The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Over 17 Million items are provided by Hathitrust and full text access to around 5 million items. Used by academic and research libraries as a means of digitizing their collections.
Provides access to more than 2,500 Open Access ebooks at no cost to libraries or users. These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content. Users won’t need to register or log in, and there are no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. The eBooks are also preserved in Portico, ensuring that they will be available to researchers in perpetuity.
Contains freely accessible academic books published in European networks, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. 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 deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Open access to 1,527,560 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
A web-enabled, linked, classified, and categorized collection of Open Access Databases which one can access from a single portal. Although initial focus is on science and technology subjects, the ultimate aim is to include all subject areas.
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. It contains seven online peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals.
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A wiki where the open access (OA) community can create and support simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Does not duplicate databases such as the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Part of the Open Access Directory.
Examples of subject areas: Anthropology, Biology/Life Sciences, Computer Science, Earth Science, Economics, Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Social Sciences