Open Access E-Resources
There are many resources where scholarly content is made freely available online without restriction. These include books, chapters, articles and many other outputs. Below is a selection you may find useful to search for materials.
Books, Chapters, Journals, Articles and more
- AURA The University of Aberdeen institutional repository provides full text access to the University’s research outputs
- BASE A search engine for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources
- CORE An aggregate database of all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide
- F1000 Research OA platform An open research publishing platform for the sciences offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs
- JSTOR - Open and free content on JSTOR and Artstor, a not-for-profit multidisciplinary digital platform
- Knowledge Unlatched KU facilitates open access publishing and makes scholarly content freely available to everyone
- OpenAire One of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide
- Open Community Collections from Jisc feature freely accessible primary source materials in a wide variety of subjects contributed by libraries, museums, and archives
- Open Humanities Press Access to peer reviewed journals and books published by the Press
- Open Knowledge The official open access repository for the World Bank
- UCL Press Launched in 2015 UCL Press is the UK’s first open access university press publishing both high quality books and journals
Books
- Directory of Open Access Books DOAB aims to promote the discoverability of open access books and provides access to many titles from academic publishers
- OAPEN Online Library A collection of open access books
- Open Book Publishers As well as publishing in traditional formats Open Book Publishers provide free online editions of every title in various formats
Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals
- Open Library of Humanities OLH is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing high quality peer reviewed journals
- PubMed Central PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
- Wellcome Open Research Useful for medical sciences this is a platform for Wellcome funded researchers to rapidly publish their research
Theses
- DART DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses
- EThOS Search over 500,000 doctoral theses via the British Library and get instant access to digitised theses or scanned copies at no charge from participating institutions
- PQDT Open Read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge
- Primo Access to University of Aberdeen thesis
Quick Tools to Find Open Access Articles and Chapters
- Unpaywall Download the ‘Unpaywall’ button to Chrome or Firefox browsers to instantly find free, open access, versions of articles or book chapters
- Open Access Button Allows you to search for open access, free of charge, versions of journal articles and book chapters
- EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio) a browser plugin that helps you quickly access full-text PDFs by connecting you to your library's subscriptions as well as open access content
- Find preprints and other freely available versions on sites like SSRN, and discipline-specific preprint servers
Finally...
If you are unable to access an article you want to read you could always send a request to the corresponding author – many authors are open to receiving requests for articles via social networking sites or their personal website