Library Services during Covid-19

A-Z list of all databases and additional content and trials under 'New Databases' section.

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers.

Online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

Select the “Open Access only” facet under the search box

Try going to 'Settings' to show links to full-text in the University of Lincoln Library.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities

Discover resources at Library Hub. If there is free access, there is now a Open Access symbol next to the library/resource collection name.

An extensive list of OA disciplinary repositories or subject repositories is available via the Open Access Directory (OAD) site. This list includes both preprint and postprint

Aimed at finding open access versions of published journal articles.

Open textbook project from Rice University

Links to many different open textbook sites around the world in many disciplines.

Search over 52 million journal and conference papers and set up alerts on British Library data.

Free access until end of June, independent researchers without institutional access can read 100 articles per month for free (up from the usual 6).

Journal Archives contains journals from Brill, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, ProQuest, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Taylor and Francis.

The Press has made all Academic higher education textbooks free to access online. All 700 textbooks published and currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core can now be accessed free until the end of May. More than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles are available, drawn from journals including Epidemiology & Infection; Prehospital and Disaster Medicine; Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, and from Animal Health Research Reviews, among others.

In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. There are over 2,000 open access books and a small number of fully OA journals on the MUSE platform.

Majority medical and science but also other subjects such as Criminology, Sociology and Psychology.

Over 200 Modern Art Books Online. The Guggenheim Museum in New York has just made more than 200 books about modern art available online. Not only can you read them online, but you can download them in PDF or ePub formats—for free

A single platform providing access to over 400,000 texts from four key collections, dating from the late 15th century to the First World War.

Access to the Members' Area of AHR (Art History Research) net website. This includes full text of art and architecture journals and access to abstracts from journals published between 1900-1986, Arts and Architecture Profiles, and A History of the Poster including an International Directory of Poster Collections.

GALE ebooks offer their Novels for Students series. This series provides overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods and is useful to humanities subjects particularly English Literature and Language. It includes discussions around the plot, characters, themes and structure, as well as the work’s cultural and historical significance. Please note if prompted to enter a password use “open”.

RKD’s invaluable collection of historic photos of Dutch art

JSTOR is making all of its archive journal collections, along with a new collection of 26 Public Health titles and over 30,000 ebooks openly available.

JoVE creates the ultimate solutions for advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe.