Subject repositories are digital collections of the research outputs within particular subject areas or disciplines, developed specifically to meet the needs of these communities.
Examples of Subject Repositories:
Open access to over one million academic articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Directory which provides access to over 13000 scientific journals, indexed from DOAJ, eJDS, BioMed Central, HighWire Press and others.
Library of over 700,000 research papers across 30 disciplines.
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
Index to publishing in economics and related sciences created by hundreds of volunteers worldwide.
Online repository for self-archived papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy and biology.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
Collection of over 10,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks. These books can also be found in the Library Catalogue.
Free full text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Catalogue of millions of records representing open access digital resources which are held in open access collections worldwide.
CORE provides searchable access to millions of research papers from repositories and Open Access journals. Useful for locating theses and dissertations.
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A unique search-engine dedicated to indexing free and open access journals and theses in the arts and humanities, science, biomedical, business and ecology related topics.
Institutional repositories are digital collections of the research outputs created within a research institution.
Although most institutional repositories aim to make research outputs openly available, they usually contain a combination of:
Research publications included in institutional repositories may or may not be peer-reviewed
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Based in the UK, CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
An authoritative directory of 2,000 academic open access repositories with freely available academic research information. Each repository has been visited by project staff to give a quality-controlled list of repositories.
Lists and shows the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Like OpenDOAR, ROAR has an option to search for a particular repository, or for open access content.
Information from University of Canberra Open Access Toolkit