DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a service of OAPEN Foundation. It aims to increase discoverability of academic, peer reviewed books published under open access license. The directory covers various subjects including arts and architecture, business and economics, history and archaeology, languages and literatures, law and political science, philosophy and religion, social sciences and more.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including Agriculture and Food Sciences,Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, etc. and many languages.
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All journal titles can be searched and browsed. Some journals are searchable at article level.
OATD covers millions of open access electronic theses & dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,318,883 theses and dissertations.
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Open Access/ Full Text / Metadata / Cite/ Download/ Share/ Embed/ Usage Metrics
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Click here to access PQDT Open. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and it is expected to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time.
The PubMed database includes multiple free resources supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature.
There are more than 38 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
In 2020, the database has updated to a new user interface. The updated interface includes a responsive design to improve the mobile experience as well as improved search capabilities using the best-match sort.
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Access the same trusted database of more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature.
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Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is one of the largest open access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines including medical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer science & communications, earth & environmental sciences, engineering, medicine & healthcare, physics & mathematics, social sciences & humanities.
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open access repository of scholarly research in the social sciences. SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences including Economics, Financial Economics and Legal Scholarship.
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 500,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 400,000 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
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收錄臺灣各大專院校之博碩士論文資料。除提供摘要外，1998年後已獲作者授權之論文亦提供電子全文下載的服務。 A bilingual database that provides abstracts of theses and dissertations in Taiwan. Starting in 1998, some full text are also provided for those with author's permission.
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