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These are some of the major online repositories of resources, journals, theses, and dissertations. Links open new windows.
• It has about one billion resources, even without Trove and the Internet Archive.
• Some sites are fully free and open source. Some have limited free services and require membership and/or payment for extra services.
• The contents of some of these overlap.

Journals and research papers

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)	This library is a network of over 14,000 open access journals of many types. It has its own quality rating system so that students can select only refereed journals.
Core	World's largest collection of open access research papers. Over 180 million items.
Google Scholar	A specialised search engine that searches only legitimate academic sources. Estimated to have about 160 million indexed documents.
JSTOR	Journals and e-books. 26,000 journals, 70,000 books and over 2 million primary sources.
Researchgate	A professional network for researchers with 135 million pages, mostly in experimental sciences.
Academia	A social network for academics to share research papers. It has 25 million papers. Membership results in large amounts of email.
Kopernio	Kopernio adds a one-click access button to full-text research article PDFs on thousands of academic sites. Users can login with library credentials. Kopernio can also search for open access alternatives from its vast database of Open Access articles.
OMICS International	A platform for Open Access to research information in diversified fields of science and technology.
paperity.org	A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, with 8,880,809 papers and 16,594 journals.
Taylor & Francis Online	Taylor & Francis Online brings together over 2,700 journals and nearly 5 million articles, including many that are open access. To browse only open access articles, click on your field of interest, then Only show Open Access.
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia	A wide variety of education-related journals published by Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Education University of Indonesia.)

Theses and dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations	EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that to help users discover Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
EBSCO Open Dissertations	(Alternative link)
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations	Promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). It supports electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide. It provides resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)	Open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,729,889 theses and dissertations.
ProQuest	ProQest has 5 million theses and dissertations and grows by 200,000 items per year. It is an offfsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, and claims to be the largest repository of theses and dissertations in the world. Some services are not free.
PQDT	ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is ProQuest's open access site, providing the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Trove	Trove is a free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses and dissertations. To find them, go to 'Help on finding Australian theses' on the Trove website. You can Search all Australian theses or Search all digital Australian theses. You may also subscribe to the Trove feed for recently added Australian digital theses. [Thanks to Harry Rolf, Cauld]
Stanford University	Dissertations and theses, from Stanford University and other universities.
EThOS	E-theses Online Service (EThOS) is a repository of over 500,000 doctoral theses from over 100 UK universities.
Openthesis	openthesis.org is a searchable database of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents.
DART-Europe	DART-Europe is a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses.
Shodhganga	Shodhganga is a a platform for Indian Ph.D. theses, with over 34,000 theses.
Indcat	Indcat is a a platform for Indian Ph.D. theses, with over 400,000 items.

Institution-specific repositories

Many universities now have their own on-line respositories. To find them, use a search engine to search their university websites with the keyword repository.

Scholarworks	Walden University's open access dissertation site.
Carnegie Mellon University	Research data and scholarly outputs produced by members of Carnegie Mellon University and their collaborators.
Scholar Commons	Respository of University of South Florida.
University of St Andrews	Repository of the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
CCCU Research Space Repository	Canterbury Christ Church University. Contains over 9,000 journal articles, conference papers, videos and more.
University of Nottingham	Open Access showcase for the published research output of the University of Nottingham.
Griffith Research Online	A digital archive of research and scholarship from Griffith University, Australia.
ChesterRep	The University of Chester's Online Research Repository.
DASH	Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH).
ORA	Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) is an institutional repository for the University of Oxford and is home to the scholarly output of its research members. It holds publications, theses and research data.
Apollo	Apollo is the repository of the University of Cambridge, and holds the research output of members of the University of Cambridge.
KiltHub	KiltHub is the research repository of Carnegie Mellon University.
Aukland University of Technology	Digital copies of theses, dissertations and research projects from AUT's postgraduate research, deposited with the Library since 2002.
Gleeson Library Digital Collections	The Gleeson Library Digital Collections hold digitized special collections materials from the Donohue Rare Book Room, electronic publications and other academic works by University of San Francisco faculty and students.
Scholars Crossing	Liberty University’s institutional repository of scholarly and creative works produced by students and faculty of the University. It covers a wide range of disciplines.
Oxford University Research Archive
Ohio Link	Ohio Link, Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center
Virginia Tech	Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Search Spiral	Imperial College London's repository
Scholarbank	Research repository of the National University of Singapore
UWA	The open access repository for scholarship and research produced at the University of Western Australia. Currently nearly 168,000 items.
University of Malaya Students Repository
QSpace	QSpace is an open access repository for scholarship and research produced at Queen’s University.
Covenant	Covenant Theological Seminary’s Online Dissertations & Theses
Scientific Repository	Repository of Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia
DigitalCommons@Biola	Repository of Biola University, La Mirada, California, USA
DukeSpace	Repository of Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Theology

Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)	Curates high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections. More than 22,000 titles are from the last 25 years, more than 15,000 from the last 10 years, and more than 8,500 from the last 5 years.
Virtual open access library Virtual open access library	Note two versions. Bibliographic records to open access (free) theological resources, organized by format. These include E-books (more than 21,000 titles), Bible commentaries, open access journals, and research websites. Most items are old, but some standard works might still be useful. N.b. See page with links to research websites.
Theological Commons	(Princeton Theological Seminary) Over 120,000 resources on theology and religion. It consists mainly of public domain books and also includes periodicals, audio recordings, photographs, manuscript collections, and other formats.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library	A digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books.
Digital Commons @ Fuller	The Digital Commons @ Fuller is a service of Fuller Theological Seminary's David Allan Hubbard Library.
Boyce Digital Repository	Boyce Digital Repository at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
ePlace	ePlace is a digital collection of research and writing produced by the faculty, staff, and students of Asbury Theological Seminary. Nearly 38,000 papers.
University of Divinity Repository	Repository of the University of Divinity, Melbourne.
Atla RDB	Atla Religion Database (Atla RDB) is an index of articles, reviews, and essays in all fields of religion and theology with over 2.9 million items.
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)	The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 25,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 150 different institutions. Although not free, soft copies are also not expensive.
Religious and Theological Abstracts	Religious and Theological Abstracts contains summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. It incudes a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions. Requires a paid subscription.
Index Theologicus	Index Theologicus (International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies) IxTheo is a comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies. It is now possible to search not only for articles, but also for monographs, databases and relevant Internet links.
ACAS	A specialist library in theology, missions, and intercultural studies.
Religion Online	Religion Online aims to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship. Initially comprising material written primarily from a Christian perspective
Catholic eBooks Project	The Catholic eBooks Project is a library of links to Catholic ebooks and texts that may be read online or downloaded.
Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library (WHDL)	The Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library (WHDL) contains free multidisciplinary digital resources: books, articles, papers, multimedia materials, archival content, and scholarly resources.
Spark	Doctor of Ministry Theses
Scholars Crossing	Liberty University’s institutional repository, which includes theological works.

Church history

Early Christian Writings	Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
Project Canterbury	Project Canterbury. Papers, theses, and dissertations on Anglican History.
The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL)	The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Over 100,000 titles.
Index of church history websites

Government sources

Library of Congress	Library of Congress is the US national library with nearly 170 million items.
Trove	Australia's national repository of documents and resources, with about 6.5 billion items.
OneSearch	Over 10 million resources from libraries, museums, archives and academia. From the National Library of Indonesia.
Garuda	List of Indonesian Universties that publish journals. At present, 284 institutions publish a total of 2,840 journals. (The Indonesian government has an accreditation scheme for research journals, and this list presumably includes only accredited journals.)

General repositories

DOAR	Directory of Open Access Repositories.
ROAR	Registry of Open Access Repositories.
Open Access Directory	The Open Access Directory (OAD) is an open access compendium of science and scholarship.
The Internet Archive	The Internet Archive has 20 million books and texts. It is also a general archive of the internet, with 330 billion web pages as well as audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs.
Open Library	The Open Library is a repository of 20 million records. It is a general library, not a specialist academic library.
Gale Academic OneFile	Millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including videos. It includes more than 11,000 peer-reviewed journals (more than 8,000 in full text), and major reference sets.
The Hathi Trust	The Hathi Trust is collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving over 17 million digitized items.
Directory of Open Access Books	Directory of Open Access Books access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.
Index of Digital Libraries and specialized collections	Publicly available digital sources on the development of theology and philosophy during the early modern era.

Other specific fields

National Institutes of Health	A database of about 6.1 million articles on health-related matters.
Project Muse (Humanities and social science)	A collection of 125 journals and 60,000 books in humanities and social science; a project of the libraries of Johns Hopkins University.
Free Management Library	A library of practical resources. The broad categories include sections, each of which also has numerous topics.
Globethics (Ethics-related topics)	Currently holds over 4 million documents on applied ethics, education and religious studies from all over the world.
MIT Open Courseware	Resources for 2,500 technology-related courses taught at Massachusetts Insitute of Technology.
Science Direct	Scientific, technical, and medical research.
Open Library Humanities (OLH) project	The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) publishes open access scholarship and is part of Birkbeck College, University of London.
The Open Syllabus Project	The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) collects millions of syllabi, with seven million of them in English. It only shows statistical analyses, but the original documents might be searchable with Google advanced search.
Shihabillias	Open resources etc.
Name of collection	Various resources about East Asia
Oregon Digital	Oregon Digital is a set of collections comprising unique digitized and born-digital materials that support the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.

Study and writing skills

OWL	The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue University.
USC Research Guides	How to organize and write a quality research paper in the social and behavioral sciences. University of Southern California.
Walden academic guides Academic Skills Peer mentors Doctoral Capstone Resources e-Guide Form & Style Review Quick Answers	Walden University Student Resources
The writing center	The writing center of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctoral Project Resources	Fuller Seminary D.Min writing center
Tress Academic	Writing guides for PhD students

Education

ERIC	The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is run by the Institute of Education Sciences and contains about 1.6 million indexed items. Tip: Select Peer reviewed only and Full text available on ERIC

Research methods

ReStore	A repository of research methods resources.
National Centre for Research Methods	National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community.

Specialized searches

Google Advanced Search www.google.com > Settings > Advanced search	Google has an advanced search feature that allows you to specify precisely what you want by using all sorts of parameters. Type in a phrase that will identify the exact topic, and see what you get. You can also search your results if you want. If you don’t like the results, type another variation into one of the search boxes. Advanced search has two other particular advantages: • Websites of legitimate educational institutions usually have suffixes like .edu .edu.au .edu.ca or ac.uk depending on the country of location. They usually have better information on any serious academic topic. You might also consider government websites (e.g. .gov the US, .gov.au Australia). Google’s advanced search allows you to search these specifically by providing a box to type in a suffix. • If you find an item but getting a copy requires payment, try searching for it on Advanced Search. (Some authors also post their research on other sites where it is available for free.)
BASE	BASE is a search engine for academic web resources, and provides access to more than 240 million documents.
Worldcat	WorldCat is the world's largest network of libraries, and member libraries share access to content and services. The WorldCat search is good for locating items in member libraries. As we are not a member, we don't have access to items, but the search is useful for finding them, which you can then seek by other means. For example, dissertations might be held in open source repositories, and excerpts of books might be available through Google Books. Google's Advanced Search will give specific results.

Textbooks

Openstax	Free and flexible textbooks and resources.
Bccampus	Open textbooks
The App blaster	Downloadable textbooks. Be alert for copyright restrictions.
https://oapen.org/	OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books. It is an online library and publication platform.
Bloomsbury Collection	Bloomsbury Collections contains nearly 11,000 titles in the humanities and social sciences. Nearly three hundred books are open access and free, while others requires payment of fees.

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Journals and research papers

Theses and dissertations

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Theology

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Other specific fields

Study and writing skills

Education

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