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

Networking

  • Open Textbook Library - An Introduction to Computer Networks - It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security, mininet and the ns simulator.

  • Open Textbook Library - Computer Networking - This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

  • Open Textbook Library - Computer Networks– The aim of this textbook is to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.