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General Information & Open Access Resources
- WorldCatWorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and collections. You can use WorldCat to determine citations for books, journals, and other media, locate a copy near you, and even request a copy for delivery.
- Google ScholarUse Google Scholar to search for scholarly literature. Once you have a citation you can request it through Interlibrary Loan at your local library. You can use Google Books to preview books you are interested in before requesting them.
- CIA World FactbookThe Central Intelligence Agency's annual World Factbook provides a reliable resource for information on independent states, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabitable regions, and oceans.
- JSTOR Free ReadsSign up for a free individual account to read 6 online articles per month at no cost.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)DOAJ is a free, full-text quality controlled directory which provides access to a variety of journals from many disciplines and in many different languages.
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
- Directory of Open Access BooksDiscovery service for peer-reviewed, open-access books and book publishers.
- INASPThe INASP provides a directory of free and open access online resources. Coverage includes the following disciplines: agriculture, biology & life science, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering & technology, environment, humanities, information & communication technologies, mathematics & statistics, medicine & health sciences, physics, and social sciences.
- OAIsterOAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources.
- Open Access Theses and DissertationsInformation comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 7,416,463 theses and dissertations.