Ebooks
- Directory of Open Access BooksProvides searchable access to open ebooks from over 35 academic publishers.
- Google Books SearchScanned copies of millions of books from libraries around the world. Many are openly and fully available online, while others have a preview option. Google will connect you to libraries and bookstores where the print versions are available. Some features require free account registration with Google.
- Hathi TrustA large-scale preservation project that includes many books that are in the public domain (published before 1922) which can be viewed full-text. You can limit your search results to these titles by selecting "Full View Only" in the search interface.
- Internet Archive Text CollectionDownload 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.
- Open LibraryA project of the nonprofit Internet Archive, the site seeks to include a web page database for every book ever published. It holds 23 million catalog records of books, in addition to the full texts of about 1,600,000 public domain books, which are fully readable and downloadable.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books from the public domain. Full-text downloads are available in a variety of formats for computers and mobile devices.
Online Journals and Databases
- Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) This link opens in a new window
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Search for articles from 63 English language military and aeronautical journals dating from 1949 to present. Contains only citations; no full text.
- BioMed CentralBioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 251 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals, primarily in biology and medicine.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsTHE one stop shop for users of open access scientific and scholarly journals.
- DOE PAGESDOE PAGES is the public access repository and search for publications resulting from DOE funding. Topics include basic and applied sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, nuclear sciences, engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies.
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Journal literature and other educational resources from the U.S. Department of Education.
- HighWire Open Access JournalsIndex of freely available journals from a variety of academic publishers.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts and some full-text from criminal justice publications (1970 - present).
- PLOS (Public Library of Science)PLOS publishes seven peer-reviewed open-access journals. The journals vary in their selectivity and contain differing amounts of commentary articles from opinion leaders in a variety of scientific disciplines.
- PubMed (Also known as MEDLINE via PubMed) This link opens in a new window
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National Library of Medicine's database of 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites. Use Check for Full Text button to link to Norwich licensed resources. - PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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U.S. National Library of Medicine's Open Access digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
- Wiley Open Access JournalsWiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.
- World Wide ScienceWorld Wide Science includes conference papers, articles, and other documents. Operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Theses and Dissertations
- Open Access Theses and DissertationsAn index of over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations. The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree.
- PQDT OpenPQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.
Open Educational Resources
- Academic EarthFree online lectures from universities such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
- CourseraA Massive, Open Online Course (MOOC) site. Over 100 online, free, multiweek courses from top universities in the United States.
- edX CoursesOpenly available course content from Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Free registration required.
- Internet Archive: OERsProvided by the Internet Archive library, hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
- Khan AcademyAn online collection of thousands of video tutorials on subjects such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
- MIT Open CoursewareVideo lectures, course materials, and readings from Massachusettes Institute of Technology. No registration required.