Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL)
ASDL, collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences.
Open access to 900,000+ e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University.
BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE, operated by Bielefeld University Library (Germany), is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. It provides more than 50 million documents (about 75% available in full text) from more than 2,700 sources.
Dedicated to open research, Biomed Central publishes over 290 quality peer-reviewed journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health.
bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. Hosted by The Pennsylvania State University.
DBLP – computer science bibliography
The dblp computer science bibliography is an on-line reference for bibliographic information on major computer science publications. Hosted by University of Trier, Germany.
Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all Open Access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Frontiers is a leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform
Our journals are led and peer-reviewed by editorial boards of over 100,000 top researchers. Covering more than 600 academic disciplines, we are one of the largest and highest-cited publishers in the world. To date, our freely accessible research articles have received over 500 million views and downloads and 1 million citations.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Work by Harvard Business School faculty members designed to serve as a “forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking from HBS faculty”. Navigation is solely by browsing; there is no search function.
Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with 577 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
IEEE Access is a multidisciplinary, online-only, gold fully open access journal, continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all IEEE fields of interest. Supported by article processing charges (APCs), its hallmarks are rapid peer review, a submission-to-publication time of 4 to 6 weeks, and articles that are freely available to all readers.
International Institute of Social Studies – Free Scholarly Resources
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s online business analysis journal. Network of websites that includes a global edition in English and regional edition in Arabic (which is currently on hiatus but will be reintroduced soon). One recent topic is “Nation Branding an Emirate: Lessons from Ras al-Khaimah”.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Provides access to digitized American historical materials including images, maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.
A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Our 228 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by over 35,500 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
medRxiv (pronounced “med-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
Occupational Outlook Handbook, from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career information includes hundreds of occupational profiles describing What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the upcoming decade.
Publisher of open access journals and books in the humanities.
PLOS : Public Library of Science
PLOS was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. PLOS launched its first peer-reviewed, open access journal, PLOS Biology in 2003, and currently publishes six others as well: PLOS Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS ONE, and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Project Gutenberg E-Books This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
[Abstract-only] PubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Open Library (Internet Archive)
“The Open Library (OL), a project of the Internet Archive, embraces the philosophical concept of ‘open to all’ in its most literal sense, providing free access to 20 million bibliographic records, 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and 200,000 ebooks for limited borrowing”. It’s goal is to “provide a page on the web for every book ever published.” It is also open in that any individual is able to edit and/or add to existing bibliographic records, be involved in the building of the site, and help develop applications that would enhance OL’s connection to other book sites. The site functions as both a digital lending library and a digital repository of books of all kinds.
SAGE Open is an open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
Scientific Reports (from Nature Publishing Group)
Open access primary research publication covering biological, environmental, health, and physical sciences.
Case Studies from the Urban Land Institute. ULI Case Studies showcase innovative approaches and best practices in real estate and urban development by providing a wide range of information on a variety of development project types in a searchable format.