Open Access Resources are materials that have been made available to the general public, free of charge: data and datasets, books and articles, including scholarly research articles.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of DOAB Foundation. this is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB contains the metadata of ‘free to share’ e-books and provides direct links to the full text of the publications on the websites of the publishers.
The collection covers all disciplines but focuses in particular on humanities, law and social sciences.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Journals can be browsed by title or by broad subject area. Articles are searchable by article author or title, ISSN, journal title, abstract, or key words. Full-text is not searchable but is fully accessible.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar a free accessible engines that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books,
Within Google Scholar you may conduct searches by keyword, author and article title.
JSTOR Open Content
JSTOR offers a growing list of Open Access ebooks from respected presses, freely available for anyone in the world to use.
Project Gutenberg
is a library which has a collection of books in the public domain, made available for convenient reading on digital devices completely for free.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible peer reviewed academic books in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The collection contains books that are ‘free to read’ and books that are ‘free to share’. That depends on which open access licenses the authors have chosen and which are mostly based on Creative Commons licences.
OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.
Online Newspapers.com
A directory of Newspapers from all Countries around the World.
The Scientist Magazine – Life Sciences News and Articles
Journals Open Access to Coronavirus Resources
Google Books
Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.
Google`s free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally: they are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 468 billion archived web pages.
Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”.
it has over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon.
Z-Library
Z-Library is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 5,330,000 books and 77,100,000 articles. We aim to make literature accessible to everyone.
Free Ebooks
Offers thousands of free eBooks to use anywhere you want. This is a great place to read self-published eBooks about pets, fashion, business, computers, development, fitness, cooking, religion, history, parenting, travel, psychology, self-improvement, and so much more.
Library Genisis
Libgen is a useful and comprehensive online portal that offers free access to millions of ebooks, articles and pdf files in a range of languages. With a special focus toward important academic and scientific research articles, books and collected papers, Libgen also provides access to a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books. This includes countless classic and contemporary award-winning novels in a range of popular genres, from sci-fi to high-fantasy and romance. Important works of poetry, comic books, manga, travel guides and recipe books are also all available at the click of a button. You can download these files directly to your computer or onto a handheld device, whether that’s a smartphone, tablet, kindle or other e-reading hardware. Popular file formats like epub, djvu, pdf and mobi are all widely available.
https://libgen.onl/#! Library Genesis – The Guide
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
Many Books
ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet. Many of the early eBooks are from the Project Gutenberg archives, which means you will be able to find a lot of classics on the site.
ManyBooks offers free books in a clean and friendly interface.
In total, over 50 thousand books are available, all with nicely designed covers. Plus, each book is available in several file formats, a lot more than what you can find elsewhere.
Sciencedirect
ScienceDirect is a website which provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic journals and 34,000 e-books.
Provides leading information solution for researchers, teachers, students, health care professionals and information professionals. It combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that you can stay informed in your field, and can work more effectively and efficiently.
openNCCC
openNCCC is a library of open educational resources that promotes exploration, creation, and collaboration with the goal of enriching teaching and learning in North Carolina and around the world.
Bookboon.com
Bookboon is an online publishing company of eBooks. Bookboon offers PDF eBooks which can be downloaded for free on the company’s website. All books are exclusively written for Bookboon by professors and experts within their fields of expertise. Subjects range from business books to university textbooks.
To explore, discover, and download its 1000+Free textbooks, Sign up here for free. https://bookboon.com/
Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online. It comprises 88300 titles from all areas of research, 17776 of which are available online only. In addition, 90402 journals, which are provided by aggregators, are listed. The EZB contains 55284 journals which are accessible free of charge to anyone.
Unpaywall
An open database of 28,342,017 free scholarly articles.
OER Commons
Open Knowledge Repository
This is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research output and knowledge products.
Digital Commons Network
provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. he Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Kritika Kultura
An open-access semi-annual peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies of the Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
DepEd Commons
is an online platform to support distance learning modalities. It was designed as a direct solution to give access to online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) during class suspensions and other similar circumstances.