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For your quick and convenient research needs, Database Finders: Compendium of Open Access Databases has gathered the most useful open-access databases and e-resources lists
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The BCcampus OpenEd, funded by the Ministry of Advanced Education in British Columbia, is a searchable collection of open textbooks created to make post-secondary education more accessible by reducing student expenditures through the use of openly licensed textbooks and other educational resources. The curated collection aligns with the top 40 subject areas in BC, including art and design, business, sciences, education, engineering, humanities, language, law, mathematics, and social sciences. Many of these textbooks have been reviewed by faculty, fulfill specific accessibility standards, and/or include supplemental content like quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, and so on. These textbooks are available to view online, download, and print.
BASE, operated by Bielefeld University Library, is a registered Open Archives Initiatives (OAI) service provider and one of the most comprehensive search engines for academic digital resources in the world. It offers over 300 million papers from 9,000 content providers, all of which have been carefully selected and reviewed. Approximately 60% of the indexed documents have complete texts available to users for free. The BASE makes it easier to conduct tailored searches and find high-quality, academically relevant results as it searches the dark web as well. It provides two types of search surfaces to users, a basic search with a single search field and an advanced search with multiple search fields and more sophisticated search options. Users can also narrow their search by using several search fields in the advanced search such as author, DOI, URL, etc.
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Bloomsbury Collections provides the global academic community with an innovative and forward-thinking scholarship. It provides online access to scholarly texts, with almost 14,000 titles covering a wide range of topics. Anthropology, art and visual culture, business and management, classical studies and archaeology, economics, education, fashion, film and media, law, linguistics, history, philosophy, politics and international relations, and religious studies are among the subjects covered. Bloomsbury Collections offers free downloads of all Bloomsbury open access books released under the Creative Commons BY, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND licenses. Users can download a PDF of the entire book as well as individual chapter PDFs, which they can then share.
BMC Psychology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes articles on developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health, social psychology, and personality and individual differences. BMC Psychology publishes articles that are immediately and indefinitely available online, with no subscription fees or registration requirements. The full text of all articles is also deposited in and accessible from several digital archives throughout the world to ensure long-term digital preservation.
The Branch Alliance OER, launched by Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED), was created with the goal of curating and developing collaborative, high-quality educational materials for and by teacher educators at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Not only does the hub include high-quality, collaborative, current, and practice-based resources, but it also stresses varied perspectives and model OER that instructors may use in their classrooms. It aspires to provide all children with access to diverse and highly effective educators.