OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES & DATABASES
OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES & DATABASES
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Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone. Any kind of digital content can be OA, from texts and data to software, audio, video, and multi-media. While most of these are related to text only, a growing number are integrating text with images, data, and executable code. OA can also apply to non-scholarly content, like music, movies, and novels. - UNESCO
Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone. Any kind of digital content can be OA, from texts and data to software, audio, video, and multi-media. While most of these are related to text only, a growing number are integrating text with images, data, and executable code. OA can also apply to non-scholarly content, like music, movies, and novels. - UNESCO
BiblioBoard is a digital library of self-published content uploaded from the Indie Author Project and offers unlimited access to eBooks and other multimedia content on many subjects and genres. BiblioBoard Open Access features interesting digital exhibits and collections from a wide range of partners and ensure global access to this content all with unlimited use and no restrictions.
Bahandian is the official Institutional Repository of CPU for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students. Access is generally unrestricted, in compliance with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting, which makes such archives interoperable and cross-searchable. This repository is managed by the Henry Luce III Library of the University.
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.
Philippine E-Journals is an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations. Its sophisticated database allows users to easily locate abstracts, full journal articles, and links to related research materials.
PHL CHED Connect is a web application that contains higher education course materials in text, media and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning and research purposes.
Bookboon publishes free and openly available textbooks and eBooks which can be downloaded in PDF with registration. It was established in Denmark in 1988 under the name of Ventus. Originally, it focused on a more traditional approach of publishing textbooks for students. Bookboon made a big leap in 2005 becoming the world’s first online book publisher to provide free textbooks for students. It later added business e-book solutions to its arsenal.
Globe eLibrary is a web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital storybooks and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources.
Project Gutenberg is an online library of over 60,000 free eBooks founded by Michael Hart in 1971. It was the first provider of free electronic books which can be downloaded or read online. Readers can find the world’s great literature here with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
Filipinas Heritage Library was established in 1996. This library is a private library of the Ayala Foundation’s Arts and Culture Division. Their collection is focused on books and other materials authored by Filipinos or about the Philippines, with a focus on Philippine history and culture. They have an Online Library with digitized materials organized by subject.
Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media and Society was first published in 2004 as a national journal of communication and has been released on a regular bi-annual basis (every June and December) since. It has since evolved to a more inclusive regional focus and has recently begun publishing papers from other Asian countries. Papers published in Plaridel Journal include original research in different areas of media and communication studies in the Philippines and Asia. These can be qualitative or quantitative work in media effects, industry, political economy, subcultural practices, and journalism studies, among others.
Philippine Journal of Science is an open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal on natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, and social sciences. PJS is published by the Department of Science and Technology and managed by Science and Technology Information Institute.
Free-Ebooks.net is a great collection of fun, entertaining selections. Categories include a few non-fiction topics such as career and business, but the selection of fiction and easy reading is what is most impressive about this website. Formats include HTML, PDF, ePub and Mobipocket, offering a range of variability for most digital reading devices. To download e-books, one has to sign up for an account for free.
Bookboon publishes free and openly available textbooks and eBooks which can be downloaded in PDF with registration. It was established in Denmark in 1988 under the name of Ventus. Originally, it focused on a more traditional approach of publishing textbooks for students. Bookboon made a big leap in 2005 becoming the world’s first online book publisher to provide free textbooks for students. It later added business e-book solutions to its arsenal.
Open Research Library is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly monographs which is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform.
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages.
ASEAN Digital Library is a regional project to aggregate and connect the digitized resources of National Libraries in the ASEAN region so that these repositories can be accessed through a single search facility.
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit, and distribute them at no cost.
Directory of Open Access Books is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
This online library features presents free online books (nonfiction) on a wide range of topics, like Art and Photography books, Business books, Health and Healing books, Craft and Hobby books, etc.
Open Book Publishers is the leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences based 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.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.
Junky Books is an online platfrom that provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free to everyone around the world. It was established in 2019.
Marayum is a dictionary-making tool funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that can be used as an online dictionary for Philippine indigenous languages.
KWF Diksiyonáryo ng Wíkang Filipíno ay hango sa database ng Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipíno na unang nalathala noong 1989.
The National Museum of the Philippines has books on Philippine history and culture available for free from their website. These books are digitized in PDF format and can be downloaded.
Ang Repositoryo ng mga Wika at Kultura ng Pilipinas ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) ay onlayn na imbakan ng mga impormasyon, saliksik, dokumentasyon, at iba pang mga kaugnay na pag-aaral sa wika at kultura ng mga pangkating etniko sa bansa.
The Commission on Human Rights’ library collection is accessible online and they also feature free online databases. The eLibrary contains information on their resources that specialize on human rights issues. The library accommodates research and scanning requests.
Licensed electronic resources (eResources) made available by the NLP through the Reference Division (RD) and Filipiniana Division (FD) are databases of online journals, ebooks, audiobooks, and other eResources.
DOST-Science and Technology Information Institute Library offers free access to its ebook collection. Registration is needed to be able to have access. Just click the link below and fill-out the form.
The largest online library of Filipiniana e-books which was designed for your easy access to Filipiniana works—those that are printed in the Philippines about the Philippines and written by Filipinos.
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
High Voltage is a fully open access journal co-published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI).
Following the IET's partnership with Wiley, the updated High Voltage homepage for the current Journal (2013 onwards) can now be found on the Wiley Online Library (WOL).
IAFOR's online, Open Access journals conform to the highest academic standards of international peer review, and are published in accordance with the IAFOR publishing commitment to make all of our published materials available online.
License and Copyright Statement
Abstracts, research papers, and video footage are published under an IAFOR user license and are protected by copyright. Users may access, download, copy, translate, text and data mine, redistribute, display or adapt the articles for non-commercial purposes provided that users follow the guidelines set out in the IAFOR User License.
Journals and other forms of print and digital media will be made available by IAFOR to the general public on an online, Open Access basis. By publishing their work with IAFOR, authors enter into an exclusive License Agreement, where they have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to IAFOR as the publisher.
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