Yale University Library Research Guides: YYGS: Online Special Collections & Other Resources: Electronic Resources

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Digital Commons Network
Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Books
A collection of open access, peer-reviewed books.
Internet Archive
A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form; provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
Project Gutenberg
One of the oldest and most famous online book collections. Most of the items the collection are the full texts of public domain books.

Digital Public Library of America
All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.
Early Music Online
Digitized copies of over 320 volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, from holdings at the British Library.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Select 'Advanced Search' to search by format type; select 'Full-Text Only' to retrieve Open Access content.
Questia - Public Domain Books
Find and read free books online by some of literature's greatest authors, including Frederick Douglass, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, and more.

NASA ebooks
Free, public domain ebooks and reports from NASA on aeronautics, the history of the space program, space science, and more.
National Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
SpringerOpen eBooks
SpringerOpen books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work. The link provided directs to SpringerLink for "preview only" content - this filter brings back Open Access eBooks.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (books)
Formal publications, mostly published by the World Bank, which also includes external publications by allied organizations often with content by WB authors.

OASIS
Search a range of materials, including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain and open access books, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts on a variety of topics.

Digital Commons Network
Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
MyJSTOR
MyJSTOR accounts enables independent researchers to access 6 free JSTOR articles per month.
OAIster
A catalog of millions of open access digital records, built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide.

MyJSTOR
MyJSTOR accounts enables independent researchers to access 6 free JSTOR articles per month.
Open Library of Humanities
A collection of academic articles, subject to rigorous peer review, showcasing research in the humanities disciplines – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.
PhilPapers
An international, interactive academic database of journal articles for professionals and students in philosophy

arXiv
Open access to 1,497,979 preprints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.
PLOS One
A peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
PubMed
SpringerOpen Journals
SpringerOpen journals are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.

Library of Congress (U.S.) Digital Collections
Digital collections from the Library of Congress (U.S.), including American Memory, Prints & Photographs, Maps, Film, National Jukebox, and much more.
The National Archives (U.S.) Catalog
An online public portal to information about the records at the National Archives (U.S). The catalog provides access to over 2 million electronic records, which are not available elsewhere online.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore items digitized by The New York Public Library's. New material is added every day, including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, video, and more.
World Digital Library (WDL)
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress that makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.