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Open Access Week 2022: Open Access Resources

Dissertation & Theses

BOOKS

JOURNALS

DATABASES

A full-text, open archive and distribution server for theoretical and applied scientific research papers. Hosted by Cornell University. Coverage 1991 to the present.

Comprehensive database on international development finance and foreign aid, accompanied by a variety of innovative web-based applications for data analysis.

Approximately 2 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums and institutions such as Cornell University, Colby College, RISD, and MIT.

Open access, free, preprints across agriculture and allied sciences.

Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.

Digitized books, journals, images and collections from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries creating a global “biodiversity commons” of significant biodiversity materials. Includes the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.

Free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Supports a wide range of students and researchers exploring the ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. and movements such as Black Lives Matter. Time period covered: 1790-present.

From Boston Children’s Hospital, research projects examining interactive media technologies and impact on overall health.

Free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

A free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, it enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. Owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.

Covers journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.

Access to New York consolidated and unconsolidated laws, court acts and rules

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Not renewed by Fordham IT.

Online archive of IMF publications, dating back to 1946. Content includes Books and Analytical Papers, Notes and Manuals, Official Reports, Documents, and Periodicals. Information such as statistical data, blogs, podcasts, videos, country information, and additional databases can be found from the IMF Sites button at the top right of any page.

Economic statistics for all countries compiled by the IMF. Includes thousands of time series appearing on IFS Country Pages and World Tables. Also includes International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade, Government Finance Statistics, and more. CLICK ON MORE FOR REGISTRATION & LOGIN INFORMATION

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world. Includes Fordham University collections.

Open Access content in a variety of formats. Search for Ebooks, E-Journals, Images and Special Collections hosted on JSTOR & Artstor all freely available to access.

Free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.

Provides open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.

A wide variety of unique online projects from the New York Public Library, including the Staten Island Historical Newspapers and Music Theater digital archive.

International library consortium with the sole mission of advancing open access to research in academic journals across the humanities disciplines. All academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.

Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, this OA resource brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, audio, and video recordings from the world’s digital collections.

Online archive of public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.

Designed to aid in the study and analysis of Greek and Roman literature, it includes full texts (in English and original language), a word study tool, links from text to maps, footnotes and definitions. Hosted by Tufts University.

Reports from all over the world on population trends, health, and the environment.

Open Access Books and Journals on the Project Muse platform. This database applies non-standard use of Boolean operators.

Extensive library of scholarly resources, representing many different points of view, designed to assist teachers, scholars and general “seekers” who are interested in exploring religious issues.

Open archive of the social sciences, providing a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.

Books, journals and other intellectual output of the World Bank.

Operated by The Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB), an open access platform on which scientific videos such as conference recordings, simulations, animations, lectures and visualized research data can be published and viewed free of charge.