Open Access Databases

Academic Journals Provides access to full-text articles in the Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Education and Legal Studies

ALFRED Provides vintage Federal Reserve economic data on specific dates in history

Archive of African Journals To expand free, online access to full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals published in Africa

ArXiv.org 1,106,143 e-prints in Computer Science, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Asian Development Bank (ADB) Most recently published ADB documents are available freely

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) Journals Provide a comprehensive search facility for all 45 academic law journals in Australia and New Zealand

Background Notes (U.S. State Department Reports) Include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty

Bizjournals.com Provides access to more than 40 bizjournal resources for a 10 year time period

Business Databases A -Z BMI Research (formerly Business Monitor Online), eStatement Studies, Business Ratios (RMA), Foundations and Trends in Business and Economics

California Digital Library eScholarship Editions eBooks Includes over 500 freely accessible ebooks from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, humanities, social sciences, science, and literature. E-books are in HTML

Data.gov The home of the US Government's open data

Directory of Open Acces Books (DOAB) A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license

Directory of Open Acces Journals (DOAJ) An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

Directory of Open Acces Resources (DOAR) A comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users

E-Books Directory A daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks (9425 free e-books in 666 categories), documents and lecture notes

ECONBIZ To support research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts

EconPapers The world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software

Electronic Journals Library (EZB) Offers online access to articles published in scientific and academic journals. Currently, 486 libraries and research institutions take advantage of this service in their daily work (97 389 journals)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Sciences) An online digital library of education research and information

Espacenet Free access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today

FRED Database of approximately 3000 economic time series

In Tech Open Books Largest open access collection of books has published 2,582 books, 5 journals and collaborated with 91,375 international scientists

OAPEN The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences