Research Guides @ Fordham: Alumni Library Services: Open Access Resources

Books

ATLA Open Press This link opens in a new window
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.
Big Ten Open Books Project This link opens in a new window
A collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first 100-title collection centers on Gender and Sexuality studies. Hosted on the Project MUSE Open platform. (Use filters on left side to access other OA content on the platform.)
Bloomsbury Open Access Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of Open Access Ebooks covering a variety of subject areas.
Boydell & Brewer Open Access This link opens in a new window
Growing collection of Open Access Ebook titles.
Brill Open E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of open access books covering a wide range of subjects.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographies of important Canadians who died between the years 1000 and 1930. Work in progress.
Dictionary of Irish Biography This link opens in a new window
Collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy. Authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
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.
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from hundreds of publishers. NOTE: Some books have partial content only.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans - Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new window
Electronic text editions of Evans Early American Imprints. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.
Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new window
Electronic text editions of Early English Books Online. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new window
Electronic text editions of Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.
Elgar Open Access Ebooks This link opens in a new window
E-books covering many aspects of law, plus additional subjects in social policy, education, business. and more. Titles with the yellow dots only.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new window
Electronic text editions of Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Full text searchable. See Text Creation Partnership for more information.
Firenze University Press: Open Access Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 Open Access ebooks covering a wide range of subjects.
Folger Digital Texts: Shakespeare's Plays, Sonnets and Poems This link opens in a new window
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.
Humanities Open Book Collection ACLS This link opens in a new window
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.
Humanities Text Initiative - American Verse Project This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920. Created by the University of Michigan.
JSTOR Open Access E-Books This link opens in a new window
Thousands of monographs across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Library of Congress Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
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.
Making of America, books This link opens in a new window
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
MIT Press Direct OA This link opens in a new window
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 and 2023 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access.
OAPEN - Open Access Publishing in European Networks This link opens in a new window
A quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Oxford University Press (OUP) Open Access titles
A collection of titles, monographs, and volumes made available as free-use PDFs covering a wide range of subjects.

PHI - Greek Inscriptions This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of ancient Greek inscriptions.
PHI - Latin Texts, Bible Versions This link opens in a new window
Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Offers thousands of free high quality ebooks.
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies This link opens in a new window
Archive of rare books, manuscripts, and images,9th-20th centuries, at PENN Library's collections.
SpringerOpen Books This link opens in a new window
Offering of books in a wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM).
Taylor & Francis OA Books This link opens in a new window
Over one thousand Open Access books in many subject areas.
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) This link opens in a new window
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.
University of Michigan Press (On Fulcrum Platform) This link opens in a new window
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.
University of California Press - Open Access Monographs This link opens in a new window
Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs.

University of Illinois - OA Books

Newspapers

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside This link opens in a new window
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.
Catholic News Archive This link opens in a new window
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.
New York State Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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.

Historical Reference

American Presidency Project This link opens in a new window
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.

BiblioPhilly - Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis
The online home for the medieval manuscript digitization project of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL).

In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience This link opens in a new window
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.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project This link opens in a new window
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.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook This link opens in a new window
A compendium of translated primary sources on the history of the Middle Ages, from the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
Medieval Sources Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages (including Internet Medieval Sourcebook) from the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University.
National Archives of England, Wales, and the United Kindom This link opens in a new window
UK government's official archive containing over 1,000 years of history.
Student Activism This link opens in a new window
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.

Datasets

American FactFinder
American FactFinder has been discontinued. All content will be available at the new US Census Bureau site.
ChildInfo This link opens in a new window
UNICEF website providing statistics and data on the situation of children and women throughout the world. Some data is downloadable to MS Excel.
ILOSTAT - International Labour Organization This link opens in a new window
Data for over 100 indicators and 165 economies. Links to annual data prior to 2008 in LABORSTA (Int'l Labour Office).
New Jersey Open Data Center This link opens in a new window
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.
NYC OpenData This link opens in a new window
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 Population FactFinder This link opens in a new window
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.
U.S. Census Bureau This link opens in a new window
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.

Open Dissertations & Theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open Access This link opens in a new window
Click on the Dissertations & Theses button to search. Look for Open Access icon in the search results.
EBSCO Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
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.
Directory of HISTORY Dissertations This link opens in a new window
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.

Journals

Berghahn Open Anthro S2O This link opens in a new window
Content for 16 journals is OA beginning 2020 or later. Continued access is not guaranteed.
BioMed Central BMC This link opens in a new window
Several hundred peer-reviewed open access journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine subject areas from Springer Science+Business Media.
Brill Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Growing list of Open Access journals from Brill.
Cambridge University Press: Open This link opens in a new window
Open Ejournals and Ebooks in a variety of subject areas.
CLOCKSS Triggered Content This link opens in a new window
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.
DeGruyter Open This link opens in a new window
Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals covering all topics.
NOTE: Some content may not be freely available.
Firenze University Press: Open Access Ejournals This link opens in a new window
Fifty Open Access journals covering a wide range of subjects.
Hindawi Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Over one hundred peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science.
IEEE Open This link opens in a new window
Fully open access journals from IEEE spanning a wide range of technologies.
IOPscience OA Journals This link opens in a new window
Over 30 key online journals fully Open Access.
Karger Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline.
Making of America, journals and monographs (Cornell University) This link opens in a new window
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Making of America, journals and monographs (University of Michigan) This link opens in a new window
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories This link opens in a new window
Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories that lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria.
Project Euclid Open Access This link opens in a new window
Complete holdings of selected math and statistics journals from a variety of publishers hosted by Project Euclid.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new window
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.
RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies This link opens in a new window
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.
Royal Society Open Science This link opens in a new window
Open journal with high-quality peer-reviewed original research. Covers the entire range of science and mathematics. See new section called "Science, Society, and Policy" for published work that sits at the interface of Science, Society, and Policy.
Sage Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
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.
ScienceDirect Open Access This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of free journals from Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform.
Scientific Reports This link opens in a new window
An OA peer-reviewed journal from Nature.com publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering.
SpringerOpen Journals This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of free peer-reviewed journals from Springer, across all areas of science.
Taylor & Francis Open Access This link opens in a new window
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.
Thieme Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Over fifty health, medicine and science Open Access titles.Chrome browser recommended.
University of California Press - Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
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-Blackwell Open Access Collection This link opens in a new window
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.

Reference

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) This link opens in a new window
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.
Dictionary of Slang This link opens in a new window
Definitions and links to information about the slang of various locations and groups in the United Kingdom.
Encyclopaedia Iranica This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary study of Iranian history and culture in all time periods and the influence of Iranian civilization in a global context.
Encyclopedia of Earth This link opens in a new window
Open access resource issued by the National Council for Science and the Environment.
Encyclopedia of Life This link opens in a new window
Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.
English Short Title Catalogue This link opens in a new window
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.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress) This link opens in a new window
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars of anthropology (archeology and ethnology), art, geography, government and politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, political economy, and sociology; and edited by librarians in the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress (LOC).
Jesuit Historiography Online This link opens in a new window
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.
Jesuit Online Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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.
Medieval Review This link opens in a new window
Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies since 1993.
Merck Manual This link opens in a new window
Treatments for thousands of diseases and conditions. Contains photographs, audio and video material.
Nature Communications This link opens in a new window
OA journal from Nature.com publishing in all areas of life, health, social, physical, chemical and earth sciences.
OnlineCourses.com This link opens in a new window
Over 500 free university and college level classes from the world's leading universities.
PollingReport.com This link opens in a new window
Free, independent resource on trends in American public opinion.
The Street.com This link opens in a new window
Up to the minute news and analysis of the U.S. Stock Markets.
SuperPages This link opens in a new window
Free business and personal directories.
ThomasNet This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive directory of industrial products and services.
Create a free account for enhanced content.
YourDictionary This link opens in a new window
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.

Multimedia

American Archive of Public Broadcasting This link opens in a new window
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting 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.
C-SPAN This link opens in a new window
Access to the live proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided––all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view.
LUNA Commons This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of high quality open-access image collections of cultural heritage material from museums, archives, universities and other repositories.
Moving Image (Internet) Archive This link opens in a new window
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.
Open Vault This link opens in a new window
Access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, and searchable transcripts of our collective cultural heritage in moving images and sound.
Vistas This link opens in a new window
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.

Articles and Chapters

Annual Reviews Article Collections Archive This link opens in a new window
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.

Multiformat

Centre Mersenne Open Access Platform This link opens in a new window
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.
Media Studies Press This link opens in a new window
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.

Databases

agriRxiv This link opens in a new window
Open access, free, preprints across agriculture and allied sciences.
AidData This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database on international development finance and foreign aid, accompanied by a variety of innovative web-based applications for data analysis.
Artstor Public Collections This link opens in a new window
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.
ArXiv archive This link opens in a new window
A full-text, open archive and distribution server for theoretical and applied scientific research papers. Hosted by Cornell University. Coverage 1991 to the present.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes This link opens in a new window
Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.
Big Ten Open Books Project This link opens in a new window
A collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first 100-title collection centers on Gender and Sexuality studies. Hosted on the Project MUSE Open platform. (Use filters on left side to access other OA content on the platform.)
Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new window
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.
bioRxiv This link opens in a new window
Free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality This link opens in a new window
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.
Center on Media and Child Health - Digital Wellness Lab This link opens in a new window
From Boston Children’s Hospital, research projects examining interactive media technologies and impact on overall health.
ChemRxiv This link opens in a new window
Free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
ChemSpider This link opens in a new window
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.
Europeana Collections This link opens in a new window
Gateway to 60 national and research libraries of Europe including the British Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise, Deutsche Bibliotek and many others.
Exploring Race in Society This link opens in a new window
Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context and solutions-oriented points of view for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. From EBSCO.
Feminae: Medieval women and gender index This link opens in a new window
Index covering journal articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.
FindLaw This link opens in a new window
Access to New York consolidated and unconsolidated laws, court acts and rules.
Gartner
Not renewed by Fordham IT.
IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new window
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.
IMF International Financial Statistics This link opens in a new window
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
*Must register and log in with personal username and password in order to download data. See upper right corner.
International Mission Board This link opens in a new window
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.
Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
JSTOR & Artstor Open Access Content This link opens in a new window
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.
JSTOR Open Community Collections This link opens in a new window
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.
medRxiv This link opens in a new window
Free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery This link opens in a new window
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.
New York Public Library Online Projects This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of unique online projects from the New York Public Library, including the Staten Island Historical Newspapers and Music Theater digital archive.
Open Library of the Humanities This link opens in a new window
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.
PEN America Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Online archive of more than 1500 hours of audio and video recordings 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. Dates back to 1966.
Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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.
Population Reference Bureau This link opens in a new window
Reports from all over the world on population trends, health, and the environment.
PQDT Open This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Open access). Full text graduate works available for free download to all users with Internet access.
Project MUSE - Open Access This link opens in a new window
Open Access Books and Journals on the Project Muse platform. This database applies non-standard use of Boolean operators.
Religion-Online This link opens in a new window
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.
socArXiv This link opens in a new window
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.
TIB AV-Portal This link opens in a new window
Operated by The Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB), an open access platform on which most scientific videos such as conference recordings, simulations, animations, lectures and visualized research data can be published and viewed free of charge.
Torrossa Open This link opens in a new window
Open Access Ejournals, Ebooks, articles, chapters and more on the Torrossa platform.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository This link opens in a new window
The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Books, journals, reports, and other intellectual output of the World Bank.

Miscellanea

ATLA Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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.
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson This link opens in a new window
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.
Digital Library of the Caribbean This link opens in a new window
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.
Educational Testing Service This link opens in a new window
Information about educational tests and research by ETS. Not all information is freely available.
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) This link opens in a new window
Digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.
GlobeTheoLib (No longer available)
Integrated into Globethics Library
Globethics Library This link opens in a new window
Open online library providing quality resources in the field of ethics, higher education, policy engagement, and ethical leadership. Holds more than 1 million documents, including books, journals, reference works, and educational resources. GlobeTheoLib has also been integrated into the library.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Partnership of major research institutions and libraries creating digital archive of library materials. Full text access only to the portion of the archive comprising 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.
Inter-American Development Bank Repository This link opens in a new window
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.
Internet Movie Database This link opens in a new window
Information related to films, television programs, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media.
IQS Directory for Manufacturing, Business and Engineering This link opens in a new window
Provides multi-faceted information for research and industry analysis in the manufacturing, business and engineering disciplines.
Iter Press: Open Access Resources This link opens in a new window
Open Access content from Iter Press.
Jesuit Relations This link opens in a new window
The original french, latin, and italian texts with english translations and notes.
Jesuit Studies Portal by Boston College This link opens in a new window
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.
Medieval Manuscripts at Fordham This link opens in a new window
Includes all medieval manuscripts at Fordham, whether on parchment, microfilm/fiche, photocopies or facsimile.
Open Access Digital Theological Library This link opens in a new window
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.
United Nations Documents This link opens in a new window
Full text of official U.N. documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents.
Vatican Library This link opens in a new window
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).
WHED Portal - World Higher Education This link opens in a new window
International Association of Universities' Worldwide Database of Higher Education Institutions, Systems and Credentials.
World Digital Library (Library of Congress) This link opens in a new window
The World Digital Library, a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents.

Alumni Library Services: Open Access Resources

Open Access

Open Access sources are freely available online and do not require a Fordham Username (formerly AccessIT ID) and password.

Books

Newspapers

Historical Reference

Datasets

Open Dissertations & Theses

Journals

Reference

Multimedia

Articles and Chapters

Multiformat

Databases

Miscellanea