Open Access Resources

BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine.

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.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.

Open access dissertations and theses.

Fully peer reviewed, free to access and download from ScienceDirect, permitted re-use defined by the author's choice of Creative Commons user licenses

Academic articles subject to rigorous peer review with some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities

215,000+ peer-reviewed articles are free to access, reuse and redistribute.

Peer reviewed research from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences

Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.

Links to accessible and freely re-usable data repositories for many academic disciplines.

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Open Data is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

Open Government Data (OGD) is a philosophy- and increasingly a set of policies - that promotes transparency, accountability and value creation by making government data available to all. Public bodies produce and commission huge quantities of data and information. By making their datasets available, public institutions become more transparent and accountable to citizens. By encouraging the use, reuse and free distribution of datasets, governments promote business creation and innovative, citizen-centric services.

Home of the U.S. Government’s open data.

Open data available from the World Bank.