List of Curated Open Educational Resources (OERS)

Curated links of OERs posted on Library OPAC homepage.

1. American Institute of Mathematics

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of
open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has
developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional
university courses.
https://aimath.org/textbooks/

2. Applied Math and Science Education Repository

AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by
those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.
https://amser.org/index.php?P=BrowseResources
3. BC Campus Open Ed
A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.
https://open.bccampus.ca/

4. Bielefel Academic Search Engine

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic
web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000
sources.
https://www.base-search.net/

5. Bioinfo Publications from Bioinfo

Bioinfo Publications is a rapidly growing academic publisher with more than 300 Open
Access peer-reviewed journals covering all major areas of science, technology, medicine.
Bioinfo Publications open-access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Over 50 Bioinfo journals
are ranked 8th in the world by IndexCopernicus International.
http://www.bioinfo.in/journals.php
6. Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides
libraries with a flexible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social
sciences. It contains nearly 11,000 titles, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research
publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical
Press, Berg, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing. 
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/open-access

7. British Library EthOS (e-theses online service)

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and
availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
https://ethos.bl.uk/

8. CHED (Commission on Higher Education)

PHL CHED Connect Platform contains higher education materials in various formats
that are useful for teaching, learning and research purposes.
https://phlconnect.ched.gov.ph
9. Cornell University – Articles
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,756,846 scholarly
articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology,
quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/

10. De Gruyter - Books

De Gruyter is an international, independent publisher headquartered in Berlin. It
publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 900 journals in the
humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural
sciences, and law.
https://www.degruyter.com/browse?submittedFilterId=by-
access&pageSize=10&sort=datedescending&access_4=open
11. De Gruyter - Journals
De Gruyter publishes fully open access journals across STM and HSS. All articles
undergo double blind peer-review and fast turnaround time from submission to online
publication.
https://www.degruyter.com/page/2045

12. Digital Commons Network

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from
hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. The Network includes a growing collection
 of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference
proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
http://network.bepress.com/

13. Digital Library of the Commons Repository

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature
on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and
dissertations.
https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/handle/10535/2

14. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

DOAB is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have
been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB contains the metadata
of 'free to share' e-books and provides direct links to the full text of the publications on the
websites of the publishers.
https://www.doabooks.org/

15. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to
high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
 https://doaj.org/

16. EBSCO eBooks

The EBSCO team has aggregated a growing collection of content from trusted
university presses and scholarly OA publishers with a commitment to providing your library
with a large selection of open access books that can be easily accessed by your users.
https://more.ebsco.com/ebooks-open-access-2021.html

17. EBSCO Open Dissertations

OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings
an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.
This new collaboration extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W.
Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from
the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities,
1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the
scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations
and theses from 1955 to the present.
https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
18. Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
https://eric.ed.gov/

19. edX from edX Inc.

Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX's mission is to: 1) increase access to high-quality
education for everyone, everywhere; 2) enhance teaching and learning on campus and
online; and 3) advance teaching and learning through research. A trusted platform for
education and learning, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-
ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global nonprofit, edX is
transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access.
Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the
possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences
including the groundbreaking MicroMasters® programs. Supporting learners at every stage,
whether entering the job market, changing fields, seeking a promotion or exploring new
interests, edX delivers courses for curious minds on topics ranging from data and computer
science to leadership and communications. Learners can access over 2,500 free online
courses from 140 leading institutions worldwide.
https://www.edx.org/

20. Elsevier Open Access Journals from Elsevier

All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone
peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to
read and download.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals
21. Emerald Library from Emerald Group Publishing
Multidisciplinary e-journal gateway providing full text access to over 180
management, applied science and technology, engineering, health sciences, and library and
information science journals published by MCB University Press. Flagship titles in the EMX
150 collection include: Management Decision; European Journal of Marketing; Journal of
Documentation; Leadership & Organization Development Journal; and The TQM Magazine.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/

22. FreeBooks4Doctors
FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on
the Internet.
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/f.php?f=index

23. GALILEO Open Learning Materials

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources
throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary
materials.
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/
24. HERDIN PLUS
HERDIN PLUS is a health research information management system and
collaboration platform for Higher Education and Research and Development Institutions to
collect, organize, and disseminate research information.
https://www.herdin.ph/index.php

25. Highwire Press (Free Journals) from Highwire Press

Affiliated with Stanford University, HighWire Press hosts a large repository of high
impact, peer-reviewed content, with over 1000 journals and over 4 million full text articles
from over 130 scholarly publishers. While the free, full-text journal listing on Highwire Press
is no longer actively maintained (01/17/2020), free issues/sites are identified and full-text
access provided in the general listing.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/allsites.dtl

26. InTEchOpen
InTechOpen pride themselves on their belief that scientific progress is generated by
collaboration, that the playing field for scientific research should be leveled globally, and that
research conducted in a democratic environment, with the use of innovative technologies,
should be made available to anyone.
 They are on a journey to democratise knowledge. The Open Access paradigm is the
only model which allows that. Content is accessible for free, on all electronic devices - no
matter where its downloaded and read, from Burkina Faso, to Romania or in Silicon Valley.
Providing freely available, accessible dynamic academic content.
https://www.intechopen.com/books

27. LibreCommons (LibreTexts)

The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative
effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and
dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable
textbook costs to our students and society.
https://commons.libretexts.org/

28. Lumen Learning

This OER-focused company provides open courses with "zero textbook cost." Their
curriculum comes with all the OER students will require.
https://lumenlearning.com/

29. Lyryx
Lyryx offers high-quality open textbooks in the fields of accounting, mathematics, and
economics. They also have optional added (paid) resources such as homeworks and quizzes
to accompany the open textbooks.
https://lyryx.com/subjects-2/
30. Mason OER Metafinder
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike
other OER repositories. OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 21 different
sources of open educational materials.
https://oer.gmu.edu/?page_id=967#mom

31. MERLOT (California State University)

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support
materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners
and researchers.
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/

32. MIT OpenCourseware

Since 2001, MIT OpenCourseWare has been creating new opportunities for millions
of learners and educators, sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) from MIT and
helping to lead a global revolution in free access to knowledge.
MIT OpenCourseWare continues to build on this foundation. With a new web
platform, ever-growing content, and collaborations across the vibrant open education
ecosystem, we're creating a world of more equitable and inclusive education for all.
https://ocw.mit.edu/
33. NCPAG Good Governance and OGP Research Portal

http://ncpag.razzatech.com/

a repository for NCPAG-initiated researches related to Open Government and Good

Governance. This NCPAG microsite portal on OGP related researches was first designed by
then NCPAG doctoral candidate Jody Salas and his team of developers.

34. NCPAG Working Papers

https://ncpag.upd.edu.ph/ncpag-working-papers/

The NCPAG Working Papers are pre-publication versions of research papers by NCPAG
faculty, lecturers, researchers, and students. They are meant to disseminate knowledge and
stimulate discussion that will help authors revise the manuscript for future publication.

35. OASIS
 Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to
make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117
different sources and contains 388,707 records.
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/

36. OER Commons

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore,
create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
https://www.oercommons.org/

37. Open Access Theses and Dissertations

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate
theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the
theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD
currently indexes 6,276,676 theses and dissertations.
https://oatd.org/

38. Open Book Publishers

 Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, is a leading independent open
access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed monographs, edited collections,
textbooks, critical translations and more. They are a non-profit social enterprise based in the
UK and run by academics who are committed to making high-quality research available to
every reader. All their books are available to read free of charge in open access formats
(PDF, HTML and XML), as well as high-quality paperbacks and hardbacks and affordable
eBooks.
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/

39. Open Culture Online Courses from Open Culture LLC

Open Culture Online Courses offers 1,500 free online courses from top universities
such as Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Oxford and more than 1,000 Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs) and Certificate Courses. Free course content includes Art & Art
History, Astronomy, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Classics/Ancient World, Computer
Science, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Environment, History, Literature, Math,
Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Writing, Journalism, and more.
Note that there are free versions of MOOCs and certificate/credential versions, with the latter
charging fees.
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

40. Open Textbook Library

Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free
to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper
attribution.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
41. OpenStax College
Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks with interactive
components. There are some amazing textbooks available here, with more in production.
https://openstax.org/

42. Paperity Open Science Aggregated

Paperity is the 1st multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.
Free fulltext PDF articles from hundreds of disciplines, all in one place.
https://paperity.org/

43. Philippine e-Journals

The Philippine E-Journals is an expanding collection of academic journals that are
made accessible globally through a single Web-based platform. It is hosted by C&E
Publishing, Inc., a premier educational publisher in the Philippines and a leader in the
distribution of integrated information-based solutions.
https://ejournals.ph/
44. Philippine Journal of Public Administration (PJPA) Online

https://ncpag.upd.edu.ph/pjpa-online/

The Philippine Journal of Public Administration (PJPA) is the official journal of the National
College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines Diliman. A
peer-reviewed journal duly accredited by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education
(CHED), it accepts scholarly papers and articles on or related to the theory and practice of
public administration and governance, which cover disciplines such as Organization Studies,
Fiscal Administration, Public Policy and Program Administration, Local Government and
Regional Administration, Public Enterprise and Management, Spatial Information
Management and Voluntary Sector Management.

45. PLOS One

A peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Public Library of Science. The
best thing about this database is that it provides information on online article usage, citations
to the article, and other indicators of impact. The regularly updated data fall into the following
categories: Citations, Article Usage, Media and Blog Coverage, About the Article, Social
Tools for Reference Management as well as Research Recommendation and Evaluation,
PLOS Reader Evaluation.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/

46. Project Euclid

 Cornell University Library is proud to launch Project Euclid, an initiative to advance
effective and affordable scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and
statistics.
http://projecteuclid.org/

47. Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. It was the first provider of free
electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in
1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
http://www.gutenberg.org/4

48. Project Muse

Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works
from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-
profit academic publishers. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer
publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide
dissemination. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.
https://muse.jhu.edu/

49. Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

SSRN´s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in
more than 50 disciplines.
https://www.ssrn.com/
50. Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines
https://serp-p.pids.gov.ph/site/index
The Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P) is an online
knowledge resource that contains socioeconomic studies and materials produced by the
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and other academic and research
institutions. Its establishment is in line with PIDS’ mandates of providing a common link
between the government and research institutions, and of establishing a repository of
socioeconomic research information.

51. SpringerLink - Books

Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals,
books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.
https://link.springer.com/

52. SpringerLink - Journals

SpringerLink is an online collection of over 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and 25 book
series published by Springer covering a variety of topics in the sciences, social sciences, and
humanities.
https://link.springer.com/journals
53. Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over
30,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection
currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents.
http://www.ssrn.com/

54. SUNY Open Textbooks

SUNY Open Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative established by State
University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology
Grants and SUNY Geneseo.
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/

55. The National Academies Press

The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200
publications per year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine,
providing authoritative, independently researched information on important matters in
science and health policy.
 https://nap.nationalacademies.org/

56. The Open University / Core - Research

CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including
institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers. CORE
currently contains 200,936,481 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of
thousands of journals, collected from 10,222 data providers around the world.
https://core.ac.uk/

57. UP NCPAG Research Papers

https://ncpag.upd.edu.ph/research-papers/