If you enrol as a student at a university you will be able to access many subscription online databases which provide access to a wide range of resources such as journal articles and ebooks. License agreements permit the use of these databases to students and staff of the University only.
The Library Open Access Gateway is a specially adapted version of our Library Advanced Search. It enables you to locate open access resources which are freely available to all.
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Use the search box below to find Open Access resources
Google Scholar is a free search engine that allows you to search for scholarly literature from a variety of sources. It will not provide full text access to all search results, but some full text access is available.
Google Books enables you to search for books. It is possible to access selected pages from some books and full text access to some public domain (out of copyright) works.
The Access to Research service provides free, walk-in access to over 30 million academic articles in participating public libraries across the UK. This is available onsite at Lincolnshire public libraries. More details are available on the Lincolnshire Libraries Online Resources webpage.
For more information on Lincolnshire public libraries visit the Libraries in Lincolnshire webpage.
Access to academic peer-reviewed books.
Access to full text, quality controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
