Research Guides: Open Access: Home

Open Access Resources by Subject

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AGRICOLA (Agricultural OnLine Access) This link opens in a new window
AGRICOLA describes publications, dissertations and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources.
BioMed Central Databases This link opens in a new window
Over 250 open access journals covering science, technology, and medicine.

Boston TV News Digital Library
An online catalog of news content from Boston Public Library’s WHDH film collection (1960- mid-1970s), Cambridge Community Television (1988 to 1999), Northeast Historic Film’s WCVB film collection (1970-1979), and WGBH-produced The Reporters (1970-1973), Evening Compass (1973-1975) and the Ten O’Clock News.
CIA World Factbook
National-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies

CogPrints This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive for research papers that relate to the study of cognition. Includes the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and artificial intelligence.
Cryptology ePrint Archive This link opens in a new window
Recent research in cryptology.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering a range of subjects.

Energy Citations Database This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic records for energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies.
ERIC (Public) This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a digital library of education research materials sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. It indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, conference papers, policy papers, and other education-related materials.
GovInfo This link opens in a new window
Access to Congressional bills and reports; public laws and regulations; executive and federal agency documents; a catalog of government publications, and links to government websites.

Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a digital repository and research management tool for the United States' great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search, large-scale full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it, and the ability to very easily flip through and purchase full titles in both print and electronic form.
Historic American Newspapers
Library of Congress searchable and full text newspapers from 1836 to 1922 in selected states. Directory of newspapers from 1690 to present.

Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
Over 2.5 million full-text books online. Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the 1850-1877.

Open Research Library (formerly Knowledge Unlatched) This link opens in a new window
Open access monograph collection from a variety of academic publishers

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
This collection from the University of Texas covers all areas of the world. It includes more than 11,000 online map images.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
PLOS journals are highly respected and influential in all areas of science—from biology to ecology and nanoscience to neuroscience.

Research Connections in Child Care & Early Education This link opens in a new window
Research on child care and early education and related policies. The collection examines the child care and early education experiences of children birth through age 8. The collection includes original research, syntheses, fact sheets and briefs, datasets, instruments, and other research-related resources from the wide range of social science disciplines and professional fields that study early care and education.
Shakespeare (Folger Digital Texts) This link opens in a new window
This database contains free, high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare's plays starting with the basics: superb source texts, meticulously edited on the basis of current scholarship. The plays in Folger Digital Texts are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions, completed in 2010 by editors Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine and published by Simon & Schuster.
WGBH Open Vault This link opens in a new window
Open Vault is the home of WGBH Media Library and Archives, providing online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. Visitors can become a "member" (free) of Open Vault: to access records and save findings.

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC): Reviewed Studies
To help all students and schools meet high standards, educators need more evidence of what works in education. Currently, few resources help education decision makers separate high-quality research from weaker research and promotional claims. Through systematic reviews to identify rigorous research, the WWC provides educators with credible and reliable evidence that they can use to make informed decisions.

WorldCat @ UMass Boston This link opens in a new window
Combined online catalog of over 9,000 libraries customized to connect directly to Healey Library holdings & interlibrary loan (ILL).