{"id":120,"date":"2026-03-21T05:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/?post_type=front-matter&#038;p=120"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:39:34","slug":"about-this-document","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/front-matter\/about-this-document\/","title":{"raw":"About This Guide","rendered":"About This Guide"},"content":{"raw":"When you search for open educational resources (OER)\u00a0 in Japan, you may find that they are scattered across different university websites and institutional repositories. This can make it difficult to find relevant materials quickly and easily.\r\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1047\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp\">OER Repository<\/a><\/strong> helps solve this problem by bringing metadata from these sources together in a single searchable platform. This guide shows you how to use the OER Repository to search across university repositories and find OER more efficiently.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1047\">Access the OER Repository here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp\"><strong>https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_203\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"699\"]<img class=\"wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Kyoto-University-Research-Hub-scaled.png\" alt=\"Image showing the front page of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository\" width=\"699\" height=\"448\" \/> <strong>Figure 1.<\/strong> Screenshot of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository website, by author, 2026.[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>When you search for open educational resources (OER)\u00a0 in Japan, you may find that they are scattered across different university websites and institutional repositories. This can make it difficult to find relevant materials quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1047\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp\">OER Repository<\/a><\/strong> helps solve this problem by bringing metadata from these sources together in a single searchable platform. This guide shows you how to use the OER Repository to search across university repositories and find OER more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"1047\">Access the OER Repository here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp\"><strong>https:\/\/oer.nii.ac.jp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2026\/03\/Kyoto-University-Research-Hub-scaled.png\" alt=\"Image showing the front page of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository\" width=\"699\" height=\"448\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Figure 1.<\/strong> Screenshot of the Kyoto University Research Information Repository website, by author, 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-120","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/revisions\/392"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}