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ABC-CLIO eBooks

Description: ABC-CLIO is a publisher of history reference books. Online, these books can be searched and used with features such as citation formatting and an online thesaurus and dictionary. There are no limits to number of simultaneous users accessing an online book in this collection.

ABC-CLIO eBooks

ACLS Humanities EBook

Description: The ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection (ACLS HEB) presents thousands of foundational books in the humanities and social sciences from hundreds of publishers.

ACLS Humanities EBook

AGRIS

Description: AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology. The database is maintained by CIARD, and its content is provided by participating institutions from all around the globe that form the network of AGRIS centers (find out more here). One of the main objectives of AGRIS is to improve the access and exchange of information serving the information-related needs of developed and developing countries on a partnership basis.

AGRIS

Al Manhal

Description: Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider. We are the world’s only provider of Arabic full-text searchable databases of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa & Asia.

Al Manhal combines deep publishing and library expertise with best-in-class technology to enable university, government, corporate, school and public library users to efficiently discover and access thousands of eBooks, eJournals, eTheses, intelligence reports, and conference proceedings from the Middle East, Africa & Asia's leading publishers and research institutes.

Archive of European Integration

Description: The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is a free to everyone electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Its focus is the post-War development, activities, and foreign relations of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Community (EC), and the European Union (EU). The AEI collects certain types of independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.

Open Access

ArXiv

Description: arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,127,356 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

Open Access

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B.C. Open Collection

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B.C. Open Collection

Base SantéPsy

Description: Francophone documentary database in psychiatry and mental health of the Ascodocpsy network.

Open Access

BazTech

Description: Polish database which is being created by over 20 scientific libraries; by our Library as well. It is the Polish Technical Journal Contents bibliographic database listing over 500 journal titles from the range of engineering and technology.

Open Access

BC Open Textbook Project

Description: The BC Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and managed by BCcampus. One goal of the project is to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources in BC by making openly licensed textbooks available. These texts are available for selection by BC faculty, and digital versions of the texts are free of charge to students. For those who prefer a printed copy, this format is available on demand for a low cost. This is the first government-funded initiative of its kind in Canada

Open Access

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Description: The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. The BHL is a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the biodiversity literature held in their collections. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library officially joined the BHL in 2014.

Open Access

BioOne Complete

Description: BioOne Complete is a collection of over 200 peer-reviewed journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. These journals are published by various small scientific societies and nonprofit publishers. The platform offers options to browse by journal title, publisher, or subject. Subjects covered include agriculture and agronomy, biodiversity conservation, ecology, entomology, environmental sciences, evolutionary biology, geology and paleontology, marine and freshwater biology, ornithology, plant sciences, veterinary sciences, and zoology.

Open Access

British Library EThOS

Description: EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

Open Access

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CAB eBooks

Description: CAB eBooks provides a unique opportunity to access CABI's prestigious titles in an easy-to use format. Books are indexed and retrievable as chapters. The full front file collection is divided into six core subject collections, constantly updated with the latest titles. The six subject collections comprise: 1. Agriculture 2. Animal & veterinary sciences 3. Environmental sciences 4. Human health, food & nutrition 5. Leisure & tourism 6. Plant sciences. As of May 2009, there were over 420 titles

CAB eBooks

Cairn.info

Description: Cairn.info is a French-language portal containing scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Much of the collection is in French, but it also includes an English-language international interface to facilitate use by non-francophones.

Open Access

ChemSpider

Description: A free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 130 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

ChemSpider

CogPrints

Description: An electronic archive of papers related to the study of cognition, including such areas as psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology.

Open Access

CyberLeninka

Description: This is a scientific electronic library built on the Open Science paradigm, whose main objectives are to popularize science and research activities, public quality control of scientific publications, the development of interdisciplinary research, the modern institute of scientific review, increasing the citation of Russian science and building knowledge infrastructure.

Open Access

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Dialnet

Description: Bibliographic database of articles, conference papers, book chapters, dissertations and other documents in the social sciences and the humanities published mostly in Spain and to a lesser extent in Latin America. Much of the content in available in full-text.

Open Access

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)

Description: DASH is Harvard University's central service for sharing and preserving scholarly research. In addition to the scholarly journal articles targeted by Harvard's several open access resolutions, you may use DASH to self-archive your manuscripts and materials. DASH supports a variety of file formats, and can accommodate materials related to your manuscripts (including data, images, audio and video files, etc.).

Open Access

Digital Library of the Caribbean

Description: The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. DLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Open Access

DigitalNZ

Description: Digital New Zealand is a Government collaborative project. It includes New Zealand content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups

Open Access

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Description: DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Open Access

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EBSCO eBooks Academic Subscription Collection

Description: This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

EBSCO eBooks Arabic Subscription Collection: Al-Kotob

Description: Serving the countries and territories of the Arabic League and beyond, this e-book collection offers thousands of multidisciplinary Arabic e-books to support researchers. The collection covers a wide range of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Cente)

Description: ERIC is an online library of educational research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. contain bibliographic records and a full-text database of education research and information.

EU Bookshop

Description: EU Bookshop is run by the Office for Official Publications of the European Union (also known as the Publications Office). It provides free access to the full text of all EU official publications issued since 1952. This includes all reports, documents and yearbooks from the key EU institutions and Agencies, covering all aspects of EU domestic and foreign policy, including issues relating to the EURO, EU accession and enlargement, legislation and political reports. Users can search or browse the website.

Open Access

Europeana

Description: Europeana.eu is a digital library containing images, texts, audio and video, from European museums, galleries, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.

Open Access

European Union Open Data Portal

Description: European Union Open Data Portal The European Union Open Data Portal is the single point of access to a growing range of data from the institutions and other bodies of the European Union (EU). Data are free for you to use and reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes. By providing easy and free access to data, the portal aims to promote their innovative use and unleash their economic potential. It also aims to help foster the transparency and the accountability of the institutions and other bodies of the EU.

Open Access

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J-STAGE

Description: Free full text online database of scholarly Japanese journals.

Open Access

JSTOR Journals

Description: collection of Open Access journals cover topical areas in sustainability and security studies, and offer broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Open Access

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LUNA Commons

Description: LUNA Commons is a source for “finding valuable, educational content from digital collections“. It is powered by LUNA Imaging, Inc.

Open Access

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Manuscriptorium Digital Library

Description: The Manuscriptorium provides access to all existing digital documents in the sphere of historic book resources (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents).

Open Access

McGraw-Hill eBook Library

Description: McGraw Hill's eBook Library is a powerful online resource that delivers an exceptional eBook collection, with notable content across subject areas, including: Medical & USMLE® Test Prep; Business; Computing & TAB Certification; Language; Student Study Aids. Users can access content through their library's collection, wherever and whenever they want it with new mobile features. Search is simple to use, and users can create personal accounts to save searches, set up alerts, and bookmark titles.

McGraw-Hill eBook Library

Memòria Digital de Catalunya (MDC)

Description: Cooperative repository from which you can consult, in open access, digitized collections related to Catalonia and its heritage or that are part of special collections of Catalan scientific, cultural and/or scholarly institutions

Open Access

Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

Description: Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

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NASA Technical Reports

Description: provides access to NASA metadata records, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.

Open Access

Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations

Description: The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that promotes creation, access to, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from academic institutions around the world. The NDLTD Union Catalog provides access to over a million ETDs.

Open Access

NORA (Norwegian Open Research Archive)

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is a national search service on the internet that offers access to research results , journals and publications related to higher education in Norway.

The purpose of NORA is to promote a coordinated and vigorous development of open institutional archives and to facilitate open access publishing in Norway.

Open Access

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OAIster

Description: OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.

Open Access

OAPEN Library

Description: The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. you can print and download as much of the book as you want without restrictions.

Open Access

OpenAIRE

Description: OpenAIRE is a European project supporting Open Science. On the one hand OpenAIRE is an network of dedicated Open Science experts promoting and providing training on Open Science. On the other hand OpenAIRE is a technical infrastructure harvesting research output from connected data providers’.

Open Access

ORBi

Description: Open Repository and Bibliography, This resource is an open access repository for University of Liege's scholarly and research publications, with usual embargoes placed by authors as necessary.

Open Access

O’Reilly

Description: The O’Reilly learning platform offers exclusive live training, interactive learning, a certification experience, books, videos, and more, making it easier for our customers to develop the expertise they need to get ahead. And our books have been heralded for decades as the definitive place to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future.

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Pascal Archive

Description: Pascal and Francis is an archive of the Pascal and Francis bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS since 1972 and hitherto accessible with a subscription. Three search modes are featured: simple, advanced, expert. You can also browse the content of PASCAL and FRANCIS by keywords (vocabulary) or by thematics (classification).

Pascal Archive

PhilSci Archive

Description: The PhilSci-Archive is an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. It is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community. The goal of the archive is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work.

Open Access

ProQuest One Business

Description

ProQuest One Business is designed to support the unique teaching & learning needs of business faculty and students, it is a user experience designed for business studies, prepares students for success, meets today’s challenges, and has a wealth of in-demand resources.

Developed in collaboration with faculty, students, and business librarians, ProQuest One Business delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface that helps students build the research skills they’ll need for success in their courses and careers. A business-focused interface intuitively guides users to content like journal articles, books, and company, industry, and country reports – the materials they need for their most common assignment

ProQuest’s Nursing & Allied Health Premium

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ProQuest’s Nursing & Allied Health Premium is a new solution designed to support the teaching, learning, and research needs of nursing and allied health students and educators. This new offering combines the Nursing & Allied Health Database and Alexander Street's Nursing Education in Video into an ever-growing collection within an immersive, discipline-specific experience on the ProQuest Platform.

Developed in collaboration with an advisory board of nursing and allied health faculty, researchers, and librarians, Nursing & Allied Health Premium delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface that helps students build the research and clinical skills they'll need for success in their courses and careers.

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RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)

Description: RACO (Catalan Journals in Open Access) An open access cooperative repository providing full-text articles from scientific, cultural and scholarly Catalan journal

Open Access

Repositorio Documental Gredos

Description: The Document Repository Management System of the University of Salamanca ( GREDOS ) offers online consultation of digital documents with historical, scientific, didactic and institutional content. The University of Salamanca disseminates in open access through GREDOS heritage collections, scientific documents and educational and information resources.

Open Access

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SciTech Connect

Description: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. SciTech Connect: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.

Open Access

Shamaa

Description: An open access database of literature on education in Arab countries. It indexes books, peer reviewed articles, theses and dissertations, reports and conference proceedings in Arabic, English and French languages. Availability: Bibliographic citations and selected full-text Date Coverage: 2007 - present

Open Access

SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository

Description: The Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) is a database of social science literature maintained by the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. It has over 36,000 texts which are open-access and provided by social scientists and social science research institutions.

Open Access

SveMed+

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Contains references to articles from Swedish and Nordic journals in medicine, dentistry and more. Most of the articles are not scientific.

IP: The articles have MeSH terms in both Swedish and English

Open Access

SwePub

Description: SwePub makes it possible to search among articles, conference papers, dissertations etc. published at Swedish universities.

Open Access

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