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World Wide Science
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. It accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world (Architecture: What is under the Hood). Multilingual WorldWideScience.org provides real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed multilingual scientific literature.

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Jurn: Get the research you need, free. Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses. In the subject areas of Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, Nature, and Science.

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JournalTOCs
JournalTOCs is a Current Awareness Service (CAS) where you can discover the newest papers coming directly from the publishers as soon as they have been published online. It is meant for researchers, librarians, students and anyone who's looking for the latest or most current papers published in the scholarly literature with international coverage. It pulls together a database of Table of Contents (TOCs) from scholarly journals and provides a convenient single "one stop shop" interface to these TOCs.

It is a free service for individual users.

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Open Access
What is Open Access?
 
Open Access literature refers to scholarly publications that are freely available for internet access without any restrictions or fees. This type of literature is digital in nature and can be read without any cost (gratis). Additionally, Open Access literature is often exempt from most copyright and licensing limitations. The term "barrier-free" access could be utilized.
 
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder”. -Peter Suber
 

Models of Open-Access Publishing
  • Gold Open Access
  • Green Open Access
  • Hybrid Journal
  • Mandate (Open Access)
  • Embargo Open Access
  • Institutional Repository (IR) Open Access
 
What can be made available under Open Access?

There are serious, practical, successful campaigns to provide many kinds of content useful toscholars which includes.
  • Archival records and manuscripts images (artworks, photographs, diagrams, maps) teaching.
  • Government data source code conference presentations (texts, slides, audio, video) scholarly learning materials (“open education resources” and “open courseware”) monographs textbooks novels, stories, plays, and poetry newspapers.
  • Peer-reviewed research articles.
Preprints
  • ARXIV arXiv
    arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. arXiv is a collaboratively funded, community-supported resource founded by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 and maintained and operated by Cornell University.
  • BRXIV bioRxiv
    bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
  • CRXIV ChemRxiv

    ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

    It gives researchers across a broad range of chemistry fields the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments and recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

  • ERTRXIV EarthArXiv Preprints
    Capturing a broad spectrum of interest and experience will help EarthArXiv consider and include the full geoscience community. An essential step to achieving this objective is to ensure broad and intersectional diversity in staffing our Advisory Council.
  • ERXIV engrXiv Preprints
    engrXiv (engineering archive) is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently. engrXiv was launched in beta in July 2016 under the direction of Devin R. Berg, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and in partnership with the Center for Open Science.
  • IndiaRxiv Preprints
    A Preprints Repository Service for India Maintained by Open Access India.  
  • MRXIV medRxiv
    medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been peer-reviewed.
  • Preprints.org
    Preprints.org is a free preprint server subsidized by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.
  • PsyArXiv Preprints
    PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is a free preprint service for the psychological sciences, designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and the Center for Open Science (COS).  
  • SRXIV SocArXiv Papers

    SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.

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Open Resources
  • CORE CORE
    CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University and Jisc.
  • SCIOPEN Science Open
    ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.
  • F1000Research

    An innovative open access publishing platform offering rapid publication and open peer review, whilst supporting data deposition and sharing.

     

  • Open Research Central

    Open Research Central is a not-for-profit organisation created to enable the international research community to establish standards for academic publishing.

    These platforms are currently operated by F1000 Research Limited and use a model of rapid publication followed by transparent invited peer review, and require the inclusion of all supporting data.

Open Access Books
  • bookboon
    Note: Free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform.
  • Cambridge University Press OA Books
  • JSTOR Open Books
    Note: Open and free content on JSTOR
  • OAPEN Books
    Note: OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences
  • Open Access publisher
    Note: Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
  • Open Textbook Library
    Note: Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
  • Open Textbooks
    Note: Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources.
  • OpenStax CNX Library
    Note: OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
  • Taylor & Francis Open Access Books
    Note: There are 1000 plus eBooks available as Open Access.
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