{"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":"2026-04-14T07:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:25:06","slug":"about-this-document","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/front-matter\/about-this-document\/","title":{"raw":"About This Guide","rendered":"About This Guide"},"content":{"raw":"When you search for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/open-educational-resources\">open educational resources<\/a> (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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/open-educational-resources\">open educational resources<\/a> (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\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/revisions\/420"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/120\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/oerjpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}