Research Guides: WRIT 3312: Written Communications in Business: Open Access & Online Resources

Online Resources
Open Educational Resources

Online Resources

The online resources that are provided supplemental academic support through your course, that are accessible through the internet and open to the public.

Bloomberg
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.
CNBC: Stock Markets, Business News, Financials, Earnings
CNBC is the world leader in business news and real-time financial market coverage. Find fast, actionable information.
Forbes
Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.
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Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. OER differs from Open Access as Open Educational Resources will include things such as textbooks, teaching material, presentations, ebooks, and more.

Merlot: Business
Business case studies from Merlot Materials. Cases contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons: Business and Communication
OER Commons is a large repository that includes all kinds of Open Educational Resources. Textbooks here include subjects of: Accounting, Communication, Finance, Journalism, Management, Marketing and Public Relations. Use the search limiters to narrow by education level, material type (i.e. Textbooks) and subject.
OpenStax: Business
High quality, peer-reviewed textbooks in Business Ethics, Business Law, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Accounting, Management and more. Openly licensed and 100% free.To access faculty-only materials, create a free OpenStax account.
Open Textbook Library: Business
Complete textbooks that have been reviewed by a variety of college and university faculty, and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.