Open Education Resources (OER): A-Z Listing

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Annual reports published by Human Rights Watch. It summarizes key human rights issues and practices in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide.

Audible has many stories available including ones in French, Spanish, and Japanese.

Calisphere is your gateway to California's remarkable digital collections, with access to unique and historically important artifacts--nearly two million digital primary resource items--from over 300 cultural heritage organizations, including public libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and many more throughout the state.

Cambridge free English dictionary and thesaurus.

It searches journal articles held by university libraries in Japan.

Union Catalog of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.

The World Bank Group has two ambitious goals: End extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation’s premier public health agency, working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. It is a specialized agency of the United Nations but has its own charter, governing structure, and finances.

World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It provides leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Data.gov is an official web site of the United States government and provides machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

It provides the data about the nation's people and economy.

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world.

DOAJ is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. Another goal is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

EPDC serves as a resource for education policy makers and the development community, providing a wealth of education data at national and subnational levels, dynamic data visualization, ready-made resources such as country education profiles, and in-depth research on issues and challenges facing education in developing countries.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. It provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

If you're searching for import or export statistics, information on export regulations, commodity classifications, or a host of other trade related topics, this is the place to get the information you need.

Global Barometer Surveys (GBS) is the first comprehensive effort to measure, at a mass level, the current social, political, and economic atmosphere around the world. It provides an independent, non-partisan, multidisciplinary view of public opinion on a range of policy-relevant issues.

Features high-resolution images and videos from over 2000 leading museums and archives throughout the world who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute.

Presented by the New York Public Library, this database provides more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

International, rigorously peer-reviewed scientific publications, copy-edited and typeset by a team of experts.

Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information.

Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published on a variety of topics.

A large collection of short videos

Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources.

Open access theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use.

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Now offering 1053 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.

The Orange County Public Library System offers a variety of digital materials which as a member of the SUA community, you have access to as well. The eMagazine database contains several genres and titles to choose from including international ones as well as titles in the languages taught at SUA. Please contact Jenn Tirrell via email (jtirrell@soka.edu) if you have any questions or need assistance.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions.

A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.

PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

This database, hosted by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, contains more than 1,000 open access scholarly journals from a wide range of disciplines on many different topics. The articles are in Spanish & Portuguese.

"RAI measures the authority exercised by regional governments within states. The unit of analysis is the individual region and scoring is annual. The dataset comes in five formats: RAI-MLG (each region or regional tier); RAI-Region (most authoritative regional tier in a country); RAI-Country (aggregated to the country); RAI-Indigenous (indigenous communities); RAI-Metro (metropolitan regions)."

"The Regional Authority Index (RAI) is a measure of the authority of regional governments in 81 democracies or quasi-democracies on an annual basis over the period 1950-2010. The dataset encompasses subnational government levels with an average population of 150,000 or more."

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone.

Research resources put together by Asian Development Bank. "ADB: Fighting Poverty in Asia and Pacific" aims for an Asia and Pacific free from poverty.

Food and Agriculture Organization develops methods and standards for food and agriculture statistics, provides technical assistance services, and disseminates data for global monitoring.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. Their mission is to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.

The primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

The site offers wealth of information on children's rights. Search their database by keyword, subject, and region.

ODS supplies copies of documents published by the United Nations. Full-text of documents dating back to 1993 are available in PDF format.

It brings UN statistical databases within each reach of users through a single entry point. A variety of statistical resources can be searched and downloaded.

Click on Articles link next to journal cover image, to get access to current and previous issues.

All titles in the ebook collection are free-to-read, but only their OER titles are downloadable.

Sign up for UN Wire email newsletter. It delivers a daily snapshot of the myriad news stories that touch on the work of the UN, including diplomacy, humanitarian relief, addressing climate change and fighting disease and poverty.

What progress are we making on achieving gender equality? Check out the latest data on gender-specific SDG indicators, data on UN Women’s key thematic areas, and more.

"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. We provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles."

This is an open access version of WorldCat, FirstSearch, a cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by libraries from all over the world. This library union catalog lets you search other libraries' collections.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures. The WDL is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.