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Open Access Resources

This guide provides links to FREE and open scholarly content arranged by subject.

General/Multidisciplinary

Calisphere (CA digital collections)
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.
Library of Congress-Digital Collections
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.
OpenEdition: Digital resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(CNRS: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France)
Books, Journals, Blogs, Events
Open Textbook Library
Project Muse - OA (books, journals)
PubPub (community publishing platform)
Smithsonian Collections
TOME initiative
Scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences
University of Heidelberg
Browse by subject: much digitized content available

Lists of free resources compiled by other libraries/librarians