Freely Available Material: Open Access Resources
A selection of freely available information resources that are accessible to all
Open Access Resources
The following databases from our Online Resources A-Z are Open Access, meaning freely available to anyone who wishes to use them. Click on the desired title below to access that particular resource:
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Archives HubNational gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. Fully searchable.
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arXivOpen access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
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BioMed Central JournalsBioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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Education-lineA collection of free full text documents which are relevant to the study, practice and administration of education at a professional level.
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EThOSThe UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
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Google ScholarSearches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.
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Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006An open access academic online journal. Contains articles, video, audio, searchable data sets, full-colour images, visualisations, animations and interactive mapping.
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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.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyA freely available online encylopedia maintained by Stanford University.
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VADSAn 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.
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CORECORE is the world’s largest aggregator of open access content with millions of full texts, deriving from thousands of repositories, journals and other web resources, while all our content is available to everyone for free. Our Search engine is supported by faceted searching and brings back to the users the full text of open access outputs.