Open Access Databases

ASEAN Digital Library

The ASEAN Digital Library is a regional project that aggregates and connects the digitized resources of National Libraries in the ASEAN region so that these repositories can be accessed through a single search facility. The content focus of ADL is digitized collections of various formats (such as books, manuscripts, maps, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspapers, research papers, audio and video recordings, etc) on the ASEAN region.

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.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

A community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open-access books and helps users to find trusted open-access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

A unique and extensive index of diverse open-access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

Education Resource Information Center (ERIC)

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), of the Institution of Education Sciences, allows you to search by topic for material related to the field of education. Links lead to other sites, where you may have to purchase the information, but you can search for full-text articles only.

IMF eLibrary

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

Information Please

Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. Our editors regularly update and refine this enormous body of information—as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends—to bring you reliable and authoritative information. The content is written and edited by professional editors, and the site has received numerous awards and accolades since launch. Parents, teachers and librarians turn to Infoplease for information on an array of topics, including current events, pop culture, science, government and history. The purpose of Infoplease.com is to provide users with fast, easy access to a vast array of authoritative and up-to-date information. We are continuing to improve the site in many ways:

• Faster pages: We’re constantly making improvements to reduce our page load time so that you spend less time waiting and more time learning
• Better organization: Over the past couple decades we’ve built up quite a list of content pages, and a lot of those have gotten lost in the shuffle of updating our site and editorial policies. That’s why we’re going through and reorganizing our site to make it easier than ever to find what you want to know
• Better experience on mobile: If there’s been one big change since we were founded, it’s been the advent of cell phones. More and more people are coming to us from their phones rather than their computers, so we want to accommodate. We’re working to improve our site presentation and load times for mobile users.

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

JSTOR Open Access Books

More than 9,000 Open Access books from 100+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

• High-quality content:These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content and are freely available for anyone in the world to use.
• Ease of use: Users won’t need to register or log in, and there are no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. Ebooks work just like journal articles on JSTOR.
• Digital preservation: The ebooks are also preserved in Portico, ensuring that they will be available to researchers in perpetuity. Integration for libraries: Librarians can receive free MARC records and activate the titles in discovery services.

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino

The KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino is an online dictionary originally based on the database first published in 1989 and updated to its third edition in 2011. The dictionary is continuously expanded with words coming from other Philippine languages, as well as foreign words which were assimilated into Filipino.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OARD)

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 5,153,410 theses and dissertations.

Philippine Comission on Women (PCW) Digital GAD Library

The PCW Digital GAD Library is the digital repository for the Gender and Development (GAD) collection. This includes the Commission's and other government publications on Gender and Development policies and laws.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication. SSRN is instrumental as a starting point for PhD students, professors, and institutional faculty to post early-stage research, prior to publication in academic journals.

SSRN provides the online database of early scholarly research – a permanent and searchable online library – always available, worldwide. We make it simple for authors to post their working papers and abstracts. Academics and researchers can browse the SSRN data library and upload their own papers free of charge. Majority of papers can be downloaded from SSRN free of charge. Metrics on author rankings at a glance.

Wiley Open Access

Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.

Wiley Open Access journals are supported by a network of authoritative journals and societies as well as internationally renowned editorial board members. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.

Wiley Open Access offers authors, readers, institutions, funders and societies:

• Open access to their research: freely available on Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central
• Fast efficient publication
• Quality and authoritative open access publishing
• Stringent High-level editorial support – each journal has a dedicated Editor-in-Chief and international editorial board members as well as clear editorial policies, peer review
• High-level editorial support – each journal has a dedicated Editor-in-Chief and international editorial board members as well as clear editorial policies
• Longevity guaranteed – Wiley Open Access journals are published by Wiley, one of the world's foremost academic and professional publishers and the largest society publisher
• Article and institutional-level metrics
• Easy sharing – social networking and more

World Bank 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.

Content

The OKR contains thousands of research works including:

• World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies
• Books published by the World Bank Group including flagship publications, academic books and practitioner volumes;
• All World Development Reports (WDRs) plus recent WDR background papers;
• Journal articles published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), two journals published by Oxford University
• Press on behalf of the World Bank;
• Accepted manuscripts of Bank-authored journal articles from selected external publishers (after an embargo period if applicable);
• Metadata and links to Bank-authored external journal articles;
• Serial publications (typically data-intensive outlook reports);
• Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)—a series of papers that disseminate findings of work in progress in order to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues;
• Selected other papers of high research quality;
• Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies—a series of analytical reports prepared by Bank staff. ESWs gather and evaluate information about a country’s economy and/or a specific sector;
• Knowledge Notes, providing short briefs that capture lessons of experience from Bank operations and research;
• The latest Country Opinion Surveys done in client countries for feedback on World Bank Group activities.
• Selected translated titles.