety kind of learning objects, also includes teaching resources.

• College Open Textbooks – lists open textbooks by subject, many of which have been peer reviewed.

• Connexions – more than tens of thousands of learning objects called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.

• Flat World Knowledge – is the largest publisher of open college textbooks for students worldwide.

• Open Library – one web page for every book. Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open which had gathered over 20 million records to date.

• Open Textbook Library – hosted by the University of Minnesota, this site contains open textbooks covering Business, Management and Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Computer Science and Information System, Economics, General Education, Humanities and Languages, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Natural and Physical, Social Sciences.

• Open Textbook Project – a collection of 40 existing open textbooks curated by BCcampus and available for reuse and adaptation.

• OpenStax CNX Library – offers modules (small knowledge chunks) or collections (structured into books or course notes) covering Art, Business, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology and Social Sciences.

• Orange Grove Text – program works with Florida Virtual Campus and the University Press of Florida to curate and publish open textbooks.

• Textbook Revolution – is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you'll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.

• The Saylor Foundation – a free and open collection of college-level courses.
• LATIn – 23 open textbooks available in Latin America.

E-books

• E-Books on the Web – University at Buffalo Libraries website provide a single search from multiple sources for open textbook.

• Free Book Centre – contains links to thousands of free online technical books. Which Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more.

• Librivox – Free public domain audiobooks.

• Project Gutenberg – offers over 45,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

• The Internet Archive – A non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

Blogs related to OER news

1. Jorum blog
2. Open Librarian
3. http://acreelman.blogspot.com/
4. http://mooc.ntu.edu.tw/blog/ by National Taiwan University
5. http://onestoplearning.blogspot.com/ by Dr. A. A. Karim
6. http://learnos.wordpress.com/ by Viplav Baxi

MOOC courses schedule

Click at the link of any institutions below to view the up-to-date courses offer.

1. OERu
2. OpenupEd
3. EUROPA (MOOCs), EUROPA (Courses)
4. 学堂在线 (xuetangX, China) - 清华大学MOOCs
5. OOPS - Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) 
6. EdX
7. Coursera
8. Udacity
9. P2PU
10. CourseSites MOOC Catalog
11. 果壳网MOOC学院 (China)

This is the documentary done by China CCTV about Introduction to MOOC for the Chinese.

《新闻调查》 20140531 慕课来了！

http://www.mooc-list.com/ “MOOC List” is an aggregator (directory) of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from different providers. 
“MOOC List” don’t give MOOCs or build MOOCs. “MOOC List” list the majority of MOOC courses around the world! 

“MOOC List” is a website where you can search for MOOCs from different initiatives.

Practice and review

1. Concept Guide on Reusable Learning Objects with Application to Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, S. Grunwald and K.R. Reddy (2007)
2. The Open Educational Practices Landscape (2010)
3. Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries (2010)
4. Background and action paper on OER, Paul G. West and Lorraine Victor (2011)
5. Beyond OER, Shifting Focus to  Open Educational Practices, OPAL report (2011)
6. 5 things you should know about the OER university Plan (2011)
7. A report on the Re-use and Adaptation of OER, Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena (2012)
8. Report on the Assessment and Accreditation of Learners using OER, D. Conrad, W. Mackintosh et al. (2013)