Open Access Guide

DART-Europe was founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe E-theses Portal is managed by UCL Library Services.

A not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.

Cambridge University Library's collection of Islamic manuscripts dates from the origins of Arabic scholarship in Cambridge in the 1630s when the University founded a Professorship in Arabic and William Bedwell donated a Qurʼān to the Library.

Royal Society of Chemistry. ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

This open access journal publishes work across all areas of the arts and humanities including media, culture, history, linguistics, religion and philosophy.

The largest international open repository in the field of library and information science.

ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

eLife reviews selected preprints in all areas of biology and medicine, while exploring new ways to improve how research is assessed and published.

Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 39.5 million publications, preprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources.

Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982, from the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Gateway to more than 46+ million records of trademarks, appellations of origin and armorial bearings, flags and other state emblems protected in various countries around the world, as well as the names, abbreviations, and emblems of intergovernmental organizations.

Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM)

A free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data.

Browse all free open research by the publisher.

The INIS hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. INIS is a unique and valuable information resource, offering global coverage of nuclear literature.

The project aims to help scholars share resources for the study of classical Malay literature.

A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Mission is to present high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish. Anywhere, anytime, on any device—for free.

ODS has full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents.

OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 5.6 million open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download.

An independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.

The database provides access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in full text format on the day of publication, as well as to patent documents of participating national and regional patent offices.

PubMed® comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions. re3data promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.

SCIRP is one of the largest Open Access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

UWP is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books.

A free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital, broadcast and publishing, we create opportunities for people to think deeply about the connections between science, medicine, life and art.

Download a free copy of the report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.

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