Open Access Databases - The University Library, UP Baguio

Below are Open Access (OA) databases of electronic books and journals evaluated and selected by the library staff to provide additional sources of information for researchers. Most of the electronic resources you will find in these sites are free and openly available for public use.

e-Book Databases

Multidisciplinary

A-Z Teacher Stuff

A teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, printable worksheets, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Cogprints

CogPrints is an electronic database of self-archived research for which full texts are available. The database includes work in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and biology.

CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Core

CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.

D-Lib Magazine

Its focus was on digital library research and development, including emerging technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues, and it appealed to a broad technical and professional audience.

De Gruyter Open

An imprint of independent academic publisher De Gruyter, De Gruyter Open publishes and indexes open access material, including 435 journals and more than 100 books, in all major academic disciplines.

Digital Library of the Commons Repository

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. Provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations.

Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, provided by DOAB Foundation. Multidisciplinary source of open access books.

Digital Book Index

Provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.

Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL)

EIFL works with libraries to enable access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development.

IntechOpen

Providing freely available, accessible dynamic academic content on Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Internet Archive

A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

LifeQuotesLib.com

The quotation web library. You’ll find more than 36,000 quotations from over 6,000 famous people, such as Benjamin Disraeli, Oscar Wilde, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Confucius, Woody Allen, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other great authors.

OIAster

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. This catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Books

We publish books and chapters across all subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and our other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences.

Philippine eLib

The Philippine eLib project is one of the first eleven government funded projects through the Information Technology and E-Commerce Council (ITECC) now Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT).

SCIENCES

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science

arXiv.org

Free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,754,135 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

World’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives of natural history, botanical, research, and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.

BioMed Central

BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.

Cambridge Core Open

Cambridge Core is the place to find valuable, useful and inspirational research and academic information. With over 1.8 million journal articles and 46,000+ books, Cambridge Core is the central destination for academic research.

Education Research Information Center

ERIC is widely used by students, researchers, faculty members, and others who are responding to course requirements or developing reports for their work.

FreeBookCentre.net

Contains links to thousands of free online technical books such as Computer Science, Electronics, Science, Medical and many more.

FreeComputerBooks

Free eBook categories such as Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books and Lecture Notes, etc.

Library Genesis

Search engine that lets you download books and articles related to Science.

Springer Open Books

Books made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high peer review, author, and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.

Language & Linguistics, Literature

PDFBooksWorld

High quality resource for free PDF books, which are digitized version of books attained the public domain status. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Academic and Children’s writings.

Planet EBook

Planet eBook is the home of free classic literature.

Taylor & Francis Open Access

Explore Open Access books and book chapters published by Taylor & Francis, and discover content available across subject areas including economics, environment & sustainability, geography, history, law, media & cultural studies, politics, sociology and more.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Anthropology, Economics, Business Management, Humanities, Political Science

Asian Development Bank Open Access Repository

Explore their data-rich research, policy analysis, toolkits, guidelines, and other resources on economics and key development topics.

EconBiz

EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics. It is provided by the ZBW – German National Library of Economics, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) eLibrary

(IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, data, statistical tools, macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

Open Library of Humanities

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal.

World Bank Documents and Reports

The Documents & Reports (D&R) site is an official disclosure mechanism for the World Bank Group’s final reports. The repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public in accordance with the Bank’s Access to Information Policy to better share the institution’s knowledge base.

World Development Indicators (Databank)

(WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

Research Papers in Economics

A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers.

WikiArc

WikiArc (The Wiki Archaeological Information Resource) collects and publishes links to related open access resources on the web.

Open Access Journals
Open Access Periodicals
Open Access Theses and Dissertations

The following are open access journals:

Elsevier Open Access Journals

All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Multidisciplinary source of open access journals.

Highwire Press

Major source of free access to high impact, peer reviewed life sciences journals on the internet sponsored by Stanford University Libraries.

Old Farmer’s Almanac

Since 1792, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has spoken to all walks of life: planting charts for those who grow their own food; recipes for those who live in the kitchen; Moon and sunrise times for those who watch the skies; and forecasts for those who don’t like the question of weather left up in the air.

Philippine E-Journals

The Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) is an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations. Its sophisticated database allows users to easily locate abstracts, full journal articles, and links to related research materials.

Public Library of Science Journals

PLOS publishes suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine.

Wiley Open Access Journals

All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download, and share.

Sage Open Journals

SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, “Gold” open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

ScienceOpen.Com

ScienceOpen provides context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.

The following are open access periodical databases:

Index to Philippine Newspapers (UP Diliman Database)

The IPN is the University of the Philippines Main Library’s index to locally published newspapers. The newspaper index, which started in 1981, was originally a guide to eight (8) locally published newspapers, namely: Manila Bulletin; Philippine Daily Express; Manila Chronicle; Philippine Daily Inquirer; Philippine Star; Malaya; Manila Times; and Times Journal.

Index to Philippine Periodicals (UP Diliman Database)

Web-based article indexing system based on the Index to Philippine Periodicals (IPP) which was originally produced as a printed research guide to periodical articles indexed by the Bibliography and Indexing Section of the UP Diliman University Library.

Open Access Repository (UP Diliman Database)

A repository of digital surrogates of resources in print available at the Special Collections Section, and microfilms maintained by the Media Services of the Information Services and Instruction Section, of the Main Library, UP Diliman. Currently, the repository contains digitized Rare Periodicals.

The following are open access Thesis and Dissertation databases:

Louisiana State University Digital Commons

The LSUDC repository offers scholarly archived materials that include articles, monographs, books, theses & dissertations, audio-visual presentations, working papers, technical reports, conference proceedings, special collections, data, and publicly funded research.

OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) contains over 58,000 theses and dissertations from students at 31 of Ohio’s world-renowned academic institutions. In 2012, Google thanked OhioLINK for making ETD open-access content easier to find by Google Scholar. Theses and dissertations from Ohio’s academic institutions were downloaded more than six million times from researchers around the globe in 2015.