Open Access Resources
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open Access
Click on the Dissertations & Theses button to search. Look for Open Access icon in the search results.
Includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations, a free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.
Open Access Theses and dissertations
Provides access to over 6 million graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata of these comes from over 1,100 colleges, universities and research institutions.
ATLA's searchable platform with open access digitised collections from libraries, religious institutions, and other organisations worldwide who collect and preserve texts, records, maps, photographs, recordings, and other materials. Some Fordham collections are included.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Collection of bibliographies covering most aspects of computer science literature from various sources. Updated weekly.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Collection of cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials relating to the Caribbean. Includes newspapers, official documents, maps and artefacts. Register for free MydLOC account for advanced features.
Directory of HISTORY Dissertations
List of thousands of dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S. compiled by American Historical Association.
Information about educational tests and research by ETS.
Provides extensive descriptions and holdings of information for works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies in any language, as well as for works printed in English anywhere in the world. Coverage is from 1473 to 1800.
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
Digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.
Global digital library offering free access to more than 650,000 full-text articles, journals, books and other resources. Focuses on theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism in World Christianity.
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Inter-American Development Bank Repository
Gateway for a broad range of resources and information for all sectors and countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes policy briefs, working papers, annual reports, monographs, statistics, economic indicators, data visualisations for various socio-economic variables and more.
IQS Directory for Manufacturing, Business and Engineering
Provides multi-faceted information for research and industry analysis in the manufacturing, business and engineering disciplines.
Open Access Digital Theological Library
Access to high-quality religious studies content. Composed primarily of fully open access books and articles. The collections are ecumenical, global, and interreligious and include materials in all languages.
WHED Portal - World Higher Education
International Association of Universities' Worldwide Database of Higher Education Institutions, Systems and Credentials.
Definitions and links to information about the slang of various locations and groups in the United Kingdom.
Open access resource issued by the National Council for Science and the Environment.
Over seventy summaries of key texts from the earlier literature, painstaking surveys of more recent work, and digests of archival and online resources. Global scope covering both Anglophone and non-Anglophone sources and scholarship from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. Editorial oversight from the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, the Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven, and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.
Partial access only from Early Canadiana Online. A 73-volume set, in the original Italian, Latin and French with commentary and translation into English. Click on the Jesuit Relations Collection and then Browse this Collection. Go to View Page for full text.
Jesuit Studies Portal by Boston College
The Portal grants online access to a curated and searchable collection of primary sources and secondary scholarship related to the history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogy approach of the Society of Jesus.
Included databases are: Essential Documents, International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, Jesuit Historiography Online, Jesuit Online Bibliography, Jesuit Online Library, Jesuit Sources, Jesuitica Directory, Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, and Journal of Jesuit Studies.
A wide variety of high quality open-access image collections of cultural heritage material from museums, archives, universities and other repositories.
Treatments for thousands of diseases and conditions. Contains photographs, audio and video material.
Over 500 free university and college level classes from the world's leading universities.
Free, independent resource on trends in American public opinion.
Up to the minute news and analysis of the U.S. Stock Markets.
Free business and personal directories.
Free access to the Vatican Library’s digitised collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).
Makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries around the world.
A comprehensive reference site featuring original definitions with examples of use cases, definitions from Webster and English Language dictionaries, thesauri entries from Roget’s, specialty definitions, encyclopaedic information, related articles, audio pronunciations, etymology and word games.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB)
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Boston public media producer GBH to coordinate a national effort to preserve public media content and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70+ years. Over 122,000 items of television and radio programming contributed by more than 140 public media organisations and archives across the United States have been digitised for long-term preservation and access.
Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, WGBH productions have documented America’s collective cultural heritage in moving images and sound.
Non-profit and non-partisan database of presidential documents, recordings and videos dealing with current and historical information on American presidents from 1789 to present.
In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
Presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Database has full texts, maps, images, and lesson plans sponsored by the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use. Covers information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history and many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBTQ studies.
A compendium of translated primary sources on the history of the Middle Ages, from the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
A collaboration between Oxford University Press and the National Gallery of Art featuring eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art and is complemented by lavish illustrations and resources for educators.
Content in a variety of formats including Ebooks, E-Journals, Images and Special Collections hosted on JSTOR all freely available to access.
This archival collection, comprising over four-million letters, covers a chronological span from 1537 to 1743. It documents the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.
National Archives of England, Wales, and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom government's official archive containing over 1,000 years of history.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
From HeinOnline, covers slavery in the U.S. and the English-speaking world. Includes content from the Buffalo Erie County Public Library. Includes every state and federal statute, legal commentary, pamphlets and books from the 19th century, and other hard to find materials such as essays and articles in obscure journals. Provides word searchable access to all Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880. Must Register for an Account.
A Non-Profit Organisation that works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.
Content for 13 journals beginning with 2020 is Open Access.
Several hundred peer-reviewed open access journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine subject areas from Springer Science + Business Media.
Growing list of Open Access journals from Brill.
Cambridge University Press: Open Access
Over 40 journals in a variety of subject areas.
CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications. Content no longer available from any publisher ("triggered content") is available for free with a Creative Commons license.
Peer reviewed and open access collection of journals. Covers several academic disciplines.
Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines.
Open DOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories hosting repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed to enable the offering of a trusted service for the community.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) https://www.doaj.org/
A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. The services are free of charge.
A service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online. It comprises of 108,999 titles from all areas of research and 25,774 are available online only.
Indexes a wide variety of journal sources. The coverage of an approved journal source is determined by an examination of three to five current issues during the source review process, but may be updated at any time.
Firenze University Press: Open Access Journals
Fifty Open Access journals covering a wide range of subjects.
Over one hundred peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science.
Fully open access journals spanning a wide range of technologies.
Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline.
Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies since 1993.
Open DOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories that lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria.
Open J-Gate https://www.openj-gate.com/
Is a free database of open access journals to more than 4,000 journals published in the English language around the globe and available as e-journals on both the scholarly and popular domains.
Open Access journals from Oxford University Press.
Complete holdings of selected mathematics and statistics journals from a variety of publishers hosted by Project Euclid.
RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies. Compiled from thousands of periodicals and collections of articles in many languages mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.
All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license.
Hundreds of free journals from Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform.
Hundreds of free peer-reviewed journals from Springer, across all areas of science.
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication.
Over fifty health, medicine and science Open Access titles. Chrome browser recommended.
University of California Press - Open Access Journals
Collabra is University of California Press's open access journal programme. The Collabra program currently publishes Collabra: Psychology and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, with plans for continued expansion and journal acquisition.
Wiley-Blackwell Open Access Collection
Wiley's fully open access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals.
To access content, choose "Journal Information" under the relevant title.
Provides access to helpful and practical personal development content on an easy to use platform making it easy for everyone to develop themselves through high-quality learning content.
Hundreds of open access books covering a wide range of subjects.
Digital Public Library of America
An open network of online resources that draws on America’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums. Includes thousands of items from the American Government Printing Office's Catalogue of Publications and the Medical Heritage Library research collection.
Directory of Open Access Books
Academic, peer-reviewed books from hundreds of publishers. N.B.: Some books have partial content only.
EBSCO eBook Open Access Collection
Over 2,500 Open Access electronic book titles.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership
Electronic text editions of Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Full text is also searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.
E-books covering many aspects on law plus subjects in social policy, education, and business. The titles have yellow dots.
Firenze University Press: Open Access Ebooks
Over 1,000 Open Access electronic books covering a wide range of subjects.
Google's free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally. They are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free.
Humanities Open Book Collection
Open access collection of outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities available as free e-books. Once you open a title you can download in EPUB or Mobi format.
Electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920 compiled by the University of Michigan.
Monographs across the Humanities and Social Sciences fields. Publishers include Fordham University Press, NYU Press, Cornell University Press, University of California Press, Princeton University Press, and Yale University Press. Growing collection.
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
OAPEN - Open Access Publishing in European Networks
A quality controlled collection of books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
Is changing the nature of the traditional academic book with books published in hardback, paperback and e-book editions, and also publishes free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via their website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere.
This is a search engine for PDF files with over 80 million electronic books that one can download for free.
Offers thousands of free high quality electronic books.
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Archive of rare books, manuscripts, and images from the 9th-20th centuries available at PENN Library collections.
Offering a wide range of books in the areas of science, technology and medicine (STM).
Textbook Revolution http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you’ll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)
An initiative to increase access to humanities and social sciences scholarship formed by the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses including Fordham University Press.
University of Michigan Press (On Fulcrum Platform)
Hundreds of Open Access Books and hosted by UMP's Fulcrum platform and non-profit infrastructure built by, and for, the academy and includes Michigan Asian Studies Open Access Books Collection.
University of California Press - Open Access Monographs
This is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing programme for peer reviewed research and scholarly works.
UNICEF website providing statistics and data on the situation of children and women throughout the world. Some data is downloadable to MS Excel.
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature searches across a wide variety of disciplines and sources like articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
The Open Data Center (ODC) is a redesigned and expanded version of the NJ YourMoney website established in 2010. All state data is now accessible with sophisticated filtering, sorting and charting capabilities.
The NYC Open Data portal is a powerful tool that ensures transparency and fosters civic innovation to help improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Data is gathered by the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT).
NYC Planning's Population FactFinder allows you to define study areas within New York City easily and examine detailed population profiles showing critical demographic, social, economic, and housing statistics, and how these statistics have changed over time.
Official site for data published by the US Census Bureau. Contains content previously available from American FactFinder including population, economic, housing, and geographic information and data about the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas. Data Gems is a series of short videos available for data users who are looking for an easy and quick way to enhance their knowledge of Census data and concepts.Comprehensive database on international development finance and foreign aid, accompanied by a variety of innovative web-based applications for data analysis.
Approximately 2 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums and institutions such as Cornell University, Colby College, RISD, and MIT.
A full-text, open archive and distribution server for theoretical and applied scientific research papers. Hosted by Cornell University. Covers 1991 to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The Getty provides open access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art (RILA). These citation databases, searchable together, cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.
Digitised books, journals, images and collections from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries creating a global “biodiversity commons” of significant biodiversity materials. Includes the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is hosted by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory,
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality
Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Supports a wide range of students and researchers exploring the ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. and movements such as Black Lives Matter.
Center on Media and Child Health
Database of emerging research from academic journals in a variety of disciplines, including medicine, education, sociology, psychology, gender studies, communication, and more that reveals the evidence behind the ways media, youth, and health intersect. Note: The Center on Media and Child Health is evolving into the Digital Wellness Lab. Access might end during the 2nd half of 2021. UPDATES WILL BE POSTED.
Free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
A free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, it enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. Owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.
Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.
FAOis a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO works with countries and partners in pursuit of its overriding goal of eradicating hunger. Key to this concerted effort is the sharing of information to raise awareness and advance knowledge of food, agriculture, natural resources and related economic development. As a lead global publisher, FAO brings together multidisciplinary knowledge in statistical yearbooks and analyses, global assessments, reviews and outlooks, guidelines, manuals and specialised studies.
Feminae: Medieval women and gender index
Covers journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.
Access to New York consolidated and unconsolidated laws, court acts and rules
ILOSTAT - International Labour Organisation
Data for over 100 indicators and 165 economies. Links to annual data prior to 2008 in LABORSTA (Int'l Labour Office).
Online archive of IMF publications, dating back to 1946. Content includes Books and Analytical Papers, Notes and Manuals, Official Reports, Documents, and Periodicals. Information such as statistical data, blogs, podcasts, videos, country information, and additional databases can be found from the IMF Sites button at the top right of any page.
IMF International Financial Statistics
Economic statistics for all countries compiled by the IMF. Includes thousands of time series appearing on IFS Country Pages and World Tables. Also includes International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade, Government Finance Statistics, and more. CLICK ON MORE FOR REGISTRATION & LOGIN INFORMATION.
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Open Access content in a variety of formats. Search for Ebooks, E-Journals, Images and Special Collections hosted on JSTOR all freely available to access.
Free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
Moving Image (Internet) Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artefacts in digital form. A rich core collection of archival movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Provides open access to over 800,000 images digitised from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.
Open Library of the Humanities
International library consortium with the sole mission of advancing open access to research in academic journals across the humanities disciplines. All academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.
Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, this OA resource brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, audio, and video recordings from the world’s digital collections.
Online archive of public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.
Designed to aid in the study and analysis of Greek and Roman literature, it includes full texts (in English and original language), a word study tool, links from text to maps, footnotes and definitions. Hosted by Tufts University.
Reports from all over the world on population trends, health, and the environment.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Open access). Full text graduate works available for free download to all users with Internet access.
Open Access Books and Journals on the Project Muse platform. This database applies non-standard use of Boolean operators.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
A non-profit organisation dedicated to making scientific literature freely available by publishing a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Includes submission of papers that have been shared
as preprints.
Open archive of the social sciences, providing a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.
The UNESCO Digital Library is a key tool for enabling UNESCO’s mission of building peace in the minds of people, in particular by “advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding, and encouraging cooperation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, including the exchange of publications, objects of artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Books, journals and other intellectual output of the World Bank.
This is a global science gateway comprising national and international scientific databases and portals while accelerating scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world.