LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Databases and archives

Databases and archives

General OA resources
Websites

Archives Hub

National gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. Fully searchable.
arXiv
Open access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
BioMed Central Journals
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Education-line
A collection of free full text documents which are relevant to the study, practice and administration of education at a professional level.
EThOS
The UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
Google Scholar
Searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.
Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006
An open access academic online journal. Contains articles, video, audio, searchable data sets, full-colour images, visualisations, animations and interactive mapping.
OER Commons
Collection of OERs which you can navigate by subject area or material type.
Paper Trails
Paper Trails brings together a diverse group of people both in its pages and its readership – researchers, practitioners and students – as well as featuring different historical collections (print, object and digital) held in a wide variety of different libraries, museums and archives. Its content is designed to bridge different communities of research and practice. The BOOC format creates a ‘living book’, which is entirely open access and evolves over time, allowing for different formats of pieces to speak in conversation.
Social Care Online (SCIE)
The UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. Includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey literature, reports, and journal articles. Updated daily and contains over 160,000 records from the 1980s onwards.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A freely available online encylopedia maintained by Stanford University.
VADS
An online resource for visual arts. Access to over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

AdForum
The Advertising Archives
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Art UK
The nation’s art online, in partnership with over 3,000 public art collections. There are already over 200,000 artworks on Art UK. The art is from museums, universities, town halls, hospitals and even a lighthouse.
Bailii
Comprehensive access to freely available British and Irish legal information from the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) including transcripts from UK courts.
British National Formulary
Crafts Council
Department of Health
Design Council
European Mathematical Society (EMS)
General Pharmaceutical Council
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is the independent regulator for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises in Great Britain.
GlobaLex
GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law.
Google Art Project
The Art Project is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art institutions to enable people to discover and view artworks online in extraordinary detail. Users can 'walk' around galleries using the Google Maps 'street view' technology, and view artworks and collections.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Research Center
IsisCB Explore
A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.
IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology
This website created in a collaboration between The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) provides a searchable database with quantitative information on drug targets and the prescription medicines and experimental drugs that act on them.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Legislation.gov.uk
New website launched in July 2010. Aims to bring together the information found in the OPSI website and the UK Statute Law database.
LIFE
Photographic magazine 1935-1970
Media History Digital Library
Magazine collections
Radio Times 1923-2009
SCOAP3 Repository
Freely search, browse and download all Open Access articles sponsored by the international SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative.
Skills for Care
The employer-led workforce development body for adult social care in England.
Skills hub
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Voyant Tools
World Legal Information Institute
Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law including ICC cases.