Electronic Resources
Open access books are scholarly works made freely available online for anyone to read, download, and share without paywalls or access restrictions. They aim to increase accessibility, global reach, and impact of academic knowledge, particularly in education and research.
DOAB stands for the Directory of Open Access Books. It is a discovery service that provides free access to thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from a wide range of disciplines and publishers under an open access license. It provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.
PDF Drive is a free online search engine that allows users to search, preview, and download PDF files, including eBooks, academic papers, magazines, and manuals. It indexes over 80 million documents across various categories such as business, health, science, and fiction. The platform is accessible via web browsers and also offers Android apps for mobile users.
KopyKitab is an Indian digital learning platform that offers a wide range of educational resources, including eBooks, test preparation materials, and interactive tools, catering to students and professionals across various disciplines. The platform provides access to over 50,000 eBooks covering subjects like engineering, management, law, finance, and competitive exams. It is accessible through its website and a mobile application available on the Google Play Store. The app allows users to download eBooks for offline reading and offers features like note-taking and test practice.
LIBCATS is a digital library that offers free access to over 2.4 million books and journals across a wide range of genres and subjects. Users can explore various categories such as business literature, detective and thriller novels, children's literature, documentary works, home and family guides, drama, computing and internet resources, romance novels, science and education materials, poetry, adventure stories, prose, religious and spiritual texts, reference literature, antique works, technical manuals, science fiction, folklore, and humor. All resources on LIBCATS.org are available for free download, making it a valuable resource for readers and researchers.
Open access journals are scholarly journals that make their content freely available online without subscription fees or paywalls. They allow readers to read, download, and share articles without cost, promoting accessibility, transparency, and global dissemination of research.
DOAJ stands for the Directory of Open Access Journals. It is a free, community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, and peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals. It covers all subjects and languages. All journals listed in directory provide full-text access without paywalls, making scholarly research freely available to everyone.
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. It provides open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. The journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity.
BMJ stands for British Medical Journal (BMJ). It covers a wide range of medical disciplines, including clinical medicine, health policy, public health, medical ethics, and more. It is a collection of more than 70 medical and allied science titles. Many of the articles published by BMJ are open access, meaning they are freely available online for anyone to read.
BMC stands for Biomed Central. A UK-based open-access publisher established in 2000 and now part of Springer Nature. BMC journals are peer-reviewed and freely accessible online, covering a wide array of disciplines in science, technology, engineering, health sciences, and medicine. They are dedicated to publishing the best open access journals across our portfolio of over 250 titles.
Free Medical Journals generally refers to scholarly publications in the field of medicine and health sciences that are available online at no cost to readers. These journals provide free access to research articles, case studies, clinical trials, and reviews without requiring a subscription or payment, promoting open access to medical knowledge.
HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries, specializes in producing online versions of peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Its extensive database offers full-text access to high-impact academic materials. HighWire provides comprehensive digital publishing tools and platform solutions that span the entire publishing lifecycle—including content management, hosting, e-commerce, access and identity management, manuscript submission and tracking, and analytics.
PLOS is a nonprofit Open Access publisher committed to advancing science and medicine by making research freely accessible. It publishes peer-reviewed journals across diverse scientific fields and promotes open science through data sharing, transparency, and reproducibility. All content is released under a CC-BY license, allowing unrestricted access and reuse. PLOS also supports preprints, open peer review, and community engagement to encourage global collaboration.
Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). It focuses on the Earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and solar-terrestrial interactions. ANGEO publishes original research articles covering topics such as space weather, atmospheric electricity, and geophysical fluid dynamics.
Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by SpringerOpen on behalf of five Japanese scientific societies. It focuses on Earth and planetary sciences, covering disciplines such as geomagnetism, aeronomy, space science, seismology, volcanology, geodesy, and planetary science. All articles are freely accessible under a Creative Commons license, promoting global collaboration and knowledge dissemination.
RSC Advances is a peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Established in 2011, it covers all areas of chemistry and related disciplines. The journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, and PubMed Central. It boasts a global authorship, publishing work from over 100 countries 2024.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It offers access to education-related journal and non-journal literature from 1966 onward, including PDF materials. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, searchable database for educators, researchers, and the public. Users inclde teachers, students, policymakers, and more, with over six million searches conducted monthly across various platforms.
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Zenodo was "built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in open science." You can sort by keyword, title, journal, and more and download open access documents directly from the site.
World Bank Open Data is a free and publicly accessible online platform that provides comprehensive data on over 200 countries. It offers a vast collection of global development statistics aimed at making information more accessible and transparent. The platform covers a wide range of topics, including poverty and inequality, education, health, environment, economy and finance, infrastructure, and agriculture and rural development.
SpringerLink helps researchers find relevant resources, providing links to full articles, where available, or links to where the book or article can be accessed for a fee.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) offer research science data and resources on topics like social media, politics, economics, social sciences, government, GIS, & more.
UNdata is a free online platform by the United Nations Statistics Division, providing access to over 60 million data points from more than 30 international databases. Covering topics like health, trade, environment, and population, it includes data from over 200 countries. UNdata supports research and policymaking by offering a centralized, user-friendly resource for reliable and up-to-date global statistics.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collect, maintain and publish datasets which cover a broad range of topics related to economics, public policy, and social well-being across the OECD's 38 member countries (as of 2025) and numerous partner economies. They include both national and internationally comparable data, and are available in various formats, including CSV, Excel, and through APIs for programmatic access.
The World Health Organization (WHO) offers a comprehensive collection of datasets that provide insights into global health trends, disease patterns, health system performance, and progress toward international health goals. These datasets are essential for researchers, policymakers, and public health professionals worldwide. https://www.who.int/data/gho/gho-search
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), includes Archived reports on disease outbreaks, public health guidance, and historical data, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Archive – a repository of CDC’s past weekly public health reports and Archived web pages with older versions of guidelines or information (e.g., COVID-19 guidance that has since been updated).
FAOSTAT stands for Food and Agriculture Organization Statistical Database. It is an online data platform managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
NASA Earthdata is NASA’s centralized platform for accessing and distributing Earth science data collected by NASA’s Earth-observing satellites, airborne missions, and field campaigns. Satellite data for environmental,climate, and Earth science research.
The EEA’s knowledge work relies on high-quality data. Through our network and other institutional partners across 38 European countries, we collect, quality-assure and quality-check data on a wide set of topics and legislation related to the environment, climate and sustainability. This datahub allows you to explore and download these data.
The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a widely-used online resource that provides a large collection of datasets for machine learning and data science research. The UCI Machine Learning Repository is maintained by the University of California, Irvine (UCI). It serves as a central hub for researchers, educators, and students to access datasets for testing machine learning algorithms, conducting experiments, and benchmarking
Open Data on AWS refers to publicly available datasets that are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and made accessible for anyone to use, typically for free. These datasets are often used for research, machine learning, data analysis, and innovation across a