OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is a major database containing journals spanning a wide range of disciplines. It provides access to fields such as Agriculture, Science, Law, Economics,Finance, Development Studies and Health.

OER RESEARCH IN AFRICA

OER Africa and other organisations and higher education institutions have been conducting research in the take up by academics and students, pedagogical value, issues with licensing course materials and financial sustainability of OER. In this section we will try to harness and share as much of this research as possible.

OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health

This database contains documents and research work dealing with animal health. The major areas covered in this database are Avian Influenza, Classical Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth disease, Traceability and Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy.

OMICS Group

This database hosts open access journals covering various disciplines such as Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Medicine, Arts and Humanities.

Online Access to Research in The Environment (OARE

Environmental Sciences

Open Access Journals

This is as search engine that searches for open access journals. It covers all the major areas of academic research in the Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Business Studies.

OPEN ACCESS MUSIC JOURNALS

Hosted by the University of Michigan, this platform provides a number of Open Access journals covering various aspects of Music and Musicology such as performance, composition, dance studies and Music Education.

Open Data Resources of the World Bank

The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The Data Catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources Access to Information. The World Bank Policy on Access to Information sets forth a groundbreaking change on how the World Bank provides information to the public. Now the public can obtain additional information than ever before—information about projects under preparation, projects under implementation, analytic and advisory activities, and Board proceedings. Underlying the new policy is the principle that the World Bank will disclose any information in its possession that is not on a list of exceptions

Open Edition Journals

OpenEdition Journals is a web platform for e-Journals in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access. Additional services are available through subscribing libraries and institutions.

Open Knowledge Society (World Bank)

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Open Music Library

Provides access to several journal titles covering facets of such as dance, performance, music technology and much more.

Open Research Society

A multidisciplinary database with journals covering Accounting, Banking and Finance Management, Business and Industry, Global Business and Economy, Computer Science, Information Systems and Information Technology Management, Management of Natural Resources, and Global Issues Life Sciences Society Themes.

Open Science Directory

The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the IOCs (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO) IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) programme. The goal is to create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. About 13000 journals are now available in the Open Science Directory.

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

OPENAIRE EXPLORE

A comprehensive and open dataset of research information covering 165M publications, 58M research data, 330K research software items, from 126K data sources, linked to 3M grants and 198K organizations. It is a research information system, which provides services to find, store, link and analyse research output from all disciplines.

OpenDoar

OpenDOAR is a project to list and categorise academic open access research repositories from around the world. It contains a wide variety of materials such as books, articles, dissertations, conferences and multimedia. As a world wide directory of repositories, its contents cuts across all disciplines.

Opentuition

This is a resource containing professional Accounting Lecture notes such as ACCA, AAT, Accounting for Non- Accountants. Please note you need to register in order to download full text.

Optima Legal Online

Optima Legal database provides online access to the following legal resources from Zimbabwe:

• Statute Law of Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwean Regulations
• Selected Court Judgements
• Court Rules & ZIMRA Rulings
• Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Listing Requirements
• Foreign Exchange Guidelines to Authorised Dealers
• Commentary on the Criminal Code by Professor G. Feltoe

Look at a PDF view of the Index Pages for the above listed libraries in Optima to see what content subscribers can access within.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OECD is the world's largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues

ORIC Publications

ORIC Publications, a broad-based open access e-publisher, publishes in all fields of Science in both book and journal format. It was founded on two key tenets: In addition to publishing the qualified researches, provide a rapid turn-around time possible for reviewing and publishing. It is the vision of ORIC Publications to publish without financial restriction to readers using the open access model of publication. We strongly believe that the open access model will spur research across the world especially as researchers gain unrestricted access to high quality research articles. Our goal at ORIC Publications is to provide an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Sciences.

OSA - Optical Society of America

This database contains journals specifically dealing with Optics and photonics.

OVID ONLINE BOOKS

Ovid helps researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information so that they can make critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries. Subject coverage include:

1. Medicine
2. Behavioural Sciences
3. Nursing and Health Professions
4. Humanities and Technologies

Oxford Journals

This is one of the world's leading University Presses and it publishes journals in the following areas: Economics, Humanities, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Physical sciences and Medicine.