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General Reference Resources Online

See PUL's companion guide for finding free, general reference and biographical resources here.

Cogent OA Journals
DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)
Europeana Collections
Internet Archive
Books, video, audio, software, images and lots of Web-based content available to a global audience.
JSTOR open content
JURN
Search tool to a curated collection of academic articles, chapters, and theses in multiple fields.
MOM: Mason OER Metafinder
Searches OER content across multiple sites
OAPEN: online library and publication platform
Hums, Soc Scis
Online Books Page
Hosted at U-Penn; all subjects represented (can browse by subj.)
Online Newspapers (free and international in scope)
Open Access - Project MUSE
Open Access Button (legal research)
Open Book Publishers
Open Culture
Lists of online courses, textbooks, audio books, films, ebooks, etc.
Open Textbook Library
Project Muse - OA (books, journals)
PubPub (community publishing platform)
University of Heidelberg
Browse by subject: much digitized content available