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Bielfeld Academic Search Engine

BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers.

BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

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.

Digital Commons Network

The Digital Commons Network 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.

Dimensions

With Dimensions, you can search across multiple content types, ranging from publications to grants, clinical trials, patents, datasets and policy documents.

Directory of Open Resources

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

DOGObooks

DOGObooks is where kids discover, review and rate books. Our goal is to provide a fun, safe and interactive environment for children to share their reactions, thoughts and opinions about books. All book selections and reviews are moderated prior to being published.

DOGO News

The leading source for current events, news and non-fictional content for Common Core ELA, Science and Social Studies. With thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, we are the leading online source of current events for students, teachers and schools.

ELEPHIND - historical newspapers

The goal of Elephind.com is to make it possible to search all the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. They aren’t there yet, but they are adding more newspapers every day.

F1000Research

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

Folk Ways

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States.

FreeFullPDF

Download Free Scientific Publications

Life sciences – Health sciences – Physics sciences – Mathematics – Social sciences & Humanities

Getty Publications Virtual Library

Getty Publications produces award-winning titles covering the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both the general public and specialists.

Inside a Dog

Run by the State Library Victoria, Inside a Dog is a community hub for bookish teens where they can share their love of reading and books.

International Children's Digital Library

The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.

Internet Archive - a.k.a. The Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

JURN

JURN is a unique search tool, helping you to find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index.

Library of Congress Digital Collections

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

The MET Publications

MetPublications is a portal to The Met’s comprehensive publishing program with over 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and bulletins and journals from the last five decades.

The full contents of almost all other book titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF.

Musicmap

Musicmap attempts to provide the ultimate genealogy of popular music genres, including their relations and history. It is the result of more than seven years of research with over 200 listed sources and cross examination of many other visual genealogies.

News for Kids

NewsForKids.net was created by a teacher to make the news accessible to kids. We carefully choose high interest stories appropriate to the audience, and present them in a way that is easy to understand.

Open Culture

“The best free cultural and educational media on the web.” Includes Audiobooks, movies, podcasts, K-12th Grade, eBooks, MOOCs, literary maps and more…

The Open Library

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog.

Open Research Central

Open Research Central has established a portal through which research in any field can be submitted for formal publication on one of the open research publishing-compliant platforms.

Oxford Business Group Country Reports

Oxford Business Group is a global research and consultancy company producing business intelligence on more than 35 countries. Every business intelligence product is based on in-country research by experienced analysts.

Use your NIST email address to create your own account and access Country Reports.

Paperity

The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers. Connecting authors with readers, boosting dissemination of new discoveries, consolidating academia around open literature.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

Project Gutenburg

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.

Purdue Owl - Online Writing Lab

This resource provides a summative overview of style guides. Students and instructors will find this resource particularly useful for understanding what a style guide is, why and how style guides are used, and suggestions for exploring style guides across the disciplines.

Quizlet

Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free.

TheRoyal Society Open Biology Journal

Open Biology is an online journal that welcomes original, high impact research in cell and developmental biology, molecular and structural biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics.

The Royal Society Open Science Journal

Royal Society Open Science is an open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review.

The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics.

ScholarWorks

ScholarWorks shares over 20,000 articles, posters, reports, theses, educational materials and historical documents submitted by members of the campus community – Indiana University, Purdue University.

Science News

Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science, medicine and technology. Today, our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world around them.

Science News For Students

Science News for Students is a free, award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate science news to learners, parents and educators.

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.

SSRN

SSRN´s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 55 disciplines.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

Stanford University Digital Publishing Initiative

Emergent technologies and scholars’ increasing fluency with these technologies are providing academics with new ways to visualize, analyze, and interpret data. Our publishing process helps authors to develop their concept (in both content and form) and reach their market effectively to confer the same level of academic credibility on digital projects as print books receive.

Storyline Online

Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading…

Videos of actors reading books!

TED-Ed

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.

United Nationsl Digital Library

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library (the Library) creates content, data and metadata related to UN information, resources, publications, and documents. Our products include: bibliographic metadata, Index to Proceedings, Index to Speeches, Voting Records, UNBIS Thesaurus, research guides and frequently asked questions.

United Nations iLibrary

United Nations iLibrary offers an extensive list of features that deliver flexibility, speed, and efficiency such as intuitive navigation, integrated search results, granular content, citation tool, DOI identification, and multilingual content.

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.

Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

World Digital Library

The materials collected by the WDL make it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

World Fact Book (CIA)

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.