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Occupational Therapy

A guide to resources at your library for Occupational Therapy

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.

Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources, while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           — Open Education Consortium       

                                                                                

Occupational Therapy OERs

InTech -- Occupational Therapy

InTech publishes more than 2,300 open textbooks and 6 journals in a variety of subjects that fall under the heading of science, technology, and medicine.  

OER Commons: Occupational Therapy

From SkillCommons

MERLOT Materials: Occupations Therapy

Assignments, assessment tools, case studies, courses, textbooks, and more.  

Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Occupational Therapy -- an extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world.

MedEXPORTAL -- MEDLINE-indexed, open access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions.  

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy -- this open access journal is published by Western Michigan University.

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education -- this open access journal is published by Eastern Kentucky University.

Open Access Databases

BioStor -- links to articles in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.  You can search for articles by title, author, subject, etc.  You can also browse the list of journals for which BioStor has articles.  

PubMed Central -- the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.  Provides free access to full text articles.  

The Occupational Therapy Hub -- free access to articles, resources, journal club, updates and events.  Basic access is free.

Open Access Textbooks

Open Textbook Library -- free, peer-reviewed, and openly licensed textbooks.  The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.  

MERLOT -- a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.  

OER Commons -- access to over 50,000 high-quality OERs for educations, students, and lifelong learners.