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IBON Foundation is a non-stock non-profit research and education development organization which aims to advocate a better comprehension of the social, economic, and political issues surrounding the Philippines and the world through the publication and propagation of progressive materials. This outlet provides news, feature articles, infographics, infoposts, photoquotes, and other transformative materials that exhibit both facts and figures about the socio economics concerning the Filipino people. Notable topics that are the center of the discussions are those that concern the COVID-19 situation, people economics, the administration’s build build build program, international relations, PH-China relations, and the environment.
The IDAHO Teaching & Learning Community offers an Open Educational Resources (OER) platform that provides free and reusable teaching and learning materials from over 50,000 high-caliber OER collections. Their curated collection are primarily full university courses, interactive mini-lessons and simulations, adaptations of existing open work, open textbooks, and K-12 lesson plans, worksheets, and activities. These materials juggle a vast range of disciplines, including applied science, arts and humanities, business and communication, career and technical education, education, English language arts, history, law, life science, mathematics, physical science, and social science. The resources’ creators and administrators made sure that users will easily locate the materials they need through organizing the materials into categories such as subject areas, grade levels, material types, media formats, and courses/libraries.
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The IEEE Xplore digital library serves as a haven for digital resources touching the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. This repository constitutes 260 journals, 4+million conference papers, 12,000 technical standards, and 6,000+ books. The collections can be fully accessed through institutional subscription options, IEEE membership exclusive subscription, and online purchase of documents at discounted prices among IEEE members.
The Index to Philippine Newspapers (IPN) is an online newspaper index database developed by the University of the Philippines Main Library. This indexing and newspaper management system comprises newspaper management, issue management, article indexing, intensive search engine with complete text search attributes, built-in authority record, virtual cart, and digital file download as its general functions. Currently, it has over 230,000 article indexes in 33 locally published newspaper titles.
INFORMS is an online publication of highly cited journals of academic and industry experts across the fields of operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioral science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, etc. Their collections can be explored through various searching techniques: Boolean searches, searching for authors, searching for phrases, wildcards, and DOIs. Having a total number of 12,500 member publishers and authors, this publication seeks to “advance and promote the science and technology of decision making to save lives, save money, and solve problems.”
INSPIRE is a one-stop information hub that assists researchers in disseminating and locating credible academic resources such as conference contributions, journal articles, research and theses, experimental notes, and established report series in high energy physics (HEP) through its 8 interconnected databases. This research information platform maintains a collaborative effort with CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, IN2P3, and SLAC, as well as having tight relations with arXiv, ADS, HEPData, ORCID, PDG, and other publishers. The HEP Literatures that are present in this hub cover topical areas involving particle physics, astrophysics, gravitation and cosmology, nuclear physics, and other border and selected areas such as condensed matter and atomic physics. Materials associated with the aforementioned core topics receive full data curation, including affiliations, keywords, reference extraction and citation counts, ensuring that the focus is deeply reiterated and emphasized among the members of the HEP community.
The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) database is a transnational platform that serves as an encyclopedic source of information about printed, digital, and micro formatted newspapers globally. This database seeks to preserve and make physical and digital collections of newspapers available to scholars and researchers through digitization, microfilming, and bibliographic access creation. Currently, ICON holds 47,654,482 issues from 181,292 publications dating from 1649–2015 in 88 languages of 170 countries.
The IFLA Library is the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ official online repository that brings the organization’s digital resources together in an accessible, searchable, and browsable online platform. Majority of the items in the IFLA Library are documents presented at the annual IFLA World Library and Information Congresses, including digital resources and metadata about the materials IFLA has generated and published. These resources are under the CC-BY 4.0 license and can be browsed by activity or group, IFLA annual congress, author, or subject generally written in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
The International Journal of Open Educational Resources (IJOER) is a bi-annual, open access, double-bind, peer-reviewed quality academic publication. This publication highlights the representation of Open Educational Resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and policy, following the Open Educational Research Hub’s 11 hypotheses proposed by de los Arcos, Farrow, Perryman, Pitt, & Weller in 2014. All the works registered are licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, where users may copy and redistribute the materials for non-commercial and non-derivative use only.
The International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) is a fully refereed, highly indexed, peer-reviewed, and open access monthly journal. This original online journal publishes quality research titles across all disciplines, including Arts, Science, Commerce, Social Science, Management, and Engineering. These articles are reported in various types like research paper, survey paper, informative article, case studies, review papers, comparative studies, dissertation chapters, research proposals or synopsis, M.Tech/M.E./PhD Thesis, and photo essays. This journal is devoted to accommodating and supplementing the research needs of authors, engineers, technocrats, and engineering scholars.
The International Journal of Special Education (IJSE) is an open-access journal publishing that provides its readers with a vast array of international conferences for original articles on special education, inclusive education, and services for persons with disabilities. This English-language published peer-reviewed journal seeks to improve open access for all experimental and theoretical articles that present the growth and practice in the fields of special and inclusive education globally. Contributing authors report on the review of research, historical and philosophical reviews in addition to evidence-based data on the efficiency of transformative approaches to special and inclusive education.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital repository of internet sites that allows researchers, historians, and scholars to freely access cultural artifacts in digital form, including books, movies, software, music, websites, etc. With a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive has amassed 625 billion web pages, 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings, 7 million videos, 4 million images, and 790,000 software programs in digitizing versions of published works. These whopping numbers encapsulate 25+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine.
The Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEA) OEAR is an online learning repository of Iowa’s 9 Area Education Agencies. This platform aims to incite interest in using Iowa’s digital learning materials and content in various formats from bringing these resources to open accessibility and availability among educators in a variety of disciplines. Iowa AEA OEAR allows educators to take advantage of the available resources, evaluate what they can use, and put their very own spin using the onsite tools for customization. Thus, creating a collaborative effort in enhancing open educational resources that would benefit all education stakeholders.