OPEN ACCESS & FREE RESOURCES
The databases listed below are all free resources or open access sources that are great places for academic research. These cover a variety of subjects! We don't subscribe to these as they are free and open to everyone! Click the "i" 🛈 icon to bring up information about a specific database.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
From the National Agricultural Library: We've brought AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC) together in one place.
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Collection of open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items and making them available to read online for free.
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
View maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg is an online library of over 70,000 free eBooks. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
SpringerOpen This link opens in a new window
Journals and books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.
Taylor & Francis Open Journals This link opens in a new window
Full open access journals enables authors to make research freely and permanently available.
Wiley Online Library Open Access This link opens in a new window
Free access to articles published in more than 570 peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of academic subjects.
arXiv This link opens in a new window
From Cornell University, arXiv is an open-access archive of scholarly articles in the fields of science, math, economics and more. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Project Euclid This link opens in a new window
Project Euclid was developed and deployed by Cornell University Library, and is now managed by Duke University Press. It was originally created to provide a platform for small scholarly publishers of mathematics and statistics journals to move from print to electronic in a cost-effective way.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Publicly Available Content Database This link opens in a new window
Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world.
