Finding OA content
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Open access repositories
At Concordia University
Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository - Concordia University's open access institutional repository that centralizes access and preserves the research created at Concordia.
Disciplinary repositories
Open access disciplinary repositories: List maintained by the Open Access Directory (OAD)
Global rirectory
OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories - A directory of open access– institutional, disciplinary, aggregating, governmental, and multi-institutional–repositories. Content types include journal articles, conference papers, theses, reports, books and chapters, datasets, learning objects, software, and patents. Subject areas span the arts and humanities, social sciences, health and medicine, and STEM fields.
Finding open educational resources and related media
Start finding OER - The Library's Open Educational Resources includes directories and search tools for finding open textbooks used at Concordia University and beyond, alongside visual and audio material appropriate for integrating to open educational resources.
Services that index open access content
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine indexes academically relevant web resources from over 2000 sources. It was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Directory of free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Directory of Open Access Books - Directory of free, full-text, academic peer-reviewed books from a variety of publishers.
CORE - Find Open Access research papers from data providers from all over the world, including institutional repositories, subject repositories and journal publishers.
Google Scholar: Google Scholar indexes open-access articles and identifies them in search results with a green arrow. While not all articles found on Google Scholar include free full text, Google also searches open-access repositories alongside proprietary content.
IDEAS/RePEc (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) for Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) includes open-access working papers, book chapters, and software components. The service has been made possible through the collaborative effort of volunteers worldwide.
OpenAlex - an open source catalogue of scholarly papers. Provides access to a large dataset of scholarly research, and also effectively indexes articles in Diamond OA journals
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) is a discovery service that connects researchers and scholars with valuable, unique Open Access content. OATD does not index or redistribute any document's full text.
OpenAire - Search repositories and OA journals from across Europe and the world.
OpenVerse - an extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. This open source search engine searches for content with Creative Commons Licences or in the public domain.
Qwant - an alternative to Google, Qwant is headquartered in Europe rather than the US, does not track users, and respects privacy.
- ScholarlyArchive - a branch of the Internet Archive that indexes millions of research articles and scholarly documents.