Its open access week - here are our favourite resources !

There are so many great projects to choose from.- but here are a few favourites.

Core Open access research papers.
Quickly cross search milions of references to online papers includes content major working paper series (Repec) and univeristy repositories

Open access theses.
OATD.org aims to index graduate theses and dissertations published around the world

Directory of Open Access Books
A service of OAPEN Foundation which works with publishers to increase the discoverability of open access material. Search the database by title, subject or publisher.

Europeana
A virtual European library offering free access to Europe's cultural resources. It includes millions of texts (manuscripts, papers, eBooks), images (photographs, maps), films (moving images, videos, film clips, television broadcasts) and sounds from Europe's main research libraries, archives and galleries.

Directory of Open Access Journals. (DOAJ) Over 11,000 academic ejournals covering all subject areas. A key starting point for tracing titles. Also allows some searching at journal article level.


OpenDOAR
Comprehensive list of institutional and subject-based repositories worldwide.