Research
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Research
Access to Research Over 10 million academic articles are available, free of charge, in public libraries. Students and independent researchers can now access many of the world’s best academic papers through their local libraries.
Access to Research is in library use only.
Open Access Resources
Academic and research resources
Agris Database - Agricultural Science & Technology
Arxiv - 1,122,073 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
BiOne - Biological, Ecological and Environmental Sciences
EThOS - PHD Theses
Cogprints - Self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience and Linguistics and many areas of Computer Science, Biology, Medicine and Anthropology, as well as physical, social and mathematical sciences pertinent to the study of cognition.
DASH Harvard Open-access repository of research. Scholarly articles, theses and dissertations, papers, and reports authored by Harvard faculty and students
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Online directory of high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications CGP
Index New Zealand - National Library of New Zealand
Luna Commons - Open Access source of images for educational and public use
OAIster - Open Access digital resources
Oapen - Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks
SciTech Connect - Access to energy related R&D
Bournemouth University Research Online, BURO - Bournemouth University research outputs
European Union Open Data Portal - Integrated access to public data from EU institutions and agencies
NDltd - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Social Science Open Access Repository - Full text social science documents
SwePub - Academic publications at Swedish universities. Scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations
Scientific Electronic Library Online - Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks
Hathi Trust Digital Library - multi-disciplinary e-books
EU Bookshop - EU Publications
World Affairs Online - Social Sciences
Science Direct - multi-disciplinary journals
PubMed Central - free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine
Project Gutenberg - eBooks and eAudio
*DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
SpringerOpen - Multidisciplinary eBooks
InTech - Science & Technology e-books