Biblioteca Universitatii "Lucian Blaga" Sibiu

Open Access Resources

Common References :

Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ , is a unique index of open access resources from around the world, providing free online and quality content for everyone

arXiv.org e-Print archive - the free pre-publication archive for physics papers

Home-PLOS - is an open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

Open access scientific journals online - online scientific publications, peer-reviewed, with over 20 years of academic publishing experience from over 64 countries

ScienceOpen - platform with over 90 million publications accessible for free

Internet Archive - Scholar - full-text searchable index includes more than 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents held in the Internet Archive. The collection ranges from digitized copies of 18th century journals to the latest Open Access conference papers and preprints on the World Wide Web

Media History Digital Library - millions of pages of books and journals on the history of film, broadcasting and recorded sound. MHDL is also aimed at a wider audience outside academia (film buffs, classic radio enthusiasts etc)

Hindawi - Open Access publishing - one of the largest publishers of fully open access journals in the world; support openness in academic publishing and research communication

Open acess Journal, to obtain information about the impact factor of the journals

Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD), the community that studies and shares humanities data.

Cultural Anthropology , Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing based on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics.

Academindex , an international database that indexes quality scientific journals published in the fields of science, health and social sciences.
Academindex is one of the most comprehensive and highest quality databases of journals and articles in the world.

LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) - is the voice of Europe’s research library community

Open Access from Edward Elgar Publishing (e-elgar.com) - books available through Explore Open Access on Elgaronline; also here you can find information about Open Access publishing, useful for researchers

Search engines specializing in books, science and other smart information:

www.refseek.com - academic resources, over a billion sources: encyclopedias, monographs, magazines
www.worldcat.org - search content in 20 thousand world libraries. You'll find out where is the nearest rare book you need
www.bioline.org.br - is a library of bioscience journals published in developing countries
repec.org- volunteers from 102 countries collected nearly 4 million publications on economics and related sciences
www.science.gov- US search engine for over 2,200 scientific sites, over 200 million articles indexed
www.pdfdrive.com- the largest free PDF book download site, over 225 million
www.base-search.net- one of the most powerful academic research text search sites, over 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them free
link.springer.com - access to over 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research records

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