Open stands for ...
Imagine higher education more accessible and sustainable across disciplines and throughout the research life cycle.
Open Educational Resources include open teaching materials, textbooks, and renewable assignments. Learn more about OER at Concordia.
Open Access publishing includes OA journals, articles, and books. There are several OA pathways, including the Diamond, Gold, and Green Road.
Open Source includes software and hardware where the code has been made open for sharing and adaptation. The Technology Sandbox at Concordia works with open source tools and software. There is a range of open and closed source technology available to library users.
Open Data includes numerical datasets, often used in the sciences and social sciences, and primary source datasets, often used in the humanities and fine arts. Learn more about finding open data.
Imagine how data might be visualized. Occupancy by Francisco Berrizbeitia uses Concordia's machine-readable open data to visualize the number of people in the Library (see documentation for more examples). Learn more about data analysis and visualization.
Learn more about sharing your data with Research Data Management. A data management plan helps provide the rationale and process for making research data openly available or closed.
Open Repositories include discipline-specific repositories, our institutional repository, Spectrum, and data repositories. They are a way of making parts of the research cycle (i.e., data, submitted manuscripts, and accepted manuscripts) openly available.