Free and Open Access Research Guide

Directory of Open Access Repositories.

OAIster is a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented full-text resources searchable without restriction. OAIster includes over 50 million records from over 2000 institutions worldwide.

A multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University. BASE complements the current metasearch system for catalogues and databases of the Bielefeld Digital Library by allowing searches to be limited by type of document, including scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint servers available on the World Wide Web.

A global registry of research data repositories including World Bank data

Free IMF’s publications and data

An open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations.

Publicly available data via AWS resources

For more on DOAB, go to http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=about&uiLanguage=en

OATD currently indexes 3,823,069 theses and dissertations from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. Collection has data visualization by Country, Language and Field of Study.

Offers over 53,000 free ebooks including free Kindle books

Free, nonprofit, academic search engine peer-reviewed research

Serves nearly all of the patent documents in the world as open, annotatable digital public goods integrated with scholarly and technical literature and regulatory and business data.

Tools and products used to discover, access, and analyze research data from idea to impact.

An academic search engine

Online Search Engine from Google that also includes Open Access scholarly literature

Provides access to all publicly available World Bank operational documents (project documents, analytical and advisory work, and evaluations), formal and information research papers, and most World Bank publications. Includes over 15,000 full text documents.

More information about OKR is available at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/faq

Search through projects, project documents, and analytical-and-advisory work of the World Bank. An advance search feature is available. The database is also browsable by: Region, country/area, theme or sector.

IMF Economic Issues, Country Reports, Papers and Survey Series

An online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa. Also has a list of experts.

Virtual Library on Capacity Development

Bibliographic Economics Open Access database with over 2,000,000 downloadable items.

Comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Over 16,000 full text, abstracted development-oriented documents are available from Eldis. Documents are of "strategic, policy or practical interest" for development practitioners based in both the North and the South.

The repository provides full text access to publications, articles and meeting documents produced by the FAO.

Provides access to abstracts and full text documents from USAID, including: Reports, development project documents, and citations of documents held by USAID Information Centers.

The BLDS Digital Library focus is on journals that are relevant to socio-economic development.

Unesco Publications. Includes Unesco Open Access publications and the UNESCO Open Access policy, Unesco Thesaurus and Terminology