Open Access Resources

Open Access Search Engine

  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Gettheresearch (GTR) Find and understand peer-reviewed research papers.

  • GET THE RESEARCH: Open Access Journals An Open Access E-Journal Search Portal.

  • OJAS: Open Access Journals An Open Access E-Journal Search Portal.

  • OpenDOAR: OpenDOAR is a global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies.

  • OER Commons: OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

  • Dryad Digital Repository: Dryad is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.

  • OpenLibrary: OpenLibrary is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

  • arXiv: arXiv Open access to 1,539,496 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

  • e-PG Pathshala: e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC..



Open Access E-books


Cambridge University Press OA Books: Free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform.

JSTOR Open Books: Open and free content on JSTOR.

OAPEN Books: OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Open Access publisher: Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.

Open Textbook Library: Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.

Open Textbooks: Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources.

OpenStax CNX Library: OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Books: There are 1000 plus eBooks available as Open Access.