The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague.
Lund University in Sweden has compiled this list of scientific and scholarly journals available in full text on the Internet. This is a good alternative if the National University Library is closed and you are having problems accessing all of the subscription databases. DOAJ reviews open access journals before adding them to their directory. Predatory journals are excluded
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.
Explore. Create. Collaborate. OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Learn more about the program at nclive.org/oenc.
OpenStax believes that everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, Dr. Richard Baraniuk founded OpenStax (then Connexions) in 1999 at Rice University to provide authors and learners with an open space where they can share and freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports. There are 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.Everything is available for free thanks to generous support from Rice University and several philanthropic organizations.
Community of Online Research Assignments an open access resource for faculty and librarians
The Public Knowledge Project is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of scholarly research. It provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing.
Founded as a nonprofit in 2001, PLOS has been a front runner in the Open Access movement. Their journals are peer-reviewed, internationally recognized, and provide impact metrics down to the article level. Content is available immediately, allowing fast, free access to download and distribute.
SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.