HELP University Institutional Repository (IR)

HELP University Institutional Repository (IR) is an online centralised storage of research, teaching and learning materials contributed by staff and students of HELP university. The materials are created under Creative Commons License

 

 

OTHER OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)  PLATFORMS

         Resource                                               Description
African Health OER Network The African Health OER Network aims to empower participants to create, adapt, and share health education resources.
Bachelorthesis Ghostwriter Textbooks  This is a project that makes textbooks more accessible to students via the use of open-licensed textbooks.
COL Commons The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Commons is a platform that runs short or micro-courses. COL is an inter-governmental organisation founded by Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1987 to support the development and sharing of open learning and remote education.
Creative Common Licenses (cc) Creative Common licenses allow creators or licensors to retain copyright yet, allowing others to copy, distribute, and make use of their work non-commercially.  These license types include CC, CC-BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA and BC BY-NC-ND.
DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books DOAB is a community-led directory that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ is also a community-led online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
DOER – Directory of Open Educational Resources DOER is COL online institutional repository consists of open access resources and publications.
FreeTechBooks.com This site compiles a list of free online computer science, engineering, and programming books, textbooks, and lecture notes that are all legally and freely available.
Internet Archive – Digital Library of Free Books, Movies and Music The Internet Archive is a digital library based in the United States that aims to provide “universal access to all knowledge. It makes digitized assets such as websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books available to the public for free.
LibreTexts

LibreTexts Library is powered by NICE CXone Expert, supported by Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project, California State Library. The library consists of 2 types of texts namely “Textbooks” and “Textmaps”

Textbooks are the central spot for integrated content into our library and are identified by “Book” in their titles. “Textmaps” are specialized remixes that are constructed to follow the organization of existing commercial textbooks. “Textmaps” facilitate adoption by faculty that are unable to switch from a commercial textbook to an OER alternative, these texts are identified by “Map” in their titles.

The subject areas include into the library bookshelves are: 
Anthropology; Communication Studies; Counseling and Guidance; Early Childhood Education; Economics; Education and Professional Development; Ethnic Studies; Gender Studies; Human Geography;  Human Development; Political Science and Civics; Psychology; Social Justice Studies; Social Work and Services; and Sociology.
Malaysia Copyright Act 1 The Copyright Act 1987 (Malaysia) (Malay: Akta Hakcipta 1987) is a Malaysian law that was enacted to improve the law dealing with copyright in Malaysia.
MERLOT The MERLOT system, which is driven by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers, gives access to curated online learning and support materials as well as content production tools.
MIT Open Courseware MIT Open Course Ware is an online platform with more than 2,500 MIT undergraduate and postgraduate courses, freely accessible by learners and educators around the world.
NOUN National Open University of Nigeria NOUN is a Nigerian university committed to facilitate life-long learning via open and distance education in Nigeria.
NPTEL – National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning NPTEL is an online learning platform offering free of charge courses at university-level. The disciplines include science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The platform is a collaboration between Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Science.
Oasis Commonwealth of Learning (COL) online institutional repository for learning resources and publications.
Open Book Publishers This is UK independent open access publisher in the humanities and social sciences. It is a not-for-profit social enterprise led by academics dedicated to making high-quality books and research freely available to readers worldwide.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Awareness This self-paced online course by Monash University Malaysia, teaches the concepts of open educational resources (OER) and provides a general framework for working with OER.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons Library OER Commons (OER for open educational resources) are a free online library that allows teachers and others to search for and find OER and other freely available instructional materials.
Open Educational Resources (OER)  – University of New Hampshire, USA This OER resource provides course materials, lesson plans, open textbooks, learning objects, videos, games, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge. The materials reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license.
Open Educational Resources (OER) World Map The OER World Map collects information about Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education, as defined by the Cape Town Declaration and the OER Paris Declaration of 2012.
Open Stax – Rice University, USA Open Stax publishes peer-reviewed open licensed, free online and low course college textbooks. As an academic initiative, it is Rice University’s mission to enhance educational access and learning for everybody.
Open Textbook Library Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are licensed by authors and publishers to be used and adapted with appropriate attribution.
O’Reilly Open Books The O’Reilly Open Books adopted the Creative Commons License and make available to users hundreds of out-of-print and current titles of books.
Saylor.org Academy The Saylor Academy is a non-profit initiative that has been active since 2008, offering free and open online courses to anyone interested in learning.
SDG Academy The SDG Academy provides free educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development.
Skills Commons Skills Common materials can be accessed and reused for workforce development programs free of charge under open licensed. There are over 700 institutions contributing to the repository of this open library of materials at SkillsCommons.org.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) The Open Knowledge Repository is the official open-access repository of the World Bank and features research content about development.
WOU Repository
An online collection of the Wawasan Open University’s Open Educational Resources (OER), learning objects metadata and other learning materials.