New Open Access Archive Focuses on OER

Educationload highlighted the launching of the OER Research Repository, an open access archive focusing on OER, which is developed through the collaboration of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and IssueLab. Snippets:

[The archive aims] to ensure that all the valuable knowledge created through Open Educational Resources (OER) projects is readily accessible to a broad audience.

According to Gabriela Fitz, co-founder and co-director of IssueLab, “We are thrilled about this opportunity to help the Hewlett Foundation create this special research collection. The project is a terrific repurposing of the IssueLab publishing platform and should go a long way toward building awareness about this important educational movement.”

Any nonprofit organization or university-affiliated research center/lab can create a free research contributor account with IssueLab and add unlimited materials. Presentations, white papers, data sets, evaluations, surveys, and other materials related to furthering OER are welcome. Ownership rights remain with the contributing organization and contributors maintain full control over how their materials are described.

A variety of organizations from around the world have contributed documents to date.