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Open Access Repositories
ArXive.org This link opens in a new window
A fully automated electronic archive covering physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
Academia.edu: Open Access Library
Academia.edu has over 28 million academic papers to explore from by millions of researchers around the world. Create a free account for limited searches and access to articles.
bioRxiv
The preprint server for biology
ChemRxiv
ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
Dimensions
Linked research data from idea to impact. Dimensions is a comprehensive research grants database which links grants to millions of resulting publications, clinical trials and patents.
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Nearly 50,000 open access books that are peer reviewed, scholarly, and covering a broad range of subjects/disciplines.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to over 15,000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Epistoemonikos
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.
Google Books
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
Humanities Commons Core
CORE is open access for the humanities.
IntechOpen
Open Access books and journals. Many science related
JURN
A curated academic search engine that indexes thousands of free ejournals in the arts & humanities.
MDPI Journals
MDPI currently publishes 417 peer-reviewed journals, and 9 conference journals which are dedicated to publishing outputs from academic conferences.
medRxiv
The preprint server for health sciences
OSF Preprints
Leading preprint service providers use this open source infrastructure to support their communities.
OSTI.gov (Office of Scientific and Technical Information
OSTI.gov provides free public access to over 282,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature primarily from 1991 forward.
PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PEDro has been informing physiotherapy practice for over 23 years. It is a free database of over 59,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.
PLOS
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher for researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
Project Gutenberg
Access over 40,000 free eBooks
Scilit
The name Scilit uses components of the words “scientific” and “literature”. This database of scholarly works is developed and maintained by the open access publisher MDPI.
Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists using a new method to collate data and indexing scientific material. Our crawlers extract the latest data from CrossRef and PubMed on a daily basis. This means that newly published articles are added to Scilit immediately.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN´s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 65 disciplines.
TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content. Our motto is ‘Find evidence fast’ and this is something we aim to deliver for every single search.
UNESCO OA Digital Library
Building peaceful, democratic and inclusive knowledge societies across the world is at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate. Universal access to information is one of the fundamental conditions to achieve global knowledge societies. This condition is not a reality in all regions of the world.
In order to help reduce the gap between industrialized countries and those in the emerging economy, UNESCO has decided to adopt an Open Access Policy for its publications by making use of a new dimension of knowledge sharing - Open Access.
Abstract and Indexing Database
Dimensions
Create an account to access an abstracting and indexing database that that offers the most comprehensive collection of linked data in a single platform; from grants, publications, datasets and clinical trials to patents and policy documents. Because Dimensions maps the entire research lifecycle, you can follow research from funding through output to impact. It has transformed the way research is discovered, accessed and evaluated. Many resources are available as open access.
Open Access Books
InTech
The "largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine." As of this writing, includes 2420 books and 6 journals.
University of Missouri Press Books via MOspace
A directory of the University of Missouri Press books available with Open Access via the MOspace institutional repository.
