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Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer everyone a convenient and modern way of learning and teaching. They were created for users, their needs and requirements. Flexible use and the possibility of modification ensure the availability and currency of the content.

The world of Open Educational Resources offers everyone a wide range of topics and forms. The most common definition of OER is the one from the UNESCO Paris Declaration of 2012, according to which open educational resources are:

About Open Science

Open Science can be defined as a set of practices that not only improve communication among research participants, but also increase the transparency and accessibility of scientific research and dissemination of research results. It is worth remembering that Open Science is not limited to online access to scientific information that is free of charge to the user.

Open Research Data

The term Research Data means all data gathered, observed or created when the research process in progress, with the aim of receiving original scientific findings. Depending on how they were created or what they were created for, research data can be distinguished as observational, experimental, simulation or referential data.

About us

The main goal of Open Science Competence Center created in the framework of the MOST DANYCH project at Gdańsk Tech Library is to offer guidance and support to researchers about publishing in an open access, preparing Data Management Plan and making data accessible in the research data repository

The Center offers various trainings, consultancies, and other events promoting the idea of opening science. Publishing open research offers a number of benefits:

About the Library

The Library of the Gdańsk University of Technology is the largest and most modern technical scientific library in northern Poland. It provides access to academic textbooks and scripts, polish and foreign books and scientific journals, standardisation, technical and commercial literature and databases. It also has collections of museum objects and documents relating to the history of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Open Access

Publications in Open Access (OA) are digitized. They are available online and free of charge and free of most copyright laws and licensing restrictions. OA is also a global movement bringing together many groups of users such as researchers, students, librarians, cultural workers or publisher.

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