Open Access Resources are research materials have been made available to the general public, free of charge: data and datasets, books and articles, including scholarly research articles. This is not the same thing as public domain works, or those items that have fallen out of copyright protection; open access authors have chosen to share freely, so anyone can use the works legally without permission or fees. Isn't that nice of them?
This peer-reviewed journal (administered by Sciedu Press) features theoretical articles that cover various topics relating to the fields of accounting and corporate finance.
Format Coverage: eJournals
Subject: Business
Thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from over 90 publishers. Note: Some books have partial content only.
Format Coverage: eBooks
Subject: Multidisciplinary
is a database of the University of Lund (Sweden) which provides access to quality controlled scientific Open Access Journals covering several subject areas. Open access journals use a funding model that does not charge the readers.
TOpen Access books which you can read free online or on your eReader of choice.”
Search over 400,000 doctoral theses in a variety of disciplines. Although some full texts are behind paywalls, you can limit your search to items available for immediate download, either directly through EThOS or through an institution's website.
Format Coverage: Research Papers
More than 300 open-access scientific journals are housed in this database, with a readership of roughly 3 million users. Site visitors can browse journals alphabetically, or narrow their search using nine subject filters.
Oxford Open's database is comprised of archived content from more than 300 publications.The majority of these journals are fully open access, and the site also provides an array of optional open access entries (articles with publication costs paid by the author) that users may also access free-of-charge.
Format Coverage: eBooks, eJournals
Paperity boasts being the "first multidisciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers." Their focus is helping you avoid paywalls while connecting you to authoritative research.
Provides free access to more than 33,000 (primarily older public domain) books which can be downloaded in a variety of formats including ePub, Kindle, HTML and plain text.
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication.
Over 100 Open Access Books
Articles that appear in the 30 journals hosted by Wiley Open Access database go through a stringent peer review and editorial process, ensuring the quality and longevity of the content.
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