What are Open Access Resources?

Open Access refers to resources (scholarly research articles, graduate dissertations, even books) that are freely available for viewing and/or use. These materials can be an excellent supplement to library resources.  Many scholarly and peer-reviewed journals have opened their back issues to open access and many other publications have established themselves to partial or total open access for all issues.  Throughout this page you will find many ways to discover and gain entry to Open Access materials. 

Below is a list of indexes and repositories that allow you to search and browse for open access journals. 

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

  The DOAJ consists of free, online, full text, scholarly journals on all subjects. Currently there are over 10,000 open access journals indexed here. Domestic and international publications are available, many of which are searchable at the article level.

• Digital Commons Network

  The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles, dissertations, and theses from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

• JURN

  Search millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses.

• Directory of Open Access Books

• Knowledge Unlatched

  An initiative designed as a collaboration between libraries and publishers to provide open access books.

• Open Book Publishers

  A collection of high-quality research available to readers around the world free of cost.

• Ubiquity Press

  "Ubiquity Press is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. "

• Project Gutenberg

  One of the original providers of free books online.

• UC Press E-Books Collection

  Collection of e-books published by university presses. Over 700 titles are available for public viewing.

• TRAIL Search

  Search U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975 and digitized by the TRAIL Working Groups.

• UNESCO Publications in Open Access

  "Contains over 130,000 free downloadable documents in six official languages covering all UNESCO fields of competence since 1945 and publications edited by the Organization."

• InTech Open Access Books

  SETM publisher of books and journals in biology, computer science, earth science, engineering, materials science, medicine, and technology.

• BioDiversity Heritage Library

  A collection of digitized public domain books and articles provided by a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries. Especially strong in 19th and early 20th century writings.

• Digital Culture Books

  "An imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and digital humanities."

• NASA e-Books

  DRM free, public domain (federal government) ebooks and reports from NASA on aeronautics, the history of the space program, space science, and more

• Getty Virtual Library

  Free digital backlist of titles in art history.

• iTunes U: Free E-Books

  The above link merely describes the books available. To access materials, you must first install iTunes to your device and access iTunes U from within the software.

• VideoLectures.NET

           VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository

• Machine Learning

           Google's fast-paced, practical introduction to machine learning. 

            A self-study guide for aspiring machine learning practitioners

           Machine Learning Crash Course features a series of lessons with video lectures, real-world case studies, and hands-on practice exercises.

• MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

            is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

• FreeVideoLectures

           FreeVideoLectures aim to help millions of students across the world acquire knowledge, gain good grades, get jobs, assist in getting promotions

           through quality learning material.

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