Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are free to use and offer students access to hundreds of quality academic papers, journals and books to help in your studies.
Make sure you have your ProQuest login details to hand. These can be found on Blackboard. Also, note you will be required to create a BookBoon account to access and download the textbooks.
Any questions or issues please contact our Librarian Luke Privitera - LPrivitera@holmes.edu.au
Entrepreneurship
OpenStax - Entrepreneurship - This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible.
Open Textbook Library - Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship - This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability.
Open Textbook Library - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit - This book is designed for upper year undergraduate students and graduate students studying fundamental entrepreneurship concepts.
ProQuest - The Innovation Handbook - The Innovation Handbook explores how individuals and companies can stimulate new innovation and protect their best ideas in a competitive and aggressive marketplace.
Open Library Pressbooks - Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship - This is a modular open textbook designed for entrepreneurial journalism, media innovation, and related courses.
University of Prince Edward Island - Business Startup and Entrepreneurship: Canada - This OER textbook focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and starting a business. The text is divided from the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline; entrepreneurship traits and characteristics and the activities that precede starting a business.
University of Prince Edward Island - Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Canada – A textbook on entrepreneurship and sustainability in Canada.