OER Websites and Repositories to Which Africa Contributes
This section provides links African repositories and international repositories to which African Higher Education Institutions may contribute. This collection of OER and open access repositories was collected in relation to our themes, namely, Agriculture, Health, Teacher Education and Foundation Skills. There are also however repositories covering all subjects.
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
COL was created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. The search feature gives you access to thousands of journals and articles which you can apply filters to for a refined search.
Nagoya University OpenCourseware (NU OCW)
Nagoya University offers a wide range of courses which can be browsed by category which include Law,Philosophy,economics and chemistry and also by school including Environmental sciences, International studies and informatics.
Middle East Technical University (METU) OpenCourseWare
Middle East Technical University offers a wide variety of courses. They include but not limited to Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Philosophy and Industrial Engineering.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
The CGIAR centers have published a number of resources, all of them OER. For example, the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) has developed course modules on hybridization techniques in the faba bean and the chickpea, on experimental design and data analysis, and on biological nitrogen fixation, to name a few. The World Agroforestry Center has also developed modules. You must register to participate in some courses, but it is free of charge.
Global Agricultural Research Archive
The Global Agricultural Research Archive, is a new initiative that aims to archive agricultural knowledge on behalf of developing countries around the world.This pilot database currently contains over 2,700 full text records from their institutional partners in Malawi, Pakistan and the Philippines and from the 2008 IAALD conference on agricultural information and IT.
Regional Agricultural Trade Network (RATIN)
The Regional Agricultural Trade Network (RATIN) was developed to help reduce regional food insecurity by strengthening the ability of markets to provide access to affordable food to poor households and to improve food availability through the provision of adequate incentives to producers. To achieve this goal RATIN provides regional trade analyses for maize, beans and rice by using information from a variety of sources, including ministries of agriculture and other government offices, international agencies, etc.
MIT Open Courseware in Economics
The MIT OCW page in economics provides links to courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in both micro and macroeconomics.
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
FARA is the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, an umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Africa. FARA complements the innovative activities of national, international and sub-regional research institutions to deliver more responsive and effective services to its stakeholders.
AgEcon Search
AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including,working papers, conference papers and journal articles.There are 68 subject headings, which run the full gamut of agricultural economics and agribusiness
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1900 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.
African Soil Information Service (AfSIS)
The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) was established in January 2009 to develop a practical, timely, and cost-effective soil health surveillance service to map soil conditions, set a baseline for monitoring changes, and provide options for improved soil and land management. Because knowledge about the condition and trend of African soils is highly fragmented and dated, AfSIS believes there is an urgent need for accurate, up-to-date, and spatially referenced soil information to support agriculture in Africa.
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
ASARECA's primary goal is to facilitate market-oriented agricultural research in eastern and central Africa that will impact on income generation. Its secondary goal is to serve as a forum for the discussion of strategies and ideas pertaining to agricultural research and its relationship to agricultural development in the sub-region. The ASARECA website includes considerable documentation on its own activities and on its research.