Have you ever been writing a paper and while researching you come across an online journal database that claims to connect you to academic, peer-reviewed research? Interested, you search for keywords related to your topic, only to discover that you must pay a subscription fee to access the service.
Subscription fees are often the annoyance of students and academics. Whether you're working on an undergraduate paper, a PhD dissertation, or a medical research study, we want to help you find tools to locate and access the information you need to produce well-researched, persuasive, and innovative writing.
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The following sites provide background information about Open Educational Resources (OER) for students and faculty wanting to become involved in the OER movement.
Please see the Open Educational Resources LibGuide in additional to the resources listed below:
Note: Some of these free resources are free due to COVID-19
Open content uses free license that grant users permission to:
Retain - Make, own, and control (download, duplicate, store, and manage)
Reuse - Use the content in a wide range of ways (in class, study group, website, video, anthology, in software)
Revise - Adapt, adjust, customize, or alter the content (translate, modify, reorganize, change formats)
Remix - Combine original or revised content with other material to create something new (mashup, anthology, package)
Redistribute - Share copies of the original content, your revisions or remixes (share publicly online, give a copy to a friend)
See also: Best practices for attribution of Creative Commons licensed works
This material is based on original work by David Wiley, and you can download, edit, and share the original for free under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license from: http://www.opencontent.org/definition