Research Guides: Open Access Resources: Home

General/Multidisciplinary

Calisphere (CA digital collections)
Cogent OA Journals
DPLA (Digital Public Library of America)
Europeana Collections
HathiTrust
18 million+ digitized items available from academic and research libraries. See "How to Search and Access" under The Collection menu about content available to member affiliates versus anyone.
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 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
OpenEdition Journals
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