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College of Hospitality Management: Open Educational Resources

Guides to library and online resources for the College of Hospitality Management

Open Educational Resources in Tourism and Hospitality Management

   What is OER?

   OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property       license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. ~ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

    For a more comprehensive overview on OER, see:

   Open Educational Resources - a guide designed to assist faculty in the exploration, identification, selection and adoption of Open                       Educational  Resources.

Below are several examples of OER covering the subject area of Tourism and Hospitality Management. These will help you with your research in finding related works of literature.

Finding Journals

Finding Databases

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Finding Books

  • Directory of Open Access Books - The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
  • JSTOR Open Access Books - Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
  • National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) free books - The NCCA has 9 free books on Philippine culture, art, and history available for free from their website.
  • OER Commons - A public digital library of open educational resources. Teachers can explore, create and collaborate with other educators around the world to improve curriculum.
  • Open Book Publishers - The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
  • OpenStax - A nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in Kindle versions on Amazon.com and in the iBooks Store
  • Open Textbook Library - Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution ; filtered for Hospitality Management.
  • Philippine eBook Hub - Largest online library of Filipiniana e-books. This website is designed for your easy access to Filipiniana works—those that are: printed in the Philippines; about the Philippines; written by Filipinos. We search for and compile the available Filipiniana materials for them to be accessible to you—learners, teachers, and writers—from one single source, in high-quality versions, at no cost.

Finding Repositories

  • Animo Repository - A digital repository of scholarly and creative works of the faculty, students, and researchers of the De La Salle University. It also hosts digital archival contents, including university events and photo diaries.
  • BAHANDIAN - BAHANDIAN is the official Institutional Repository of CPU for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students.
  • Merlot - Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers ; filtered for Hospitality Management.
  • OER Commons -  A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum ; filtered for Hospitality Industry
  • Oasis  - Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources and contains 440,269 records ; filtered for Hospitality Industry.

  • OpenDOAR - An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

  • Skills Commons -  Contains free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development ; filtered for Hospitality Industry.

  • University Knowledge Digital Repository, UP Los Baños - The repository is a service of the University of the Philippines Los Baños libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments and centers on campus