OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES:

Open Education Resources are defined as free materials used for teaching and learning. In higher education, these include courseware, textbooks, digital sources, open access journals, and government documents.

Accounting and Finance
Accounting and Finance provides books that are free to use and distribute, and portions of databases that contain relevant materials.

Bloomberg Business Reports
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.

Caribbean Educational Research Information Service (CERIS)
CERIS is an information service of the School of Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. It provides access to information on education in the English-speaking Caribbean.

ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 67 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that covers free full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital curriculum resources for K–12 classrooms worldwide. We are the home to award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, and the largest professional development community of its kind.

Economic Bulletin
The Economic Bulletin (EB) reviews the condition of the Trinidad and Tobago economy. The EB analyzes changes in economic growth, monetary aggregates, fiscal operations of the Government and the external accounts of the Trinidad and Tobago economy.

Efunda
Efunda is an online reference site aimed primarily at mechanical and design engineers that will also appeal to other engineers, scientists, college students, teachers, and anyone else interested in engineering fundamentals.

Free Educational Worksheets
Free Educational Worksheets provide worksheets for teachers, educators, parents and home-schoolers on math, language, science, social skills, behavioural, social emotional learning, media literacy and setting goals. Thousands of worksheets, activities and printables are available.

HINDAWI
HINDAWI is a rapidly growing academic publisher with 535 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

IIMO
The International Maritime Organization is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine and atmospheric pollution by ships.

Japan Science & Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE)
J-Stage provides access to full text articles covering Japan's science and technology research. The database includes outstanding research and development results from bulletins of academic societies and research papers.

Knovel E-Books
Knovel provides online access to four standard reference sources of chemical, physical and thermodynamic property data.

OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

OSHA
OSHA’s Official website provides news, information on workers' rights, and legal standards.

Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.

PLOS
PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a non-profit publisher, innovator and advocacy organization, with peer-reviewed articles that are free to access, reuse and redistribute.

PUBMED
PUBMED comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Puzzle Makers
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more—using your own word lists.

SpringerOpen
SpringerOpen database provides access to Journals in Engineering.

The World Bank
WDI Online offers the World Bank's comprehensive database on development data, covering more than 700 indicators, 208 economies, and 18 regional and income groups.

• The American Geosciences Institute
  http://www.agiweb.org
• Berkeley University (Webcasts)
  http://webcast.berkeley.edu
• Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative
  https://www.cmu.edu/simon/open-simon/toolkit/tools/learning-tools/oli.html
• Engineering Case Studies
  https://jesmondengineering.com/engineering-case-studies/
  This is a collection of information on engineering cases. These are accounts of real engineering projects that are written for use in engineering education. Produced by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Carleton University
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  https://publichealth.jhu.edu/
• MIT Open Courseware
  http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• Open University's Open Learn
  https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

• Bookboon
  http://bookboon.com/uk/textbooks
• Free programming and computer science textbooks
  http://www.freetechbooks.com
  This site lists free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet.
• FreeComputerBooks
  http://www.freecomputerbooks.com
• Project Gutenberg
  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/main_page
• The Online Books Page
  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

• Google Scholar
  https://scholar.google.com/
• Yahoo
  http://www.yahoo.com

• Board Of Engineering Of Trinidad and Tobago (BOETT)
  https://boett.org/
  Includes the full text of the Trinidad and Tobago Small Buildings Code and the Physical Planning Standards of Trinidad and Tobago. A register of engineers and engineering firms in Trinidad and Tobago is also available.
• Caribbean Hurricane Network
  http://www.stormcarib.com
  Provides information on weather and discusses reports for all Caribbean countries.
• CARICOM
  http://www.caricom.org/
  Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat.
• COSTAATT (College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago)
  http://www.costaatt.edu.tt
• EMA (Environmental Management Authority)
  http://www.ema.co.tt
• HISA - BIREME
  HISA - BIREME Website
  A bibliographic database on the Latin American and Caribbean history of public health.
• LEYES - BIREME
  http://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/leyes/?lang=en
  A bibliographic database on Latin American and Caribbean Basic health legislation.
• LILACS - BIREME
  https://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en/
  A bibliographic database on Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences.
• Ministry of Education
  http://moe.gov.tt/
  NALIS (National Library and Information System Authority)
  http://www.nalis.gov.tt
• Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
  http://www.newsday.co.tt
• Trinidad Express Newspapers
  http://www.trinidadexpress.com
• The Trinidad Guardian
  http://www.guardian.co.tt
• UWI (University of the West Indies)
  http://www.uwi.tt

• Acronyms and Abbreviations
  http://www.abbreviations.com
  http://www.acronymfinder.com
• Dictionaries
  http://dictionary.cambridge.org
  http://www.dictionary.com
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/
• Encyclopaedias
  http://www.britannica.com
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• Zotero
  http://www.zotero.com

Referencing: "Referencing is a standardized method of acknowledging sources of information and ideas that you have used in your assignment in a way that uniquely identifies their source."
http://library.curtin.edu.au/research_and_information_skills/referencing/apa.pdf

Academic Integrity: The moral code or ethical policy of academia, including values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism; maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing.
http://unilifeapps.curtin.edu.au/TheLearningCentre/Display?book=2

Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. To avoid plagiarism, reference or cite your sources.
http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/c.php?g=202308&p=1332927

Reference Style: A reference style is an editorial style with rules or guidelines to ensure clear and consistent presentation of written material. There are many reference styles available. Two styles have been approved for use at The University of Trinidad and Tobago, namely, APA and MLA.

• APA: American Psychological Association – use for the sciences including social sciences.

Websites on APA Referencing:

• APA Website: http://www.apa.org/
• Curtin University Library Website: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/c.php?g=202308&p=1332729
• The OWL at Purdue Website: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
• MLA: Modern Language Association – use for the arts namely programmes offered by the Academy of Performing Arts.

Websites on MLA Referencing:

• MLA Website: https://www.mla.org/
• The OWL at Purdue Website: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/

Reference Tools: Software to assist with managing and/or creating Reference lists or Bibliographies.

• RefWorks: a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other sources.

RefWorks has been approved for use at The University of Trinidad and Tobago.
RefWorks Website: https://www.refworks.com/refworks

• Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
• EasyBib: http://www.easybib.com/

• Copyright Act of Trinidad and Tobago
  http://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/Laws2/Alphabetical_List/lawspdfs/82.80.pdf
• IPO (Intellectual Property Office)
  http://www.ipo.gov.tt