Online Resources Category: Open Access Database

Dearq-Universidad De Los Andes

Journal of architecture with open access content and a four-month publication. Its objective is to contribute to the dissemination of the research, analyses and opinions that the national and international academic community elaborates on architecture, city themes and related areas.

MDPI Open Access Journals

A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Our 360 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by more than 84,200 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License

Taylor and Francis Open Access Journal

Taylor & Francis Group’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon your work. Use the subject area filter below to explore our portfolio of fully open journals and find the best home for your research. (Taylor & Francis)

Association of Architecture School Librarian

The Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) advocates for architectural librarianship, builds community for members, and fosters professional growth through mentoring, partnerships, and collaboration. You can find Open Access Architectural content here consisting of institutional repositories.

MIT Open Courseware

“MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free, publicly accessible, openly-licensed digital collection of high-quality teaching and learning materials, presented in an easily accessible format. Browse through, download and use materials from more than 2,500 MIT on-campus courses and supplemental resources, all available under a Creative Commons license for open sharing.” (MIT Open Courseware)

Linney

“Linney is a learning object repository supported by Memorial University. In Linney, you will find collections of digital learning objects, which are reusable, open education resources that you can use or repurpose for teaching and learning. You may even find inspiration to create other learning objects and share them through Linney. Register for an account with Linney and you can upload your own learning objects, share objects you’ve found and create your own collections!” (Linney)

OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)

“Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library.” (OASIS)

OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations)

“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 5,852,944 theses and dissertations.” (OATD)

EBSCO Open Dissertations

“OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.

This new collaboration extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.” (EBSCO)

Proquest

Open-Access database library of ProQuest consisting of scholarly journals, books, videos and audios, dissertations, and theses.