Open Access e-Resources

Open access  refers to online research outputs that are free of all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use - certain copyright and license restrictions. Open access can be applied to all forms of published research output, including peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed academic journal articles, conference papers, theses, book chapters and monographs.

Open Access section contains information on a variety of electronic resources - e-journals and e-books, encyclopedias and dictionaries, institutional repositories database, as well as search engines and other scientific information resources.

REFERENCE DATABASES (ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES)

Abbreviations

Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. 

Cambridge Dictionaries ​

Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. 

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia  and is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.

Merriam-Webster

For more than 150 years, in print and now online, Merriam-Webster has been leading and most-trusted provider of language information.

Wiktionary​

Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages.

Encyclopedia 
"Krugosvet"

Universal scientific and popular online Encyclopedia "Krugosvet" in Russian language. ​

E-JOURNAL DATABASES​​

Baltic Journal of Economics

The Baltic Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in economics. It is published jointly by Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga).

Academic Journals

Academic Journals is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering broad fields.

High Wire

A leading ePublishing platform, HighWire Press facilitates the digital dissemination of more than 3000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings. 

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

 SAGE open

SAGE Open is an open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format.

Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. 

E-BOOK DATABASES
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Bookboon

Bookboon.com was established in Denmark in 1988, under the name Ventus, and has always focused on publishing educational material for students and business professionals.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks

OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books. OAPEN operates two platformsv - the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books.

Google Books

Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database

Wikibooks

Wikibooks is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB.

Knowledge Unlatched

Knowledge Unlatched vision is a sustainable market where scholarly books and journals are freely accessible for each and every reader around the world.

INSTITUTIONAL​ REPOSITORIES AND DATABASES
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Zenodo

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research.

​Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Apollo (previously DSpace@Cambridge) is the University of Cambridge’s institutional repository, established in 2002 as a service for storing and providing access to the outputs of Cambridge’s research activity.

Open Thesis

OpenThesis.org is a searchable thesis & dissertation database which helps to increase the availability and utility of these important documents.

Open AIRE

Open Access scientific production of the European Research Area, providing cross-links from publications to data and funding schemes. This large-scale project brings together 41 pan-European partners, including three cross-disciplinary research communities.

Open DOAR

OpenDOAR provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories.

INFORMATION ​​SEARCH SYSTEMS

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. EconBiz is a search portal for economics and business studies. It offers: A literature search across important German and international databases; Access to full texts on the internet, a calendar of events for scholarly conferences and summer schools the reference service Research Guide EconDesk which answers your questions about the search for literature and statistical data.Microsoft Academic Search is a free public search engine for academic papers and literature, developed by Microsoft Research for the purpose of algorithms research in object-level vertical search, data mining, entity linking, and data visualization.