The following selection of useful links may support your initial search for monographs, articles, and other helpful materials for your research project in open and distance learning:
Most comprehensive compilations of resources in distance education, open and e-learning:
http://www.wisc.edu/depd/html/artmonth3.htm
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/index_new.htm
http://cde.athabascau.ca/resources
http://www.tonybates.ca/resources/
A wealth of searchable and accessible resources in open and distance learning (ODL), with a particular focus on ODL for development: http://www.col.org/resources/Pages/default.aspx
Sloan-C View provides accessible information about online learning from Volume 1/Issue 1 in 2002 to date. Sloan’s Effective Practices site collects innovative and replicable examples of quality in online education: http://sloanconsortium.org/sloanc_publications as well as http://sloanconsortium.org/effective
Your gate to the wealth of the world-wide web…: http://scholar.google.com/
Publicly accessible books on the theory and practice of distance education, online, and e-learning:
http://www.mde.uni-oldenburg.de/40574.html
http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120146
Learned peer-reviewed journals in the field of open, distance, online, and e-learning:
IJEDE, the International Journal of E-Learning and Distance Education (former Journal of Distance Education, Canada) at: http://www.ijede.ca/index.php/jde
IRRODL, the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (Canada) at: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
EURODL, the European Journal of Open, Distance an E-Learning at: http://www.eurodl.org/
AJDE, The American Journal of Distance Education, E-Learning and Learning Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hajd20/current
DE, the Australian journal on Distance Education at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdie20/current
Open Learning (UK) at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/copl20/current
Distances et Médiations des Savoir (former: Distances et Savoir, France) at: http://www.openedition.org/11418