ABOUT THESE RESOURCES

This resource was designed to help students, academics, and researchers access the information they need without having to subscribe to an expensive service. The directories, databases, and repositories in this list are all free to use (though some require that you sign up first). We have focused on services that catalog free access and open access journals; most of the sites on the list offer at least some such resources, and the items highlighted in green offer exclusively free or open access resources.

The online journal and research databases in this list are organized by discipline for ease of reference. Select your field from the table of contents to be taken directly to that section.

 

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

 
LINKS DESCRIPTION
https://www.econbiz.de/

 

 EconBiz is an excellent resource for economic and business studies. It offers the option of searching all free access journals or only open access material
https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/

 

 Run by the American Economic Association, EconLit is a collection of more than 120 years of economic

research. Here you will find plenty of reputable resources. It does require a membership, but you can get

limited access to the website without one
https://ideas.repec.org/

 

 Boasting its status as “the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and available freely on the

Internet,” IDEAS indexes over 2.2 million items, more than 2 million of which can be freely downloaded
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

 
https://www.psychology.org/resources/

 

 The Encyclopedia of Psychology links to various resources sorted by subject. You can search by career, environment behavior relationships, organizations, paradigms and theories, people and history, publications, resources, and underlying reductionist machinery
https://www.openlibhums.org/

 

 The mission of the Open Library of Humanities is to “support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities.” To research your topic, browse the featured journals and search for your required keywords
https://www.litencyc.com/

 

 The Literary Encyclopedia provides tons of resources on literature, history, and culture. Although you can view the entries without a membership, you do need one to view the articles in their entirety
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
https://arxiv.org/

 

 Run by Cornell University Library, arXiv.org provides open access to over a million e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
https://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/

 

 The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies contains more than three million references. Although the site only provides bibliographic information, it includes links to PDFs or full texts on other sites where possible. There is also an option to search on Google for the full article.
http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/

 

 This is a collection of computer science technical reports from the computer science department of Virginia Tech, as well as industrial and governmental research laboratories.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY

 
https://www.base-search.net/

 

 BASE is operated by the Bielefeld University Library, and it offers over 100 million documents from over 4,000 sources. Sixty percent of its content is open access, and you can filter your search accordingly
http://www.virtuallrc.com/

 

 The Virtual Learning Resources Center indexes over 10,000 academic information websites, providing current, valid information for academic projects.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/

 

 The Digital Library of the Commons allows users to search through thousands of free and open access documents from around the world
https://books.google.com/?hl=en

 

 Google Books is a great way to search subjects, quotes, authors, and literary sources. Often, the full text will not be available, but you can search excerpts of books for your required information.
https://scholar.google.com/

 

 Google Scholar has been a secret weapon of students for years. Here you can search topics, and it will return relevant, reputable articles, journals, and research. Full texts are sometimes available, while others are behind paywalls on publishers’ websites.