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

• AgriXiv. Preprints for agriculture and allied sciences hosted on OSF Preprints.
• AgEcon Search. Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the University of Minnesota. (Also listedunder Economics.)
• DSpice@ISSR. From the ISSR (Indian Institute of Spices Research).
• ICRISAT. International Crops Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics Open Access Repository. From the ICRISAT.
• Infoteca-e. 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 Embrapa.
• OpenAgri Repository. From Agropedia.
• Organic Eprints. From the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming(DARCOF). All languages.
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection.From the University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad.
• SIDALC [Agriculture Information and Documentation Service of the Americas).
• Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository.

Arts

• Kultur. From JISCand other partners.

Art history

• ART-Dok. German, English, French etc.
• Chem Collective: Chemistry
• Learn Chem E: Chemical Engineering
• Noba Project Psychology Modules: Psychology
• Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): Languages
• Open Geography Education: Geography
• Engineering Technology Simulations: Engineering, Physics
• PhET Simulations: Physics, Physical science, Geology, Chemistry
• SkillsCommons: Career & Technical Education (CTE)
• Green Tea Press Textbooks: Computer Science, Programming (Bayes, Python, MATLAB, Java, DSP (Digital Signal Processing)

Biology / Life sciences

• Also see
• Animal Studies Repository(ASR). By the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy (HSISP).
• bioRxivThe preprint server for biology. Operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Nature Precedings. Documents in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, ecology, and several other subjects.
• Plazi. On taxonomic research. From Plazi.
• Threatened and Endangered Species Document Repository. From the US Department of Defense(DoD) and limited to research on threatened and endangered species on the 30 million acres of land under DoD (Department of Defense) stewardship.

Business

• Business LibreTexts Library A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources relating to topics in business.
• Business Math I 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.
• Business Writing Style Guide 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.
• Customer Centric Strategy
• Corporate Governance Network. From SSRN.
• EconStor. The repository focuses on Publications from Germany, from institutions, but also from single authors.
• Fundamentals of Business, 3rd edition

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship

• Workplace Psychology: Issues and Application

Classics

• Also see
• Classics Research Network. From SSRN.
• PropylaeumDOK. German, English etc. Fields: Egyptology, ancient history, classical archaeology, classical philology, prehistoric archaeology.

Cognitive science

• Cognitive Science Network. From SSRN.
• Cogprints. English.
• History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive.
• Psydok. From Universitat des Saarlandes. In German.

Computer science

• Also see
• BDB Comp (Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Computaca). In Portuguese.
• CiteSeer^x. Successor to CiteSeer. From Lee Giles. (The original CiteSeer was from Giles, Steve Lawrence, and Kurt Bollacker.)
• Computing Research Repository. From the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM), arXiv, Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• DSpace at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information.
• Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. An OA repository for refereed conference proceedings.
• HAL INRIA. In French.
• Vixra- Policy: English. Digital Signal Processing, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence.

Cryptology

• Cryptology eprint Archive. English.

Development

• R4D(Research for Development). From the UK Department for International Development.
• Ressources documentaires. From France's L'Institut de recherche pour le développement.

Digital preservation

• ERPAePRINTS. All languages.

Earth science

• Earth and Space Open Archive (ESSOAr)Prepublication platform for the Earth and space sciences, hosting preprints and posters. Developed by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), convening other leading international Earth, environmental, and space science societies.
• EarthArXivPreprint server for the Earth sciences.
• EarthChemGeosciences, with a focus on geochemical, geochronological, and petrological data. Hosted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
• Earth Prints. Focuses on atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, solid Earth, and Earth sciences in general. All languages.
• GEO-LEO. English, German, etc., but only publications from the German speaking area.
• Karst Information Portal. A joint project of the National Cave & Karst Research Institute, University of South Florida Libraries, University of New Mexico Libraries, and the Union Internationale de Spéléologie.
• ShareGeo. From EDINA. (Repository discontinued).

Economics

• AgEcon Search. Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the University of Minnesota. (Also listedunder Agriculture.)
• Economists Online. From the Nereus consortium. Info July 2013: Economists Online will close its service by the end of this year.
• EconStor. The repository focuses on Publications from Germany, mainly from institutions, but also from single authors.
• Munich RePEc Personal Archive. 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

• African Higher Education Research Online. 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.
• ALT Open Access Repository. From the Association for Learning Technology.
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center).
• HEER(Higher Education Empirical Research). From the Open University Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI). Only CHERI-written summaries of the original research papers are OA through HEER.
• OER Research. A repository for research on open educational resources (OERs). Accepts submissions "in just about every language" (Personal Mail, November 8, 2008). From IssueLaband the Hewlett Foundation.
• pedocs. German, English.
• TeLearn. 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).
• Connexions. From Rice University.
• CSTA Source. "An Online Repository of K-12 Computer Science Teaching and Learning Materials." From the Computer Science Teachers Association(CSTA).
• MERLOT(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
• JorumOpen. Open educational resources from the UK.
• OER Commons.
• OER Research.
• Pedocs. German educational portal.
• RELPE (Red Latinoamericana Portales Educativos/ Latin American Network of Education Portals).
• SOL*R (Sharable Online Learning Resources. "A Repository of Freely Available Online Learning Resources." "For British Columbia public post-secondary educators."

Engineering

• BEACON eSpace. From the JEP Propulsion Laboratoryat The California Institute of Technology.
• Crystallography Open Database.
• engrXivTemporary home for engrXiv PrePrints, hosted by the Open Science Framework (OSF).
• ePrints Soton. From the University of Southampton.

Environmental science

• CEDA Repository. From the Centre for Environmental Data Archival(CEDA).
• GreenFILE. From EBSCO. Some texts are scholarly, and some are not. Some are just OA abstracts, and some are OA full texts.

Humanities in general

• DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship Harvard).
• Hprints. All languages. A division of HALfocusing on the humanities.
• HAL-SHS. All languages. A division of HALfocusing on the humanities and social sciences.

Law

• Also seethe list of law-related repositories from Robert Richards.
• Also seeSSRN under social sciences, below.
• Bepress Legal Repository. Submissions in English and other languages for individual scholars through Selected Works
• LitiLaw. From Lexbe.
• sportLaw ISDE. From ISDE

Library and information science

• E-LIS. International in scope. All languages. Abstracts in English.
• LDL: Librarians' Digital Library. English and Indic Scripts. Based at DRTC, Bangalore, India
• DList. English. As of 2013, DLIST is temporarily closed to new submissions.
• ALPS Link Community Portal. Shareable library instructional materials / learning objects. Based in British Columbia, Canada.

Literature

• Also see
• English & American Literature Research Network. From SSRN.

Mathematics

• Also seecomputer science.
• Also seeMathematics Preprint Servers.
• Arxiv. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.
• The Logic Forum.
• Real Algebraic and Analytic Geometry(RAAG). Preprint server for recent developments in algebraic and analytic geometry theory. Hosted by the University of Manchester School of Mathematics.
• Vixra- Physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, academics. Policy in English.

Medicine

• Also seebiology / life sciences.
• Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS). In Spanish.
• e-ms, Eprints Open Archive in Social Medicine and related fields. All languages. Field: Social medicine and related fields.
• Minority Health Archive. From the Center for Minority Healthat the University of Pittsburgh.
• NECOBELAC (Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin America-Caribbean Countries).
• Open Medical Abstracts. 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.
• OpenMED@NIC. 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".
• PubMed Central. From the U.S. National Institutes of Health(NIH).

Multidisciplinary repositories

• Also seeHumanities; Social Sciences.
• arXiv. From Cornell University Library.
• Biblioteca Digital Andina. An Andean community initiative.
• CORE!(Commons Open Repository Exchange). A "a library-quality repository for sharing, discovering, retrieving, and archiving digital work." By MLA Commons.
• The Digital Library of the Caribbean.
• DSpace@MIT.
• eGyanKosh. From The Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU).
• Global Open Access Portal. Listings of major open access repositories, searchable by discipline and geographic region. (See its Multidisciplinary subsection).
• Hyper Articles en Ligne(HAL) (Hyper Articles Online). From France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). In French and English.
• Iniciativa Metabiblioteca(MetaBibilioteca Initiative). Biblioteca Digital de Libros de Acceso Abierto (Digital Library of Open Access Books). In Spanish and English.
• IssueLab. For research by non-profit organizations, in any field.
• Latindex. "A regional network with participation of national focal points in 18 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean." In Spanish.
• LSE Research Online. From the London School of Economics and Political Science.
• MANIOC. A scientific and cultural open access repository specializing on the Caribbean, the Amazon, the Guyana Plateau. From the University of Antilles-Guiana.
• NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository. Multilingual.
• OpenDOAR(The Directory of Open Access Repositories). Searches can be limited to disciplinary repositories.
• OpenSIGLE(Open System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe). From Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). Some contents are just bibliographic citations, and some (about 200 conference preprints on grey literature) are full texts.
• Polish Digital Library FederationPolish Network of digital libraries, open content from all fields.
• Poverty Research Archive. Search engine for materials about poverty research and reduction. Provided by Karsten Weitzenegger Consulting.
• Preprints - The Multidisciplinary Preprint Platform.
• Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal(Redalyc). In Spanish and English.
• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository. Created by World Bank.
• Zenodo. Open content from all fields of the sciences.

Neuroscience

• Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC). Collaboratory for science researchers that need resources such as neuroimaging analysis software, publicly available data sets, or computing power.

Nursing

• End-of-life Care After Stroke: Videos and Illustrations Health Case Studies
• Eight separate health case studies that align with the open textbooks Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care and Anatomy and Physiology: OpenStax.
• Nursing Virtual Case Studies
• Regul8: A framework for optimising autonomic regulation in children BC Schools of Nursing Virtual Simulation Games
• OpenRN Simulations for Nursing
• Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts
• Nursing Pharmacology
• Nursing Skills
• Open RN series

Philosophy

• For logic, see
• Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse(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.
• Philosophy Research Network. From SSRN.
• PhilPapers. From David Chalmers and David Bourget.
• PhilSci Archive. All languages. Field: Philosophy of science. From the Center for Philosophy of Scienceat the University of Pittsburgh.
• Elektronisch archivierte Theorie. German, English, etc.
• net. "For exchanging papers of interest to natural language semanticists and philosophers of language."

Physics

• Arxiv- Policy: all languages. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.
• CERN Document Server. English. Field: particle physics.
• InterNano. 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 National Nanomanufacturing Network.
• Magnetic Resonance Online Texts. From Stanislav Sykora.
• Nano Archive. From the ICPCNanoNet
• Vixra- Policy: English. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, academics.

Political science

• Democracy In Brief – PowerPoint Slides

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

• Democracy in Brief – Summary and Questions [Word]

• 2018 Political Year of the Woman Election: A Critical Examination

• Attenuated Democracy

• The Basics of American Government

• The Cause and Consequence of Human Trafficking: Human Rights Violations

• The Politics of Sports

• The Making of the US President

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

Psychology

• HTP Prints. History and theory of psychology. All languages.
• PsyArXiv. Temporary home for PsyArXiv PrePrints, hosted by the Open Science Framework(OSF). English.
• PsyDok. German and English.

Public policy research

• PolicyArchive. From the Center for Government Studiesand IUPUI University Library.
• Neliti. From the National Library of Indonesia.

Sciences in general

• PERIÓDICA. Latin American Index of Science Journals (Indice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencia/Sciences). From Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In Spanish.
• Publications of IAS Fellows. From the Indian Academy of Sciences(IAS).
• Chemical Sciences Article Repository. By the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Scientific Electronic Library Online(SciELO). In Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
• World Wide Science. Developed and maintained by the Office of Science and Technical Information(OSTI). Multilingual options.

Social sciences in general

• Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades/Social Sciences and Humanities(CLASE). From Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• CLACSO´s Latin America and the Caribbean Social Sciences Digital Repository. Contents mainly in Spanish and Portuguese, from a network of 230 social science institutions of 21 countries from the region.
• Digital Repositories E-Science Network(DReSNeT). From the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). A network of social science repositories for texts and data.
• Digital Repository of the Institute for Population and Social Research. From the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• HAL-SHS. All languages. A division of HALfocusing on the humanities and social sciences.
• Refugee Research Network. Hosted by York University.
• Social Science Research Network(SSRN). English.
• Social Science Open Access Repository(SSOAR). Limited to German authors publishing in German and other languages.

Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity

• SportRχiv -- The Subject Repository for Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity-Related Research .

Technology in general

• CalTech Theses. From Caltech Library.
• Cemadoc. In French.
• InfoScience.
• QUT (Queensland University of Technology ) Eprints. From Queensland University of Technology.
• Disciplinary Repositories Wiki
• OA (Open Access) disciplinary repositories (also called central or subject repositories) are available on the Open Access Directory (OAD)

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