Open Access

AOSIS is an open access publisher that makes journals and articles freely available without charge to readers, so you can read, download, distribute, or link to them without having to seek permission. On their website you will find articles on economics, management, health and veterinary sciences, humanities and social sciences, science, engineering and technology, and theological and religious studies.

Bentham Open publishes many open access journals containing articles that are free to read. It covers all major disciplines in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, and technology. You can browse journals by subject or title.

BMC is an abbreviation for BioMed Central and though it specializes in biomedicine, engineering, and life sciences, it also publishes free articles in fields such as education, the social sciences, criminology, philosophy, and psychology. You can access the full-text of journal articles in all these fields on their website.

Cambridge University Press makes articles freely available from 53 journals covering a wide range of subject. These include engineering, geosciences, classics, psychology, biology, mathematics, and design. In addition, Cambridge makes some content openly available in over 300 of its journals.

Founded in Germany in the 1980's, Copernicus publishes open access journals in the sciences as well as the humanities. You will be able to access free articles in fields like geosciences, engineering, life sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and the humanities.

DeGruyter has been involved in open access publishing since its inception and they provide free access to journal articles and books that you can use for your assignments.This publisher offers a wide range of subjects ranging from art and architecture, business, science, engineering, literary studies, social sciences, sports and recreation, and religion.

The Directory of Open Access Journals allows students to find freely available journal articles that have been peer-reviewed. The directory contains millions of articles from over 15,000 journals in all subject areas. You can search by subject or title and easily access the full-text you need for your assignments.

Elsevier is one of the largest publishers of scholarly and scientific journals. They make peer-reviewed articles available free for students to read and download. Their website allows you to search for journal articles by subject by clicking the subject menu in the lower right corner of their website.

Frontiers is a major open access publisher and open science platform where you can find freely available articles in over 900 academic disciplines. On the Frontiers website you can also freely access collections of articles compiled into eBook form. You will find science, health and engineering articles as well as humanities and social sciences on this site.

Hindawi is one of the world's largest fully open access online publishers of journals and journal articles. You can get free access to articles in the biological sciences, medicine, physical sciences, social sciences and education, mathematics, engineering, and computer science, along with case reports. You can search on their site by subject and by title.

IEEE Open offers free access to dozens of journal articles in the field of engineering. The areas covered include communications, computers, medicine, biology, industry applications, industrial electronics, transportation, nanotechnology, signal processing, solid state circuits, ultrasonics, photonics, and quantum engineering.

JSTOR provides one-stop shooping for freely available journal articles, scholarly books, images, and research reports. It is particularly strong in the areas of history, the social sciences, and
the humanities.

Students in the liberal arts will find Humanities to be a reliable source for the latest research in literature, film, linguistics, religion, and the arts. The articles are peer-reviewed and include both historical and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Oxford Open offers free access to journal articles across a range of disciplines. Some of the areas covered include medicine, biology, neuroscience, energy, nutrition, aging, health, geophysics, engineering, cybersecurity, climate change, materials science, animal science, and transportation safety.

PLOS stands for Public Library of Science. It makes journal articles freely accessible on its site. You can find articles from fields such as biology, chemistry, ecology, medicine, neuroscience, plant science, and public health and epidemiology.

If you are looking for quality peer-reviewed research in science, engineering and mathematics, Royal Society Open Science is a good choice for finding journal articles. You will find cutting-edge research that is published rapidly and made openly available to use.

Sage is a large, well-established publisher with a strong reputation for quality in the social sciences as well as the humanities. Sage Open makes peer-reviewed articles available free to students that they can use for their assignments.

Scientific Research Publishing is an academic publisher of open access journals that offers articles that you can access freely. You will find articles on biomedical and life sciences, business and enconomics, chemistry and materials science, computer science and communications, earth and environmental sciences, engineering, medicine and health care, physics and mathematics, and the social sciences and humanities. The journals are conveniently arranged on their website by subject so you can quickly find what you need.

Springer is a long-standing, highly regarded publisher in the sciences and social sciences. Springer open makes peer-reviewed articles freely available. The Springer site allows you to search for journals both by subject and by title.

Taylor & Francis Online offers one of the widest varieties of free journal articles of any publisher with emphasis on the sciences and social sciences. It features journals in technology, medicine, clinical sciences, and the arts.

UC Press' Luminos model makes the full-text of journal articles available in fields within the humanities and social sciences. Subjects include communication, criminology, film and media studies, food & wine, history, music, psychology, religion, sociology, area studies, literary studies, philosophy, politics, sciences, environment, and technology studies.

Wiley Open Access is one of the largest publishers of open journals that offer freely available articles. It covers the fields of science, engineering, and technology and includes biological sciences, chemical, and health sciences and brain and behavioral sciences.

Berghan Open Access provides full text availability for titles in the fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, film, political science, and other fields.

Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

Cornell Open makes new and out of print classics freely accessible from the Cornell University Press catalog. Among the fields covered are anthroplogy, classics, political science, literary criticism, German studies and Slavic studies.

Digital Book Index is intended to be a meta-index of ebook sites. It provides access to 140,000 books, texts, and documents that are freely available. It includes reference books, literature and languages, history, social sciences, medicine and health, math and sciences, philosophy and religion. law, the arts, and children's books.

The Directory of Open Access Books makes the full text of ebooks available that are academic and peer reviewed. You can browse by title, subject, or publisher, and there is a wide range of subjects available including humanities, sciences, and social sciences as well as health sciences, technology, and engineering.

Free Ebooks.Net features a large number of both academic and non-academic titles. You can search by subject and limit your search to academic titles. These include anthropology, classics, communication, engineering, environment, gender, geography, history, humanities, LBGT, math, and more.

Gitenberg is a collaborative, open source community curating and publishing highly usable and attractive ebooks in the public domain. The books are free to use by anyone for any purpose. They contain detailed metadata and are accessible in a wide variety of formats.

This is a project jointly sponsored by Columbia University and the American Historical Association. You will find history books addressing a wide range of topics and time periods.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. Hathi provides access to the largest collection of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries. TTU Libraries also provides access to Hathi Trust via the Databases A-Z link on the Libraries homepage.

This collection of openly accessible ebooks includes thousands of titles from European and American literature and history,

The Internet Archive has an extensive collection of both scholarly and popular titles. It includes twenty million downloadable titles and over two million titles that can be borrowed.

JSTOR offers access to over 6,500 open access ebooks from 90 publishers. These are high quality academic titles that are peer reviewed. The emphasis is on the humanities, history, and the social sciences.

Knowledge Unlatched offers over 2300 ebooks in academic subjects as well as popular reading. Academic subjects include architecture, art, business and economics, education, history, music, philosophy, psychology, social sciences, religion, and technology and engineering.

Milne Open Textooks offers SUNY textooks that are freely available to use. You can choose from a wide variety of sujbects such as anthroplogy, engineering, cinema, literature, science, and women's studies.

MIT Press makes some of its books openly available through MIT Press Open. These titles include science and technology, business, urban studies, computer science, and the social sciences and humanities.

National Academies Press makes ebooks available free online in many subject areas. You can find books on biography, conflict, energy, earth science, industry and labor, space and aeronautics, agriculture, biology and life sciences, earth sciences, engineering and technology, food and nutrition, math, chemistry and physics, behavioral and social sciences, computers and information technology, education, health and medicine, to name just a few.

OAPEN Free makes the full-text of ebooks free to use, focusing on books that are high quality academic titles. There is a detailed subject index that you can browse, and the site supports title searching as well.

OER Commons features over 2,000 textbooks. Subject areas include arts, humanities, business, education, English, history, law, life sciences, mathematics, physical science, and social science.

The Ohio State University Press makes some of its books available on its site. All have been peer reviewed. The emphasis is on the humanities, history, art, and literature.

Open Book Publishers are the leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All books are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors. They publish monographs and textbooks in all areas

The Open Library features a wide selection of open access books. It covers a broad array of subjects such as arts, fiction, science, mathematics, business and finance, history, health and wellness, biography, and textbooks.

OpenStax makes open sourced peer reviewed textbooks available in math, science, social sciences, humanities, and business. It also includes a section on college success.

OTN textbooks are free to use and distribute, and can be freely adapted and changed with proper attibution. You can browse by subject and look at textbooks in business, computer science, education, engineering, humanities, journalism, media and communication, law, mathematics, medicine, natural sciences, and social sciences. There is also a section on student success.

Oxford Text Archive is a repository of literary and literary and linguistic resources that features thousands of texts in 25 languages.

Project Gutenberg offers more than 60,000 free ebooks. The site emphasis older classic works that are no longer under copyright. No special apps are required to read the texts. You can search by author, title, subject, language, type, and popularity.

Project Muse offers openly available books from distinguished unversity presses and scholarly societies. They provide a platform to host open access content from publishers.

Springer Open Access makes over 1200 ebooks freely available for reading. You can access titles in the social sciences, education, computer science, engineering, and economics, as well as conference proceedings.

This is a collection of classic works primarily in the humanities. Fields covered include literature, philosophy, history, religion, nad related areas.

This collection of freely available ebooks includes over 500 titles that are available to the public. Subjects include anthropology, art history, asian studies, cinema, classics, economiics, history, gender studies, latin america, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and more.

The University of Michigan Press offers free access to the full text of over 240 titles on its Fulcrum platform. A variety of subjects can be found here including asian studies, media studies, american studies, political science, literary studies, history, german studies, music, sociology, theater and performance, writing, and fiction.

Lists over three million free books on the web. It features broad subject coverage of most academic areas and allows subject browsing by Library of Congress subject areas.

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions consists of out of freely available out of print books published between 1938 and 2004. The areas covered are history, politics and government, philosophy, rhetoric, economic conditions, english language, foreign relations, and government policy.

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

A new general, open-access, open-source, paper server for the social sciences. SocArXiv encourages linking and sharing data and code and that provides the foundation for a post-publication review system.

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 75 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences.

CogPrints is an electronic repository for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy and biology.

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is based on PubMed Central (PMC), and offers free access to biomedical literature resources. It is provided by 18 existing UK and European funders. From the 1 November 2012, UKPMC will be called Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC).