Alumni Library Services: Open Access Resources

Open access books relevant to the study and practice of theological librarianship. Provides resources that guide and support innovative library services and enhance professional development.

Hundreds of Open Access Ebooks covering a variety of subject areas.

Growing collection of Open Access titles.

Hundreds of open access books covering a wide range of subjects.

Biographies of important Canadians who died between the years 1000 and 1930. Work in progress.

A growing open portal that brings together various digitized collections to create “an open network of online resources that draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums." Includes thousands of items from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of Publications and the Medical Heritage Library research collection.

Thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from hundreds of publishers. NOTE: Some books have partial content only.

Electronic text editions of Evans Early American Imprints. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.

Electronic text editions of Early English Books Online. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.

Over 2,500 Open Access eBook titles.

Electronic text editions of Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.

E-books covering many aspects of law, plus additional subjects in social policy, education, business. and more. Titles with the yellow dots only.

Over 1,000 Open Access ebooks covering a wide range of subjects.

Open access collection of outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities available as free e-books courtesy of The Humanities Open Book project. Once in a title you can download in EPUB or Mobi format.

An electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920. Created by the University of Michigan.

Thousands of monographs across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

A growing collection of contemporary open access e-books. Covers a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All of the books in this collection were published under open access licenses and may be read online or downloaded as a PDF or as an EPUB.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Growing OA collection. Use limiter on left side to find Open Access Titles. Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list of 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access.

A quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

A comprehensive database of ancient Greek inscriptions.

Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity.

Offers thousands of free high quality ebooks.

Archive of rare books, manuscripts, and images,9th-20th centuries, at PENN Library's collections.

Offering of books in a wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM).

Over one thousand Open Access books in many subject areas.

The Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses (including Fordham University Press) have launched an initiative to increase access to humanities and social sciences scholarship.

Hundreds of Open Access Books. Hosted by UMP's Fulcrum platform and non-profit infrastructure built by, and for, the academy. Includes Michigan Asian Studies Open Access Books Collection.

Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs.

Hundreds of newspapers published from U.S. prisons combined into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

A project of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) to provide enduring global access to Catholic research resources. Contains almost 90 years of The Catholic Worker, 50+ years of The Catholic Telegraph (Cincinnati), 20+ years of The Catholic Transcript (Hartford), and more. Click on "Titles" to see entire archive. Some content of The Catholic Worker is included in JSTOR Open Community Collections.

The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. Created and administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network.

Non-profit and non-partisan database of presidential documents, recordings and videos dealing with current and historical information on American presidents from 1789 to present.

Presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Database of full texts, maps, images, and lesson plans sponsored by the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use. Provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. Many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBTQ studies.

A compendium of translated primary sources on the history of the Middle Ages, from the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.

A collaboration between Oxford University Press and the National Gallery of Art. The site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art and is complemented by lavish illustrations and resources for educators.

This archival collection, comprising over four-million letters, covers a chronological span from 1537 to 1743. It documents the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.

Annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages (including Internet Medieval Sourcebook) from the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University.

UK government's official archive containing over 1,000 years of history.

From HeinOnline, covers slavery in the U.S. and the English-speaking world. Includes content from the Buffalo Erie County Public Library. Includes every state and federal statute, legal commentary, pamphlets and books from the 19th century, and other hard to find materials such as essays and articles in obscure journals. Provides word searchable access to all Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880. Must Register for an Account.

Captures the voices of students from the 20th and early 21st century U.S. Primary sources are broad-based across time, geography and political viewpoint.

American FactFinder has been discontinued. All content will be available at the new US Census Bureau site.

UNICEF website providing statistics and data on the situation of children and women throughout the world. Some data is downloadable to MS Excel.

Data for over 100 indicators and 165 economies. Links to annual data prior to 2008 in LABORSTA (Int'l Labour Office).

The Open Data Center (ODC) is a redesigned and expanded version of the NJ YourMoney website established in 2010. All state data is now accessible with sophisticated filtering, sorting and charting capabilities.

The NYC Open Data portal is a powerful tool that ensures transparency and fosters civic innovation to help improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Data is gathered by the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT).

NYC Planning's Population FactFinder allows you to define study areas within New York City easily and examine detailed population profiles showing critical demographic, social, economic, and housing statistics, and how these statistics have changed over time.

Official site for data published by the US Census Bureau. Contains content previously available from American FactFinder including population, economic, housing, and geographic information and data about the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas.

Click on the Dissertations & Theses button to search. Look for Open Access icon in the search results.

Includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations, a free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.

Content for 15 journals beginning with 2020 is OA.Continued access past 2022 not guaranteed.

Several hundred peer-reviewed open access journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine subject areas from Springer Science+Business Media.

Growing list of Open Access journals from Brill.

Over 40 journals in a variety of subject areas.

CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications. Content no longer available from any publisher ("triggered content") is available for free with a Creative Commons license.

Peer reviewed and open access collection of journals. Covers several academic disciplines.

Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines.

Full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals covering all topics.
NOTE: Some content may not be freely available.

Fifty Open Access journals covering a wide range of subjects.

Over one hundred peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science.

Fully open access journals spanning a wide range of technologies.

Over 30 key online journals fully Open Access.

Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories that lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria.

Complete holdings of selected math and statistics journals from a variety of publishers hosted by Project Euclid.

A non-profit organization dedicated to making scientific literature freely available by publishing a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Includes submission of papers that have been shared
as preprints.

A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies. Compiled from thousands of periodicals and collections of articles in many languages mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Open journal publishing high-quality original research on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. See new section called "Science, Society, and Policy" for published work that sits at the interface of Science, Society, and Policy.

All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license.

Hundreds of free journals from Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform.

Hundreds of free peer-reviewed journals from Springer, across all areas of science.

Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication.

Over fifty health, medicine and science Open Access titles.Chrome browser recommended.

Collabra is University of California Press's open access journal program. The Collabra program currently publishes Collabra: Psychology and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, with plans for continued expansion and journal acquistion.

Wiley's fully open access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals.
To access content, choose "Journal Information" under the relevant title.

The Getty provides open access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art (RILA). These citation databases, searchable together, cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.The Getty Research Institute.

Collection of bibliographies covering most aspects of computer science literature from various sources. Updated weekly.

Definitions and links to information about the slang of various locations and groups in the United Kingdom.

Open access resource issued by the National Council for Science and the Environment.

Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.

Provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies in any language, as well as for works printed in English anywhere in the world. Coverage is from 1473 to 1800.

A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

Over seventy summaries of key texts from the earlier literature, painstaking surveys of more recent work, and digests of archival and online resources. Global scope covering both Anglophone and non-Anglophone sources and scholarship from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. Editorial oversight from the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, the Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven, and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies since 1993.

Treatments for thousands of diseases and conditions. Contains photographs, audio and video material.

Over 500 free university and college level classes from the world's leading universities.

Free, independent resource on trends in American public opinion.

Up to the minute news and analysis of the U.S. Stock Markets.

Free business and personal directories.

A comprehensive directory of industrial products and services.
Create a free account for enhanced content.

A comprehensive reference site featuring original definitions with example use cases, definitions from Webster and English Language dictionaries, thesauri entries from Rogets, specialty definitions, encyclopedic information, related articles, audio pronunciations, etymology, word games.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Boston public media producer GBH to coordinate a national effort to preserve public media content and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70+ years. Over 122,000 items of television and radio programming contributed by more than 140 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been digitized for long-term preservation and access.

A wide variety of high quality open-access image collections of cultural heritage material from museums, archives, universities and other repositories.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. A rich core collection of archival movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, WGBH productions have documented our collective cultural heritage in moving images and sound.

Visual culture explored in Spanish America from 1520 to 1830. Contains a library of primary documents and a gallery of over 300 high-resolution annotated images and videos.

Interdisciplinary collections of articles covering diverse themes. Review articles from a variety of perspectives are selected from 51 journals. These collections are freely available in support of the progress of science and the benefit of society.

Platform that supports existing and new publications (journals, books, seminar or conference proceedings) from all scientific disciplines engaged in open access.
Journals include Algebraic Combinatorics, Mathematics Research Reports, and more.

A non-profit, scholar-led publisher of Open Access journals, books and conference proceedings in the media studies fields.Click on Series in top banner to access History of Media Studies volumes.

Open access, free, preprints across agriculture and allied sciences.

Comprehensive database on international development finance and foreign aid, accompanied by a variety of innovative web-based applications for data analysis.

Approximately 2 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums and institutions such as Cornell University, Colby College, RISD, and MIT.

A full-text, open archive and distribution server for theoretical and applied scientific research papers. Hosted by Cornell University. Coverage 1991 to the present.

Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.

Digitized books, journals, images and collections from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries creating a global “biodiversity commons” of significant biodiversity materials. Includes the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.

Free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Supports a wide range of students and researchers exploring the ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. and movements such as Black Lives Matter. Time period covered: 1790-present.

From Boston Children’s Hospital, research projects examining interactive media technologies and impact on overall health.

Free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

A free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, it enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. Owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.

Covers journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.

Access to New York consolidated and unconsolidated laws, court acts and rules

Not renewed by Fordham IT.

Online archive of IMF publications, dating back to 1946. Content includes Books and Analytical Papers, Notes and Manuals, Official Reports, Documents, and Periodicals. Information such as statistical data, blogs, podcasts, videos, country information, and additional databases can be found from the IMF Sites button at the top right of any page.

Economic statistics for all countries compiled by the IMF. Includes thousands of time series appearing on IFS Country Pages and World Tables. Also includes International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade, Government Finance Statistics, and more. CLICK ON MORE FOR REGISTRATION & LOGIN INFORMATION

More than 175 years of Southern Baptist history in a growing archive that reveals mission activity across the globe. Includes periodicals, biographies, log books, photographs and more. Also includes the African-American Heritage Collection.

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Open Access content in a variety of formats. Search for Ebooks, E-Journals, Images and Special Collections hosted on JSTOR & Artstor all freely available to access.

Explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world. Includes Fordham University collections. Includes most volumes of The Catholic Worker.

Free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.

Provides open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.

A wide variety of unique online projects from the New York Public Library, including the Staten Island Historical Newspapers and Music Theater digital archive.

International library consortium with the sole mission of advancing open access to research in academic journals across the humanities disciplines. All academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.

Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, this OA resource brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, audio, and video recordings from the world’s digital collections.

Online archive of public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.

Designed to aid in the study and analysis of Greek and Roman literature, it includes full texts (in English and original language), a word study tool, links from text to maps, footnotes and definitions. Hosted by Tufts University.

Reports from all over the world on population trends, health, and the environment.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Open access). Full text graduate works available for free download to all users with Internet access.

Open Access Books and Journals on the Project Muse platform. This database applies non-standard use of Boolean operators.

Extensive library of scholarly resources, representing many different points of view, designed to assist teachers, scholars and general “seekers” who are interested in exploring religious issues.

Open archive of the social sciences, providing a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.

Operated by The Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB), an open access platform on which scientific videos such as conference recordings, simulations, animations, lectures and visualized research data can be published and viewed free of charge.

Books, journals and other intellectual output of the World Bank.

ATLA's searchable platform with open access digitized collections from libraries, religious institutions, and other organizations worldwide who collect and preserve texts, records, maps, photographs, recordings, and other materials. Some Fordham collections are included.

Collection of cultural, historical, legal, governmental, and research materials relating to the Caribbean. Includes newspapers, official documents, maps, artifacts and more. Register for free MydLOC account for advanced features.

List of thousands of dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S. compiled by American Historical Association.

Information about educational tests and research by ETS.

Digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

Folger Shakespeare Library, home of the world's largest and finest Shakespeare collection, offers high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems. Includes free downloading of the source code for noncommercial Shakespeare projects.

Now Open Access! Jonson's complete writings online. Explores the work of Shakespeare’s greatest contemporary with contextual documents, essays, high-quality images, music scores and stage performances.

Global digital library offering free access to more than 650,000 full-text articles, journals, books and other resources. Focuses on theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism in World Christianity.
Must Register and Sign In with username and password.

Partnership of major research institutions and libraries creating digital archive of library materials. Full text access only to the portion of the archive that are public domain works, indicated by "Full View". Downloading or printing depends on each title's copyright status. Click into each title to see entitlements on the left sidebar.

Gateway for a broad range of resources and information for all sectors and countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes policy briefs, working papers, annual reports, monographs, statistics, economic indicators, data visualizations for various socio-economic variables and more.

Information related to films, television programs, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media.

Provides multi-faceted information for research and industry analysis in the manufacturing, business and engineering disciplines.

Partial access only from Early Canadiana Online. A 73-volume set, in the original Italian, Latin and French with commentary and translation into English. Click on the Jesuit Relations Collection and then Browse this Collection. Go to View Page for full text.

The Portal grants online access to a curated and searchable collection of primary sources and secondary scholarship related to the history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogy approach of the Society of Jesus.
Included databases are: Essential Documents, International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, Jesuit Historiography Online, Jesuit Online Bibliography, Jesuit Online Library, Jesuit Sources, Jesuitica Directory, Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, and Journal of Jesuit Studies.

Open Access content from Iter Press.

Includes all medieval manuscripts at Fordham, whether on parchment, microfilm/fiche, photocopies or facsimile.

Access to high-quality religious studies content. Composed primarily of fully open access books and articles. The collections are ecumenical, global, and interreligious and include materials in all languages.

Free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).

International Association of Universities' Worldwide Database of Higher Education Institutions, Systems and Credentials.

Makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries around the world.