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Here is a list of Open Access: E-Books, E-Journals and Academic Research Database Sites (Updated November 2024)
Here is a list of Open Access: E-Books, E-Journals and Academic Research Database Sites (Updated November 2024)
Archive of Market and Social Research (AMSR)
https://amsr.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/
The Archive of Market and Social Research offers a comprehensive national resource for all those interested in market and social research.
It contains published papers, journals, books and newsletters on UK market and social research over the last 90 or more years. It includes research studies, survey results, technical developments, state-of-the-art reviews, biographical details and key historical documents. Many of these have never been publicly available before, due to commercial confidentiality or membership-only circulation. The focus is mainly on British publications, but material from other countries is included where appropriate. New material is constantly being added.
arXiv e-Print Archive
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.
Bielefeld Academic Search
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, and it offers more than 100 million documents from more than 4,000 sources. Sixty percent of its content is open access, and you can filter your search accordingly.
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.
Boon Books
http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks
Boon Books offers free online textbooks, particularly in the business studies area.
British Library DART Europe
https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php
Enables search and discovery of the British Library's main catalogue of nearly 57 million records, and the contents of the Library's website. Free online texts and images. Print resources can be borrowed via your public library.
CIA The Work Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.
CORE
CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research. It allows users to search more than 66 million open access articles.
Databank by World Bank Group
https://databank.worldbank.org/home.aspx
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
Ddblp Computer Science Bibliography
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.
Digital Library of the Commons
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories
https://doapr.coar-repositories.org/repositories/
This directory provides a list of preprint repositories that are available to the research community. It helps researchers find the most appropriate platform for them, enabling them to browse through existing repositories by discipline, location, language, functionalities, and other facets.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)
DOAB is the Directory of Open Access Books and is a service of OAPEN Foundation. Its primary aim is to make open access books more discoverable. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB to increase the visibility and circulation of their publications, helping scholars and students to discover the books. They now have over 3,500 books mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Its aim is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals that have a quality control system (e.g. peer review) in place, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. Today it contains more than 10,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
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 for open access material only.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
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. The service primarily indexes journals, grey literature (such as technical reports, white papers, and government documents), and books. All sources of material on ERIC go through a formal review process prior to being indexed.
Europe PubMed Central Gov.uk
Europe PubMed Central offers free access to a large and growing collection of biomedical research literature. The database also contains Patents, NHS (National Health Service) guidelines, and Agricola records.
Google Arts & Culture
https://artsandculture.google.com/
Google Arts & Culture is an online platform that partners with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions globally to make art, history, and cultural heritage accessible to a wider audience through digital content. Launched by Google in 2011, the platform provides virtual tours, high-resolution images of artworks, and interactive experiences that allow users to explore art, artifacts, and historical sites from anywhere. Google uses technologies like gigapixel photography and virtual reality to create immersive experiences, including 360-degree tours and zoomable images, so users can view fine details of famous artworks.
Google Books
Google Books is a service that let you search for full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.
Google Scholar
A simple way to search for scholarly literature. Enables searching across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Gov.uk
Reliable source of government data and statistics.
Greenfile
https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/greenfile
GreenFILE is a free research database covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources.
National Academies Press (NAP)
NAP offer more than 5,000 titles, almost all can be downloaded for free, from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and other U.S. public bodies.
National Portrait Gallery - School Hub
https://www.npg.org.uk/schools-hub/
The National Portrait Gallery's new "Schools Hub" is an online educational resource designed to support Art & Design and History learning in schools through portraiture. Launched in September 2023, the platform includes over 160 resources, such as artist-led demonstrations, interactive lessons, and interviews with creatives like Pogus Caesar and Curtis Holder. Developed in consultation with teachers and historians, these materials are tailored to the UK National Curriculum and cover diverse themes such as Black British history, migration, and identity expression in British society.
OpenDOAR
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.
OAPEN library
A library of open access quality assured (e.g. peer reviewed) books available for download. The library is focused mainly on the humanities and social sciences. The books are published in a number of European languages.
Open Access Network
https://open-access.network/en/information/subject-specific-open-access
Developed collaboratively by the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universities of Goettingen, Konstanz, and Bielefeld, open-access.net provides comprehensive information on the subject of Open Access. This page in particular provides specific information on open access (OA) in different disciplines. Experts from the respective disciplines have compiled this information, including on disciplinary repositories and relevant OA journals in the discipline in question.
Open Research Library
https://openresearchlibrary.org/home
Created by Knowledge Unlatched with input from major academic publishers, Open Research Library provides a gateway to free open access books online. Browse by genre or search directly.
Our World In Data
https://ourworldindata.org/about
Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication and research project that compiles and visualizes data on major global challenges, providing accessible insights on a wide range of topics including poverty, health, education, climate change, energy, and economic growth. Founded by economist Max Roser at the University of Oxford, OWID aims to make complex data understandable and usable for anyone interested in learning about progress and issues in global development.
The platform combines interactive charts, maps, and written summaries to present historical trends and current data in each area. The data is drawn from reputable sources like the World Bank, United Nations, and academic studies, and is regularly updated to ensure accuracy. OWID's content is open-access, making it a widely-used resource for researchers, educators, policymakers, and the general public. The site is particularly popular for its data visualizations, which allow users to explore metrics across countries, time periods, and specific indicators.
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."
Pubmed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed, of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, is a very well-known research platform in the fields of science and medicine. It offers access to "more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books." While many resources are behind paywalls, you can filter your search to view free full texts only, making this an even more valuable resource.
Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
Peer reviewed encyclopaedia contributed to by experts.
Science Open
Functioning as a research and publishing network, ScienceOpen offers open access to more than 28 million articles in all areas of science. Although you do need to register to view the full text of the articles, registration is free. The advanced search function is highly detailed, allowing you to find precisely the research you're looking for.
Social Science Research Network
https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/
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 papers. There is not yet a specific option to search for only full-text articles, but because most of the papers on the site are free access, it is not often that you encounter a paywall. You must become a member to use the services, but registration is free and enables you to interact with other scholars around the world.
The Open University (Free Online Resources List)
https://www5.open.ac.uk/library/library-resources/publicly-available
This list gives you a wide range of freely available information sources, including ebooks, full-text journals, images, reports, statistics and source material.
Unpaywall
Harvests Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and makes it easy to find, track, and use. Just install the extension to the Chrome browser for easy access to over 28 million open access articles.
Wiley Open Access
https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/index.html
Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share.
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