Teamwork - Part 1. OER repositories

1. OER
repositories

2. arXiv.org e-Print archive
• arXiv, set up by Cornell University, is an e-Print
archive specializing in Physics, Mathematics,
Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and
Quantitative Biology. It contains more than 380,000
documents, mainly as Postscript and PDF files. It is
addressed to graduate education mainly.

4. CITIDEL.org (Computing and
Information Technology Interactive Digital
Educational Library
• CITIDEL is a digital library of educational resources
for the computing field, harvested from ten different
source collections. It contains to a wide variety of
resources, addressed to a diversity of educational
levels.
• 488,256 resources for computing

6. DLESE.org - Digital Library for
Earth System Education
• Provides learners and educators at all levels with
access to materials to support Earth system science
education. The collection includes lesson plans,
maps, images, data sets, assessment activities,
curricula and online courses. The site also provides
support services to help users effectively create, use
and share OER, as well as communication networks
to facilitate interactions and collaborations across
the field of earth science.

8. iLumina-dlib.org
• iLumina is a digital library of sharable
undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry,
biology, physics, mathematics and computer
science.
• Resources range from small learning objects, such
as individual images and video clips, to entire
courses and several virtual collections. Metadata
captures both technical and education-specific
information about each resource. Users may
contribute their own resources.

10. Intute.ac.uk:
Social Sciences gateway
• A free online service providing access to the very best
Web resources for education and research, evaluated
and selected by a network of subject specialists in the
social sciences fields. Each subject area within Intute has
its own collection development policy (available on
request). Only covers information of relevance to social
science HE and FE students, academics, researchers and
practitioners. The social sciences are broadly defined, as
well as core subjects the gateway covers areas such as
law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.

12. Digital Scriptorium
bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium
• The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of
medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to
unite scattered resources from many institutions into
an international tool for teaching and scholarly
research. It contains 15,000 images and 3,510
manuscripts and documents. All rights reserved to
The Regents of the University of California.

14. Flickr.com
• Flickr is photo distributed classification system. It is
useful for managing and sharing photos over the
Internet. If users want to use a photo of another
photographer, if they have created an account
they can contact each other through the Flickr
intranet. Copyright issues are solved with Creative
Commons Licences. Free user accounts include up
to 20 MB of monthly upload bandwidth. Any user
can comment the photos and only the
photographer is able to tag his/her photos. Flickr
has recently been acquired by Yahoo! Inc.

16. Digg.com
• Digg is a user driven social content website. After
you submit content, other digg users read your
submission and digg what they like best. If your story
rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to
the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see.
The possible subjects are: technology, science,
world&business, sports, videos and entertainment.