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ABYZ News Links is a directory of links to online news sources across the world, including the Philippines. It contains links to newspapers and other news-related websites, such as broadcast stations, online services, publications, and news organizations. The links are organized by geographical area or by the location of each news source. As the page is only available in English, ABYZ News Links is intended for users who are familiar with the language.
AccessScience is a trusted and active online scientific resource that provides students with incisively written, high-quality reference resources. This award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge offers more than 8,700 articles covering all major scientific disciplines, 115,000-plus definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, hundreds of briefings about newsworthy subjects in science and technology specifically designed to engage and inform, 3000 biographies and video biographies covering the life and work of notable scientific figures, and 19,000-plus downloadable images and exclusive animations. It also provides specially designed curriculum maps tied to core content for teachers, as well as topical headlines from Science News with links to pertinent AccessScience content. AccessScience builds on and continues a long heritage of providing thoroughly validated scientific knowledge and concepts in engaging and accessible ways, with origins in McGraw-world-famous Hill's scientific publishing program.
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AIAA Hub, a collaboration between the American International Accreditation Association of Schools and Colleges (AIAASC) and the Institute for Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), aims to improve K-12 education quality through content sharing, active participation, and co-creation. The hub was established to provide knowledge management, educational innovation, and future-proof student learning outcomes to meet the demands of the 21st century. AIAA Hub's collections cover a wide range of subjects for elementary, middle, and high school students, including science, mathematics, social studies, and English language arts.
The Alabama OER Commons, sponsored by the Alabama Virtual Library, is intended for Alabama educators, students, and the general public to access and exchange free educational resources. The hub's goal is to collect some of the most useful textbooks and other materials in one place, as well as to serve as a central location for open educational resources created in Alabama and those that have been adapted or remixed to meet the needs of Alabama students and residents. The Alabama OER Commons offers educational resources in a variety of disciplines, including history, science, mathematics, business and communication, and arts and humanities among others.
The Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) OER hub aim to promote the use, development, and sharing of OERs in the Arab region, in line with ALECSO’s goal of enhancing the fields of education, culture, and science in the regional and national levels, and to foster cooperation among Arab states. The hub houses collections of open educational resources covering various branches of science curated by ALECSO and partner countries. These include subjects such as botany, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, etc. for primary, intermediate, and secondary education. The hub also provides free PhET interactive simulations for STEM education from its featured providers.
The American Institute of Mathematics, mostly funded by the National Science Foundation, promotes mathematical and scientific education through its publications, sponsored workshops and conferences, and other resources available on the platform. AIM’s goal is to improve mathematical knowledge through collaboration, enhance involvement in the mathematical enterprise, and raise public understanding of the mathematical sciences' contributions to society. AIM works to increase engagement in the mathematical sciences at all levels, from funding professional mathematicians' research on today's most pressing mathematical challenges to inspiring young children to become future STEM professionals.
arXiv.org, founded by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 and is now maintained and operated by Cornell Tech, is a free distribution service and an open-access archive with over two million scholarly articles covering eight subject areas. It currently serves the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. The resources available on this site have not been peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Athabasca University Press, Canada's first open-access scholarly press, was founded in 2007 with the primary goal of lowering barriers to knowledge and increasing access to scholarship. AU Press is dedicated to making the work of both emerging and established scholars available to the public. Since its inception in 2007, AU Press has amassed an impressive list of publications in fields such as social and cultural history, labor studies, distance and online education, and indigenous studies, among others. AU Press contributes significantly to a growing body of academic and literary work that is made available to a global readership at no cost to the reader by adopting an open access publishing model. The vast majority of AU Press publications are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.