Digital Resources Directory

nLab

Description: The nLab is a wiki for research-level notes, expositions, and collaborative work in mathematics, physics, and philosophy, with a focus on category theory and homotopy theory methods. The nLab believes that category theory, especially higher category theory, provides a useful unifying viewpoint for mathematics, physics, and philosophy.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

Description: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is an online library and publication platform that works with various publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books. The platform is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

Description: OSTI is the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information's major search tool for scientific, technology, and engineering research and development outcomes, as well as the organization's information hub. It combines OSTI's home page and SciTech Connect, our now-defunct major search tool.

OneLook Dictionary

Description: This website is a search engine for English words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition, we'll shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define that word. If you don't know the right word to use, we'll help you find it. No word is too obscure: More than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS)

Description: ODLIS began in 1994 at the Ruth Haas Library as a four-page printed handout titled Library Lingo, aimed at undergraduates who were not fluent in English and English-speaking students who were unfamiliar with basic library terminology. The text expanded and converted to HTML format in 1996 for use on the WCSU Libraries Homepage as Hypertext Library Lingo: a Glossary of Library Terminology. Many more hypertext links were added in 1997, and the format improved in response to user feedback. Several hundred terms and definitions were added during the summer of 1999, and a generic version was created, removing all references to specific conditions and practices at the Ruth Haas Library.

OnlineCourses.com

Description: There are over 500 accredited free online college classes available, giving you access to research-based academic resources from some of the world's greatest universities. These resources might help you learn more about a wide range of academic subjects. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the free courses listed (MOOCs). A MOOC, by definition, allows any interested learner to engage in the course. Although some advanced courses would ask learners to have finished other coursework or have a particular degree of understanding in a relevant topic, there are no prerequisites or other qualifiers separating an interested student from the material.

Open Access Library (OALib)

Description: The Open Access Library (OALib) consists of the following components: • the Search Engine, which is based on a database of Open Access (OA) article metadata; • the Repository with its own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and post-prints, all housed in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories. • the Journal with OALib Articles, • the Index with metadata entries of external OA journal articles, OALib now houses links and metadata for 5,706,237 open access papers from a variety of academic subjects. You can download all full-text articles from your search results for free.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

Description: OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding 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 6,234,995 theses and dissertation

Open Book Publishers

Description: Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more.

Open Educational Resources Common (OER COMMON)

Description: The site provides resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing as a network for teaching and learning materials. To provide a single point of access to the most delicate quality information worldwide, OER Commons has formed relationships with over 500 key content partners. Users can search over 42,000 approved and fully indexed OER, ensuring that resources are relevant and easy to find. These resources are available for educational use because they are "open," and many of them have Creative Commons licenses that allow them to be repurposed, edited, and adapted for various local settings.

Open Research Library (ORL)

Description: The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone. Libraries investing in the Open Research Library contribute to the development of a dedicated infrastructure for the global research community, while participating libraries have the opportunity to benefit from a set of exclusive services.

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Open Science

Description: Open Science is an independent, open access publisher and unique cultural institution. We promote widespread awareness and boundary-breaking ideas. Through our well-crafted books, journals, public events, and innovative outreach programs we are building a vibrant community of readers, writers, and thinkers.We are committed to giving all researchers equal opportunity to share ideas, to develop their career and for their work to have greater impact around the world.We ensure that scientists and researchers get the recognition and rewards that they deserve and the opportunity to play a significant role in the global scientific community.

Open Textbook Library

Description: The Open Textbook Library includes textbooks that are free to use and share, as well as those that are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper acknowledgment. The following are the requirements for adding new textbooks to the Open Textbook Library: All content must be released under an open license. Except for the CC ND (No Derivatives) component, we accept textbooks with GNU and Creative Commons (CC) licenses. The CC BY license is recommended. For additional information on choosing a license for your work, see Creative Commons. An entire textbook must be provided as a portable file (e.g. PDF, EPUB). It must be used in numerous higher education institutions or affiliated with one. It must be a unique textbook (not a derivative of another textbook). Modifications that reflect the needs or circumstances of a whole new audience may be an exception to this rule. For example, the textbook has been significantly altered such that it now applies to a new country, or profession, or has been translated into a new language. Significant changes to the original material will be required of authors or publishers.

OpenDOAR

Description: OpenDOAR is a globally recognized, quality-assured directory of open access repositories. We host repositories that make academic outputs and resources available to the public for free. Each repository entry in OpenDOAR has been carefully vetted and processed by a member of our editorial team, allowing us to provide the community with a reliable service. The service debuted in 2005 as the result of a collaboration between the University of Nottingham and the University of Lund, with funding from OSI, Jisc, SPARC Europe, and CURL.

Openstax

Description: Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free. And backed by additional learning resources. Review our OpenStax textbooks and decide if they are right for your course. Simple to adopt, free to use. We make it easy to improve student access to higher education.

Openverse

Description: Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Openverse searches across more than 700 million images and audio from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

Ovid

Description: Ovid is a supporter of archive resources that are essential for understanding the historical context of medical diagnosis and treatments. Among our top resources are: There are almost 6,000 ebooks and other book collections available, including archive collections of vital historical material, as well as publisher and topical collections. Except for Science, which has a three–month embargo, there are almost 1,400 premium, peer-reviewed journals with no embargoes. In addition, there are dozens of journal collections available, including archival collections and packages based on publisher or subject content. Over 100 full–text and bibliographic databases

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Description: the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries website provides free access to a wide range of resources for learners of British and American English, including definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, and grammar pagesdictionaries available, including the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Paperity

Description: Paperity is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access scholarly articles. It provides a centralized platform for researchers and academics to access a vast collection of open access articles from various disciplines. Paperity aims to enhance the visibility and accessibility of scholarly research by offering a comprehensive database of freely available papers.

ProQuest

Description: ProQuest is an important partner for all types of content holders, preserving and enabling access to their rich and diverse information. These collaborations have resulted in an expanding content collection that now includes 90,000 authoritative sources, 6 billion digital pages, and spans six centuries. It houses the world's largest collection of dissertations and theses, as well as 20 million pages and three centuries of global, national, regional, and speciality newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks; rich aggregated collections of the world's most important scholarly journals and periodicals; and unique vaults of digitised historical collections from great libraries and museums, as well as organisations as diverse as the Royal Archives, the Associated Press, and the National Association of Newspaper Editors.

PubChem

Description: PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Description: The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is an open-access scientific publisher. PLOS publishes a variety of peer-reviewed journals that cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, medicine, genetics, and more. The organization is known for its commitment to open access, making scientific research freely available to the public.

PubMed

Description: PubMed is a free database that makes it easier to find and retrieve biomedical and life science publications to improve global and personal health. The PubMed database contains over 33 million citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are frequently provided when available from other sources. For biomedical literature, PubMed has around 34 million citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text information from PubMed Central and publisher websites.

QScience

Description: QScience.com is the innovative and collaborative, peer-reviewed, online publishing platform from Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press). It offers a fast and transparent Open Access scholarly publishing process, which is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global audience.

Radiopaedia

Description: Radiopaedia is a rapidly growing, open-edit radiology resource, compiled by radiologists and other health professionals from across the globe. Radiopaedia’s mission is to create the best radiology reference the world has ever seen and to make it available for free, forever, for all.