Open access articles and books
The following resources all provide access to full-text, open access content:
Research papers available for download on topics from physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics disciplines. From: Cornell University Library
聽This service offers access to over 30 million academic papers from across the disciplines at participating public libraries.
: An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
: The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books.
: The mission of CORE is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.
Provides access to thousands of reports and ebooks written by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. From: National Academy of Sciences.
is a searchable catalogue of digital resources, including digitized books and articles, audio-files, films, images and datasets; this material that has been 鈥渉arvested鈥� from repositories around the world.聽 From: OCLC
: The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
: A nonprofit publisher and advocate of open access research. All PLOS content is free to access, distribute, reuse and remix.
: A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs).
: SSOAR provides access to freely available journal articles and working papers.
: SSRN is one of the largest repositories of freely accessible research papers in the social sciences.
Literature and information search tools
聽聽: The catalogue of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world鈥檚 largest research libraries for agricultural and allied subjects, includes records to resources from around the world dating as far back as the 15th century. Many of the journal articles it indexes can be found online. From: US National Agricultural Library聽 聽
聽Free and comprehensive information about cancer prevention and treatment, research, clinical trials and news, as well as information about National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants and training programmes. From: US National Cancer Institute聽聽聽 聽
聽Information and materials on education related topics. ERIC has over 1 million records including journal articles, books, technical reports, research, conference papers and policy documents. Many full-text articles are accessible.*聽From: US Department of Education聽聽 聽
聽Search engine that indexes many different types of scholarly content including journal articles, books conference papers, theses and patents. Includes tools such as 鈥榗ited by鈥� which links to resources that have referenced a record, and ready-made citations for importing into reference management tool. From: Google聽
聽Mineral data and information such as data on crystal structures, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical and physical properties, Dana's classification, Strunz classification, and listings of mineral species, and links to other sites. From: David Barthelmy 聽
Includes over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE (the US National Library of Medicine鈥檚 database), life science journals and online books. From: National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S National Library of Medicine.
聽Contains millions of records on astronomy, astrophysics and arXiv e-prints. Full-text search is available for much of the astronomical literature. Please note that all items are copyrighted by the publisher and are free for personal use only.聽From: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 聽
Allows users to search Web of Science鈥檚 index of scholarly articles and resources from their smart phone and view the full text of articles when available as open access. PLEASE NOTE: Support for this App will discontinue on in late July 2024.
Websites with research publications and data
聽An open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the US National Institutes of Health.
聽A website for those interested in Earth Observation and the scientific and technical information produced and collected by the European Space Agency. The site includes mission information, data sets, research results and news. From: European Space Agency
聽As part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (http://www.embl.org/) EMBL-EBI provides freely available data and bio-informatics services to the science community.聽 From: EMBL-EBI
Created for healthcare professionals and compiled by specialists for the rapid distribution of medical knowledge, AMEDEO provides weekly overviews of the latest medical literature as well as access to the last 12 to 24 months of journal citations grouped by specialism. It also allows users to sign up to receive free weekly emails listing abstracts of new articles in their selected fields. From: AMEDEO
聽The United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Includes the repository of IPCC Assessment Report.聽 From: IPCC
: The IEA is concerned with energy security, environmental awareness, economic development and communication of energy issues. Much of the information requires purchase but a limited number of items are free.聽 From: IEA
聽A division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Provides biomedical and genomic information including datasets, software and bibliographic information relating to science research.聽 From: NCBI
: NIST publishes standards, technical information and measurement science related information to promote innovation, competitiveness and economic security and the quality of life in the United States of America.聽 From: US Department of Commerce
- All OECD data, reports and analysis in all formats are now available under an open licence, allowing users to freely use, translate, and share the Organisation鈥檚 work. From: OECD
聽 Provides searchable access to over 70 years of the US Department of Energy鈥檚 science, technology, and engineering research and development results including journal articles, datasets, scientific software and patents. 聽From: US Department of Energy (DOE)
A US gateway created from an alliance of government science organizations. Users have access to 60 databases, over 2200 websites and 200 million pages of science information via the search facilities.聽From: Science.gov Alliance
聽WHO web portal gives access to a data repository, statistical reports and information about global health concerns.聽From: WHO
Research data repositories
The demand for secure and accessible storage of research data by academics, institutions and research funding bodies has resulted in a number of online resources to help people gain free access to the data behind research publications.
聽A registry of data repositories intended to assist researchers in identifying online data repositories from around the world.聽聽From: German Research Foundation
聽A collection of social and economic data owned by bodies such as the ONS, UK government, intergovernmental organisations and research institutes. Much of the data is held at the . From: ESRC with contributions from the University of Essex and the University of Manchester
聽Described as 鈥淭he home of the US Government鈥檚 open data鈥� this website provides access to Federal, state and local data, tools and resources for it to be used in research, create web software and mobile apps and visualisations. From: US General Services Administration
Patents and standards
Web pages and databases that provide free patent information that shows inventions that have already been protected; information on how to use other peoples鈥� patented inventions, or information on how to protect your own invention.
provides access to over 130 million patents documents (dating back to 1836) from across the world, information on patent families and legal status information. From: European Patent Office
聽The Patent and Trademark Office patent database provides detailed information on issued patents and published applications from the USA. Full text download is available for many documents.聽 From: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Statistics
聽 A searchable website that provides access to data sets that informs government policy and decision making. From: UK Government
The official statistics office for the European Union. From: Eurostat
聽聽 Official statistics and social research on Northern Ireland.聽 From: NISRA
聽聽 ONS is the UK鈥檚 recognised official body for economic, social, health and education statistics. From: ONS.
聽聽聽Links to official statistics in Scotland from the Scottish Government web pages. From: The Scottish Government
聽聽 UNSD Statistical Databases provide mostly free social and economic data. From: United Nations Statistics Division
Reference management tools
Researchers, staff and students often make use of paid for reference management tools, like EndNote, during their University career. Other free online tools exist that offer similar functionality.
聽 - is a research management tool for desktop & web. You can also explore research trends and connect to other academics in your discipline.聽 From: Mendeley