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Repositories
Directories of Open Access Repositories
- OAIster (OCLC - Digital Collection Services)
- The union catalog of scholarly repositories. Available through Worldcat.org at no charge. Contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide.
- http://www.oclc.org/oaister/
- ODEPO: Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations
- From Creative Commons: "ODEPO is wiki-database of organizations involved in providing educational content online."
- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ODEPO
- OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories
- "OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories." OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.
- http://www.opendoar.org/
- ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repositories
- "...Promoting open access to the research literature pre- and post-peer-review through author self-archiving in institutional eprint archives." Includes searching by software or platform, country, and type as well as by name and contents. Provides statistics on repository use.
- http://roar.eprints.org/index.php
- Repository 66: Repository Maps
- A registry of open access repositories presented in a Google map format.
- http://maps.repository66.org/
Learning Objects Repositories
- ALPS Link
- "A repository of learning objects to support academic librarians in their instructional role."
- http://www.eln.bc.ca/link/
- A.N.T.S.: ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project
- ". . . a collaborative project presently involving librarians in Canada and the United States, but open to librarians elsewhere. The goal of the project is to create a shared repository of library, research, and information literacy tutorials created using screencast software."
- http://ants.wetpaint.com/
- Connexions
- ". . . a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc."
- http://cnx.org/
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- "MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy."
- http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- PRIMO: Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online
- From ACRL, PRIMO contains peer reviewed library instruction materials.
- http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projpubs/primo/index.cfm
- Wisc-Online Consortium
- The Wisc-Online Consortium offers an ever-growing list of high-quality educational teaching materials FREE to educators. This list is kept up-to-date and changes as new materials are added or existing ones are discontinued. Registration is free.
- http://www.wisc-online.com/
References
- SPARC. (2011). Resources. Retrieved June 11, 2011, from http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/index.shtml
- Suber, P. (November 6, 2010). Open Access Overview. Retrieved June 11, 2011, from http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm