Online resources and services

The UACU Library recommends resources that allow you to use scientific and educational resources in the public domain:

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard – more than 13,000 documents (dissertations, books, articles, student works on economics, law, medical sciences, pedagogy, etc.).

Access to the resource is free.

https://dash.harvard.edu/

Open access to the library of our partner – the University of Minnesota, USA.

Access research is free to any reader, anywhere in the world.

https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/open-access

The science portal of the Stanford University Library, which provides access to more than 7.5 million full-text articles from various fields of science.

Access to the resource is free.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.base-search.net/

Open library of free, peer-reviewed and licensed textbooks.

Access to the resource is free.

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

The European Digital Library provides access to more than 50 million digitized objects – books, music, photos, audio, video, works of art, etc.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.europeana.eu/en

DOAB – Directory of open access books. 

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.doabooks.org/

Duke Law Scholarship Repository (USA) is an open access to the publications of scientists (more than 10,000 documents – articles in scientific journals, conference materials, working documents, lectures, student works).

Access to the resource is free.

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/

eScholarship University of California Repository.

eScholarship has provided comprehensive open access repository services for the University of California academic community since 2002. Faculty researchers are able to share the full range of their scholarly output, from working papers and seminar series to previously published articles. Student work on eScholarship includes electronic theses and dissertations as well as undergraduate capstone projects.

Access to the resource is free.

http://escholarship.org/

IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,300,000 items of research, including over 3,900,000 that can be downloaded in full text.

RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets.

Access to the resource is free.

https://ideas.repec.org/

Statistical Databases of the International Monetary Fund – free access to statistical indicators and databases of the International Monetary Fund: Statistics of the geographical structure of trade, International financial statistics, Balance of payments statistics, Statistics of public finances, Trade and investment.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.imf.org/en/Data

Institute for Social & Economic Research/University of Essex is an open archive of electronic publications of the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex. More than 430 materials.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. A resource presenting more than 1600 full-text books in pdf format from different industries: Society and Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, Finance, Business and Management, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Foreign Languages, Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, etc.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.oapen.org/home

Open Library is a project of the non-profit organization “Internet Archive for the Digitization of Books”, which is in the public domain (within the framework of the Open Content Alliance consortium). The library contains more than 1 million publications available for viewing and downloading. In addition, visitors are invited to choose the desired book from the collections of the Boston Public Library for free digitization, which contains a large number of books of the XIX-XX centuries.

Access to the resource is free.

https://openlibrary.org/

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. The first journal, PLOS Biology, began publication on October 13, 2003. To date, seven journals have been published, all journals have been peer-reviewed.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.plos.org/

Questia is one of the largest online libraries in the world. It contains books and journal articles of more than 300 publishers in the humanities and social sciences: history, philosophy, economics, political science, English, literature, anthropology, psychology and sociology. More than 5000 books in the open access!

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.questia.com/library/free%E2%80%93books

EconPapers provides access to the world’s largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

Access to the resource is free.

http://econpapers.repec.org/

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is an initiative that seeks to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related areas. We want to make research more accessible both for the authors and the readers. RePEc is a crowd-sourced effort: a) thousands of people and organizations contribute the underlying data, b) a core team of contributors manage the system, and c) sponsor organizations provide the infrastructure. As such, the RePEc initiative has no central expenses, and thus can provide all services for free to all users.

Access to the resource is free.

http://repec.org/

SocArXiv is an open archive of publications on social sciences. Platform features: free download of scientific work; open access for all readers; access through Google Scholar; free registration; permanent links to the latest versions of works (authors can provide links to versions published elsewhere), etc.

Access to the resource is free.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv

Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) is one of the world’s largest open electronic repositories on social sciences (demography, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, etc.). More than 25,500 documents. Founder – GESIS – Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences (Germany, Cologne).

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.ssoar.info/

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is one of the world’s largest open electronic repositories of scientific articles and preprints. The network database contains information on key areas of management and economic science. More than 362,000 abstracts of research results in various fields of science, as well as more than 295,000 scientific articles, are freely available. Registration on the site is free.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is Britain’s most respected independent research institute in the areas of public finance, taxes and social policy, tax law, education, pensions, innovation, consumer behavior. More than 500 materials.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications

The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) is a private and independent foundation conducting economic research with high integrity and focusing on the Swedish business sector. More than 1000 materials.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.ifn.se/en/about-ifn/

World Bank Open Data – is a free and open access to development data in countries around the world. A large set of economic, social and environmental indicators based on World Bank data.

Access to the resource is free.

http://data.worldbank.org/

The Tinbergen Institute is an institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). It is one of the 50th best world economic institutions. Contains more than 3000 works.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/

University of Michigan Press is a leading publisher and distributor of books and digital projects in the humanities and social sciences, provides free access (more than 1150 units).

Access to the resource is free.

https://ebc.press.umich.edu/

Non-profit private electronic library ImWerden is an electronic library of the Runet. It was founded in 2000. Supported, edited by A. Perenskyi (Munich). Subjects: literature, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, history, journalism, science and technology. Total publications – 10 539 (3 242 531 pages).

Access to the resource is free.

http://imwerden.de/

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

Access to the resource is free.

https://doaj.org/

Open access journals. All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals

Euromonitor International Passport provides information on various industries, demographic, macroeconomic, socio-economic data and analysis of consumers and the economy in 210 countries around the world. The Passport Industrial is an analysis of the industries of the world’s 18 largest economies, accounting for 78% of global GDP. The entire economy is divided into 177 industrial sectors equal in the size of GDP. Passport Cities (Passport Cities) is socio-economic indicators, analytical data, a wide coverage of statistical data, expert assessments of the most important cities (capitals) of the world and their metropolises.

Access to the resource is free.

http://portal.euromonitor.com/

The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) is the European Commission’s primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU’s framework programmes for research and innovation. Their mission is to bring research results to professionals in the field to foster open science, create innovative products and services and stimulate growth across Europe.

CORDIS has a rich and structured public repository with all project information held by the European Commission such as project factsheets, participants, reports, deliverables and links to open-access publications.

Access to the resource is free.

https://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html

WorldCat is the world’s largest bibliographic database. More than 72 thousand libraries from 170 countries of the world are connected to the database system as part of the organization of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), which use the organization’s services to search, purchase, catalog, borrow and store library materials. WorldCat – an integrated information service containing documents and materials of various formats in 470 languages of the world.

WorldCat is available in many languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Thai, French, Czech.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.worldcat.org/about

Kopernio provides access to free, absolutely legally hosted versions of articles published on different platforms in open access on the Internet directly from the Web of Science interface. Now Web of Science not only helps to easily find the most relevant world scientific information, but also opens access to the full texts of articles in compliance with all the rights of authors and publishers. Kopernio is a free browser application for all Web of Science users.

Integration with Google Scholar and Pubmed libraries.

It works everywhere – you can use your library wherever you need it: at home, at a conference or on vacation.

Save files – Kopernio will automatically save your PDF documents to your profile; you can always come back to them later.

Access to the resource is free.

https://kopernio.com/for-libraries

European Patent Information and Documentation Systems (EPIDOS), established in 1992 by the European Patent Office, contains information on patents from more than 50 countries.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.epo.org/index.html

OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research. It is a new database containing more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations freely available.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.opendissertations.org/

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org allows the user to search multiple scientific sources from around the world with a single query. Multilingual translations capabilities exist for ten languages, enabling access to the most current findings in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, and engineering. Much of the information accessed via WorldWideScience.org is freely available, in support of open science.

Access to the resource is free.

https://worldwidescience.org/

Information resources of the American Economic Association. There are more than 750 journals of economic subjects.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/content

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,215,415 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

Access to the resource is free.

https://arxiv.org/

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.base-search.net/

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is an initiative that seeks to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related areas. We want to make research more accessible both for the authors and the readers. RePEc is a crowd-sourced effort: a) thousands of people and organizations contribute the underlying data, b) a core team of contributors manage the system, and c) sponsor organizations provide the infrastructure. As such, the RePEc initiative has no central expenses, and thus can provide all services for free to all users.

Access to the resource is free.

http://repec.org/

Open Math Notes, a repository of freely downloadable mathematical works hosted by the American Mathematical Society as a service to researchers, faculty and students. Open Math Notes includes course notes, textbooks, and research expositions, also items previously published in the Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes

Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 5 million acronyms and abbreviations.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Electronic library of scientific publications in the field of computer science and informatics. Offers a wide range of additional features for searching and analyzing articles.

Access to the resource is free.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/index

Searching base with more than 200 leading titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Access to the resource is free.

https://bioone.org/

Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international direction. Brill publications focus on the humanities and social sciences, international law and selected fields of science.

Access to the resource is free.

https://uk.upwiki.one/wiki/Open_access_in_the_Netherlands

CORE provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission.

Access to the resource is free.

https://core.ac.uk/

DART-Europe was founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.dart-europe.org/

Dimensions allows users to find and access the most relevant information on the subject of their research. The resource combines information on tens of millions of scientific articles, patents, grants, clinical trials, and also contains many other combined data.

Access to the resource is free.

https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication

Academic archive of research publications, including theses and dissertations published and registered in Scandinavian universities and colleges.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.diva-portal.org/

Open international repository of scientific publications in the field of library science and informatics.

Access to the resource is free.

http://eprints.rclis.org/

EZB is a cooperative service of 662 libraries in Germany, supported by the University Library of Regensburg. EZB offers fast, structured and unified access to the full texts of scientific journals. The library of electronic journals contains more than 110 thousand titles, including 26283 original electronic publications from all fields of knowledge. 73936 journals are in the public domain.

Access to the resource is free.

http://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research. EThOS helps institutions to meet the expectation of the UK Research Councils that PhDs supported by a Research Council Training Grant should be made freely available in an open access repository.

Access to the resource is free.

http://ethos.bl.uk/

EUR-Lex is your online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official and most comprehensive access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages and is updated daily.

Access to the resource is free.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.doabooks.org/

The portal contains a link to European sources of open access, where primary historical documents covering a wide range of historical events (political, economic, social and cultural) are stored.

Access to the resource is free.

https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Full-text search service for books digitized by Google.

Access to the resource is free.

https://books.google.com/

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Access to the resource is free.

https://scholar.google.com.ua/

HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.hathitrust.org/

Hindawi is one of the world’s largest fully open access journal publishers. It contains publications on engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, biology, medicine, etc.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.hindawi.com/

About 100,000 documents on computer science, mathematics and programming, including: learning (artificial intelligence), feature extraction, optimization, neural nets, probability, control system synthesis, Internet of Things, etc.

Access to the resource is free.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp

Resources of one of the world’s largest publishers of open access books. The publication covers publications on biology, computer science and information technology, earth science, electronic engineering and electrical engineering, materials science, social and human sciences, etc.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.intechopen.com/

Japanese portal of scientific and technical information, providing access to more than 3000 scientific journals, conference collections, and other academic publications. More than 90% of resources are in the public domain.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse

The Open Access Journal Portal contains more than 16,000 academic journal titles from various fields of knowledge.

Access to the resource is free.

https://journals4free.com/

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Access to the resource is free.

https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/

NARCIS is the main national portal for those looking for information about researchers and their work. NARCIS provides access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from some data archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en

The joint catalogue of the project of the world library organization OCLC has been merged, providing access to a collection of digital resources from open archives around the world.

Access to the resource is free.

http://oaister.worldcat.org/

Searching system. It provides a search for full-text open access dissertations or limited access dissertation information among 6 million documents from around the world.

Access to the resource is free.

http://search.ndltd.org/

OAPEN is an online library and publication platform. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

Access to the resource is free.

http://oapen.org/

Access to conference materials and open access scientific journals from different fields of science, contains more than 700 titles of peer-reviewed journals and materials of more than 1000 conferences.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.omicsonline.com/

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.

Access to the resource is free.

http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

Access to the resource is free.

https://plos.org/

Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.science.gov/

Publishing house Springer is providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.

Access to the resource is free.

https://link.springer.com/

The Library of Congress project is supported by UNESCO and in collaboration with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions and international organizations from around the world. The library provides free access to a large number of materials (manuscripts, books, maps and other documents) representing the cultures of different countries of the world.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.wdl.org/

Wiley and Hindawi publish peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines. All research articles published in the fully open access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share.

Access to the resource is free.

http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Access to the resource is free.

https://worldwidescience.org/

Cambridge University has opened access to more than 700 textbooks from different fields of knowledge.

Access to the resource is free.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks