DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR
You know whatβs awesome?Β Research.Β You know whatβs not awesome?Β Not being able to get access to research because itβs stuck behind a paywall and you donβt belong to an institution/your institution doesnβt subscribe to that particular journal.
FEAR NOT.
Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.Β Feel free to add if you like!
GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.
Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.
Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.Β Also multidisciplinary.
Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.Β Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.
Europeana-Β Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.
Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.
Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.Β Free!Β And legal!Β They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.
College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.Β Because thatβs what I do.
Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.
LSE Digital Library- London history, womenβs history.
Wiley Open Access- Science things!Β Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.
SpringerOpen-Β Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.
Elsevier Open Access-Β Elsevierβs kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.Β Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.
