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OER Subject Repositories

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC REPOSITORIES

Subject repositories are open access digital archives for research outputs within subject areas.

Some open educational resources are shared through subject-specific repositories. A few notable examples of this type, including available publishers that specialize in one discipline, are listed below:

Agriculture

  • . Preprints for agriculture and allied sciences hosted on .
  • . Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the . (Also listedunder Economics.)
  • . From the .
  • . International Crops Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics Open Access Repository. From the .
  • . The collections comprise self-edited materials such as books for technology transfer, primers, radio, and television programs with information related to several areas of expertise. Appropriate language is used to ensure that farmers, extensionists, agricultural technicians, students and teachers from rural schools, cooperatives and other sectors of agricultural production can assimilate information more easily and, as a result, to appropriate themselves of the technologies developed by Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). From the .
  • . From .
  • . From the (DARCOF). All languages.
  • From the .
  • .
  • .

Arts

  • . From and other partners.

Art history

  • . German, English, French etc.
  • : Chemistry
  • : Chemical Engineering
  • : Psychology
  • : Languages
  • : Geography
  • : Engineering, Physics
  • : Physics, Physical science, Geology, Chemistry
  • : Career & Technical Education (CTE)
  • : Computer Science, Programming (Bayes, Python, MATLAB, Java, DSP (Digital Signal Processing)

Biology / Life sciences

  • Also see
  • (ASR). By the  (HSISP).
  • The preprint server for biology. Operated by .
  • . Documents in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, ecology, and several other subjects.
  • . On taxonomic research. From .
  • . From the US (DoD) and limited to research on threatened and endangered species on the 30 million acres of land under DoD (Department of Defense) stewardship.

Business

  • A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources relating to topics in business.
  • This book is aimed at university business students as an introduction to the mathematics required for the field of business. This textbook covers the fundamentals of business precalculus, finance, as well as the applications to general business management, human resources and the economy, marketing and accounting.
  • The goals of this book are to help students: apply basic concepts for effective and concise business writing; compile a well written report acceptable within a business context; follow a writing process designed for business students; demonstrate critical thinking, reasoning, and persuasion; communicate in writing using a business model; apply resources for improving business writing skills.
  • . From .
  • . The repository focuses on Publications from Germany, from institutions, but also from single authors.

Classics

  • Also see
  • . From .
  • . German, English etc. Fields: Egyptology, ancient history, classical archaeology, classical philology, prehistoric archaeology.

Cognitive science

  • . From .
  • . English.
  • .
  • . From . In German.

Computer science

  • Also see
  • . In Portuguese.
  • . Successor to . From Lee Giles. (The original CiteSeer was from Giles, Steve Lawrence, and Kurt Bollacker.)
  • . From the (ACM), ,  (NCSTRL), and the  (AAAI).
  • .
  • . An OA repository for refereed conference proceedings.
  • . In French.
  • - Policy: English. Digital Signal Processing, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence.

Cryptology

  • . English.

Development

  • (Research for Development). From the UK .
  • . From France's .

Digital preservation

  • . All languages.

Earth science

  • Prepublication platform for the Earth and space sciences, hosting preprints and posters. Developed by the , convening other leading international Earth, environmental, and space science societies.
  • Preprint server for the Earth sciences.
  • Geosciences, with a focus on geochemical, geochronological, and petrological data. Hosted at the  at Columbia University.
  • . Focuses on atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, solid Earth, and Earth sciences in general. All languages.
  • . English, German, etc., but only publications from the German speaking area.
  • . A joint project of the , , , and the .
  • . From . (Repository discontinued).

Economics

  • . Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the . (Also listedunder Agriculture.)
  • . From the . Info July 2013: Economists Online will close its service by the end of this year.
  • . The repository focuses on Publications from Germany, mainly from institutions, but also from single authors.
  • . All languages. "The topic should relate to economics, including the contiguous historical, social, and behavioral sciences and statistical as well as mathematical methods related to economics."

Education

  • . English. African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an open access archive of texts that focus on the study, practice, and governance of higher education in Africa.
  • . From the .
  • .
  • (Higher Education Empirical Research). From the Open University  (CHERI). Only CHERI-written summaries of the original research papers are OA through HEER.
  • . A repository for research on open educational resources (OERs). Accepts submissions "in just about every language" (Personal Mail, November 8, 2008). From and the .
  • . German, English.
  • . Multilingual. TeLearn is a multidisciplinary and multilingual open archive on technology enhanced learning (TEL). It was launched in late 2006 by the Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence (EC funded project of the 6th R&D framework program).
  • . From .
  • . "An Online Repository of K-12 Computer Science Teaching and Learning Materials." From the (CSTA).
  • (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
  • . Open educational resources from the UK.
  • .
  • .
  • . German educational portal.
  • .
  • . "A Repository of Freely Available Online Learning Resources." "For British Columbia public post-secondary educators."

Engineering

  • . From the at .
  • .
  • Temporary home for engrXiv PrePrints, hosted by the Open Science Framework (OSF).
  • . From the .

Environmental science

  • . From the (CEDA).
  • . From . Some texts are scholarly, and some are not. Some are just OA abstracts, and some are OA full texts.

Humanities in general

  • .
  • . All languages. A division of focusing on the humanities.
  • . All languages. A division of focusing on the humanities and social sciences.

Law

  • Also seethe  from Robert Richards.
  • Also see under social sciences, below.
  • . Submissions in English and other languages for individual scholars through 
  • . From .
  • . From 

Library and information science

  • . International in scope. All languages. Abstracts in English.
  • . English and Indic Scripts. Based at DRTC, Bangalore, India
  • . English. As of 2013, DLIST is temporarily closed to new submissions.
  • . Shareable library instructional materials / learning objects. Based in British Columbia, Canada.

Literature

  • Also see
  • . From .

Mathematics

  • Also seecomputer science.
  • Also see.
  • . Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.
  • .
  • (RAAG). Preprint server for recent developments in algebraic and analytic geometry theory. Hosted by the University of Manchester .
  • - Physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, academics. Policy in English.

Medicine

  • Also seebiology / life sciences.
  • . In Spanish.
  • . All languages. Field: Social medicine and related fields.
  • . From the at the .
  • .
  • . OMA is an Open Access-exclusive abstracting service covering all areas of medical sciences (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, Physiology, Dentistry, etc.) only Open Access materials from peer-reviewed journals are included. The service is provided free of charge and the database is updated quarterly.
  • . All languages (non-English documents must have metadata, abstract and keywords in English). Fields: "Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences".
  • . From the U.S. (NIH).

Multidisciplinary repositories

  • Also seeHumanities; Social Sciences.
  • . From .
  • . An Andean community initiative.
  • (Commons Open Repository Exchange). A "a library-quality repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital work." By .
  • .
  • .
  • . From (IGNOU).
  • . Listings of major open access repositories, searchable by discipline and geographic region. (See its ).
  • (HAL) (Hyper Articles Online). From France's  (CNRS). In French and English.
  • (MetaBibilioteca Initiative). Biblioteca Digital de Libros de Acceso Abierto (Digital Library of Open Access Books). In Spanish and English.
  • . For research by non-profit organizations, in any field.
  • . "A regional network with participation of national focal points in 18 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean." In Spanish.
  • . From the .
  • . A scientific and cultural open access repository specializing on the Caribbean, the Amazon, the Guyana Plateau. From the .
  • . Multilingual.
  • (The Directory of Open Access Repositories). Searches can be limited to disciplinary repositories.
  • (Open System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe). From  (INIST). Some contents are just bibliographic citations, and some (about 200 conference preprints on grey literature) are full texts.
  • Polish Network of digital libraries, open content from all fields.
  • . Search engine for materials about poverty research and reduction. Provided by .
  • .
  • (Redalyc). In Spanish and English.
  • . Created by .
  • . Open content from all fields of the sciences.

Neuroscience

  • . Collaboratory for science researchers that need resources such as neuroimaging analysis software, publicly available data sets, or computing power.

Nursing

  • Eight separate health case studies that align with the open textbooks and .

Philosophy

  • For logic, see
  • (ESENCe). "A digital repository of materials on ethics and the responsible and ethical conduct of research in science and engineering, including the social sciences." Hosted by the U of Massachusetts Amherst.
  • . From .
  • . From David Chalmers and David Bourget.
  • . All languages. Field: Philosophy of science. From the at the .
  • . German, English, etc.
  • . "For exchanging papers of interest to natural language semanticists and philosophers of language."

Physics

  • - Policy: all languages. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.
  • . English. Field: particle physics.
  • . For "resources about the advances in applications, devices, metrology, and materials that will facilitate the commercial development and/or marketable application of nanotechnology." From the .
  • . From Stanislav Sykora.
  • . From the 
  • - Policy: English. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, academics.

Political science

  • PowerPoint slides that introduce democracy and are designed to accompany . This resource was created by Janni Aragon at the University of Victoria.

  • . An OA section within (Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Politikwissenschaft). Mostly German. Mostly only for institutions not for single scholars.

Psychology

  • . History and theory of psychology. All languages.
  • . Temporary home for PsyArXiv PrePrints, hosted by the (OSF). English.
  • . German and English.

Public policy research

  • . From the and .
  • . From the .

Sciences in general

  • . Latin American Index of Science Journals (Indice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencia/Sciences). From . In Spanish.
  • . From the (IAS).
  • . By the .
  • (SciELO). In Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
  • . Developed and maintained by the (OSTI). Multilingual options.

Social sciences in general

  • (CLASE). From .
  • . Contents mainly in Spanish and Portuguese, from a network of 230 social science institutions of 21 countries from the region.
  • (DReSNeT). From the UK  (EPSRC). A network of social science repositories for texts and data.
  • . From the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • . All languages. A division of focusing on the humanities and social sciences.
  • . Hosted by York University.
  • (SSRN). English.
  • (SSOAR). Limited to German authors publishing in German and other languages.

Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity

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Technology in general

  • . From .
  • . In French.
  • .
  • . From .
  • OA (Open Access) disciplinary repositories (also called central or subject repositories) are available on the

  

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