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Produced by Cornell University, "arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics."

"Dedicated to open research, we now publish over 290 quality peer-reviewed journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health."

All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

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Life sciences - Health sciences - Physics sciences - Mathematics - Social sciences & Humanities

"4832 Journals" - "Over the next years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. " Note, the site tells you which ones/when they are free.

HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 3/25/15, we are assisting in the online publication of 2,434,604 free full-text articles and 7,659,003 total articles.

"PLOS ONE features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding research on the basis of subject area, PLOS ONE facilitates the discovery of connections between research whether within or between disciplines."

"ScienceDirect [...] combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that you can stay informed in your field, and can work more effectively and efficiently."

ScienceOpen is a freely accessible search and discovery platform that puts research in context.

"200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science."

"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

"Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences."

"It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis and generate reports."

Maintained by Ray Hod at McMaster University until his death in 2008, ""This archive is an attempt to collect in one place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought. [...]The texts are posted primarily for the use of students who might not otherwise have access to these writings."

"Search the Business Publications Search Engine for access to business and trade publications in a tool that offers not just excellent browsing, but a focused search as well."

"University of Houston’s Digital History database offers a wealth of links to textbook, primary sources, and educational materials in digital history. The database has multimedia, an interactive timeline, active learning, and resources for teachers."

"EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software."

Browse, read, or download over 250 full-length art books from the Getty for free

"The History Engine is a collection of thousands of historical “episodes” that paints a wide-ranging portrait of the past that is freely available to scholars, teachers, and the general public."

"The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge."

Analytical approaches to literature and texts: Gender and Sex, Marxism, Narratology, Post-Modernism, Psychoanalysis

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

"This website is the outcome of the project undertaken at Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University (Bhavnagar - Gujarat).[...]The eContent uploaded on this website is on Literary Theory and Criticism. The target learners are graduate and post-graduate students."

Browse, read, or download over 450 full-length art history books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for free

"On this site, you can learn about and find access to great resources in economic research."

Unique collection items and expert commentary related to History, English and Citizenship. From the British Library.

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 97 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.

"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more."

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

"5467 Academic peer-reviewed books from 164 publishers"

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

ScholarWorks shares over 10,000 articles, posters, reports, theses, educational materials and historical documents submitted by members of the campus community.

Research more, search less. Use a semantic search to sort through millions of research documents.

"Advanced research and scholarship. Theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use."

"This service, based on the Google Custom Search engine, lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for freely available academic research information."

"OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, [and contains] more than 25 books for college and AP courses."

Including Business and Economics, SSRN's (Social Science Research Network) "eLibrary provides 701,903 research papers from 323,723 researchers across 24 disciplines."

"The UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data."

"This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles."

Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues. This is a visual search using categories and then drilling down to open resources about specific topics. You must sign up for a free account.