Open Access Library

Welcome to our Open Access e-Library, a vast collection of resources that support both student learning and staff research. Our Open Access Library content is open to the general university.

Education E-Electronic Resources

| Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice.

The Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice is a refereed academic journal published by Lesley University, providing a medium for leading minds in the arts, sciences and human services to promote cultural criticism and pluralistic approaches to teaching and learning.

Resource ID #63453c3698a15 Education

2 | Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) aims to promote research and scholarship on the integration of technology in tertiary education, promote effective practice, and inform policy. The journal is published by ASCILITE, the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Please see About-Focus and Scope for a more detailed description of the scope of the journal.

Resource ID #634ebf2162f26 Education

3 | Educational Technology & Society

Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering educational technology that was established in 1998. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.086.

Resource ID #634ebfe0f1902 Education

4 | ERIC – Education Resources Information Center

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

Resource ID #63453609e11e6 Education

5 | Harvard University’s Digital Access to Scholarship

A good site for arts and social sciences, education, medicine, and public health.

Resource ID #5875507931e20 Education

6 | Highwire Press

Hosted by Stanford University, contains articles from a vast range of journals.

Many recent articles are free while others are available after 12 months.

Journals on epidemiology, health education, health policy and planning, health promotion, physiology, research, computer science, medicine, agriculture, ecology, political science, and economics.

Resource ID #5875d5cff1b3e Education

7 | Insight.

This annual journal focuses on research-based articles, case studies, and innovation in teaching, learning, and assessment.

Resource ID #63453b1788a50 Education

8 | International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership.

This journal is dedicated to expanding the education policy and leadership knowledge base and promoting exploration of policy alternatives.

Resource ID #63453d23a89e8 Education

9 | Journal of Curriculum and Instruction.

The articles here focus on research and practice relevant to pre K-12 education.

Resource ID #63453a45d8d79 Education

10 | Journal of International Students

The Journal of International Students is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, academic journal covering research on international students in tertiary education, secondary education, and other educational settings

Resource ID #634ec077e0397 Education

11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Courseware

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It publishes virtually all MIT course content from its undergraduate and graduate-level online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. The digital collection is openly licensed and presented in an easily accessible format for free. Visit MIT OpenCourseWare. With the internet, you can find courses by topic, department, course number, and so on. Get access to audio/video courses, new courses, online textbooks, most visited courses, translated courses, and other additional resources. With these courses, educators can improve their curricula and make their schools more effective. The course materials can be downloaded for use offline.

Resource ID #634ea8db8dd74 Education

12 | OER Commons

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

Resource ID #634536f4630b9 Education

13 | Open Journals in Education (OJED)

Open Journals in Education (OJED) publishes high quality peer reviewed, open access journals based at research universities. OJED uses the Open Journal System (OJS) platform, where readers can browse by subject, drill down to journal level to find the aims, scope, and editorial board for each individual title, as well as search back issues.

Resource ID #6345382dca267 Education

14 | The MERLOT system

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Resource ID #634ea9561d769 Education

15 | The Online Books Library

Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. An easily navigable central access for over 35,000 books hosted by the University of Pennsylvania; search by author, subject, or title for books on social sciences, political science, medicine, religion, history, education, music, and health.

Resource ID #5875d8a965aed Education

16 | The School Community Journal

The mission of this journal is to unite the entire community of teachers, parents, and students to work in the interest of successful education.

Resource ID #63453aabac918 Education

Business Studies

1 | Journal of Managing and Marketing Research – AABRI

AABRI currently publishes 10 peer-reviewed academic journals and hosts academic conferences to support the research and publication needs of college and university faculty. AABRI journals accept submissions in education, ethics, technology, instructional pedagogies, legal issues, economics and all business fields. Click on the Journals link in the menu on the left to see which of our journals serves your publication needs.

Resource ID #634eac8dc1fc6 Business Studies

2 | World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES)

Provides the world’s most comprehensive firm-level data in emerging markets and developing economies for over 120,000 firms in 125 countries and expanding. Data are used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climate across countries. Data includes surveys on topics such as finance, infrastructure, sales, competition, crime, business-government relations, labor, and performance. Researchers have full access to survey data.

Resource ID #634e9e08043eb Business Studies

3 | Bioline International

Bioline International is a good site for articles on public health and international development.

Resource ID #58766e3dd60a0 Business Studies

4 | EconBiz

EconBiz is a great resource for economic and business studies. A service of the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, it offers access to full texts online, with the option of searching for OA material only. Their literature search is performed across multiple international databases.

EconBiz has an incredibly useful research skills section, with resources such as Guided Walk, a service to help students and researchers navigate searches, evaluate sources, and correctly cite references; the Research Guide EconDesk, a help desk to answer specific questions and provide advice to aid in literature searches; and the Academic Career Kit for what they refer to as Early Career Researchers.

Other helpful resources include personal literature lists, a calendar of events for relevant calls for papers, conferences, and workshops, and an economics terminology thesaurus to help in finding keywords for searches. To stay up-to-date with EconBiz, you can sign up for their newsletter.

Resource ID #63454b810b07f Business Studies

5 | Eserver

Hosted by Iowa State University and contains over 35,000 resources in the humanities.

Resource ID #5875eb06e0b32 Business Studies

6 | IDF e-library

The IDF e-library showcases the variety of resources that IDF has available for health professionals, researchers, policy makers, advocates and people living with or affected by diabetes. All publications are available for download and a selection of resources can be purchased.

Resource ID #5f96a3e1312cc Business Studies

7 | IMF eLibrary

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. Users will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

Resource ID #58760af2d1fd5 Business Studies

8 | International Business Research (ISSN: 1913-9004; E-ISSN 1913-9012)

International Business Research (ISSN: 1913-9004;  E-ISSN 1913-9012) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education. This journal is published monthly in both print and online versions to keep readers up-to-date with the latest developments. The scopes of the journal include, but are not limited to, the following topics: business, marketing, management, finance, economics, accounting. It provides an academic platform for professionals and researchers to contribute innovative work in the field.

Resource ID #634eaaf5218cd Business Studies

9 | International Financial Statistics Online

Data covering more than 200 countries and country groupings. Topics include: balance of payments, interest rates, national accounts, prices, production, trade, and population. Updated monthly.

Resource ID #634e9d6399275 Business Studies

10 | International Journal of Financial Research

International Journal of Financial Research (ISSN: 1923-4023; E-ISSN: 1923-4031) is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal published by Sciedu Press in Canada. This journal is published quarterly (January, April, July and October) in both print and online versions. All publications are open access in full text and free to download.


This journal publishes original and leading research across all the major fields of accounting, finance and economics, ranging from institutional & corporate finance, accounting, insurance & risk management, monetary banking, stock exchange, to business economics, development economics, capital markets and more.

Resource ID #634eab2f0e32e Business Studies

11 | International Journal of Marketing Studies (IJMS)

International Journal of Marketing Studies (IJMS) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal for marketing academics and practitioners. Published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education, IJMS aims to provide an avenue for high-quality research in various aspects of marketing management and strategy, such as marketing research, market segmentation, positioning, pricing, relationship marketing, business marketing, social marketing, internet marketing, advertising, branding, customer service, customer behavior analysis.

Resource ID #634eab7b434fa Business Studies

12 | Journal of Management and Strategy

Journal of Management and Strategy publishes peer-reviewed articles on the key aspect of management and strategy. It aims to provide academic theory and management practice to researchers and managers in corporate strategy, leadership, management, organization theory, operations management, supply chain management, strategic marketing, and other areas related with management and strategy. 

The journal is published semiannually (May & November) in both online and printed versions. All publications are open access in full text and free to download.

Resource ID #634eabbb1cd9d Business Studies

13 | Journal of Management Research

Journal of Management Research (JMR)  is an online scholarly journal, peer-reviewed, published by Macrothink Institute. The journal publishes research paper covers these subjects: Business, Management, Marketing, Finance, organizational development, corporation administration, human resource management and relevant subjects.

The scopes of the journal include, but are not limited to, the following fields:

•Business

•Management

•Marketing

•Finance

•organizational development

•corporation administration

•human resource management and relevant subjects

Resource ID #634eac071e939 Business Studies

14 | SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen scientific publishers offer a selection of good resources in health economics.

Resource ID #587739a5a49a6 Business Studies

15 | Stanford University – Centre for International Development

Stanford University’s Centre for International Development is a good resource for development and health working papers from 1997 – 2011.

Resource ID #587602134265f Business Studies

16 | The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is a peer-reviewed bi-annual academic journal supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The EJPE publishes research on the methodology, history, ethics, and interdisciplinary relations of economics, and welcomes contributions from all scholars with an interest in any of its research domains. The EJPE is an open-access journal: all content is permanently available online without subscription or payment.

Resource ID #634eaa7784538 Business Studies

17 | The WWW Virtual Library

From the University of New South Wales in Australia. A portal to a vast amount of resources on public health in Africa. A good site for specific resources on communicable diseases, human resources for health, health services management, emergency health management, business, economics, and international affairs. The site also covers law, religion, engineering, social sciences, business, politics, economics, development studies, and sustainable development.

Resource ID #587550fdb8d9b Business Studies

18 | World Bank Open Data

The World Bank now makes all of its data (including all 7000 World Development Indicators for over 200 countries) available free of charge, a move that may well effect a decisive cultural shift in favor of open data among international organizations generally.

Resource ID #634e9f4617a8c Business Studies

19 | World DataBank

Available from the World Bank, DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Includes World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance, Education Statistics, Gender Statistics, Doing Business, and more.

Resource ID #634e9e50eafd8 Business Studies

Social Sciences

1 | Humanities Open Book Collection

Open access collection of outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities available as free e-books courtesy of The Humanities Open Book project. Once in a title you can download in EPUB or Mobi format.

Resource ID #634ea33ac5d62 Social Sciences

2 | MDPI Humanities

Humanities is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the meaning of cultural expression and perceptions as seen through different interpretative lenses. Humanities is published bimonthly online by MDPI. 

  • Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
  • High Visibility: indexed within ESCI (Web of Science)ERIH Plus, and other databases.
  • Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 33.3 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 6.8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2022).
  • Recognition of Reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.

Resource ID #6345425411e2a Social Sciences

3 | Berghahn Open Anthro

Launched in 2020, Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria. This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts that was held at MIT.

Resource ID #634ea6910d720 Social Sciences

4 | Culture Machine

A member of the Radical Open Access Collective, Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Since 1999, it has sought out and promoted scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to media theory, cultural studies and political philosophy, Culture Machine welcomes creative proposals that contest and come up against globalizing technical narratives and the environmental logics of extraction.

Resource ID #634ec11325293 Social Sciences

5 | Digital Humanities Quarterly

Digital Humanities Quarterly is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication.

Resource ID #634ec160d81b4 Social Sciences

6 | First Monday

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 2,197 papers in 317 issues, written by 3,207 different authors. In addition, 36 special issues have appeared. The most recent special issue was entitled “Exploring societal resilience to online polarization and extremism.” First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, MLA International Bibliography, PAIS, Scopus, and other services. First Monday’s ISSN is 1396-0466.

Resource ID #634ec1c941988 Social Sciences

7 | Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy

The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy is founded on the principle of publisher-funded open access. Public access to articles in the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy is free of charge, at no charge to authors, and are available to all readers under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license. Funding for the journal has been made possible through the generous commitment of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. The Journal articles are fully indexed with Philosopher’s Index, Lexis, and Westlaw.

Resource ID #634ec513a46ff Social Sciences

8 | Journal of Political Ecology

JPE was established in 1994, as one of the world’s first OA social science journals, at the University of Arizona, where it is still hosted by the UA Libraries. The JPE is a ‘gold’ Open Access journal, with the work done by volunteer editors and referees from academic institutions. Over the years, the JPE has published several important contributions to the field of political ecology, and spanned several disciplines, while remaining free of charge to readers and authors.

Resource ID #634ec47d87834 Social Sciences

9 | Journal of World-Systems Research

The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers.

Resource ID #634ec3956e7bc Social Sciences

10 | National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is the place to discover, access, and analyze data on crime and justice.  NACJD hosts several large-scale datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

Resource ID #634e9edb492f4 Social Sciences

11 | OAPEN – Open Access Publishing in European Networks

A quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Resource ID #634ea47be6c2a Social Sciences

12 | SAGE Open

SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, “Gold” open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

Resource ID #63453f00c459a Social Sciences

13 | Sign Systems Studies

Sign Systems Studies is is an international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and living nature. It publishes original scientific papers, review articles and book reviews on semiotics of culture and nature.

Since 2009, each volume includes four issues. The official languages are English and Russian, Estonian for abstracts.

Sign Systems Studies is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics), in Scopus and other relevant databases.

Resource ID #634ec31c84ede Social Sciences

14 | Social Science Research Network

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a collection of papers from the social sciences community. It is a highly interdisciplinary platform used to search for scholarly articles related to 67 social science topics. SSRN has a variety of research networks for the various topics available through the free scholarly database.

The site offers more than 700,000 abstracts and more than 600,000 full-text papers. There is not yet a specific option to search for only full-text articles, but, because most of the papers on the site are free access, it’s not often that you encounter a paywall. There is currently no option to search for only peer-reviewed articles.

You must become a member to use the services, but registration is free and enables you to interact with other scholars around the world. SSRN is “passionately committed to increasing inclusion, diversity and equity in scholarly research,” and they encourage and discuss the use of inclusive language in scholarship whenever possible.

Resource ID #634548739c16d Social Sciences

15 | Southern Spaces

Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that publishes articles, photo essays and images, presentations, and short videos about real and imagined spaces and places of the Southern United States and their connections to the wider world. The intended audience includes researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, library patrons, and the general public.

A multimedia digital publication, Southern Spaces encourages the representation and analysis of many souths and southern regions, the critical scrutiny of any monolithic “South”, the discovery of time-space relationships, and the mapping of expressive cultural forms associated with place. The journal covers areas such as geography, southern studies, regional studies, women’s studies, queer studies, public health, and African American, Native American, and American studies.

Southern Spaces is published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship of Emory University in Georgia, United States.

Resource ID #634ec292532d2 Social Sciences

16 | SpringerOpen – Open access journals

Freely accessible online publication. Find the right articles for you now! Explore Journals. View Articles. Sign Up For Alerts. Highlights: Video Library Available, Launched In 2010.

Resource ID #63453f966eba9 Social Sciences

ULII is a free legal information service provided by the Law Reporting Unit of the Uganda Judiciary and a member of the global Free Access to Law community.

Resource ID #634ec94b3254d Social Sciences

18 | UN data

UN data is all open access. Unique databases focus on topics such as crime, the environment, gender, and health. Data are sortable by country and date.

Resource ID #634e9f760e576 Social Sciences

ICT E-Library

1 | Journal of Software Engineering and Applications

The International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA) is a bi-monthly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Software Engineering & Applications.

Resource ID #634eb1796eeaf ICT E-Library

2 | arXiv

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,140,360 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

Resource ID #634547f916e78 ICT E-Library

3 | Computer Science

The Computer Science Journal (ISSN: 1508-2806; e-ISSN: 2300-7036) is a quarterly published by the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland since 1999.

We publish original papers concerning theoretical and applied computer science problems. Main areas of interest of the journal are: theoretical aspects of computer science, soft computing, HPC, cloud and distributed processing and simulation, multimedia systems and computer graphics, natural language processing.

Resource ID #634eb872735b9 ICT E-Library

4 | IEEE Access (ISSN 2169-3536)

IEEE Access is an award-winning, multidisciplinary, all-electronic archival journal, continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all of IEEE’s fields of interest. Supported by author publication fees, its hallmarks are a rapid peer review and publication process with open access to all readers.

Resource ID #634eb9c21cc9f ICT E-Library

5 | Information Research

Information Research, is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is published by the University of Borås, Sweden, with the financial support of an NOP-HS Grant and a Swedish Research Council Journal scientific journal grant. It is edited by Professor T.D. Wilson, and is hosted by the University of Borås, Sweden.

Resource ID #634eaf8845823 ICT E-Library

6 | IntechOpen

Hundreds of free Open Access Books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine containing thousands of research articles and academic papers

Resource ID #634eb3aa413d0 ICT E-Library

7 | International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems

The International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS), p-ISSN: 2088-8694, e-ISSN 2722-256X, is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). This is a SCOPUS indexed journal, SJR Q3 on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, CiteScore: 3.3, SJR: 0.346, and SNIP: 0.638. The scope of the journal includes all issues in the field of power electronics and drive systems. Included are techniques for advanced power semiconductor devices; control in power electronics; low and high power converters (inverters, converters, controlled and uncontrolled rectifiers); control algorithms and techniques applied to power electronics; electromagnetic and thermal performance of electronic power converters and inverters; power quality and utility applications; renewable energy; electric machines; modelling, simulation, analysis, design and implementations of the application of power circuit components (power semiconductors, inductors, high frequency transformers, capacitors), EMI/EMC considerations; power devices and components; integrated and packaged; induction motor drives; synchronous motor drives; synchronous motor drives; permanent magnet motor drives; ASDs (adjustable speed drives); multi-phase machines and converters; applications in motor drives; electric vehicles; wind energy systems; solar; battery chargers; UPS; and other applications.

Resource ID #634eb6c8a1dd1 ICT E-Library

8 | International Journal of Sensor Networks (ISSN 1748-1287)

IJSNet proposes and fosters discussion on and dissemination of issues related to research and applications of distributed and wireless/wired sensor and actuator networks. Sensor networks is an interdisciplinary field including many fields such as wireless networks and communications, protocols, distributed algorithms, signal processing, embedded systems, and information management.

Resource ID #634ebb18865b2 ICT E-Library

9 | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (ISSN 1076 – 9757)

JAIR, established in 1993, was one of the first open-access scientific journals on the Web, and has been a leading publication venue since its inception.

Resource ID #634eba59ed179 ICT E-Library

10 | Journal of Machine Learning Research (ISSN 1533-7928)

Resource ID #634eba9e1a7e2 ICT E-Library

11 | Logical Methods In Computer Science (ISSN 1860-5974)

Logical Methods in Computer Science is a fully refereed, open access, free, electronic journal. It welcomes papers on theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods, taken in a broad sense. Full-text access to all papers is freely available. No registration or subscription is required, and a free email notification service is available.

Resource ID #634ebac75fe42 ICT E-Library

12 | London School of Economics – Centre for International Development

The Centre for International Development at the London School of Economics hosts an excellent selection of working papers on development.

Resource ID #58766d74ba96f ICT E-Library

13 | MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

MDPI is a publisher of open access scientific journals. Founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive, it now publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals. MDPI is the largest open access publisher in the world and the fifth largest publisher overall in terms of journal paper output

Resource ID #634eb560a8ddf ICT E-Library

14 | MIT Press Direct

Growing OA collection. Use limiter on left side to find Open Access Titles. Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list of 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access.

Resource ID #634ea3eb864c1 ICT E-Library

15 | Modern Education and Computer Science Press(MECS Press)

Modern Education and Computer Science Press(MECS Press) is an independent publisher of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. MECS Press was founded in 2009, and now it currently employs more than 30 employees and publishes 10 open access, peer-reviewed journals.


MECS journals maintain the highest standards of peer review, with more than 150 internationally-recognized Editors serving on the Editorial Boards of MECS journals. Many of the journals that MECS publishes were included in the leading abstracting and indexing databases.

The goal of MECS Press and chief purpose is to transmit information to the global community to further, through publications, the objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. In order to realize the aim, we not only collect and process valuable scientific technological information, but develop and establish the means of its transmission,communication and preservation. We look forward to expanding the offerings of MECS Press as the need for credible sources of information grows in our increasingly scientific and technological world.

Resource ID #634eb63da581f ICT E-Library

16 | Open content on JSTOR and Artstor

Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.

Resource ID #63454132a1296 ICT E-Library

17 | Open Textbook Library

Collection of open access textbooks which can be freely used, adapted, and distributed.

Resource ID #634eb0f568eb9 ICT E-Library

18 | PeerJ Computer Science ( ISSN 2376-5992 )

PeerJ Computer Science is the open access journal covering all subject areas in computer science, with the backing of a prestigious advisory board and more than 300 academic editors.

Resource ID #634eba02d3c15 ICT E-Library

19 | Public Library of Science – PLOS

Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a big player in the world of OA science. Publishing 12 OA journals, the nonprofit organization is committed to facilitating openness in academic research. According to the site, “all PLOS content is at the highest possible level of OA, meaning that scientific articles are immediately and freely available to anyone, anywhere.”

PLOS outlines four fundamental goals that guide the organization: break boundaries, empower researchers, redefine quality, and open science. All PLOS journals are peer-reviewed, and all 12 journals uphold rigorous ethical standards for research, publication, and scientific reporting.

PLOS does not offer advanced search options. Content is organized by topic into research communities that users can browse through, in addition to options to search for both articles and journals. The PLOS website also has resources for peer reviewers, including guidance on becoming a reviewer and on how to best participate in the peer review process.

Resource ID #634548e62f818 ICT E-Library

20 | SCIRP: Open Science Journal

Royal Society Open Science is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society since September 2014. Its launch was announced in February 2014. It covers all scientific fields and publishes all articles which are scientifically sound, leaving any judgement of impact to the reader

Resource ID #634540ab4d94b ICT E-Library

21 | The Computer Science Journal (ISSN 2300-7036)

The Computer Science Journal is published by the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Poland. The Editors of the Journal are members of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. The Editorial Board consists of many renowned computer science researchers from all over the world.

Resource ID #634ebb86b8f07 ICT E-Library

22 | The International Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)

The International Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) is a high-quality periodical which deals with all research areas of computer science and has been appearing in digital and printed form since 1995. With its free-of-charge policy for both authors and readers, and an acceptance rate below 20% its volumes have been documenting, connecting and reflecting novel aspects of computer science over decades until today. J.UCS’ peer-reviewed monthly Regular Issues and Special Issues on selected topics organized by guest editors thus continuously serve as one of the major knowledge bases for the international research community in computer science.

Resource ID #634ebc1ddc59d ICT E-Library

23 | The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

Resource ID #634ea0e0bdf78 ICT E-Library

24 | The Journal of Object Technology (ISSN 1660-1769)

JOT, the Journal of Object Technology, is a peer-reviewed, free and open-access journal dedicated to the timely publication of previously unpublished research articles, surveys, tutorials, and technical notes on all aspects of software and language engineering, with a particular but not exclusive focus on object technology.

Resource ID #634ebbb0074b5 ICT E-Library

25 | Theory of Computing (ISSN 1557-2862)

“Theory of Computing” (ToC) is an online journal dedicated to the widest dissemination, free of charge, of research papers in theoretical computer science.

Resource ID #634ebb5a11aaa ICT E-Library

General E-books

1 | Bloomsbury Open Access Ebooks

Hundreds of Open Access Ebooks covering a variety of subject areas.

Resource ID #634ea2725adc7 General E-books

2 | De Gruyter

Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines. Discover our open access portfolio. De Gruyter is home to around 100 fully open access journals across STEM and HSS disciplines.

Resource ID #634ea7c6441ae General E-books

3 | International Journal of Business Research Management (IJBRM)

IJSRM is a online open access journal that publishes articles in the field of Computer Science, Engineering, medical science, social science, economics, clinical research, mathematics, education, bio science, science, Management & Arts . It is an international journal to encourage research publication to research scholars, academicians, professionals and students engaged in their respective field. The journal also provides an international forum to disseminate their knowledge.

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4 | African Journals OnLine (AJOL)

African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Millions of monthly downloads by site users from nearly every country in the world are an indication of the need and widespread use of the AJOL initiative. More than half of the repeat users are from Africa.

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5 | African Studies

Hosted by Columbia University Libraries is a collection of internet resources on Africa; the site also hosts a comprehensive portal for United Nations Agencies on Africa, a useful collection of official documentation on institutional development.

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6 | BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, and it offers more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 sources. Sixty percent of its content is OA, and you can filter your search accordingly.

BASE has rigorous inclusion requirements for content providers regarding quality and relevance, and they maintain a list of content providers for the sake of transparency, which can be easily found on their website. BASE has a fairly elegant interface. Search results can be organized by author, title, or date.

From the search results, items can be selected and exported, added to favorites, emailed, and searched in Google Scholar. There are basic and advanced search features, with the advanced search offering numerous options for refining search criteria. There is also a feature on the website that saves recent searches without additional steps from the user.

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7 | CORE

CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA research. CORE has the largest collection of OA articles available. It allows users to search more than 219 million OA articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher’s site, or to a PDF available for download, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.

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8 | Digital Library Of The Commons Repository

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

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9 | Directory of Open Access Books

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. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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10 | DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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11 | EThOS

Run by the British Library, the E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) allows you to search over 500,000 doctoral theses in a variety of disciplines. All of the doctoral theses available on EThOS have been awarded by higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.

Although some full texts are behind paywalls, you can limit your search to items available for immediate download, either directly through EThOS or through an institution’s website. More than half of the records in the database provide access to full-text theses.

EThOS notes that they do not hold all records for all institutions, but they strive to index as many doctoral theses as possible, and the database is constantly expanding, with approximately 3,000 new records added and 2,000 new full-text theses available every month. The availability of full-text theses is dependent on multiple factors, including their availability in the institutional repository and the level of repository development.

Collection: 500,000+

Other Services: None

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12 | Library Genesis (Libgen)

Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing based library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, and magazines. Libgen describes itself as a “links aggregator” providing a searchable database of items “collected from publicly available public Internet resources” as well as uploaded “from users”

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13 | Open Access Theses and Dissertations

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,341,391 theses and dissertations.

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14 | OpenDOAR

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held. Try it out for yourself:

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15 | Paperity

Paperity boasts its status as the “first multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.” Their focus is on helping you avoid paywalls while connecting you to authoritative research. In addition to providing readers with easy access to thousands of journals, Paperity seeks to help authors reach their audiences and help journals increase their exposure to boost readership.

Paperity has journal articles for every discipline, and the database offers more than a dozen advanced search options, including the length of the paper and the number of authors. There is even an option to include, exclude, or exclusively search gray papers.

Paperity is available for mobile, with both a mobile site and the Paperity Reader, an app that is available for both Android and Apple users. The database is also available on social media. You can interact with Paperity via Twitter and Facebook, and links to their social media are available on their homepage, including their Twitter feed.

Collection: 8,837,396

Other Services: None

Good Source of Peer-Reviewed Articles: Yes

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16 | PDF e-Book Drive

PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today,  PDF Drive has 86,082,494 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don’t forget to bookmark and share the love!

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17 | Project Gutenberg

Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

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18 | ScienceGate

The ScienceGate goal is to support all scientific and educational communities to facilitate achieving their goals through the best path. The ScienceGate team tries to make this possible by providing and developing several unique services gathered in a web platform.

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19 | ScienceOpen

Functioning as a research and publishing network, ScienceOpen offers OA to more than 74 million articles in all areas of science. Although you do need to register to view the full text of articles, registration is free. The advanced search function is highly detailed, allowing you to find exactly the research you’re looking for.

The Berlin- and Boston-based company was founded in 2013 to “facilitate open and public communications between academics and to allow ideas to be judged on their merit, regardless of where they come from.” Search results can be exported for easy integration with reference management systems.

You can also bookmark articles for later research. There are extensive networking options, including your Science Open profile, a forum for interacting with other researchers, the ability to track your usage and citations, and an interactive bibliography. Users have the ability to review articles and provide their knowledge and insight within the community.

Collection: 74,560,631

Other Services: None

Good Source of Peer-Reviewed Articles: Yes

Advanced Search Options: Content type, source, author, journal, discipline

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20 | The University of Sussex – International Development Studies

An excellent resource for all aspects of international development and public health (not all are free to download, but many are).

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21 | United Nations Digital Library

The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format free of charge. At the same time it is a major service for the long-term preservation of the Organization’s collective memory incorporating the latest relevant international standards. It is built on open source technology developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

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22 | Zenodo

Zenodo, powered by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), was launched in 2013. Taking its name from Zenodotus, the first librarian of the ancient library of Alexandria, Zenodo is a tool “built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in open science.” Zenodo accepts all research from every discipline in any file format.

However, Zenodo also curates uploads and promotes peer-reviewed material that is available through OA. A DOI is assigned to everything that is uploaded to Zenodo, making research easily findable and citable. You can sort by keyword, title, journal, and more and download OA documents directly from the site.

While there are closed access and restricted access items in the database, the vast majority of research is OA material. Search results can be filtered by access type, making it easy to view the free articles available in the database.

Collection: 2,220,000+

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