Open Access Resources
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research founders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,510,808 theses and dissertations.
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, as of 1993. ODS also provides access to the Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. They include pre-session, in-session and post-session documentation for meetings of the General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies, the Security Council and its subsidiary bodies, the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies and the Trusteeship Council, and for global conferences convened by the United Nations as well as for other meetings included in the Calendar of Conferences and Meetings authorized by the General Assembly.
Open Book Publishers, founded in 2008, it provides open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK and amongst the leaders in the English-speaking world. Books are published in hardback, paperback, pdf and eBook editions, but they also include a free online edition that can be read via our website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere.
The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The Data Catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources Access to Information. The World Bank Policy on Access to Information sets forth a groundbreaking change on how the World Bank provides information to the public. Now the public can obtain additional information than ever before—information about projects under preparation, projects under implementation, analytic and advisory activities, and Board proceedings. Underlying the new policy is the principle that the World Bank will disclose any information in its possession that is not on a list of exceptions
EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
OpenEdition brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences.
OpenAIRE is a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies.
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