Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights.
In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students. In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. How do you know your options? OER often have a Creative Commons license or other permission to let you know how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
You can use OERs to supplement (or even replace) traditional educational resources.
Some examples of OERs are: Textbooks, Lecture Slides, Podcasts, Online courses, Videos, Quizzes
The Business & IP Centre network available at the majority of UK public libraries
Open Textbook Library Free access to textbooks on accounting, economics, finance, human resources, business management etc.
arXiv An open access archive for articles relating to finance and qualitative finance
openstax Provides access to free online textbooks for business (which includes financial accounting)
International journal of financial studies Access to financial market, instruments, policy, and management research
OpenEd Free access to a range of subject textbooks including business, management, finance, accounting etc.
DOAB Directory of open access books covering most subjects with an area for business, marketing, finance, accounting etc.
Open Grey Open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe
Open Textbook Library Free access to textbooks relevant in the business management field
Management Textbooks - Open Textbook Library
Openstax Access to free online textbooks for business
MDPI Open access journals covering a range of subjects including business and management
JEMI (Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation) lots of articles in the entrepreneurship and business start up field
International Journal of Entrepreneurship Free open access to articles in the field
Event Manager Blog Mostly free blog posts, newsletter items and articles which can be accessed without becoming a member
UK Hospitality Prompts to subscribe but lots of free access to articles, the newsletter and posts without having to subscribe
International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management Access to free HR articles
Small Business Research plus Enterprise Centre, which offers remote membership for people interested in starting a small business: Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre - City of London
GlobalEdge a rich collection of thousands of international business- and trade-related resources, which we have selected for their content and usability and organized into the categories.
UNWTO World Tourism Organization has free access to tourism books, journals and statistics
Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation Library. Free open access material for tourism Research and Hospitality
Journal of Tourism Research Provides free open access tourism articles
BASE Academic search engine with access to a range of subject resources including PR, air travel6-9
Institute for Public Relations Free open access PR journal
British Library’s network of IP centres across the UK that anyone can use. They also provide remote access to some databases for a small membership fee. More information is available at Business & IP Centre (BIPC) open as usual | The British Library (bl.uk) Access includes Business Source Premier.
World Bank Databank https://databank.worldbank.org/home.aspx
FAOStat https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/
OECD Data https://data.oecd.org/
UNCTAD Stats https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/ cInternational Monetary Fund: Data https://www.imf.org/en/Data
World Stats https://world-statistics.org/
Doing Business In…
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Browse/Home/International/DoingbusinessinGlobalGuide
https://www.icaew.com/library/subject-gateways/doing-business-in
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/exporting-country-guides
https://www2.deloitte.com/gz/en/pages/tax/topics/doing-business-guides.html
http://www.doingbusinessguide.co.uk/the-guides/
http://www.pkf.com/publications/doing-business-in
https://www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/countryguide/uk
http://taxsummaries.pwc.com/uk/taxsummaries/wwts.nsf/ID/PPAA-85RDKF
Students to go to the BIPC South Yorkshire where they will be able to access a range of market research and company databases for free after registering for a library card:
Exeter University has Business Source Alumni Edition (and some non-business ones): https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/visitors/Alumni