open access Databases

Asian Development Bank Open Access Repository Publications and Documents

Explore their data-rich research, policy analysis, toolkits, guidelines, and other resources on economics and key development topics.

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. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

World Bank Documents and Reports

The Documents & Reports (D&R) site is an official disclosure mechanism for the World Bank Group’s final reports. The repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public in accordance with the Bank’s Access to Information Policy to better share the institution's knowledge base. The D&R site contains final and official documents and reports from 1946 through the present, including: Board Documents (items concerning meetings of the Executive Directors); Country Focus (strategic priorities and directions for lending activities); Economic and Sector Work (in-depth background studies); Project Documents (loan/credit related documents released to the public according to the project cycle, including legal agreements); Publications and Research (formal publications, working papers and informal series from departments around the WBG).

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

[Note: Even though Global Development Finance (GDF) is no longer listed in the WDI database name, all external debt and financial flows data continue to be included in WDI. The GDF publication has been renamed International Debt Statistics (IDS), and has its own separate database, as well.]

Think Asia Open Access Repository (THINK-ASIA)-The Asia Think Tanks Secretariat is an initiative of the Asian Development Bank Institute and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. It maintains the Think Asia portal providing open access knowledge products from top think tanks in the region and organizes the Annual Asia Think Tank Summit.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, provided by DOAB Foundation.

The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

For graduate students, coverage includes business and economics.