OERSI vs StoryWeaver
OERSI
oersi.orgStoryWeaver
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| Figure | OERSI | StoryWeaver |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Open Educational Resource Platforms | 7.5 (#18) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Founded | 2020 | 2015 |
| Integrations | The about page names twillo and ORCA.nrw as platforms integrating OERSI search; it also lists reuse in BASE, finc, and library search interfaces. | The privacy policy says StoryWeaver may use third-party service providers for website operations such as search technology and discussion boards. |
| Purpose | OERSI is a search engine for open educational resources in higher education, provided jointly by hbz and TIB since 2020. | StoryWeaver is a digital platform of open-access, multilingual storybooks for children to learn and practise reading. |
Plans
In their own words
StoryWeaver
StoryWeaver is a free web platform from Pratham Books for reading and creating multilingual children’s stories. Readers can browse material for early and more fluent readers, including stories about math, science, history, and emotional intelligence. Parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators can create reading resources: users can write storybooks, choose openly licensed artwork, and publish their work. Translation tools help produce versions in other languages, with transliteration support for 12 languages and dictionary support in over 100. Translation can also be done offline and synced later. Readers can save stories to an Offline Library or download them as web-resolution PDFs, A4 print-ready files, or ePub files. Stories and illustrations use CC BY 4.0; Readalongs and videos use CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. StoryWeaver is free to read, create, translate, download, share, and print. Its released code is MIT-licensed, with a Rails backend and ReactJS frontend.