Resources

: A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. 

: British Movietone is arguably the world's greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986. Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky, via this channel.

: British Pathé is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world and is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivaled in their historical and cultural significance. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science, and culture. The entire archive is available to view online for free via the British Pathé website and YouTube channel. 

: Preprints in all areas of research in chemistry. Preprints are not peer-reviewed, are unedited, and are not prepared for publication beyond the author's original submitted files. 

: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Drawing online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. 

: Categorized, searchable links to free, full text academic peer-reviewed books. 

: Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It contains more than 10000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities. 

: The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types. Dryad’s vision is to promote a world where research data is openly available, integrated with the scholarly literature, and routinely re-used to create knowledge. The mission is to provide the infrastructure for and promote the re-use of, data underlying the scholarly literature.

: The channels by which today’s scholars discover relevant content are varied and wide. In this increasingly complex environment, institutions are seeking strategies to make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible. With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to meeting these goals by driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. The program is free for authors and participating institutions with the desired end of making significant open-access content more readily discoverable to end-users within and beyond academic institutions.

: It is a subject portal that contains open access publications for economics and business studies. 

: The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It is published by Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies. 

: Espacenet offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. 

: Internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. More than 2,000 institutions across Europe have contributed to Europeana. These range from major international names like the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library and the Louvre to regional archives and local museums from every member of the European Union. Together, their assembled collections let users explore Europe's cultural and scientific heritage from prehistory to the modern-day. 

: A multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaries and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Révolution française. 

: GitHub is a software repository. You can access software that has been marked as open and create your own account to share your own software. “GitHub is how people build software. With a community of more than 12 million people, developers can discover, use, and contribute to over 31 million projects using a powerful collaborative development workflow. Whether using GitHub.com or your own instance of GitHub Enterprise, you can integrate GitHub with third-party tools, from project management to continuous deployment, to build software in the way that works best for you.” 

: The Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others and allows you to replicate others' work. Researchers, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive appropriate credit. A Dataverse repository hosts multiple databases. Each database contains dataset or other databases, and each dataset contains descriptive metadata and data files (including documentation and code that accompany the data).

: HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. 

: As the leading ePublishing platform, HighWire Press partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of 1530 journals, reference works, books, and proceedings. The users of HighWire hosted publications include researchers, clinicians, students, and other scholars seeking the best online research from a vast database of full-text scholarly, high-impact materials. The HighWire portal offers advanced searching and browsing capabilities and tools, creating an alternative means to find and make sense of information from over five million full-text articles; create keyword, citation or author alerts; and download citations across all the content HighWire hosts. In 2008, HighWire announced the creation of its new platform, H2O. This platform incorporates the information technology's best-practices, standards, and architecture, providing HighWire's partners the flexibility to provide their online visitors to the latest features and best experience. 

: Founded in 1997, Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines and publishes over 200 open access, peer-reviewed journals. 

: This site is one of several services that use RePEc data. Indexes over 1.6 million items of research in Economics 

: The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. 

: The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications works in addressing global challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Most of their resources are downloadable free of charge. 

: InTechOpen has 2,984 Open Access books published, which is the world's largest Open Access book collection. This number translates to 43,664 scientific chapters - openly available worldwide for other researchers to read, download, share, reuse and serve as inspiration for new, potentially groundbreaking discoveries. 

: An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

: A practitioner-oriented, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published biannually by the Astana Civil Service Hub (ACSH) 

: For many years, scientists working in a variety of fields, specialists, engineers, and students have used Kaye and Laby as an invaluable reference for their work. At launch, this online version includes the entire, unedited contents of the 16th edition (published 1995) and is crammed full of tables of data, formulae, graphs, and charts. This information span topics from fundamental constants to fiber optics, superconductivity to Raman spectroscopy and many others. The contents will be regularly reviewed and updated to reflect advances and developments in the fields of physics and chemistry. 

: Database providing worldwide coverage of publications, including journal articles, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. It provides an ever-increasing number of links to online publications. Labordoc is the authoritative source for ILO publications. 

:Luminos is the University of California Press’s new Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as a traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared. 

: The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) is an alphanumerical classification scheme produced by the staff of and based on the coverage of two major mathematical review databases, Mathematical Reviews, and Zentralblatt MATH. It links up and aids searching of many mathematics and physics journals, which ask authors of research papers and expository articles to list subject codes from the Mathematics Subject Classification in their papers. 

: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications includes a description and table of contents for most titles, as well as information about the authors, reviews, awards, and links to related Met titles by author and by theme. Current book titles that are in-print may be previewed and fully searched online, with a link to purchase the book. The full contents of almost all other book titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF. 

: North Atlantic Treaty Organization e-Library offers Official texts of the Alliance, from the Treaty and its protocols to the Partnership for Peace documents, as well as the complete texts of all NATO Ministerial Communiqués since 1949. 

: The NIST Chemistry WebBook provides users with easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors. Data in the WebBook system are organized by chemical species. The WebBook system allows users to search for chemical species by various means. Once the desired species have been identified, the system will display data for the species. 

: The NYPL Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps. Visitors can browse already rectified maps or assist the NYPL by aligning a map. 

: Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters. 

: The purpose of OpenDepot.org is to ensure that all academics worldwide can share in the benefits of making their research output Open Access. For those whose universities and organizations have an online repository, OpenDepot.org makes them easy to find. For those without a local repository, including unaffiliated researchers, the OpenDepot is a place of deposit, available for others to harvest. 

: The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal. All the academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film, and new media studies, and digital humanities.

: OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. OpenDOAR is primarily a service to enhance and support the academic and research activities of the global community. OpenDOAR maintains a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories. It also encompasses archives supported by funding agencies like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe [...] Users of the service are able to analyze repositories by location, type, the material they hold and other measures.

: OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University. They publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. 

: Using PATENTSCOPE you can search 72 million patent documents including 3.5 million published international patent applications (PCT).

: PWT is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, inputs, and productivity, with country and period coverage depending on the release. On these pages, you find access to several releases of this data set, as well as documentation. 

: Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. This resource contains high-quality ebooks. All the ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. They were digitized and diligently proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required, but donations are welcomed. 

: Peer-reviewed, open-access online resource reporting scientific studies from all disciplines. Overview of articles, with guidelines for authors and reviewers. 

: QDR selects, ingests, curates, archives, manages, durably preserves, and provides access to digital data used in qualitative and multi-method social inquiry. The repository develops and publishes common standards and methodologically informed practices for these activities, as well as for the reusing and citing of qualitative data. Four beliefs underpin the repository's mission: data that can be shared and reused should be; evidence-based claims should be made transparently; teaching is enriched by the use of well-documented data, and rigorous social science requires common understandings of its research methods 

: A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 87 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, book chapters, and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data are then used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it. 

So far, over 1,800 archives from 86 countries have contributed about 2 million research pieces from 2,300 journals and 4,300 working paper series. About 46,000 authors have registered and 75,000 email subscriptions are served every week. See below on how you can be part of this initiative.

: A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the New Library of Alexandria (Egypt) took the initiative to promote knowledge of research methods and statistics: 

The FAQ on common statistical methods, 

Ability to ask questions via Help Desk to experts,

 More than 1,000 lectures from experts,

Developed examples of surveys translated into 8 languages,

Special applications for conducting research, etc.

: A portal that lists all types of open access resources: repositories, journals, monographs, etc. 

: This site provides a range of services and facilities including access to the Society's journals, news of recently published science and the opportunity to purchase our publications online. Its list of international scientific journals includes the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-present), the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication. Note that only a proportion of the Royal Society's journal content is available free only. For most journals, there is a one or two year embargo and archive access goes back to either 2001 or 2004. The exception is Open Biology, an online, fully open access journal, which publishes articles covering biology at the molecular and cellular level. 

: In partnership with CERN and other agencies specializing in atomic and nuclear physics, find the repository for high energy physics articles. 

: The digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, 9 major research centers, the National Zoo, and more. 

: The European Library is a membership organization for national and research libraries. Its members include 48 national libraries and an increasing number of research libraries. Through its portal, it makes the resources of Europe's libraries, including many special collections, accessible to the public. Through a single search box, you have access to over 200 million records including 24 million pages of full-text content and more than 7 million digital objects. 

: Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works and to undertaking and disseminating economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. Early research focused on the aggregate economy, examining in detail the business cycle and long-term economic growth. Simon Kuznets' pioneering work on national income accounting, Wesley Mitchell's influential study of the business cycle, and Milton Friedman's research on the demand for money and the determinants of consumer spending were among the early studies done at the NBER. Typifying its status as one of the United States' leading nonprofit economic research organizations, eighteen of the 33 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics and six of the past Chairmen of the President's Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. On this site, you will find a range of economic resources available free of charge in full text. 

: It is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). 

: It provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map 

: The 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. As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses, and news. 

: Trusteeship magazine reports trends, issues, and practices in higher education to help board members and chief executives better understand their distinctive and complementary roles and to strengthen board performance. It is published bimonthly for AGB members. 

: Free access to detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables.

: UNCTAD - is a permanent intergovernmental body established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1964. Provides authoritative data and analysis on trade, investment, finance and technology. And it offers solutions to the major challenges facing developing countries, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable nations. 

: UNESDOC is UNESCO's database of documents and publications since 1945. Subjects covered include education, the sciences, culture, communication, and information. Where full text is not available, an option to purchase is provided. 

: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.

: The World Bank's new site provides a huge library of data on worldwide development. 

: The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. 

: The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films. More than 100 languages are represented on the WDL, including many lesser-known and endangered languages. 

: Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. There is also a free standalone version available for every major operating system. This will help you keep your citations and projects organized!