Library Guides: English: Open Access Resources (freely available)

Open Access Resources (General)

CORE
A not-for-profit service delivered by The Open University and Jisc, they claim to be the world’s largest collection of open access research papers.

DART-Europe E-theses Portal This link opens in a new window
A partnership of research libraries and library consortia, working to improve global access to European research theses.
Part of the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).
This is a free electronic resource and TCD cannot guarantee the stability of the connection.

Directory of Open Access Books
Over 1000 academic books that are published as open access.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Covers all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

EThOS This link opens in a new window
The UK's national doctoral research theses service.
This is a free electronic resource and TCD cannot guarantee the stability of the connection.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
A Google database focusing specifically on scholarly literature. To add links to TCD subscriptions of journal articles, follow our video guide.

JSTOR
Short for Journal Storage, this is a digital library that encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals.As of 2013, more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to JSTOR. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge.
Open Access
Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, content is available both in German and in English.
Open Book Publishers
An open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It is a non-profit social enterprise and community interest company that promotes open access for full academic monographs, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Science.
Open Dissertations
It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

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