Open access sources
From Rockcliffe Library System
"Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of unnecessary copyright and licensing restrictions" --Peter Suber, Essay, "The Opening of Science and Scholarship," Publius Project, Feb. 5, 2009; a brief introduction to open access is here, an overview is here.
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- Business
- Economics
- Education
- Environment
- Entrepreneurship
- Government
- Health
- Language
- Law
- Library and Information Science
- Marketing
- Philosophy
- Science
All Subjects (collections covering multiple disciplines)
Arrow Discovery Service "... search 270,974 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures."
Digital Resource Commons search the freely accessible literature of Ohio university institutional repositories
Directory of Open Access Journals
GAIA Global, Area, and International Archive; a peer-reviewed publication program; GAIA volumes are published in both open-access and print editions; University of California
HathiTrust a shared digital repository
HighWire Press a repository of peer-reviewed content, with 1,211 journals from over 140 scholarly publishers; Stanford University
Hprints an open access repository for Nordic scholarly documents
Internet-First University Press
LAOAP Latin American Open Archives Portal
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
OAIster a union catalog of digital resources
Open Access Journal Collection a beta collection of 44 South African journals from Sabinet
Open J-Gate search 4,783 open access journals; over 2,000 are peer-reviewed
The Open Video Project "a shared digital video collection"
Sherpa Search "a trial search service for the full-text of material held in UK open access repositories"
SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository; " ... operated jointly by the Center for Digital Systems, the Institute of Qualitative Research (both are part of the Freie Universitaet Berlin), and by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences."
SSRN Social Science Research Network
Business
ISN Information Systems & eBusiness Network
Economics
ERN Economics Research Network
FEN Financial Economics Network
RePEc Research Papers in Economics; use NEP, New Economic Papers, to filter new additions to RePEc
Education
BEI British Education Index
ERIC Education Resources Information Center
NSDL The National Science Digital Library; " ... created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education."
Open Access Journals in the Field of Education compiled by the Communication in Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
Environment
Bentham Open search open access journals in "all major disciplines of science, technology and medicine"
KNB The Knowledge Network for Biodiversity; "a national network intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research on biocomplexity"
Organic Eprints "an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture."
Entrepreneurship
ERPN Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network
Government
Data.gov open access datasets from the U.S. federal government; launched May 2009
PolicyArchive a collection of "public policy research containing over 20,000 documents;" a project of IUPUI University Library and CGS
Health
Bentham Open search open access journals in "all major disciplines of science, technology and medicine"
BioMed Central Publisher of 196 peer-reviewed open access journals
HEN Health Economics Network
HubMed "An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database"
UK PubMed Central "free archive of life sciences journals"
Language
eLanguage a service provided by the Linguistic Society of America
Open Language Archives Community "a worldwide virtual library of language resources"
Law
FDsys "public access to government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies"
LSN Legal Scholarship Network
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository "... a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools."
World Legal Information Institute "894 databases from 123 countries and territories"
Library and Information Science
CiteSeerX Computer and Information Science Papers, hosted by the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
dLIST Digital Library of Information Science & Technology, University of Arizona
E-LIS E-prints in Library and Information Science
ERPAePRPINTS search for international digital curation and preservation research outputs from the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network and the Digital Curation Centre
Marketing
MRN Marketing Research Network
Philosophy
PhilPapers online research in philosophy
PhilSci Archive "an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science"
Science
ArXiv Cornell University; alternative interface for searching ArXiv and another which provides many formats for search results output, including xml
Bentham Open search open access journals in "all major disciplines of science, technology and medicine"
CiteSeerX Computer and Information Science Papers, hosted by the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
CSN Cognitive Science Network
CogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive
GEO-LEO Search for repository documents in the earth sciences
NARCIS The gateway to Dutch scientific information; "NARCIS provides access to 210,631 scientific publications (172,205 of which are full-text publications), 3,512 data sets, and information on researchers (expertise), research projects and research institutes in the Netherlands."
Open Science Directory an aggregated collection of over 13,000 open access science journals, developed by EBSCO and Hasselt University Library.
PhilSci Archive "an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science"
PhysDoc Physics documents worldwide
PLoS Public Library of Science
SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online; search a collection of science journals from Brazil
