Academic Staff - Teaching Resources: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Arts & Humanities

International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting is an open-access journal that provides a forum for engineers and researchers whose interests are in digital multimedia broadcasting to share recent developments and challenges in order to design new and improved systems.

A collection of open educational resources of different types.

Open access textbooks.

A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Approximately 2 open-access textbooks on the topic of Social Work.

Approximately 49 open access eBooks on the topic of social work.

The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (IJCYFS) is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, families, and their communities.

The Journal of Youth Development is an open-source, peer-reviewed, quarterly online publication dedicated to advancing youth development practice and research. JYD serves applied researchers and evaluators as well as practitioners who work in youth-serving organizations or the intermediaries that support them.

Open educational resources of different kinds.

The Open Family Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes articles covering all areas of family, family life and family dynamics.
The journal was discontinued in 2020.

Approximately 2 open-access textbooks on the topic of Social Work.

Approximately 49 open access eBooks on the topic of social work.

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Rural and Community Studies (IJRCS) is a double-blind peer-reviewed "open access" journal.

Open educational resources of different kinds.

Fashion and Textiles is an open access journal that aims to advance knowledge and to seek new perspectives in the fashion and textiles industry worldwide.

Approximately 6 peer reviewed open access books on textiles manufacturing and the fashion industry.

International Journal of Fashion Technology & Textile Engineering aims to bring out the most inclusive and trustworthy source of facts on the current developments in the technology of fashion.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

Open educational resources of different kinds.

ACRJ is a peer-reviewed international online journal, dedicated to high quality research in counselling and psychotherapy.

Approximately 3 peer reviewed, open-access books

The International Journal of Psychology and Counselling (IJPC) is a peer reviewed open access journal. The journal is published monthly and covers all areas of the psychology and counselling. IJPC commenced publication in March 2009.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

The Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia (PACJA) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access scholarly journal that aims to make original and significant contributions to evidence-informed theory, policy, and practice for psychotherapy, counselling, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing practices.

Significant Australian content
Book tells the story of how modern novelists, poets, and critics have responded to the Australian condition with the arrival of global perspective. CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) license.

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

This collection of freely available literary resources is aimed at students from sixth-form to university, their teachers, and at lifelong learners. It contains lectures, eBooks and contextual essays for reuse by individuals and the educational community. Resources could be included in course packs, browsed for extended project work or in preparation for university study, or set as additional reading around specific central texts. There are thousands of individual items as well as curated thematic and historical collections to help students research and interrogate their literary ideas.

Courses in creative writing as taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Content varies but can include lecture notes, videos, assignments with solutions, student project examples etc. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license but courses may refer to copyright material.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.

Crime Science is a 100% open access journal published by Springer Nature.

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world.

Approximately 43 open education resources of different kinds.

Open education resources of different kinds.

Approximately 58 ebooks on criminology and justice. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

The Open Society Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Approximately 17 open-access eBooks on the topic of English.

The MERLOT Materials collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises.

A variety of open educational resources of different types.

Approximately 655 open-access eBooks on the topic of Politics & Government.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Courses in political science as taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Content varies but can include lecture notes, videos, assignments with solutions, student project examples etc. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license but courses may refer to copyright material.

The Open Library of Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology.

Open-access textbooks

Approximately 20 open access journals.

The International Journal of Communication is an open-access, online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.

Journal of Media Law & Ethics is an online, peer-reviewed journal exploring current legal issues facing the media including copyright, defamation and reporters' privilege. Access to JMLE is available to the public at no charge.

Media and Communication is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.

Open education resources of different kinds.

A directory of open access books and journals. The site aims to inform about and promote open access publishing in the field of media studies.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. It is an open-access journal.

Approximately 28 peer-reviewed open access books

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.

A curated collection of approximately 157 textbooks and other open education resources on the topic of Psychology.

Open-access textbooks.

Approximately 2 open-access textbooks on the topic of Social Work.

Approximately 49 open access eBooks on the topic of social work.

The MERLOT Materials collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises.

Open educational resources of different kinds.

Art Journal Open (AJO) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts, which presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of content from across the cultural field.

Approximately 12 open-access eBooks on the topic of art forms.

The MERLOT Materials collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises.

A variety of open educational resources of different types.

The Open Arts Journal addresses the demand for a rigorously compiled, peer-reviewed platform for arts scholarship open to diverse participants.

The Guggenheim Museum Library contains published resources that reflect and inform museum collections and exhibitions, with particular focus on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and photography.

The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (IJCYFS) is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, families, and their communities.

The Journal of Youth Development is an open-source, peer-reviewed, quarterly online publication dedicated to advancing youth development practice and research. JYD serves applied researchers and evaluators as well as practitioners who work in youth-serving organizations or the intermediaries that support them.