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

Law

  • OpenStax - Business Law I - Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business.

  • Open Textbook Library - Fundamentals of Business Law - This book is an introductory survey of the legal topics required in undergraduate business law classes.

  • Open Textbook Library - Business Law and the Legal Environment - This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

  • Open Textbook Library - Foundations of Business Law and Legal Environment - The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials — and to their own lawyers.

  • Open Textbook Library - Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment - Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and various aspects of property law. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.

  • ProQuest - The Corporate Finance Handbook - Corporate finance is central to almost every major decision a company takes but, because of its complexity, it is very little understood. This is a practical guide for hard-pressed CEOs and finance directors of the UK's middle market companies.

  • Australasian Legal Information Institute - AustLII is Australia's online free-access resource for Australian legal information, serving the needs of a multitude of users.

  • Victoria Legal Aid - We help people with their legal problems. We focus on protecting the rights of Victorians and representing those who need it the most.

  • Victorian Law Foundation - For the Legal Sector - Is a not-for-profit organisation striving to improve the justice system for all Victorians.

  • Justice Connect - Connects people with legal help. Uses the power of the law to open up the legal system for those locked out of it, and fight to change the system where it is broken.

  • Australian Contract Law - This site is designed to provide an introduction to Australian contract and consumer law.

  • Commonwealth Consolidated Acts - Corporations Act 2001 - An Act to make provision in relation to corporations and financial products and services, and for other purposes, 2001.

  • Lexology - Doing Business in Australia Part 5 Company Law - 10 important aspects of company law in Australia.

  • OpenStax - Introduction to Intellectual Property - Introduction to Intellectual Property provides a clear, effective introduction to patents, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. The text may be used by students and instructors in formal courses, as well as those applying intellectual property considerations to entrepreneurship, marketing, law, computer science, engineering, design, or other fields.