Terry P. McMahan Library: Open Access: Open Access Resources

Where Can I Find OA Resources?

Open access resources are designated and can be sorted by "Database Type." Other open resources are marked , indicating that they belong in the public domain.

Highlighted OA Resources

California Digital Library (CDL)
Digital library that delivers free public access to over 700 ebooks published by academic presses from 1982 to the present. Subject coverage is broad. Be sure to check box for "public access books" when searching or browsing.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
A vast digital library that enables you to search simultaneously American cultural heritage collections nationwide. Delivers access to over 7 million books, images, and other items, most of which are in the public domain.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DOAB is an open access digital library that delivers free access to thousands of scientific and scholarly ebooks across most subject areas.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open access database that delivers free access to some 10,000 scholarly journals and over 1.7 million articles on diverse subjects.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Open access ebooks! HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Luminos (University of California Press)
Luminos is University of California Press’ new Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.

Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it.

Open Library of the Humanities
Dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) offers abstracts for over 563,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers AND an Electronic Paper Collection of over 465,300 downloadable full-text PDFs.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Open access repository that provides the full text of books, journal articles, technical reports and studies, and other resources created under World Bank auspices.

Open Access Databases

oaDOI

oaDOI
An oaDOI link is like a DOI, with a useful difference: if there's an open access version of the article, the oaDOI URL will send you there, instead of the paywalled article landing page. So for instance,

This DOI links you a paywall page doi.org/10.1038/nature12373,
but this oaDOI link gets you a PDF oadoi.org/10.1038/nature12373

The oaDOI system was inspired by DOAI. It improves on their coverage, and offers an API with license information and other details. It's in active development by the Impactstory team.

Learn more about oaDOI

Creative Commons Image Search

Creative Commons Search Prototype
Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix, across several open archives. Give us your feedback, and help us design a front door to the commons.
Pexels
It's hard to understand complex licenses; that is why all photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So, attribution is not required.
Unsplash
Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos. CC-0 license.

Open Access Resources

Google Scholar

Where Can I Find OA Resources?

Open Access Databases

oaDOI

Creative Commons Image Search