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Freely Available and Open Content : Freely Available Research Resources
Tips and sources for finding and accessing high quality information resources to use in research and teaching whether or not you're associated with the UW-Madison.
Libraries are a Great Place to Start
- Find a Local Public Library in the U.S.In addition to loaning books and possibly borrowing books for you from other libraries, public libraries also license online databases and e-books. Your library card may allow remote access to these resources.
- Find a Nearby Academic Library in the U.S.Many academic libraries allow visitors to use their licensed databases on campus. Check the web site of the academic library you would like to visit for details.
- Find a Library Outside of the U.S.Connecting with any nearly library can help you navigate the information landscape wherever you are.
- WorldCatA combined catalog of over 1.5 billion books, journals, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, and other items in thousands of libraries worldwide. Click on the title of an item you find through a search to view available locations.
Large General Collections of Freely Available Research Content
- JSTOR Early Journal ContentJournal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere is available free.
- Google ScholarMany articles you find here are available by subscription only, but others with include links to open access versions.
- The Free LibrarySubject-based links to freely available articles
Discipline-based Collections of Freely Available Research
- arXiv.orgrepository of preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance
- PLOS ONEReports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine; includes systematic review, negative results and more
- PubMed CentralFulltext archive of biomedical and life scinces journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
- Social Science Research NetworkThe SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 135,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 105,400 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
- Open Humanities PressInternational, scholar-led open access publishing collective contains leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide, both books and articles
Listings of Freely Available Resources
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journalscommunity-curated online directory of open access, peer-reviewed journals
- Guide to Historical U.S. Newspapers OnlineThis guide, created by a librarian at Bowling Green University, attempts to provide links to every publicly accessible digitized historical newspaper in the United States.
- Wikipedia List of Free ResourcesA wikipedia page for collating general and subject-specific free, web-based resources.
Collections of Freely Available Books Online
- Google BooksSearch and preview millions of books and journals digitized from library collections including UW-Madison. Titles known to be out of copyright may be available in full.
- Hathi TrustThis cooperative system contains millions of books scanned from major research libraries, including those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive. Search on information about the book (such as author or title), or words in the text. Full text is available for items that are not protected by copyright.
- Project GutenbergOver 53,000 free e-books, most published before 1923, are available for download
Location-based Free Access
JSTOR is associated with two initiatives to eliminate archival journal fees on JSTOR in certain geographic areas. Not-for-profit institutions in these areas are eligible to participate, including colleges, universities, secondary schools, government and non-profit organizations, and museums
Freely Available Area Studies Resources
- Africa Cartoons: An Encyclopedia of Encyclopedia of African Political CartooningAn educational encyclopedia of Africa political cartooning and cartoonists
- African Journals Online (AJOL)Peer-reviewed articles on Africa
- African Law LibraryA project to collect and make available laws and court cases for all African countries. Volume varies by country.
- ANNOAustrian Newspapers online historical and free access
- Archive of African JournalsScholarly journals in African studies digitized by the e-journal project at Michigan State University.
- Asian Development BankIncludes publications and data related to the work of the ADB
- CAIRNFrancophone publications in the humanities and social Sciences with some free open-access fulltext articles.
- Central European Journal of Social Sciences and HumanitiesListing of open access journals related to Central and Eastern Europe
- CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)Fulltext journal articles, working papers, policy briefs, special reports, research papers, commentaries and analysis, books, videos and country data and maps.
- Cyber Leninka «КИБЕРЛЕНИНКА»Russian language resources
- dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbeandigital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean
- The European LibraryAccess to online resources from European national libraries and Europeana arts-related collections.
- German Studies WebListing of freely available German language collections and resources curated by Western European Studies librarians
- Guide to Non-English Language News OnlineIntended as a collection of news resources for language students.
- Latin American & Spanish VideosGuide to these videos from SUNY: Albany libraries
- Latin American Business Environment Reportsfrom the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida
- Open EditionFrench language resources
- Panjab Digital LibraryCollection of materials from the Panjab region
- redalycSpanish and Portuguese language resources
- SciELOOpen access journal collection supporting visibility of and access to scientific literature in and from parts of Latin America the Iberian Peninsula, and South Africa.
- ZefysGerman historical newspapers