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Academic open access web resources, indexing over 120 million documents.
Providing open access results to over 400 million records and enabling access to over 40 million full text documents.
Provides free access to over 70,000 peer reviewed open access books on a variety of topics. Allows users to search the description of the books and then download the books from the site of the publisher. All books listed in DOAB have a full OA licence, making them 'free to share'.
Indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals from over 130 countries. There are over 11million searchable article records.
Due to a cyber attack on the British Library, EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) is currently unavailable. The British Library is working to restore the service. In the meantime, you can search for doctoral theses in the main BL catalogue.
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. For more information, see here.
Over 13000 Open Access eBooks; thousands of open access journal articles; over 20,000 research reports - from 113 policy institutes.
A not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who make high-quality research freely available to be either read online or downloaded. There are no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors. Monographs and textbooks published in all subjects.
Over 6000 full text , freely available, eBooks 'from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies' in the arts and humanities / social sciences subject areas.
Full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Subject areas : Biomedical Sciences; Life Sciences. Date coverage : The majority of articles date from 2008. A digitizing initiative provides an extensive collection of back-copies from pre-2008 with some dating back to the 1950s.
