Open Access resources

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

*****PLEASE NOTE: THIS BRITISH LIBRARY SERVICE IS NOT YET BACK UP AND RUNNING***** EthOS is the UK's national thesis service.  YOu can search the metadata of every UK published PhD since 1987.

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. The index contains more than 400 million records from more than 11,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed records for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. 

One of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide, key in fostering Open Science and establishing its practices in the daily research activities.

Sciendo publishes a wide range of Open Access publications including journals, books, conference proceedings and other publictions, both academic and professional literature

While you browse publisher webpages, this plugin will indicate whether a freely available copy of an article is available from a repository and will give you access at a click of a button. Get the extension (requires Chrome or Firefox) and click the green tab to skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It's fast, free, and legal.