Book donation (FEB 2026)

Book Donation : From One Library to Another 

Mrs. Janine Cleo Hilario, Campus Librarian, together with Mrs. Glaze Aubrey Fernando, School Librarian, warmly received the books donated from the Dioso Public Library (Leocadio Alonsagay Dioso Memorial Public Library) last Friday, February 20, 2026. Through our very own kasubay students, the books were safely brought all the way from Pandan, Antique to the campus.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude for this generous donation. This thoughtful contribution is deeply appreciated and will greatly benefit the academic community.

Compilation of Open Educational Resources (Filipiniana)

   

Open Access Database

(Filipiniana)

12 websites featured

1. AKLATANG BAYAN ONLINE

• Link: tinyurl.com/aklatangbayan
• Subject: Filipino Language, Literature, and Culture
• Description: It is a free online repository launched by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, offering locally relevant scholarly materials that are openly accessible.
• Content: books, refereed journals, creative writings

2. DOST-PCAARRD ELIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/pcaarrd-lib
• Subject: Agriculture,  Aquatic and Natural Resources
• Description: It is an online service facility, developed by the Department of Science and Technology–Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD), providing access and information on publications, theses/dissertation, and other literature related to agriculture, aquatic and natural resources.
• Content: PCAARRD’s publications such as books and serials, and theses/dissertations, technical reports, non-prints and vertical files

3. PHILIPPINE E-BOOK HUB

• Link: ebookhub.ph/index.php
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is the largest online library of Filipiniana e-books, designed to  access Filipiniana works—those that are: printed in the Philippines, about the Philippines and written by Filipinos.
• Content: books

4. PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 

• Link: tinyurl.com/pids-publication
• Subject: Agriculture, Economics, Education, Environment, Finance, Governance, Health, Transportation, Technology
• Description: It was created by the virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1201 which serves as the Philippine government's primary socioeconomic policy think tank and has been engaged in the conduct of policy-oriented studies based on sound research evidence and has completed numerous studies on a wide range of development topics.
• Content: books, research papers, news publications

5. SALIKSIK: UPD JOURNALS ONLINE

• Link: saliksik.upd.edu.ph
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a free online service exclusively offered to U.P. Diliman journals that aims to gather all the U.P. Diliman journals in a single repository, widen their dissemination and visibility online, and provide journal editors with a convenient means of implementing the editorial process.
• Content: journals

6. BAHÁNDÌAN

• Link: repository.cpu.edu.ph
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is the institutional repository of the Central Philippine University for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students.
• Content: books, brochures, publications

7. FILIPINAS HERITAGE ONLINE LIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/filipinas-lib
• Subject: Literature, Rare Collection
• Description: It is a private library of the Ayala Foundation’s Arts and Culture Division, where their collection is focused on books and other materials authored by Filipinos or about the Philippines, with a focus on Philippine history and culture and have an Online Library with digitized materials organized by subject
• Content: books

8. PHILIPPINE E-JOURNALS (PEJ)

• Link: ejournals.ph
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations.
• Content: journals, articles

9. PHILIPPINE COMMISSION ON WOMEN: DIGITAL GAD LIBRARY

• Link: library.pcw.gov.ph
• Subject: Gender and Development
• Description: It is the lead agency that works for the promotion of gender equality, women’s empowerment, and women’s rights in which its digital library stores knowledge products and other digital GAD resources.
• Content: PCW and other publications

10. PHL CHED CONNECT

• Link: phlconnect.ched.gov.ph
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a web application that contains higher education course materials in text, media and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning and research purposes.
• Content: books, journal articles

11. PINOY RICE KNOWLEDGE BANK

• Link: tinyurl.com/pinoy-rice
• Subject: Agriculture, Rice farming
• Description: It is a rich source of information dev  eloped by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) that contains most information on rice farming in the Philippines and downloadable materials on yield-enhancing and cost-reducing technologies in rice farming.
• Content: PhilRice publications, books, posters

12. SUPREME COURT E-LIBRARY

• Link: elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph
• Subject: Law and Legislation
• Description: It is the primary research tool in the speedy delivery of justice for it "Puts all laws, decisions and rules and regulations in the Judge's fingertips." and has has supported legal education by providing to law schools upon request.
• Content: reports, republic acts, Supreme Court publications

Compilation of Open Educational Resources (International)

    

Open Access Database

(International)

30 websites featured

1. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS 

• Link: doabooks.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers
• Content: books

2. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS 

• Link: doaj.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
• Content: journals, articles

3. EMERALD INSIGHT 

• Link: tinyurl.com/emerald-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: Their aim is to help researchers make their findings open to all, giving them the opportunity to create real impact and drive positive change across the world
• Content: journals, books, articles, chapters

4. OPENSTAX

• Link: openstax.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a part of Rice University who publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed open educational resources (OER) offering interactive learning technologies to support educators and students worldwide. 
• Content: books for higher education and K-12 resources

5. OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/opentextlib
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: They are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost, now offering 1790 open textbooks
• Content: books for higher education

6. ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY

• Link: dl.acm.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a research, discovery, and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM publications and collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
• Content: journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, books

7. ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PUBLICATIONS

• Link: adb.org/publications
• Subject: Social Studies
• Description: It can access data-rich research, policy analysis, toolkits, guidelines, and other resources on economics and key development topics.
• Content: publications

8. CAMBRIDGE OPEN ACCESS

• Link: tinyurl.com/cambridge-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content that allows readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works.
• Content: books, journals

9. CK12

• Link: ck12.org/student
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It provides free and customizable K12 open educational resources.
• Content: books for higher education and K-12 resources

10. EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER

• Link: edc.org/resources
• Subject: Education
• Description: It is an online collection of educational resources for early childhood development and literacy and numeracy teaching and learning.
• Content: books, reports, websites, etc.

11. DE GRUYTER BRIL

• Link: tinyurl.com/degruyterbrill-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an independent, family-owned academic publisher and a global leader in the humanities and beyond.
• Content: books

12. ELSEVIER

• Link: tinyurl.com/elsevier-open
• Subject: Science and Technology
• Description: It is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare.
• Content: journals

13. GLOBAL LIBRARY OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE 

• Link: tinyurl.com/glowm-medic
• Subject: Medicine, Health
• Description: It offers a wide range of expert resources primarily designed to support doctors, while also providing extensive practical guidance for midwives, nurses and community healthcare workers.
• Content: textbooks

14. HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY

• Link: hathitrust.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries, administered by the University of Michigan.
• Content: books, publications

15. INTERNET ARCHIVE

• Link: archive.org
• Subject: Literature, Rare Collection
• Description: It is is a vast digital library that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge.
• Content: books, movies, software, music and even websites

16. JSTOR

• Link: tinyurl.com/jstor-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It offers one of the broadest and most diverse sets of openly accessible scholarly materials available
• Content: journals, books

17. MERLOT

• Link: tinyurl.com/merlot-textbooks
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
• Content: textbooks

18. MILNE OPEN TEXTBOOKS

• Link: milneopentextbooks.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
• Content: books for higher education

19. OER COMMONS & OPEN EDUCATION

• Link: tinyurl.com/oer-commons
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
• Content: books, articles

20. OPENALEX

• Link: openalex.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an open, comprehensive catalogue of scholarly works, authors, journals and institutions that supports discovery of research outputs across the science, social sciences and humanities without paywalls.
• Content: scholarly works, journals, articles, dissertations

21. OPEN EDUCATION STUDIES

• Link: tinyurl.com/oeducstudies
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal that publishes original and relevant articles in all fields of education research.
• Content: articles

22. OPEN RESEARCH LIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/or-library
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly monographs which is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform.
• Content: books, chapters, articles

23. PROJECT GUTENBERG

• Link: gutenberg.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is one of the oldest and largest free online libraries featuring public domain works and offers over 60,000 free eBooks including classic literature.
• Content: books, publications

24. SEAFDEC/AQD INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

• Link: tinyurl.com/seafdec-free
• Subject: Fisheries, Aquaculture
• Description: It is the official digital repository of scholarly and research information of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD).
• Content: books, journal articles

25. SCIENCE DIRECT

• Link: tinyurl.com/sciencedirect-open
• Subject: Science, Technology, Health
• Description: It is the premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature.
• Content: journals, books, textbooks

26. SCILIT DATABASE

• Link: scilit.com
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a free, unique and fast-growing indexing database of scientific and scholarly literature that holds over 130 million works and more than 1.1 billion citations.
• Content: journal, books, chapters, conference papers

27. SPRINGER NATURE LINK

• Link: tinyurl.com/springer-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It publishes open access (OA) books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints.
• Content: books, conference proceedings, textbooks, journals, articles

28. SPRINGER NATURE FULLY OA JOURNALS LIST 2026

• Link: tinyurl.com/springer-openjournal
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a list of fully open access journals, including APC information, Springer Nature Open Access Journal is a leading multidisciplinary and community-focused journals that offer rigorous, high-impact open access.
• Content: journals, articles

29. TAYLOR & FRANCIS

• Link: tinyurl.com/taylorfrancis-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is one of the world's largest publishers of open access research with a journals program that meets the needs of a wide range of disciplines and subject areas
• Content: journals

30. WORLD BANK OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

• Link: tinyurl.com/worldbank-okr
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products that collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.
• Content: World Bank’s serial publications, books, journals