Open Access & Scholarly Communication: Open Access Resources

Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics e-prints (articles & papers).

Electronic archive of eprints in the areas of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and cognitive areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, and Anthropology.

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

A free online encyclopedia of philosophy from "abduction" to "zombies." No articles here.

Agricultural & Applied Economics including working papers, conference papers, and journal articles.

BioMed Central's portfolio of 206 journals includes general titles alongside specialist journals that focus on particular disciplines. All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access.

Pronounced "hah-tee." Over 8 million titles (including books & journals) 2.5 million of which are in the public domain. It was originally conceived as a back up of Google Books and has grown into a cooperative project to preserve library materials converted from print to digital.

"The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature."

Abstracts and full text research articles from multiple social science disciplines.

Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and will contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Founded in 2008 at the University of Cambridge, Open Book is a nonprofit publisher of peer-reviewed, academic books. The books can be viewed online for free (via Google Books), while digital PDF editions and POD paperback and hardback editions are available for purchase.

Several collections of open access books, including the Humanities E-Book Collection, a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies and nearly 100 contributing publishers.