BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

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https://www.base-search.net/

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BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

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Betham Open - Academic Articles

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https://benthamopen.com/index.php

Freedom to Access - BENTHAM Open publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all. - Academic Journals (Apps & Resources)

CORE: World's Largest Collection of Open Access Research Papers

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://core.ac.uk/

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CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research worldwide and deliver unrestricted access for all. In doing so, we: enrich scholarly data using state-of-the-art text and data mining technologies to aid discoverability, enable others to develop new tools and use cases on top of the CORE platform, support the network of open access repositories and journals with innovative technical, solutions and, facilitate a scalable, cost-effective route for the delivery of open scholarship.

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DOAJ: The directory of open access journals

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://doaj.org/

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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.

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Elsevier

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/open-access-journals

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All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

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Google Scholar

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

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GPPL Digital Content & Databases

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English, History, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Art, Business, Library Science/Archives

https://www.gppl.ca/EN/main/digital-content/browse-a-z.html

Access with Free Public Library Account

A list of digital resources available through your free public library card. Contact our school library or the public library to apply for a free public library card.

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GPRC Academic Databases

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https://libguides.gprc.ab.ca/az.php

In person access

A list of Grande Prairie Regional College Library Databases that students can access in person.

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How to read a scientific article

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm6pdg3uAPA

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USU Libraries. This video gives you tips on how to break down scientific articles into easy to read sections!

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Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact

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Library Science/Archives

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-10-73

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Bo-Christer Björk & David Solomon. In the past few years there has been an ongoing debate as to whether the proliferation of open access (OA) publishing would damage the peer review system and put the quality of scientific journal publishing at risk. Our aim was to inform this debate by comparing the scientific impact of OA journals with subscription journals, controlling for journal age, the country of the publisher, discipline and (for OA publishers) their business model.

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OpenDOAR: Global directory of open access repositories

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https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/index.html

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OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.

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Social Science Research Network : Elsevier

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm

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The SSRN, formerly known as Social Science Research Network, is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities and more. Elsevier bought SSRN from Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc. in May 2016 (Wikipedia).

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University of Alberta Libraries Databases

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Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Drama, Engineering, English, Food Science/Agriculture, History, Indigenous, Languages, Law, Medical/Health Sciences, Music, Library Science/Archives, Math, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Science, Social Studies, Teaching

https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/az.php?

In person access

A list of University of Alberta academic databases. Databases can be access for free in person at any of their libraries. When visiting one of their libraries in person go to the service desk to request a temporary ccid and password.

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