Library- Open Access Resources
Welcome to our guide on Open Access Resources!
This guide is your entryway to a diverse array of resources available through the Open Access Initiative. Open Access materials come in various formats, including e-journals, e-books, theses, directories, e-print archives, digital repositories, educational resources, search engines, blogs, and more. These scholarly resources are invaluable for supporting academic and research activities and are freely accessible online, with minimal restrictions for users.
This guide is designed to help you quickly access a wide range of both national and international scholarly materials. While it is not exhaustive, it provides a solid foundation for your research endeavors. We continuously work to update and expand the list of resources.
We encourage your feedback and participation in enhancing this guide. Your suggestions and comments are vital in making it an even more effective starting point for accessing scholarly resources.
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ChEMBL
Open Access database of chemistry resources at European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). -
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing full- text and access to over 58 million structures from hundreds of data sources owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. -
ChemSynthesis
ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. There are currently more than 40,000 compounds and more than 45,000 synthesis references in the database. - A free bibliographic database offering over 200,000 records of all publications by American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
This database provides access to over 1.5 million educational literature and resources. -
PubMed
It is a database primarily of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An online directory that indexes and provides access to 10,000 + high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals covering all disciplines.
Some web based open accessible Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia.com
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- New World Encyclopedia
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®)
- Wikipedia
- Digital Library of India :One Library All of India:A Movement for Integrated Digital Learning Across India
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E-Books Directory:Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit your own ebooks, or add other resources you come across. Look below for the main directory of categories.
- These are the e-books which are freely accessible:
- Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB
- EOLSS - Encyclopedia Life Support Systems (UNESCO)
- GALILEO Open Learning Materials
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- McGraw Hill Access Engineering
- MERLOT
- Million books project
- OAPEN
- Project Gutenberg
- Teaching Commons Open Educational Resources
- The National Academies Press
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
- University Press ebooks, Purdue University
- HathiTrust Digital Library:HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
- Project Gutenberg:Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks
- Internet Archive:Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Million Book Project :An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project.
- Here is the list of popular e-print archives.
- Some of the major Indian publishers, who are offering their entire range of journals under open access
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
ROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. - Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
ROARMAP is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders. - SCOAP3 Repository
Hosts open access articles published under the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3).
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
- Here are the set of database and search engines providing access to search and retrieve patents.
- Here is the list of open research data repositories.
- Data.gov.in
- EarthChem
- European Variation Archive (EVA)
- Re3data.org
- UNESCO: Open Access Publications
- UNDP Projects
- World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository
- Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB)
- To browse the list of recommended scientific data repositories click here
- List of commercial publishers who are offering publication of open access articles in their selected Journals.
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EBSCO Open Dissertations
OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research. -
Contains metadata & full text of more than one million electronic theses and dissertations contributed by 125+ member universities & consortia. To visit the Global ETD Search - http://search.ndltd.org/
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Indexes theses and dissertations from well-known sources and provide direct link to the full text ETD.
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Provides access to full text of theses submitted by the researcher himself under open access initiative with PQDT open.
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ShodhGanga, India
A source for theses submitted to Indian universities, which includes biological sciences & engineering.