1. B.C. Open Collection: B.C. Open Collection is an open learning resource under the project of BCcampus Open Education in Canada. Their learning materials are openly licensed under a Creative Commons license and are available for free in a variety of e-book formats across 18 topics (Business, Computer Science, Law and Criminal Justice, Math & Stats, Social Sciences, Trades…).
Access and view the user manual of the B.C. Open Collection: https://collection.bccampus.ca/
2. DART-Europe E-thesis Portal: DART-Europe E-theses Portal is an electronic thesis portal that allows access to 1,389,942 open access theses and dissertations from 585 Universities in 29 European countries.
Access and view the user manual of the DART-Europe E-theses Portal Website: https://www.dart-europe.org/browse-list.php?index=institution
3. DOAB: DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books is an open book database, providing access to nearly 17,000 ebooks in many fields such as: Business & Economics, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Social Sciences Association, Technology & Engineering... of more than 300 publishers around the world. Most of the documents on this database have an open license, allowing unlimited downloads.
Access and view the user manual of the Directory of Open Access Books Website:https://www.doabooks.org/
4. EBSCO Open Dissertations: EBSCO Open Dissertations is a library of theses and dissertations established based on the cooperation between EBSCO and BiblioLab. Currently, this library has more than 1.5 million theses and dissertations from 320 schools in the United States and around the world.
Access and view the user manual of the EBSCO Open Dissertations Website: https://opendissertations.org/
5. ERIC: ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - is an online library of educational research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) of the US Department of Education. ERIC provides access to thousands of affiliated journals worldwide in a variety of fields. Users can easily read online or download research articles and journal articles.
Access and view the user manual of the ERIC website: https://eric.ed.gov
6. IMF eLibrary: IMF eLibrary is an electronic library of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with a catalog of over 25,000 publications on 11 main topics (such as Business and Economics, Computers, Law, Political Science, Technology and Engineering...) and and over 100 sub-topics, all electronic content published is free on IMF eLibrary.
Access and view the user manual of the IMF eLibrary Website: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/
7. Global ETD: The Global ETD Search is a freely available electronic database for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. The database allows searching more than 6.47 million electronic theses and dissertations in the archive.
Access and view the user manual of the Global ETD Search Website: http://search.ndltd.org/
8. HathiTrust: HathiTrust is a digital library established from a non-profit cooperative organization of academic, research and conservation libraries. It provides legal access to more than 18 million digitized documents from HathiTrust Digital Library in many different fields such as: Law, Science, Education, Technology, History, Geography, Agriculture... Users can easily read online on mobile devices or download.
Access and view the user manual of the HathiTrust Website: https://www.hathitrust.org
9. Open Access Theses and Dissertations: OATD supports searches for open access graduate theses and dissertations published from more than 1,100 colleges, universities, and research organizations. OATD is currently indexing approximately 7.43 million theses and dissertations.
Access and view the user manual of the Open Access Theses and Dissertations Website: https://oatd.org/
10. Open Textbook Library: Open Textbook Library documents are freely posted and available under the Creative Commons CC0 license, providing access to thousands of ebooks in many different fields such as Accounting & Finance, Business, Computer Science Computing & Information Systems, Economics, Education, Engineering, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Social Sciences. Readers can read online on the website, download pdf or ebook files on book readers/mobile devices (epub).
Access and view the user manual of the Open Textbook Library Website: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
11. ProQuest Thesis and Dissertations Global: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT Global) has more than 5 million open access theses and dissertation titles.
Access and view the user manual of the ProQuest Thesis and Dissertations Global Website: https://www.proquest.com/?defaultdiss=true
12. Open Educational Resources Website - Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges: This website was established under Decision No. 142/QD-HH by the Chairman of the Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges - AVU&C (Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges) Prof.Dr. Tran Hong Quan signed on September 16, 2019 and allowed access to open educational resources.
Access and view the user manual of the Open Educational Resources Website: https://giaoducmo.avnuc.vn/
13. World Bank eLibrary: World bank eLibrary is a digital library of documents published by the World Bank (WB). They provide all of the World Bank's books, newspapers, journal and documents issued since the 1990s with 28 main topics related to socio-economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction. WB eLibrary is an important, accessible resource tailored to the unique needs of libraries, researchers, and academic institutions.
Access and view the user manual of the World Bank eLibrary Website: https://elibrary.worldbank.org
14. White Rose eTheses Online is a free repository of electronic theses and dissertations from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York, with more than 24,000 theses and dissertations covering diverse topics from all fields of study at these three universities. No login or account creation is required. Abstracts can be read directly on the website, and full texts can be downloaded in PDF format.
15. Directory of Open Access Journals is managed by Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA), a community interest company registered in the UK with a branch in Denmark. It is a global open access database containing more than 20,500 journals (over 13,000 of which are free of charge) and more than 10,200,000 articles. Subjects include Education, Languages and Literature, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Sciences, Technology, Natural Sciences, and more.
16. Project Gutenberg is an online library providing more than 70,000 free eBooks and audiobooks, primarily in literature. Readers can either read books online for free in HTML format or download them for offline reading in EPUB, Kindle, Plain Text, or PDF formats. The collection is categorized into 22 major subjects, such as Animals, Canadian Bookshelf, Children’s Bookshelf, Classics Bookshelf, Country Bookshelf, Crime Bookshelf, Education Bookshelf, Fiction Bookshelf, Fine Arts Bookshelf, Language & Literature Bookshelf, Law Bookshelf, Psychology & Philosophy Bookshelf, Social Sciences Bookshelf, etc.
Access and user guide available at: https://www.gutenberg.org
17. Bioline International is a non-profit scholarly database committed to providing open access to high-quality research journals published in developing countries. These journals cover a wide range of subjects, including agricultural sciences, sustainable development, public health, international development, food security, biodiversity, women’s health, and more.
Access and user guide available at: http://www.bioline.org.br/
18. Journal Storage provides free access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, and images across 75 disciplines. JSTOR supports readers in discovering academic content through a powerful teaching and research platform.
19. Open Publications of UTS Scholar (OPUS) is the institutional repository of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), designed to showcase the outstanding research outputs of UTS to a global audience. OPUS collects, preserves, indexes, and disseminates the research of UTS faculty and graduate students, offering free full-text global access.
Access and user guide available at: https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/
20. SpringerOpen is a collection of fully open access journals and books from Springer, covering all fields of science across 20 subject areas such as Business, Management & Law, Chemistry, Computer Science, Dentistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Geography, History, Social Sciences & Humanities, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, and more.
Access and user guide available at: https://www.springeropen.com/
21. Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research outputs from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. The network includes more than 4.8 million works from 699 institutions. Its subject categories are visually represented as a color-coded wheel, covering 10 main disciplines: Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Business, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, and Social & Behavioral Sciences
Access and user guide available at: https://network.bepress.com/
22. InTechOpen lis the world’s largest open access book publisher in Engineering, Technology, Science, Physics, Health Sciences, and Life Sciences, offering free online access to research. Its catalog is divided into 4 main areas: Physical Sciences, Engineering & Technology (over 3,100 open access books); Life Sciences (over 1,300 books); Health Sciences (over 2,200 books); and Social Sciences & Humanities (over 400 books). InTechOpen has accumulated over 184,000 citations and attracts more than 3.3 million visits per month.
Access and user guide available at: https://www.intechopen.com/
23. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered academic search and discovery tool that provides open resources for the global research community. It has indexed more than 200 million scholarly papers from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls. Currently, Semantic Scholar covers more than 219,000,000 research works across diverse disciplines.
Access and user guide available at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
24. Taylor & Francis Online: provides access to free resources across more than 30 scientific disciplines, including over 5 million open access articles. It is a highly valuable academic journal database with 1,344 journals covering subjects such as Economics, Finance, Business and Law, Computer Science, Information Science, and Social Sciences.
Access and user guide available at : https://www.tandfonline.com/
25. Website https://www.law.cornell.edu/world which provides links to legal systems and laws of countries around the world. It is a useful, free, and easy-to-use legal reference source for students, graduate learners, and anyone interested in international law.
Access and user guide available at : https://www.law.cornell.edu/world