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

International Business

  • Open Textbook Library - International Business – This textbook provides exploration into building, leading, and thriving in global organizations in an increasingly flat world. The authors define” Flat world” as one where service industries that dwarf manufacturing industries in terms of scale and scope, an Internet that pervades life and work, and networks define modern businesses, whether service or manufacturing.

  • Lumen Learning - International Business – An online textbook about international business

  • Bookboon - International Business and Global Strategy - This eBook provides a simple and relevant resource on international business and global strategy for undergraduate, (post)graduate and MBA students around the world.

  • Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy - This textbook provides an innovative, internationally-oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics.

  • Open Textbook Library - International Finance - International Finance Theory and Policy is built on Steve Suranovic's belief that to understand the international economy, students need to learn how economic models are applied to real world problems.

  • Open Textbook Library - International Relations - This book is designed to be a ‘Day 0' introduction to International Relations. As a beginner's guide, it has been structured to condense the most important information into the smallest space and present that information in the most accessible way.

  • Open Textbook Library - International Trade - International Trade: Theory and Policy is built on Steve Suranovic's belief that to understand the international economy, students need to learn how economic models are applied to real world problems.

  • World Trade Organization - There are a number of ways of looking at the World Trade Organization. It is an organization for trade opening. It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements. It is a place for them to settle trade disputes. It operates a system of trade rules. Essentially, the WTO is a place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.

  • Open Textbook Library - Money and Banking - Recent financial turmoil has increased student interest in the financial system but simultaneously threatens to create false impressions and negative attitudes. This up-to-date text by a dynamic, young author encourages students to critique the financial system without rejecting its many positive attributes. Peruse the book online now to see for yourself if this book fits the needs of your course and students.

  • 2012 Book Archive - Challenges and Opportunities in International Business – A textbook on the challenges and opportunities that come with International Business

  • Open Knowledge Repository - The Internal Geography of Trade – This textbook explores the nexus between trade and location to inform policies that address the challenge of lagging regions. The pattern of leading and lagging regions matters not just for social and political cohesion, but also because the failure to integrate lagging regions may have a dampening effect on national growth.

  • Bookboon - Conducting Transatlantic Business- This book describes the law in a cultural perspective to make you aware of some very important distinctions when conducting business across the Atlantic.

  • Georgia State University - Global Business - This course allows the student the opportunity to engage actively in a learning experience where they can further explore concepts and issues in global business while developing some skills needed for efficient and effective participation in global business in the 21st Century. 

  • Northeast Wisconsin Technical College - Global Business - To most of us, globalization—as a political, economic, social, and technological force—appears all but unstoppable. The ever-faster flow of information across the globe has made people aware of the tastes, preferences, and lifestyles of citizens in other countries. This textbook goes into globalization.

  • Oregon State University - Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries - A forest products marketer should have a basic understanding of the role that global forests play in society. Major societal trends are impacting the external environment within which the forest industry operates. We provide an overview of global forests and a brief description of the markets for the main categories of the forest industry.