LibGuides: Creative Media: Open Access Resources

Finding full text

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If you can't find the full text of an item you are looking for you can request an interlibrary loan. However there are also lots of full text open access sources available for your studies. This guide highlights ways of finding articles, books and theses.

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Search for Open Access theses

DART-Europe
Access to 828,730 open access research theses from 619 Universities in 28 European countries
EBSCO Open Dissertations
Search thousands of open access Dissertations
PQDT Open
Read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge
OATD
Find open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world
EThOS
Search over 500,000 doctoral theses

Install browser plug-ins

Install browser plug-ins to help you find full text. Click on the plug-in button when browsing articles to see if full text is available.

Open Access Button
Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors.
Unpaywall
Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories
Google Scholar Button
Lookup scholarly articles as you browse the web. For Chrome.

Search for Open Access articles

DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
CORE
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
arXiv
Open access to 1,499,258 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics
BioRxiv
bioRxiv is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
SocArXiv
An open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers

Search for Open Access books

BCcampus OpenEd
The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties.
DOAB
21542 Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 323 publishers
Milne Open Textbooks
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff
OAPEN
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.
OER Commons
Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources.
OpenBook Publishers
Open Access titles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Open Research Library
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access peer reviewed books.
OpenStax
OpenStax contains peer-reviewed books in mathematics, science, social sciences, humanities, business and college success.
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbook Library contains books in business, computer science, education, engineering, humanities, journalism, media studies & communications, law, mathematics, medicine, natural sciences and social sciences.
UCL Press - Open Access
Established as the UK’s first fully open access university press in 2015, publishes both traditional peer-reviewed scholarly works and innovative research outputs.

DkIT Open Access research publications

STÓR
STÓR is Dundalk Institute of Technology’s Open Access (OA) Institutional Repository.

Research networks

ResearchGate
A social network for researchers to share papers. Create an account to access full text of documents where available or contact authors directly for full text.