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Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. it provides online material to students, allows faculty to enhance their own work in multiple formats such as PDF files, PPT, Video, and Other E-content that may help students to more easily learn the material being taught. The key role of OER is to the growth of an education niche and promote educational technology, research, learning, and teaching. Students anywhere in the world can access OERs at any time, and they can access the material easily and repeatedly.  The Web portal is a collection of metadata links of Open Educational Resources useful for ENGINEERING, PHARMACY, ARCHITECTURE & HUMANITIES Education and Research in Digital Environment. The purpose to create the web portal is to make aware students, faculty members, research scholars, around the world about the existence of open educational resources protected under creative commons license, open access under copyright laws, or under a copyright-free environment. The web portal has been developed without consideration of any monetary benefits or aspects and can be used for education and research purposes, hence not liable for any breach of copyright.  In case of any objection by any organization/individual, the noted link(s) would be excluded from the portal.

• UNESCO Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Government Public Domain Information

  A review of the history of the term “public domain” shows that it has traditionally been associated with public land and has never had a universally accepted meaning in the context of information. Indeed, there is little in official public documents or even in the scholarly literature that deals definitively with this subject. Most legal scholars would define public domain information by what it is not; that is, any information that is not proprietary, the yin to the proprietary yang. But such a definition is insufficient, for it does not adequately characterize or describe what public domain information in fact is, and provides no basis on which to evaluate its positive role and its value to knowledge societies, especially in the context of economic and social development.

  The UNESCO Recommendation on Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace provides the following definition: “Public domain information refers to publicly accessible information, the use of which does not infringe any legal right, or any obligation of confidentiality. It thus refers on the one hand to the realm of all works or objects of related rights, which can be exploited by everybody without any authorization, for instance because protection is not granted under national or international law, or because of the expiration of the term of protection. It refers on the other hand to public data and official information Produced and voluntarily made available by governments or international organizations.”

  Under this definition, information in the public domain covers two distinct notions:

  • On the one hand, “public domain information” can be defined as what is left outside the scope of any form of statutory protection including intellectual property rights, the protection of national security or public order, privacy laws and obligations of confidentiality.

  • On the other hand, “public domain information” also refers to information of an intrinsically public nature; that is, certain types of information that are produced by public authorities (“government” in the broad sense) in the course of their duties, and that are seen as a public good. This “governmental public domain information” at the national and sub- national levels, to which can be assimilated some public domain information produced by public international organizations, is not, in principle, subject to appropriation.

  Source: Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of governmental public domain information - UNESCO Digital Library. (n.d.). Retrieved July 10, 2020, from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000137363

• Open Access Initiatives around the World

  • Budapest Open Access Initiative launched by Open Society Institute, 2002

  • IFLA Internet Manifesto on "freedom of access to information" and the removal of "barriers to the flow of information 2002".

  • Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2003.

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), 2003

  • Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, 2003

  • Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities , 2003

  • The Public Domain of Digital Research Data , 2004

  • IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation, 2004

  • Scottish Declaration of Open Access, 2004

  • Vienna Declaration: 10 Theses on Freedom of Information, 2005

  • The Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective, 2005

  • National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries, 2006

  • IFLA/UNESCO Internet Manifesto Guidelines, 2006

  • Principles And Guidelines For Access To Research Data From Public Funding, (OECD) 2006

  • Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding, (OECD) 2006

  • Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing, 2007

  • Public Domain Dedication & Licence, 2008

  • Kigali Declaration on the Development of an Equitable Information Society in Africa, 2009

  • OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), 2010

  • Open Access Journal Bibliography, 2010

  • Bibliography on Citation Impact, 2010

  • Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship 2010

  • DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), 2012

  • IS4OA (Infrastructure Services for Open Access), 2012

  • BOAI10 Recommendations, 2012

  • SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), 2014

  • Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science & Technology Open Access Policy for access to DBT and DST Funder Research, Government of India, December, 2014.

  • Re3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories), 2015

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy 2015

  • OA2020 project begins, March, 2016.

  • European Union announces that "all scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020, May 2016.

  • OpenDepot.org repository service ends. contents migrated to Zenodo, 2017.

  • Opencon conference held in Berlin, Germany, November 11-13, 2017.

  • Delhi Declaration on Open Access issued; signed by members of Open Access India, Creative Commons India, and others on February 14, 2018.

  • Tempe Declaration: Extending Access to Information through Offline Internet issued on February, 19, 2018,

• OPEN SCIENCE

  Open Science is the movement to make scientific research and data accessible to all. It includes practices such as publishing open scientific research, campaigning for open access and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge. Additionally, it includes other ways to make science more transparent and accessible during the research process. This includes open notebook science, citizen science, and aspects of open source software and crowdfunded research projects.

  The many advantages of this movement include:

  • Greater availability and accessibility of publicly funded scientific research outputs;

  • Possibility for rigorous peer-review processes;

  • Greater reproducibility and transparency of scientific works;

  • Greater impact of scientific research.

  Source:

  • http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/open-science-movement/

  • https://www.cos.io/ - Center for Open Science

  • http://www.openscienceonline.com/home/index

  • https://openscience.com/