Open Access Overview by Peter Suber
- Open AccessThis is an excellent introduction to open access by one of its foremost advocates. See "Buying Options", or find OA editions under "Reader Resources".
Sawyer Library Licensed Materials
The Mildred F. Sawyer Library subscribes to a large number of databases which offer scholarly journal articles, ebooks, films, and images. Current students, faculty, and staff have access to all of this material.
Use Sawyer Library Help & Research Guides to start finding content.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Defined
Open Educational Resources are educational materials freely available for public use. In many cases, licenses permit improving, sharing, and/or redistributing this material. Educational Resources generally include learning content, such as courses, course materials, resource collections, and journals.
The Goal of Using OER
The goal of engaging with OER is to provide access to quality educational resources for everyone regardless of income or location. An OER also creates opportunities to share new methods of teaching and learning in a collaborative environment.
Copyright
- Sherpa/RoMeo - Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-ArchivingSummarizes copyright policies of publishers and categorizes them in terms of restrictions related to self-archiving.
- SPARC – Author Rights and AddendumThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition website offers several publications connected to copyright and author rights. They may be freely downloaded. In addition, there are links to other helpful resources.
- Creative CommonsThis nonprofit allows people to license material while maintaining copyright and choosing the restrictions they wish to place on copying and redistribution of these works. "Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice..."
Search multiple OER sources at once
- OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) searches over 100 sources, returning a variety of OER types. Developed at SUNY.
- The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)MOM searches 23 of the most prominent OER sources. Developed at George Mason University.
