LibGuides: Open Access: General Repositories

Open Access Textbooks

Book Boon
Bookboon's free online textbooks for students are focused and to the point. They are all written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
CaltechAUTHORS
CaltechAUTHORS contains research publications by Caltech faculty and other Caltech researchers. Most items in CaltechAUTHORS are articles, but there are also books, book chapters, conference papers and more. The repository is updated continuously as departments and library staff add available and recently published documents.
CK-12
Middle and high school level textbooks in science, math, engineering, and nanoscience.
The National Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, and offer more than 8,500 titles in PDF format.
Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury is a well-respected and long time UK publisher who has released some of their academic titles for open access/open education.
The National Academies Press
Unlike some of the open textbook initiatives these books are publicly available but not openly licensed. You can link to the content, and even link directly to specific pages. However, you cannot remix and redistribute the content.

Open Access Multimedia

IMDB
IMDB offers a searchable database of more than 250 million data items including more than 4 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 8 million cast and crew members.
Internet Archive: Movies
A variety of films and other videos.
National Film Registry Listing
Listing of all films.
TED Talks
ED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). Independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
US Fish and Wildlife Service National DIgital Library
The Videos collection depicts the outstanding work of our FWS videographers who have produced outreach and instructional tools available for public access and depicts the outstanding work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its conservation partners.
US National Archive
With 44 locations across the United States, extensive holdings, helpful research tools, and specialized departments, the National Archives has a wealth of information and services to provide the American public.
Videvo
The Videvo Standard License allows you to download clips for free for use in any project, forever. The only thing we ask is that you do not make the clips available for download elsewhere. The advantage of this license is that you do not need to credit the author of the clip(s) in your project, saving you time and valuable space on your video timeline – hoorah!
USGS Videos
Watch scientific animations, presentations, video shorts, training, and more related to USGS science and research.
PBS Video
A variety of educational and entertaining shows and videos. You do not need to be a member to access.
UbuWeb
Archive video recordings. Note: Not under Creative Commons license so you must contact the artist in order to use.
UbuWeb Dance
Archive of dance. Note: Not under Creative Commons license, therefore you need to contact artist in order to use.
USC Shoah Foundation: Education Programs
Develops teaching tools for educators and provides professional development to educators to use testimony in relevant and engaging ways—providing an experience for students that goes beyond textbooks.
Videvo
The Videvo Standard License allows you to download clips for free for use in any project, forever. The only thing we ask is that you do not make the clips available for download elsewhere. The advantage of this license is that you do not need to credit the author of the clip(s) in your project, saving you time and valuable space on your video timeline – hoorah!
USGS Videos
Watch scientific animations, presentations, video shorts, training, and more related to USGS science and research.
PBS Video
A variety of educational and entertaining shows and videos. You do not need to be a member to access.
Oregon Public Speaker Collection from Portland State University Library
Between 1958 and 1979, Portland State University hosted over two hundred speeches, interviews, panel discussions, and readings by scholars, activists, politicians, authors, artists, and community members. Many of these events featured prominent public figures who were invited to campus by academic departments, university administration, or interested students. The recordings in this collection reveal an era of vital dialogue and debate supported by the university and its community.
World Digital Library
The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
C-SPAN Video Library
One of the most comprehensive video archives of governmental and political content. Freely available to the public.
American History TV
American History TV (AHTV) features programming that includes oral histories, academic lectures, presentations by historians, interviews with presidents and first ladies, archival films, and visits to historic sites, museums, and archives.
Academic Earth
Academic Earth offers videos and lectures from respected instructors throughout the world.

Open Access Audio

Archive of Popular American Music from UCLA
The Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in America from 1790 to the present.
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music)
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.
Free Scores
We offer contemporary, classical and educational free sheet music for all instruments. Free-scores.com is a free and legal platform for composers, arrangers and publishers. There may be restrictions on the use of the music, and that is detailed in the licence page.
Digital Scores and Libretti Collection from Harvard University
The Loeb Music Library is engaged in an ongoing program to digitize scores and libretti selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching. By providing online access to historical editions from its holdings, the Library seeks to make primary source materials available for classroom and research use at Harvard and to scholars all over the world.
IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
MSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project and started on February 16, 2006. It is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle; it is also more than that. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition; this makes IMSLP an ever-growing musical community of music lovers for music lovers.
International Music Score Library Project
IMSLP stands for the International Music Score Library Project and was started in 2006. The logo on the main page is a capital letter A. It was taken from the beginning of the very first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake.
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is an extraordinary collection of 140 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions, which were donated to the school in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner.
Musopen
Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
New Music Online Library
The Online Library is a searchable database that provides on-demand access to digital scores, sound files and biographical information on composers. Launched in 2001, the Online Library now contains data on more than 57,000 works (including 14,000 media files) by 5,600 composers.
New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives
The New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives was launched in February 2011, and currently comprises more than 1.3 million pages, including almost 14,000 printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs. When completed, the online collection will contain every document in the New York Philharmonic Archives from 1842 through 1970, more than 3 million pages.
Opera and Ballet Primary Resources
OBPS recently added the first of a two-phase project devoted to the opera and ballet scores of the Russian State Library (RUS-Mrg). The first phase consists primarily of non-Russian composers with the upcoming second phase highlighting works by Russian composers. The first includes many French, Italian, and German works in translation from Russian publishing houses, both domestic and foreign.
Sheet Music Consortium
The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.
UR Research: University of Rochester
UR Research is an institutional repository developed and hosted by the River Campus Libraries. It provides storage and access for dissertations, preprints and similar materials. UR research can also used to manage small amounts of research data (numeric, textual or multimedia).
CCMixter
45,000 musicians from around the world with a Creative Commons license.
Historical Voices
The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
USGS Audio
Listen to USGS podcasts, interviews, and explorer audio clips related to earth science.
UbuWeb
Archive of audio recordings. Note: Not under Creative Commons license and therefore you must contact artist to use.
National Jukebox from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) Podcasts
Science related podcasts.
Art Song Central
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.
LiederNet Archive
The LiederNet Archive is the world's largest reference archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works. We have been online since May 24, 1995.
ChoralWiki
CPDL was founded in December 1998, ported to ChoralWiki in August 2005,
and incorporated in May 2010 as a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization.
Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information
Classical String Quartets from Duke University Libraries
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University has about forty collections of string quartets in parts dating from this time (about 1770-1840), most, though not all complete, and representing composers whose works are rarely found in modern editions. Digitization of these parts makes newly available for performance, study and recording a large and varied repertoire of works for this instrumental ensemble.
Association Beethoven-Haus Bonn
The Beethoven-Haus Bonn association, founded in 1889, is the leading Beethoven centre. It strives to preserve Beethoven's work and heritage. The Beethoven-Haus houses the world's most significant Beethoven collection, a musicology research department with its own library and publishing house, as well as a chamber music hall named after Hermann J. Abs where numerous events take place throughout the year.
Bach Cantatas Website (BCW)
The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. The BCW contains for most works: detailed discographies, discussions, texts and translations, scores, commentaries, references, music examples, etc. The BCW is an international collective project.
Chopin Collection at the University of Chicago Library
The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center. Users can search or browse Chopin Early Editions via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers.
Ignaz Pleyel
This collection of over 200 early printed and manuscript scores represents the work of French composer and music publisher, Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831). It consists primarily of keyboard and chamber music, including arrangements of large orchestral works, published within the composer's lifetime. This collection was assembled by Dr. Rita Benton, former Head of the Music Library at the University of Iowa and for whom the Music Library is named.
Leon Ornstein Collections
The List of Works included here contains all of Ornstein's works known to the authors of the site. Some of these works were never named or dated. Those for which downloadable scores are presently available are clearly indicated in the list and clicking on them will cause the file to be downloaded and opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader. As other works become available for downloading their entries will be updated. This list may well be incomplete as quite a few works listed and mentioned in various places appear to have been totally lost.
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix - Werke
The complete works of Mendelssohn available digitally from the Bavarian State Library.
Online Chopin Variorum Edition
Provides digital images of the manuscripts and first editions of select works by the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. Its principal aim is to facilitate and enhance comparative analysis of these primary sources, attaining a degree of flexibility beyond that of extant printed editions of Chopin’s music and indeed of any composer to date.
Petko Staynov
Scores and recordings.
PennSounds
PennSound, at the University of Pennsylvania, is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. PennSound launched January 1, 2005, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems -- currently 1,500 and fast growing -- mostly as song-length singles.
Woodberry Poetry Room
The Listening Booth represents a small portion of the Woodberry Poetry Room’s total collection: The online highlights feature selections from our on-going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media, as well as born-digital recordings from our recent Poetry Room events. Unless otherwise indicated, all recordings were made by or at Harvard University.
Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish.
Open Culture: Audio Books
Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more.

Open Access Art and Images

Openverse (Creative Commons Search)
Search through a variety of sources for materials that you can use in your own work.
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Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link. Since there is no registration to use a CC license, CC has no way to determine what has and hasn't been placed under the terms of a CC license. If you are in doubt you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content.
Artcyclopedia
Provides access to 9,000 artists, 2,900 sites index, and 160,000 links.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums.
The MET Collection
452,604 records from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection.
Cleveland Museum of Art: Search the Collections
Art Institute Chicago: Search the Collection
Moma: Search the Collection
Princeton University Art Museum: Search the Collection
The Getty: Search the Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Search the Collection
Guggenheim: Search the Collection
Public Collection from Artstor
Ad*Access from the Duke University Libraries' Digital Repository
The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore 729,730 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
National Park Service Multimedia Search
Multimedia credited to NPS without any copyright symbol are public domain. Multimedia credited with a copyright symbol (indicating that the creator may maintain rights to the work) or credited to any entity other than NPS must not be presumed to be public domain; contact the host park or program to ascertain who owns the material.
Photos for Class
Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, they want accurate image citations. We’ve heard you and created “Photos For Class” to meet your needs for images! Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flicker SafeSearch and our proprietary filters - Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms -and Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use.
Rijksstudio
Browse 620,338 works of art and 382,724 Rijksstudios (Museum).
USDA ARS Image Gallery
This Image Gallery is a complimentary source of high-quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Office of Communications.
USGS Images
Explore our planet through photography and imagery, including climate change and water all the way back to the 1800s when the USGS was surveying the country by horse and buggy.
Wellcome Collection
Find thousands of Creative Commons licensed images from historical library materials and museum objects to contemporary digital photographs.
United States Antarctic Program Photo Library
National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery
Pixaby
Free images and videos you can use anywhere. Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
The Stocks
Free stock photos.
Photos Public Domain
Free stock photos.
Open Parks Network
Since 2010, Clemson University and the National Park Service have collaborated on the Open Parks Network, an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded project that has resulted in the digitization of over 350,000 cultural heritage objects and 1.5 million pages of gray literature housed in the libraries, museums, and archives of our nation’s parks, historic sites, and other protected areas. More than 20 national parks and other protected sites are represented in these diverse collections, as well as 2 state park systems and 3 university libraries. The Open Parks Network provides public access to high-resolution, downloadable files.
Louvre: Search the Collection
USGS Maps
Our programs produce accurate geologic maps and 3-D geologic frameworks that provide critical data for sustaining and improving the quality of life and economic vitality of the Nation. They also organize, maintain, and publish the geospatial baseline of the Nation's topography, natural landscape, built environment and more.
Flickr: Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
USDA: NRCS Photo Gallery
The NRCS Photo Gallery contains natural resource and conservation related photos from across the USA.
Open Photo
Free stock photos.
Disabled And Here Collection
This stock collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive images from our own perspective, with photos and illustrations celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).
Smithsonian Open Access
You can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections.
Unsplash
Over 1 million photos that can be freely downloaded and used for either commercial and non-commercial purposes, no permission needed (though attribution is appreciated!).
CDC Public Health Image Library
PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.
Getty Museum - Open Content Program
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
VADS
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.

General Open Access

American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
E-Resources Online Catalog from the Library of Congress
Arts, Humanities, Law, News, Current Events, Regional Studies, Cultural Studies, Science, Technology, Social Sciences and beyond.
Free Resources from the Library of Congress
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Explore more than 324 billion web pages saved over time.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. The collection of more than 164 million items includes more than 38.6 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 70 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.
Library of Congress - Getting Started
Information on where to start your research.
HippoCampus
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. Teachers project HippoCampus content during classroom learning and assign it for computer labs and homework. Students use the site in the evenings for study and exam prep. Users do not need to register or log in to use the site.
National Park Service Multimedia Search
Multimedia credited to NPS without any copyright symbol are public domain. Multimedia credited with a copyright symbol (indicating that the creator may maintain rights to the work) or credited to any entity other than NPS must not be presumed to be public domain; contact the host park or program to ascertain who owns the material.
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive contains federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial branches of the government. Websites that were at risk of changing (i.e., whitehouse.gov) or disappearing altogether during government transitions were captured. Local or state government websites, or any other site not part of the federal government domain were out of scope.
Registry of Open Access Repositories
The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximizes research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.
World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Homeland Security Digital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more.
SciTech Connect
SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.
American FactFinder
American FactFinder is the primary way to access data from the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Puerto Rico Community Survey, the Economic Census, the Population Estimates Program and Annual Economic Surveys. To learn more about the surveys and censuses, see the What We Provide section on the American FactFinder main page.
Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
EPA NSCEP
Search, retrieve, download, print, and order EPA technical, scientific, and educational materials from this site.
Federal Digital System
Provides free access to official publications from all three branches of the federal government.
UNdata
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community.
Government Accountability Office
The GAO is a government agency that provides auditing, evaluation, and investigative services for the United States Congress.
Education Resources Information Center
Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public.
National Agriculture Library (PubAg)
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) facilitates the creation of agricultural knowledge through the acquisition, curation, and dissemination of the information needed to solve agricultural challenges today and in the future.
National Transportation Library

Open Access Books and Journals

The Archive: eBooks and Texts
The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 37,080,103 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. Many items are public domain or available for re-use, and there is information in a "rights" field for each item.
Gutenberg Project
Free eBooks that are out of copyright.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
Smithsonian Libraries Digital Collection eBooks
Free resources.
World Library: Academic Research Collection
Agriculture, Anthropology, Astronomy, Bibliography, Biology, Chemistry, Commerce, Economy, Education, Finance, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Language, Law, Literature, Management, Math, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Navel Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Recreation, Reference Collection, Religion, Sociology, Statistics, and Technology.
Open Research Library
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 20,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
OpenBook Publishers
A leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: All books are available to read online and download for free, including monographs and textbooks in all areas.
Open Humanities Press
Open Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide.
O'Reilly Open Books
Computer or technology ebooks.
TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
A joint initiative focused on the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Directory of Open Access Journals
"The most comprehensive searchable index of free scientific and scholarly content in full-text formats." (Choice Reviews)
Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network brings together 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.
Public Library of Science
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Peer reviewed journals in Medical and Life Sciences.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
SpringerOpen
Open access journals from the scholarly publisher, Springer.
Directory of Open Access Books
Openly accessible (and many but not all openly licensed) electronic books. Nearly 50,000 books as of March 2022. Includes search and browse finding features. Many times from international publishers and strong focus on humanities and social sciences.

OA Education

Edx
Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. With more than 90 global partners, we are proud to count the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as our members. EdX university members top the QS World University Rankings® with our founders receiving the top honors, and edX partner institutions ranking highly on the full list.
GCF Learn Free
For more than a decade, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. We've also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
MIT OpenCourseware
An initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate – and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OpenCourseWare is a large-scale, web-based publication of MIT course materials.
School Yourself
Study Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Calculus.
Udemy
Udemy is a global marketplace for learning and teaching online where students are mastering new skills and achieving their goals by learning from an extensive library of over 55,000 courses taught by expert instructors. Search for FREE to access free courses.
Open University
The Open University is a global leader in higher education able to reach every adult in the United Kingdom, and many others across the world, through our free online courses.

Open Access News and Current Events

AP News
The Associated Press delivers in-depth coverage on today's Big Story including top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more.
Reuters News
Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures.
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.
AFP News
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835, AFP is the third largest news agency in the world, after the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.
ABC News
Your trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com.
CBS News
CBS News: dedicated to providing the best in journalism under standards it pioneered at the dawn of radio and television and continue in the digital age.
NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
NPR News
NPR news, audio, and podcasts. Coverage of breaking stories, national and world news, politics, business, science, technology, and extended coverage of major national and world events.
BBC News
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
NY Times
Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars & more at nytimes.com.
Wall Street Journal News
WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world. Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis and in-depth reporting.
USA Today
USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.
Politico
Political news about Congress, the White House, campaigns, lobbyists and issues.
Axios News
Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust.
The Hill
The Hill is an American political newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C. since 1994. It is published by Capitol Hill Publishing, which is owned by News Communications, Inc.
Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor is an international news organization that delivers thoughtful, global coverage via its website, weekly magazine, daily news briefing, and email newsletters.
The Guardian
TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group. It contains nearly all of the content of the newspapers.
The Washington Post
Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more.
Time
Breaking news and analysis from TIME.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science and entertainment news.
The Economist
The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy. It produces content daily on its website, and in six print issues annually.
The Week
The Week is a weekly British news magazine founded in 1995 which has also published a US edition since 2001 and a children's edition in the UK since 2015.
The New Yorker
Reporting, Profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
The Fiscal Times
The Fiscal Times (TFT) is an English-language digital news, news analysis and opinion publication based in New York City and Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 2010 with initial funding from businessman and investment banker Peter G. Peterson.