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Open Acces Databases/Journals

BASE Research This link opens in a new window BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is an online search tool for open access resources and documents. Hosted at the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, BASE harvests its data from open access scholarly repositories.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window Open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window free, open access, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window Open Access database of over 11,000,000 articles and books.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window Open Access peer reviewed journals.
OASIS This link opens in a new window Search Open Access OER Textbooks, course materials, video and audiobooks
Open Access Library This link opens in a new window Free Open Access to over 2,000,000 Academic Articles
Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window American Doctoral Dissertations™ has been expanded to offer greater coverage of 20th Century research as well as access to full text. The enhanced database includes more than 153,000 theses and dissertations in total, including 70,000 new citations for theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present.
OpenDOAR This link opens in a new window Directory of Open Access Repositories
Open Science Directory This link opens in a new window About 13000 scientific journals are available.
Paperity This link opens in a new window Almost 5 million open access international scholarly papers
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window Open Access: PubMed Central provides National Institutes of Health (NIH) articles about biomedical and life sciences.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window Open Access to government scientific research and more.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window Open Access world wide collaborative of over 301,700 authors and more than 2.2 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.

Budapest Open Access Initiative

Open Access (OA) scholarship is research that can be read online for free without copyright restrictions. Reaching the broadest readership without preventing those who cannot afford the high cost of journal publication, is the OA Goal.

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OER: Open Access Textbooks

Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window Thousands of Open Access Books

Grace Ebooks Hundreds of free PDF Christian ebooks. Search box is at the bottom of the page.

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window Provides preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources. Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Open Access
OER: OpenStax This link opens in a new window Open Access Textbooks from Rice University,

Open Access Digital Collections Worldwide Many digital collections worldwide.

OER: Open Textbooks This link opens in a new window Open Access textbooks from the University of Minnesota
Project Gutenburg This link opens in a new window 30,000 public domain ebooks with free open access

Open Access Audio and Video

Hippocampus Videos This link opens in a new window Open Access: Hundreds of secondary and post secondary instructional videos organized by subject.
LibriVox This link opens in a new window Hundreds of free open access audio books.
OpenCulture This link opens in a new window 700 free open access audio books.

Open Yale Course Open Access to Yale introductory course lecture videos from Youtube and iTunes.
MITOpen Courseware MIT Open Access to course lecture videos in YouTube and iTunes.

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