In the context of OER, 'free' always means permission to act without any restrictions.

A textbook distributed for

free under an open license is an example of an

OER.

To qualify as an OER,

students must always have free access to the digital and printed versions of a source.

Applying a non-commercial

restriction to OER is an example of blocking a user’s access to the source.

Standard

Patent

Directory

Manual

Identify

the time periods

Identify the proper nouns

Identify

the format of the information sources

Determine

the topic(s) of the information task

vertical portals

enterprise portals

commercial portals

horizontal portals

Hybrid

libraries include physical and digital collections.

Librarians

are trained to do your assignments for you.

Online

library databases are closed over weekends.

An

OPAC is a physical card catalogue system.

APA

Firefox

Collins Atlas

Bing

Sharing

procedures for collecting storing, processing, and accessing data.

Providing

information that is easy to analyse statistically and is reliable.

Advancing

knowledge and scientific progress.

Informing

the general public while making money from publishing.

It

guarantees the protection of privacy rights for individuals and organisations.

It

is a worldwide internetwork of computers linked via various communication

channels.

Information

on the Internet is checked for bias and errors before being added.

It

is the safest cyber environment for online social networking and offers job

security.

It is used by art students to understand abstract paintings.

It is mainly used to collect information published in periodical articles.

It is used to store full-text handbooks.

It can be used without having any knowledge of search techniques.