...is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global "biodiversity commons." BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based
learning resources called "learning objects."
The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the
Wisconsin
Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create
the learning objects.
edna is a large repository referencing thousands of online resources for education, training and research. You can search, browse and even contribute your own education news, events and resources to the education community.
edna is not a Google or Yahoo! style search engine. These use computer programs to automate finding data for their databases. Everything available through edna has been quality reviewed and described by an authorised information officer at either education.au or at an affiliated education organisation. Therefore you can be confident in the quality of your search results.
edna does not actually create or store education and training resources; it describes and points to where resources can be found - providing you with a single place to find them all.
Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.
RLO-CETL is funded by the Higher Education Council for England (HEFCE) to be a Centre for Excellence in the design, development and use of learning objects. Academic staff, students and multimedia developers work in teams to create, use and evaluate pedagogically rich learning objects. The partner institutions are London Metropolitan University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham.
Some of the areas covered are: Study skills, Working with information sources, Business studies, Pharmacology, Clinical skills, Evidence-based practice, Foundation science, Human life sciences, Numeracy, Maths for medics, vets and biologists and Statistics