Open Access information
The University Library has curated free resources on the internet which will be useful for ISU students and participants, alumni, local members of the Library and members of the public.
Open access articles and books
BASE Bielefield Academic Search Engine Voluminous search engine for academic publications
CORE The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public
Crossref is an official digital object identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation
Digital Commons Network Full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide
Directory of Open Access Repositories An authoritative listing of open access repositories
Directory of Open Access Journals An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals
Directory of Open Access Books The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books
E-International relations Open Access scholarly books
National Academies Press (NAP) Provides access to thousands of reports and eBooks written by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. From: National Academy of Sciences
OAIster Searchable catalogue of digital resources, including digitized books and articles, audio-files, films, images and datasets; this material that has been harvested from repositories around the world. From: OCLC
Open Access books on JSTOR Books from 100+ publishers
Open Access Publishing in European Networks The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences
Open Library of the Humanities A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs)
Open Access Publishing in European Networks The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences
Open Library of the Humanities A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs)
Project Gutenberg Online Library of free eBooks
Public Library of Science A nonprofit publisher and advocate of open access research. All PLOS content is free to access, distribute, reuse and remix
Social Science Open Access Repository SSOAR provides access to freely available journal articles and working papers
Social Science Research Network SSRN is one of the largest repositories of freely accessible research papers in the social sciences
Springer Open
Taylor & Francis Open Access Books
Subject-based literature and information search tools
AERADE The Aerade Reports Archive incorporates more than ten thousand, historically significant, digitised reports from: The Aeronautical Research Council (ARC) - the principal agency in Great Britain with a major output of reports on matters aeronautical, which existed from 1909-1979, and published reports until 1980 and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) - chartered in 1915 and operational from 1917-1958. From Cranfield University
AGRICOLA The catalogue of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world's largest research libraries for agricultural and allied subjects, includes records to resources from around the world dating as far back as the 15th century. Many of the journal articles it indexes can be found online. From: US National Agricultural Library
ArXiv
Research papers available for download on topics from physics,
mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative
finance and statistics disciplines. From: Cornell University Library
CERN Document Server Articles and reports in nuclear physics. From European Organization for Nuclear Research
CiteSeerX Digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science
CogPrints Electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and biology. From University of Southampton
DSpace@MIT Digital repository for MIT's research, including peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, working papers, theses, and more
EconStor Publication server for scholarly economic literature. From Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Google Scholar Search engine that indexes many different types of scholarly content including journal articles, books conference papers, theses and patents. Includes tools such as cited by which links to resources that have referenced a record, and ready-made citations for importing into reference management tool. From: Google
HAL Open Science French national open archive for scientific works of the researchers. From Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, CNRS, INRIA, INRAE
NASA SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Digital library for researchers in astronomy and astrophysics. From Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) NASA public database of NASA's current and historical technical literature
PubChem Collection of chemical information
PubMed Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE (the US National Library of Medicine's database), life science journals and online books. From National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S National Library of Medicine
SCOAP3 Open Access Consortium for Open Access publications in particle physics
USGS Publications of USGS scientists
Websites with Open Access publications
Thesis and Dissertations
DUMAS French Open Access Master thesis repository. From CNRS
Ethos Electronic theses from UK universities
NDLTD The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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