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
Project Management
Bookboon - Business Information Management – Information management is vital for today’s businesses. It requires significant investment and supports critical business processes.
Open Textbook Library - Project Management from Simple to Complex - In a world that is becoming more virtual, more global, and more complex, the project manager's ability to function in this environment becomes critical to the success of the project. Project Management from Simple to Complex explores project management within this complex, virtual, and global environment.
Open Textbook Library - Building Strategy and Performance - This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future.
YouTube - Managing Risk with Psychology Instead of Brute Force - Andy Ellis - RSA Conference Us 2013 Keynote – A talk by Akamai’s CISO Andy Ellis and how research into the psychology of risk has helped his approach into information security.
ProQuest - Organizational Behaviour - Organizational Behaviour bridges the gap between OB and HRM, with an emphasis on inter-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives of organizational development, talent management, and leadership.
NSCC Libraries Pressbooks - Human Resources Management - Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
ProQuest - Performance Management - Performance Management is offering practical advice to HR professionals starting out in their career, completing CPD training or studying for their professional qualifications with the CIPD.
ProQuest - Business to Business Market Research - Business to Business Market Research provides an up-to-date reference source for all those involved in, or occasionally needing to know about, business to business (B2B) marketing research.
Bookboon - An Introduction to Business Research Methods - This edition of the textbook not only provides an in-depth introduction to the field of business research for students, it also aims to prepare readers for practical careers as research consultants.
Open Library Pressbooks - Project Management - This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout that all projects share.
Open Library Pressbooks - Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order - This book is organized around the fifteen lessons of the Technical Project Management course, with an emphasis on the connections between the various stages and practices of technical project management.