3 Overview of the OER Repository

The bilingual OER Repository brings together metadata from multiple institutions and services, allowing users to search for OER across organizations through a single portal. The repository does not host files, videos, or other educational content directly. Instead, each record includes a Content URI that links to the original source.

Launched in May 2024 as a pilot initiative, the repository serves as a central access point for discovering OER available through Japanese higher education institutions and related repository services.

As of May 2024, the repository includes metadata for:

1. OpenCourseWare (OCW): provided by higher education institutions in Japan

2. Teaching materials registered in institutional repositories through JAIRO Cloud.

JAIRO Cloud is a shared institutional repository service operated jointly by the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repositories (JPCOAR) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII).

Press release in Japanese with English translation.