Below is a list of access to online resources and useful links gathered by the University of the Assumption Libraries that might be of help to our students and teachers for instruction, reference and academic purposes:

1. arXiv. The arXiv e-Print Archive has been around since 1991 and is a well-known resource in the fields of mathematics and computer science. It is run by Cornell University Library and now offers open access to more than one million e-prints.

2. AvaxHome. AvaxHome features an eBooks&eLearning section among many other categories.

3. Baen. Baen features categories such as science fiction and fantasy. It can download in a zip file. You need a special application to unzip the folder.

4. BioMed Central. BioMed Central provides open access research from more than 290 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology, clinical medicine, and health. You can browse these journals by subject or title, or you can search all articles for your required keyword.

5. BookBoon. BookBoon is the world’s largest publisher of online educational literature. They offer over 1000 free eBooks for you to download.

6. BookYards. BookYards provides education materials, information, documents, reference materials, and content that is free to anyone who has an internet connection.

7. Books Pics. Books Pics is a site that you can download free eBooks and magazines.

8. The Cia World Factbook. The CIA World Factbook is a little different from the other resources on this list in that it is not an online journal directory or repository. It is, however, a highly useful research database for academics in a variety of disciplines. All the information is free to access, and it provides facts about every country in the world, including information about history, geography, transportation, and much more.

9. Core. Core is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research. It allows users to search more than 66 million open access articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher's site, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.

10. dblp Computer Science. The dblp Computer Science Bibliography is an online index of major computer science publications. Although it provides access to both free access articles and those behind a paywall, you can limit your search to only full-text articles. The site indexes more than three million publications, making it an invaluable resource in the world of computer science.

11. Dryad. Dryad is a digital repository of curated, open access scientific research. It is run by a not-for-profit membership organization that aims to "promote a world where research data is openly available, integrated with the scholarly literature, and routinely reused to create knowledge." It is free to access, but note that there is a publishing charge associated if you wish to publish your data in Dryad.

12. DOAJ. DOAJ is amultidisciplinary, community-curated directory, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) gives researchers access to high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. It has archived more than two million articles from 9,519 journals, allowing you to either browse by subject or search by keyword.

13. EconBIz. EconBiz is a great resource for economic and business studies. A service of the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, it offers access to full texts online, with the option of searching

14. Ebook Bike. Ebook Bike features a huge collection of novels and audiobooks for you to read.

15. eBookLobby. eBookLobby divided into different categories such as business, art, computing, and education.

16. ERIC. The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), of the Institution of Education Sciences, allows you to search by topic for material related to the field of education. Links lead to other sites, where you may have to purchase the information, but you can search for full-text articles only.

17. EThOS. Run by the British Library, EThOS allows you to search over 400,000 doctoral theses in a variety of disciplines. Although some full texts are behind paywalls, you can limit your search to items available for immediate download, either directly through EThOS or through an institution's website.

18. FeedBooks. FeedBooks distributes over millions of books to an increasingly growing community of readers.

19. FreeBookSpot. FreeBookSpot offers lots of links to free ebooks in more than 90 categories. It is where you can find and download free books.

20. FreeComputerBooks. FreeComputerBooks ffeatures eBook categories such as Computer, Lecture Notes, Mathematics, Tutorials, Programming, and Technical books.

21. FreeTechBooks. FreeTechBooks is a site that you can download free computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.

22. Free eBooks. Free eBooks offers thousands of free eBooks to use anywhere you want. It features some of the best categories such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self-help, & Business.

23. GetFreeEBooks. GetFreeEBooks features different categories such as Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Short Stories, Horror Fiction, and many more.

24. Google eBookstore. Google eBookstore has an option to access free books from the huge collection that features hundreds of classics and contemporary bestsellers.

25. Internet Archive. Internet Archive offers more than 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. They also encourage our global community to contribute physical items, as well as uploading digital materials directly to the Internet Archive.

26. Issuu. Issuu gives anyone the ability to upload and distribute their publications worldwide. It has over 20,000 newly uploaded publications daily.

27. KnowFree. KnowFree is the number one resource for professionals to access free research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks.

28. LeanPub. LeanPub features eBooks on programming languages such as JavaScript, C#, PHP or Ruby and guidebooks.

29. LibGen/Library Genesis. LibGen is a search engine that helps you download books and articles related to science.

30. LibriVox. LibriVox is a platform that offers a free download of audiobooks all over the world.

31. ManyBooks. ManyBooks can read on most of the reading platforms like eReaders, Kindle, iPads, and Nooks.

32. Myanonamouse. Myanonamouse features over 2million torrents and free for all platform. It gives access to its huge database of free eBooks.

33. The Online Books Page. The Online Books Page is a website that gives access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It has over 2 million free books on the Web.

34. OnlineProgrammingBooks. OnlineProgrammingBooks is a free site that can download eBooks and online books including mobile app development, programming, computer science, web design, software engineering, information technology, networking, and databases.

35. Open Culture. Open Culture is a site that offers 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smartphone or e-reader.It features different categories that include great works of non- fiction, fiction, and poetry.

36. O’Reilly. O’Reilly is a platform to download books, magazines, and tutorials for free.

37. Paperity. Paperity boasts being the "first multidisciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers." Their focus is helping you avoid paywalls while connecting you to authoritative research.

38. PLOS. Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a big player in the world of open access science. Publishing seven open access journals, the nonprofit organization is committed to facilitating openness in academic research. According to the site, "all PLOS content is at the highest possible level of open access, meaning that scientific articles are immediately and freely available to anyone, anywhere."

39. Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg offers more than 57,000 free eBooks from the public domain. It is free to read and redistribute. There are no fees, and no custom apps required. You won’t find the latest bestsellers on Project Gutenberg, but you’ll find plenty of great classic books available 24/7 at no cost.

40. Semantic Scholar. A unique and easy-to-use resource, Semantic Scholar harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to efficiently sort through millions of science-related papers based on your search terms. According to the site, although some articles are behind pay walls, "the data they have for those articles is limited," so you can expect to receive mostly full-text results. Another feature is the extensive advanced search options, which allow you to search by cell type and brain region, among other things.

41. The Social Science Research Network. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a collection of papers from the social sciences community. The site offers more than 700,000 abstracts and more than 600,000 full-text

42. Top Free Books. Top Free Books offers thousands of books in all fields ready for download.

43. Zenodo. Taking its name from Zenodotus, the first librarian of the ancient library of Alexandria, Zenodo is a tool that was "built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in open science." You can sort by keyword, title, journal, and more and download open access documents directly from the site.

BASIC EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

1. Children's Library - can be access thru archive.org that has thousands of story ebooks for children.

2. Free Kids Books - children books for free download or read online, stories and textbooks and more, for entertainment, education, ESL, literacy, and author promotion.

3. The Fable Cottage - has some of children's favorite tales reinvented, with audio from a native english speaker. These stories are also available in Spanish, French, Italian and German.

4. Unite For Literacy - is a free online picture book resource supporting non-readers of individuals of different cultures. A community based organization supported by business who have partnered to supply online digital books to promote literacy.

Digital Libraries and Reading Applications for Grade School

1. Audible- https://stories.audible.com/

2. African Story Book- https://www.africanstorybook.org/

3. Buribooks- https://buribooks.com

4. Book Dash- https://bookdash.org/

5. Bushell Peck Book- https://bushelandpeckbook.com/

6. Epic- https://www.getepic.com/

7. Khan Academy Kids- https://learn.khanacademy.org/

8. Oxford Owl- https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Covid 19 Related Storytelling E-books for Children

1. Ang mga maskara ni Miko - Isang akda na nagnanais mapabuti ang kapakanan at maisulong ang maayos na pangkalahatang kalusugan ng bawat bata sa sitwasyon ngayon ukol sa covid 19 pandemic.

2. Isang metro: kwentong pambata ukol sa Covid 19 - Ang akda na ito ay inspirasyon upang magsulat ng ilang kwentong tumatalakay sa mga posibleng naiisip o nararamdaman ng mga bata sa iba’t-ibang sitwaston. Nais mapabuti ang kapakanan at maisulong ang maayos na pangkalahatang kalusugan ng bawat bata.

3. My Hero is You - written for children around the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The supplementary guide called “Actions for Heroes” offers support for addressing topics related to COVID-19, helping children manage feelings and emotions, as well as supplementary activities for children to do based on the book.

HIGHER AND ADVANCED LEVEL ONLINE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

1. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides access to education-related resources, including journal and non-journal bibliographic information.

2. Google Dataset Search - a search engine from Google that helps researchers locate online data that is freely available for use. Google Dataset Search complements Google Scholar, the company's search engine for academic studies and reports.

Open Access Online News Articles

3. BBC News - an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world.

4. Google News - a news aggregator app developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines.