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The third of the four-week online learning class offered by the American Library Association (ALA) entitled “Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for Interlibrary Loan & Reference,” focused on finding open access materials.
The third of the four-week online learning class offered by the American Library Association (ALA) entitled “Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for Interlibrary Loan & Reference,” focused on finding open access materials. The instructors provided links to materials available via open access that included sources like the Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) and PubMed Central America, to lesser known sources such as the International Music Score Library Project and international sources of open access items. Check out the tools presented to the students in the class below:
Full text items:
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an index to open access, peer reviewed journals.
- PubMed Central has access to full text biomedical and life sciences journals.
- Google Books is a comprehensive list of full text books.
- Digital Public Library of America provides access to full text books, government documents, letters, maps and more.
- Chronicling America will link to historic newspapers.
- BASE is a search engine to academic open text items.
- Arxiv.org has access to items on physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - research papers among 30 disciplines.
- Theses Canada Portal provides access to Canadian electronic theses and dissertations in the collection.
- EThOS - the UK's access to theses, and some with free full text access.
- DART-Europe E-Theses Portal has access to European research theses.
- European Library is a union catalog and an online portal to open access materials.
- Europeana has digital books, videos and more from across Europe.
- British Library Digital Collections is an online archive of manuscripts, theses, maps and more.
- Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners.
Other digital formats:
- Flickr Commons is a public photo archive.
- YouTube access to user uploaded video.
- OER Commons has teaching and learning materials available to use free of charge.
- International Music Score Library Project - public domain music scores.
- Songs of America - explore history through songs.
- Internet Archive - digital library of books, movies, software and more.
- Digital Public Library of America -access to photos, letters, books, and other items.
