SHS-Free Open Access Databases
Online Journal and Research Database
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EconBiz is an excellent resource for economic and business studies. It offers the option of searching all free access journals or only open access material.
EconStor offers more than 128,000 open access documents in the field of economics and allows you to search by author, year, document type, or collection.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a collection of information intended to educate investors on the conditions of the stock market called EDGAR, and it provides access to more than 21 million findings, including full texts of filings published in the past four years.
Boasting its status as "the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet," IDEAS indexes over 2.2 million items, more than 2 million of which can be freely downloaded.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research has compiled tons of research into an easy-to-use, searchable website.
STEM STRAND AND TECH VOC
Analytical Sciences Digital Library
The Analytical Sciences Digital Library "collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer-reviewed, web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences."
The Astrophysics Data System is run by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant. It offers three bibliographic databases with a total of more than 12.5 million records.
Run by Cornell University Library, arXiv.org provides open access to over a million e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Bioline International is a resource tool that provides access to open access research from developing countries to find authoritative sources on health, biodiversity, environmental changes, conservation, and international development.
BioMed Central provides open access research in more than 290 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology, clinical medicine, and health.
This repository of open access materials related to the study of cancer is run by the Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering team of Maastro Clinic in Maastricht which includes clinical protocols, publications, and datasets.
CERN Document Server is where you can find the CERN scientific output (articles, preprints, reports, CERN Annual reports, Yellow Reports, CERN Bulletin, etc.). The books, proceedings, standards and periodicals can be found on the CERN Library Catalogue.
CHBD: Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database
The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database contains 6,800 records related to human health in the circumpolar region (i.e., the area around one of Earth's poles).
ChemBioFinder requires registration, but signing up for this free service will give you access to research related to chemistry and biology.
CiteSeerX is a computer and information science database. Here you can find links to scholarly articles and journals about related subjects.
Computer Science Technical Reports
This is a collection of computer science technical reports from the computer science department of Virginia Tech, as well as industrial and governmental research laboratories.
dblp computer science bibliography
The dblp computer science bibliography is an online reference for major computer science publications.
HubMed is a database of medical journals and articles.
MathGuide is a gateway to various scholarly resources in the field of mathematics, allowing you to sort through libraries, archives, journals, open access journals, and more.
Run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Agricultural Library is an incredible tool for research, allowing you to search by subject and view articles on the publisher's website.
PubChem is a unique tool for researchers, allowing you to search by bioassay, compound, or substance.
PubMed offers access to "more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books."
Science.gov offers 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information.
The research on SciTech Connect comes from the U.S. Department of Energy and includes research from the 1940s to today, over 400,000 articles are available as full-text PDFs.
This easy-to-use resource uses artificial intelligence to efficiently sort through millions of science-related papers based on your search terms.
The Springer Open portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies contains more than three million references.
VADLO is a life sciences search engine that allows you to search for methods, techniques, protocols, and more.
This is an excellent database for finding documents, authors, and journals related to mathematics.
Analytical Sciences Digital Library
The Analytical Sciences Digital Library "collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer-reviewed, web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences."
The Astrophysics Data System is run by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant. It offers three bibliographic databases with a total of more than 12.5 million records.
Run by Cornell University Library, arXiv.org provides open access to over a million e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Bioline International is a resource tool that provides access to open access research from developing countries to find authoritative sources on health, biodiversity, environmental changes, conservation, and international development.
BioMed Central provides open access research in more than 290 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology, clinical medicine, and health.
This repository of open access materials related to the study of cancer is run by the Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering team of Maastro Clinic in Maastricht which includes clinical protocols, publications, and datasets.
CERN Document Server is where you can find the CERN scientific output (articles, preprints, reports, CERN Annual reports, Yellow Reports, CERN Bulletin, etc.). The books, proceedings, standards and periodicals can be found on the CERN Library Catalogue.
CHBD: Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database
The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database contains 6,800 records related to human health in the circumpolar region (i.e., the area around one of Earth's poles).
ChemBioFinder requires registration, but signing up for this free service will give you access to research related to chemistry and biology.
CiteSeerX is a computer and information science database. Here you can find links to scholarly articles and journals about related subjects.
Computer Science Technical Reports
This is a collection of computer science technical reports from the computer science department of Virginia Tech, as well as industrial and governmental research laboratories.
dblp computer science bibliography
The dblp computer science bibliography is an online reference for major computer science publications.
HubMed is a database of medical journals and articles.
MathGuide is a gateway to various scholarly resources in the field of mathematics, allowing you to sort through libraries, archives, journals, open access journals, and more.
Run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Agricultural Library is an incredible tool for research, allowing you to search by subject and view articles on the publisher's website.
PubChem is a unique tool for researchers, allowing you to search by bioassay, compound, or substance.
PubMed offers access to "more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books."
Science.gov offers 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information.
The research on SciTech Connect comes from the U.S. Department of Energy and includes research from the 1940s to today, over 400,000 articles are available as full-text PDFs.
This easy-to-use resource uses artificial intelligence to efficiently sort through millions of science-related papers based on your search terms.
The Springer Open portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies contains more than three million references.
VADLO is a life sciences search engine that allows you to search for methods, techniques, protocols, and more.
This is an excellent database for finding documents, authors, and journals related to mathematics.
GAS STRAND
Archives Hub allows you to search subjects, finding relevant information stored in various archives around Scotland, England, and Wales.
CogPrints is an electronic database of self-archived research for which full texts are available includes work in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and biology.
SafetyLit directs researchers to theses, reports, and journal articles focusing on safety and injury prevention.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
The Smithsonian Libraries have compiled over 7.4 million resources that you can ask to view.
The British Library Catalogues & Collections
The British Library allows you to view digital galleries and online collections.
WorldWideScience.org connects researchers with authoritative sources about various science-related subjects.
Zenodo was "built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in open science."
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This should be a go-to resource for art majors, you can search for information by artist, artwork, or location and lead you to relevant articles from museums, newspapers, and other scholarly sources.
The Digital History website allows you to browse newspaper articles, journals, and general sources for content related to American history.
Fold3 allows people to search U.S. military records though you must pay to do a thorough search of your own ancestry, you can access a fraction of their records to find general info.
GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History
The Library of Anglo-American Culture & History is a great resource for history buffs through its compilation of journals, newspapers, and databases.
The Literary Encyclopedia provides tons of resources on literature, history, and culture.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service provides articles and other resources focused on criminal justice and drug-related information. It is funded by the U.S. government and provides links to full-text articles whenever possible.
Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
The mission of the Open Library of Humanities is to "support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities."
PhilPapers is an index of philosophy-related journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages of academics, and even allows you to browse over 1,000 philosophy journals.
PubPsych allows users to search psychology-related resources and directs them to articles and journals.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a collection of papers from scholars in the social sciences community and offers over 700,000 abstracts and over 600,000 full-text papers.
The Springer Open portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010 so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities, and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint.
State Legislatures Websites Directory
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) gathers information from throughout the U.S. to help you cite documents such as bills and statutes.
The SocioWeb is a search engine that guides users to sociological resources on the Internet, including websites, articles, and journals.
VET-Bib, of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, contains 80,000 references related to vocational education training though not all articles are in English, you can sort by language if needed.