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Main Information resources Electronic informational resources A-Z

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Database name	Description
AAT: Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online	The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other subject information. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, on the global scope.
ABC-Chemistry	The link directory was created by the General Chemistry Department of the Belarusian State University. As of 01/03/2018, it contains links to 52 per-reviewed scientific journals on chemistry in the Russian language and 607 journals in the English language. Viewing brief descriptions of resources and browsing by title are provided. The Google Custom Search technology provides a search by names and brief descriptions of journals presented on the site. You also have access to full texts of published articles on copyright owners’ sites. Full-text articles are available to read online and download in PDF. Materials are in Russian and English.
Academic Journals	The portal of scientific journals was created in 2002. It contains 111 peer-reviewed journals on art, biology, agriculture, medicine, humanities and the natural sciences. You can perform simple and advanced searches, view a short resources description. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF. All materials are in English.
Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific publications, materials of international conferences and seminars, periodicals, collections of scientific papers and reports, curricula, theses. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 500 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus’s repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses and abstracts of theses, scientific and practical journal "The Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Bulletin", materials of the departments of the Academy, conferences and seminars materials, central library materials, scientific publications, publications scientific and pedagogical faculty of the Academy. As at 01.05.2018, the repository contains over 560 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. All materials are in Russian.
Actual problems of physical and special training of power structures	The electronic scientific quarterly reviewed journal was established by the Military Institute of Physical Culture. As of October 7, 2019, there are 13 open-source publications containing scientific papers and reviews, theoretical and experimental works, conference proceedings, the results of pedagogical, psychological, medical, biological and sociological research, related to the development of physical training, the defense capacity of the Russian Federation and the combat capability of military personnel. The archive has been maintained since 2016. The electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. All materials are in Russian. ISSN 2414-0198.
ACS Publications	The online collection of journals and books was launched by American Chemical Society. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 63 journals and 1,400 e-Books on chemistry in the public domain. The organization annually publishes about 30 new e-Books. Browsing by topic and journal title is provided. Resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Simple and advanced search is provided. All materials are in English.
African Digital Library(AOL)	The portal was created in 1999 in cooperation with NetLibrary. It contains about 200,000 e-books on all branches of knowledge. All materials are in English.
African Journal Archive	The resource provides access to African journal literature, originating from a wide base of publishers and societies on the African continent. The Carnegie Corporation of New York initiated and sponsored the project. As of September 3, 2021, the website contains 50 open access journals. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Afrikaans, French, German, Dutch.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)	The world's largest and pre-eminent platform of African-published scholarly journals, which was created in 1998 to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. As of September 13, 2021, AJOL hosts 534 journals, including 274 open access journals. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Articles are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
AgEcon Search	The electronic library contains texts of scientific publications in the field of the economy of agriculture and environment. AgEcon Search includes reports, journal articles, book chapters and government documents. Both simple and advanced search are provided. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF format. All materials are in English.
AGRIS	The link directory, as of early 2018, contains more than 2.7 million bibliographic records and abstracts on agriculture and related industries (ecology, nature conservation, botany, biology, agricultural economics, veterinary medicine, forestry, beekeeping, hunting, fishing, fish farming, processing of agricultural products, food) in FAO member countries. The directory as been maintained by the national centers of FAO member countries and the AGRIS Coordination Center in Rome since 1975. Simple and advanced search options are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
AGROS Database	The database of the Central Scientific Agricultural Library provides access to the online catalog of books, journals, articles, abstracts, deposited manuscripts and the catalog of rare and valuable books on agriculture. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 50 thousand documents. Users have the ability to order full-text files through the document delivery service (paid). Simple and advanced search is provided, according to the Artifact Rules. All materials are in Russian.
Agricola	A database produced by the United States National Agricultural Library (NAL). As of October 4, 2021, the database contains more than 5,200,000 records and includes printed works from as far back as the 15th century. Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture, fisheries, farming, farming systems, agricultural economics, earth sciences, environmental sciences, food and human nutrition. Language: English.
All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J)	An open peer-reviewed research journal of teaching and learning in higher education. AISHE-J was first published in 2009. All issues of the journal since 2012 are available to view and download in PDF format. Language: English.
ALT Open Access Repository (Association for Learning Technology)	The repository of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) provides sources for e-learning professionals. As of November 2019, it includes more than 3 thousand publications: articles, monographs, books, dissertations, educational resources. You can view the contents of latest arrivals, search for document, author, abstract, publication date, keyword, subject areas, file type (text, audio and video files), and also sort search results by publication date, title, and author. Materials are available for download in PDF format in English.
Altai State University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: final qualifying works, dissertations and author's abstracts, book collections, scientific publications, periodicals, educational literature, educational and methodical literature. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 4900 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The documents are in Russian.
AME Publishing	The database includes more than 60 scientific medical journals on open access. More than 60 English, more than 60 Chinese and more than 110 electronic books present the latest achievements in medicine. You can perform simple and advanced searches, view short resource descriptions. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download (PDF). All material is in English.
American Ballet Theater Ballet Dictionary	The unique interactive dictionary comprises 170 ballet terms and also models of ballet movements performed by artists of American Ballet Theater Company.
American Memory	The portal was launched by the Library of Congress in 1994. As of early 2018, it contains over 9 million documents in 100 thematic collections. The portal presents manuscripts, engravings, photographs, posters, maps, audio records, movies, books and brochures on the USA history from the stocks of the Library of Congress. Simple and advances search options are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in Russian.
American Phytopathological Society	The American Phytopathological Society, an international scientific organization, dedicated to the plant pathology research; publishes three open access journals. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Open access articles are available for download in PDF format. The language is English.
AMSER	The site, which was launched by the National Science Foundation as part of the Internet Scout project, presents a link directory of scientific publications. Simple and advanced search is provided. Advanced search is by keywords, the US Library if Congress Classification, copyright owner, publisher etc. Search can be refined by access right, language, type of documents, copyright owner. Sorting search results by date, relevance, title etc. is provided. Materials are in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
AOSIS	An open access publisher of scholarly journals and books on economic and management sciences; health and veterinary sciences; humanities and social sciences; science, engineering and technology; and theological and religious studies. Documents are available for download in EPUB, XML, and PDF formats. Language: English.
Analytical Sciences Digital Library	The online library is maintained by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry as part of the National Science Digital Library. It contains links to scientific resources and peer-reviewed scientific papers. Google Custom Search provides search in the library resources. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in English.
Animal Studies Repository	The repository contains academic, archival and other materials related to animal husbandry. Search by subject area, author or specific scientific journal is provided. The electronic documents are available for download in PDF format.
Archive of European Integration (AEI)	A free to everyone electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Its focus is the post-war development, activities, and foreign relations of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Community (EC), and the European Union (EU). The AEI collects certain types of independently produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents. The Archive of European Integration contains papers from approximately 40 private research organizations. As of August 20, 2021, the AEI contains 78,066 documents. Documents are available for viewing and downloading in PDF. Language: English
Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société	The electronic archive for the humanities and social sciences contains more than 680 thousand documents, as of November 2019. Materials are presented mainly in French and English with an English-language user interface. You can select viewing by discipline, year of publication, type of publication, collection. The following disciplines are presented: history, jurisprudence, archeology, sociology, geography, political science, psychology, religion, etc. Basic and advanced search is provided by name, keywords, document language, journal, publication date. You can filtering the search results by document type, author, subject area, laboratory, language, keyword, publication date. The search results are available for download in PDF format.
ART-Dok	The electronic archive of documents on art, as of October 2019, includes 6,483 publications. You can search by author, year, subject area, country and name. Advanced search by name and keywords is provided. Search results can be filtered by genre, country, type of document and subject. Documents are available for download in PDF format.
Arxiv.org	An open-access archive for 1,936,936 (as of September 1, 2021) scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Arxiv.org was launched in 1991. It is currently owned by Cornell University. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for downloading in PDF. Language: English.
Atmosphere. Cardiology news	The online journal was launched in 2001 by the Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after A.L. Miasnikov. As of 01.03.2018, the database includes 74 issues of the journal. The target audience is general practitioners. The major task of the journal is the information and promotion of modern approaches to the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and also the information about innovation technology in cardiology. The journal is focused on Russian and international standard acts, clinical recommendation and standards in the field of cardiology, as well as the examination of clinical cases and experience exchange. The archive is from 2001 to present day. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Alls materials are in Russian.
ATO Legal Database	The legal database, created by the National Library of Australia, contains legal and political information provided in the public domain. Simple and advanced search options and browsing by day are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in English.
Authors’ abstracts in Russian National Library	Free access to a bibliographical database “Authors’ abstracts of dissertations” from National Library of Russia (1993–1997). The database “Electronic catalog (1980– )” contains bibliographical descriptions of authors’ abstracts of dissertations (since 1980).
Authors’ abstracts in State Public Library for Science and Technology (SORAN)	Free access to the database “Catalog of authors’ abstracts of dissertations” which is part of the Library’s electronic catalog (since 1992).
Authors’ abstracts of dissertations in the Central Agricultural Library of Russia	Free access to the bibliographic database "Authors’ abstracts of dissertations" from the collections of Central Agricultural Library of Russia. Over 50 thousand records. Order of full text materials via the document delivery service (requiring payment).
Authors’ abstracts of dissertations of the Superior Certifying Commission in the Republic of Belarus	Free access to records and full text of authors’ abstracts of Candidate’s and doctoral dissertations produced in the Republic of Belarus.
Baishideng Publishing Group	The Baishideng Publishing Group e-Library, as of early 2018, contains 43 medical journals in public domain (42 in English and one in Chinese), 23 of which are indexed in PubMed Central, PubMed. Baishideng Publishing Group is a professional edition with the 25-year experience in editing and publishing journals of clinical medicine. The editors’ blog is also available on the site. Simple and advanced search options are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). Materials are in English and Chinese.
Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL)	The database of electronic journals of Bangladesh. It contains articles from more than 40 specialized medical journals on obstetrics and gynecology for practicing doctors. You can perform simple and advanced searches, view a short resources description. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF. All materials are in English.
Baranavichy State University’s repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, periodicals. As at 01.04.2018, the repository contains over 3400 documents. Full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks". It is possible to view new acquisitions. All materials are in Russian.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)	One of the world's most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. As of September 27, 2021, the website provides access to more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. About 60% of the indexed documents are open access. On the website you can find journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. BASE does not contain the full-text files of items, but provides links back to the source repositories where the full-text files are available for download. The resource is multilingual (more than 20 languages).
BCcampus Open Education	A portal that contains various open educational resources. The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open reviewed textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties such as academic/career success, education, art and design, biological/physical sciences, business, communication/writing, computer science, earth and ocean sciences, engineering, health, tourism, language learning, law, math, etc. On the website, you can find course materials, evaluation tools modules and other resources that can be used to develop an open online course. The website also contains guides to using and creating OER (Open educational resources), general OER Repositories, etc. Documents are available for viewing online and downloading in PDF. Language: English.
Belarusian Agricultural Academy’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: periodicals, congresses, conferences, seminars materials, collections of scientific works, scientific articles. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 500 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Belarusian National Technical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, theses and reports collections. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 39000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian and English. ISSN – 2310-7405
Belarusian State Academy of Music’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific and methodical publications, articles from periodical, continued and serial publications, scientific publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 850 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The documents are in Russian.
Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, periodicals. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 1900 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2522-4468.
Belarusian State Economic University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: periodicals, congresses, conferences, seminars materials, collections of scientific works, monographs, scientific articles. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 40000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF, DOC formats to the library readers and partly to the users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Belarusian State Medical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, periodicals, monographs. As at 01.04.2018 the repository contains over 15,000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2521-6562.
Belarusian State Pedagogical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, periodicals, graduation works. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 32,000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2410-4655.
Belarusian State Technological University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: materials of conferences and seminars, scientific articles, periodicals of the university. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 11,000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2522-4638.
Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts’ Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conferences and seminars materials, scientific publications and articles, periodicals. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 1,400 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Belarusian State University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: periodicals, congresses, conferences, seminars materials, collections of scientific works, monographs, scientific articles etc. As of 01.05.2018, the repository contains over 6400 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF, DOC formats to the library readers and partly to the users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2519-4437.
Belarusian Trade and Economic University of Consumer Cooperative’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: periodicals, congresses, conferences, seminars materials, collections of scientific works, monographs, scientific articles. As of 01.05.2018, the repository contains over 3500 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Belarusian-Russian University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: abstracts of theses, materials of conferences and seminars, periodicals, scientific publications, etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 5800 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian and English.
Belgorod State University’s electronic archive E-archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses and thteses abstracts, scientific publications, materials of international conferences and seminars, periodicals. As of 01.05.2018, the repository contains over 21000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2310-7529.
Bepress legal repository	A network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post materials to specific publications (e.g., the USC Working Paper Series). As of August 23, 2021, the archive contains more than 460 thousand works in 117 legal and related disciplines. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for viewing and downloading in PDF, DOCX, XLSX, JPEG, MP3, MP4 and other formats. Language: English
Bioline International	The resource is managed by scientists and librarians in a cooperative work between the Libraries of the University of Toronto, CRIA and Bioline. Bioline International is a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela, which makes bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide. Bioline International includes publications on tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, new diseases, biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Resources are available both for reading online and for downloading in PDF format. Document languages: English, French, Spanish, Malay, Persian, Chinese, Portuguese. Website language: English.
BioMed Central	As of August 20, 2021, BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. BMC journal series includes 65 journals focused on the needs of individual research communities. BMC also partner with leading institutions and societies to publish journals on their behalf. All articles are available for downloading in PDF. Language: English
Biomedecine	The electronic journal of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia contains review, experimental and educational, methodical articles. The archive exists from 2005 to the present time. It is possible to view the issues by year and download them in PDF. All material is in Russian.
bioRxiv	The online archive of Life Sciences contains, as of October 2019, more than 60 thousand scientific publications. Subject area: biology, chemistry, ecology, genetics and physiology. Scientific papers are available for download in PDF format. Simple and advanced search by publication date, author and title are provided. Search results can be filtered by subject area and publication date.
BMJ Journals	A global commercial healthcare knowledge provider, which publishes more than 70 medical and allied science journals. Nearly half of BMJ's indexed titles rank within the top 10 of their category. As of August 26, 2021, there were 26 Open Access journals and 33 transformative journals that are actively committed to transitioning to fully Open Access journals. Journals are sorted by medical specialty. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for downloading in PDF, XML. Language: English.
Boloka. Institutional Repository of the North-West University (NWU-IR)	An institutional repository of the North-West University (NWU-IR) in South Africa, which provides access to research material created by members of the NWU. The repository contains conference papers, electronic theses and dissertations, inaugural lectures, journals, NWU library staff publications, research output and other materials on economic and management sciences, education, engineering, health sciences, humanities, law, natural and agricultural sciences, theology. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
Budapest Open Access Initiative	The Budapest Open Access Initiative website offers various open access guides. The resources are useful for those who want to implement open access publishing model. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
The Bulletin Physiology and Pathology of respiration	Electronic Journal “The Bulletin Physiology and Pathology of respiration”. The Higher Attestation Commission of Russia is included in the List of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications in which it is recommended to publish the main results of dissertations for the degree of candidate and doctor of science. All issues of the magazine (since 1998) are available for reading online and for downloading in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
CaltechAUTHORS	The repository, created with the support of the School of Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Southampton on the EPrints platform, contains the full texts of the following documents: scientific publications, books, reports, book chapters, patents, etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 70000 documents. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The documents are in English.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature	Online version of the encyclopedia "History of English and American literature" by Cambridge University (1907-1921, in 18 volumes). English and American literature from the antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
Cell Press Journals	A publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences. As of September 20, 2021, the website contains 17 open access journals and 40 hybrid journals. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Open access articles are available for viewing online and download in PDF format. Language: English
ThesesCanada	The electronic theses archive includes over 2200000 documents from 56 universities and colleges of Canada (as of early 2018). The earliest theses belong to the 1950s. Most of the documents are from the 1980s until present day. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). Materials are in English and French.
CELT (the Corpus of Electronic Texts)	The online library provides the access to modern and historical documents on Irish history and literature. As of 01.03.2018, the library presents more than 1,600 text documents with annotations, reference data, graphics, translations and scientific bibliography. The Google Custom Search technology provides a search of the library’s resources available to read online. Document languages are English, Irish, French and Latin.
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	The repository is developed by STFC Rutherford Lab. As of 07.10.2019, it contains more than 11 thousand materials dedicated to environmental problems. You can view data from 1978 to 2019 and select subject areas such as agriculture, soil science, archeology, biology and microbiology, chemistry, computer science, ecology, environmental economics, education, electronics, engineering, technology, history of science, politics, healthcare, hydrology, law, marine sciences, mathematics, meteorology and climatology, physics, space sciences. Basic and advanced search is provided by author, title, publication date, type of publication, subject area. It is possible to sort the search results by author, publication date, and title. Materials are provided in PDF format and are available for download.
ChemDB	The University of California chemistry information portal contains more than 4 million descriptions of compounds and over 8 million isomers in the public domain (as of 01.03.2018). Users have the ability to calculate molecular properties that are different from the three-dimensional structure, to search for molecules by name and structure, and to re-create chemical reactions.Electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
Central Scientific Library named after J. Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: publications of the Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, periodicals, scientific publications, etc.. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 350 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The documents are in Russian.
CGSpace. A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific publications, reports, books, periodicals, chapters of books, presentations, journal articles, etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 70000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Chemical Search Engine	The search engine and link directory is designed for specialists in chemistry and related disciplines. Links to more than 75,000 full-text documents are provided (as of 1 February, 2018). Simple and advanced search options are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All material is in English.
ChemNet	The electronic library of educational material on chemistry includes monographs, textbooks, problem books, Russian electronic journals (Russian Chemical Journal, Bulletin of the Moscow University (Chemistry Series) and educational databases on chemical elements and compounds. The e-Library was created by the chemical faculty of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The resource also contains links to multimedia publications, conferences and seminars. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in Russian.
CNAA	The theses archive of the National Council for Accreditation and Attestation of Moldova was established in 2001. The archive contains the full texts of dissertations from 2004 to 2017. As of the beginning of 2018, it includes more than 2,100 documents. The archive covers such subject areas as philosophy, psychology, biology, law, pedagogy, economics, history, geography, physics and mathematics, engineering, agricultural sciences. Navigation by year of issue and subject area, as well as an opportunity to view annotations, keywords, distribution of theses in organizations is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in Romanian.
Cogprints	An electronic archive for papers in any area of cognitive science, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, as well as physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. The website is permanently archived by the University of Southampton. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
COnnecting REpositories	Search service of scientific articles, created with the support of The Open University and JISC. As of 01.05.2018, it contains more than 130 million scientific articles in open access. Electronic resources are available both for reading online and for download in PDF format. The language of the documents is English
Corporate Management	The online library contains reference, methodical and analytical information, and also practical examples on how to manage a company, investments and finances. The online library is the oldest and largest collection of publications in the public domain. The library is daily updated. Resources are sorted by subject headings. Browsing by type of documents and subject headings is provided. Yandex technology provides a search in the library’s resources. Resources are available to read online. All materials are in Russian.
CRIA	A community of people who work to make information about Brazil's biodiversity accessible to all. They do this through the creation and maintenance of information systems, databases, and tools available to all interested. The website contains a list of projects, photo collections and other resources created by CRIA. Languages: English, Portuguese.
Crystallography Open Database	The database of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, organometallic compounds and minerals, with the exception of biopolymers, as of October 2019, contains 412,737 records. You can browse by subject area. Advanced search by scientific journals and chemical composition and sorting search results are provided.
CSIR ResearchSpace	An open access electronic archive of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a multidisciplinary organization from South Africa. The archive provides access to scholarly digital materials created by the CSIR. On the website you can find articles, books, book chapters, conference presentations, datasets, reports, and other materials. Documents are available for download in PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and other formats. Language: English.
Culture Machine	An international open-access journal of culture and theory, which was founded in 1999. Since 2015, Culture Machine has been a member of the Radical Open Access Collective. Its aim is to be to cultural studies and cultural theory what ‘fundamental research' is to the natural sciences: open-ended, non-goal orientated, exploratory and experimental. Building on this approach to media theory, cultural studies and political philosophy, Culture Machine welcomes creative proposals that contest and come up against globalizing technical narratives and the environmental logics of extraction. All contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed. Documents are available for viewing, and most of them for downloading in PDF. Language: English
CyberLeninka	The scientific e-Library was created in 2010 by Iteos Company, with the support of the Russian State Library. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 200 thousand scientific papers in all fields of knowledge in the public domain. Simple search, viewing popular articles and browsing by subject are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
DigitalCommons @ Texas Medical Center (TMC)	A repository sponsored by The Texas Medical Center Library. On the website you can find works produced by faculty, scientists and students at TMC institutions. Papers, conference presentations, dissertations and theses, student projects, teaching materials, reports, images, video and audio files are deposited here and available to users worldwide. As of August 26, 2021, the repository contains more than 7,000 papers. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Resources are available both for reading online and for downloading in PDF, PNG, JPEG, PPTX and so on. Language: English.
Digital Access to Schoolarship by Harvard	The Harvard University repository is developed on the DSpace platform. It contains 15 collections, including scientific articles and dissertations of various faculties, magazines, books, reports. As of 07.10.2019, it contains 26 thousand scientific works on art, business, modern education, medicine, and jurisprudence. You can select viewing by collection, publication date, author, title, subject area. Basic and advanced search is provided by author, title, publication date, type of publication, subject area. Sorting of search results by relevance, publication date, title is available. Materials are provided in PDF format and are available for download.
Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DiVA)	A repository for research publications and student theses written at 50 Scandinavian universities and research institutions. The repository contains articles, dissertations, books, conference papers, reports, manuscripts, theses, and other publications on agricultural sciences, veterinary sciences, engineering, technology, humanities, arts, medical sciences, health sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Swedish, Russian, French, German, Italian, and many others.
Digital Library and Archives	Electronic library of the University of Virginia (USA). It includes journals published at the University. You can perform simple and advanced searches, view a short description of resources. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF. All materials are in English.
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)	A gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an image database; the comprehensive bibliography of the commons; a keyword thesaurus and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons. The DLC is a common project of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASCP) and Indiana University. You can search by document type, date, author, title, subject, region, conference, etc. Documents are available for viewing and downloading in PDF. Languages: English, Spanish, French, etc. Website language: English
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST)	The thematic digital archive of scientific works on computer science includes over 70 thousand electronic documents: published articles, training materials, study guides on software and databases, bibliographies, bibliometric data sets, dissertations, and reports. You can select viewing by collection, title, author, publication date, subject area, and journal. Basic and advanced search is provided for the author of the publication, publication date, subject area, language, discipline, journal, type of document. You can sort the search results by relevance and title, and filter the results by discipline, author, and type of document. Electronic documents are available in PDF format and are available for download.
Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ)	The portal was created in 2003 by Lund University in Sweden. As of September 2, 2021, the website contains over 16,500 peer-reviewed open access journals and 6,470,834 articles in 80 languages covering all areas of science. A number of journals post full texts of their articles directly on the DOAJ platform. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for downloading in PDF. Website language: English.
DUT Open Scholar	The institutional repository of the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, which provides open access to the academic output of the University. The repository contains articles, conference materials, dissertations, book chapters, and other documents on accounting, informatics, applied sciences, arts, design, engineering, health sciences, management, etc. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
doiSerbia	A digital object identifier (DOI) repository that contains articles from the leading Serbian scientific journals. All articles are published under Open Access. National Library of Serbia maintains the repository. As of September 20, 2021, on the website you can find 48,184 articles in full text from 66 journals. Documents are available for viewing online and for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Serbian.
La Documentation Francaise	The e-Library of scientific papers of France. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 13,010 documents on law, culture and economy in the public domain. Simple search and sorting search results by subject are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in French.
Earth-Prints	The repository is created and maintained by the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. You can view magazine articles, conference proceedings, books and book chapters. As of 2019, more than 10 thousand scientific publications are available.
E-Books Directory	The link directory, created in 2008, contains 10533 links to monographs on informatics, history, biology etc (as of 01.03.2018). On the homepage, you can view recently-added books and a list of the most popular books. Google Custom Search provides a search on the directory. Browsing by subject is also provided. Full texts of some published articles are in the public domain on copyright owners’ sites. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF, epub, mobi (Kindle). All materials are in English.
E-journals.org	The resource provides links to the world's electronic journals on biology, Buddhism, business history, chemistry, economics, history, engineering, pharmacy, psychology, sociology, health, zoology, African studies, Chinese studies, Eastern European studies, Middle East & Islamic studies, South & Southeast Asian studies, Tibetan studies, etc. Some journals are open access. Language: English.
The electronic archive of Ural Federal University named after the f irst Predident of Russa Boris Yeltsin	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of scientific papers, conference proceedings, periodicals, collections of scientific papers and reports etc. As of October 7, 2019, the repository contains over 700 thousand documents. Files are stored in sections, subsections and collections. Users have the ability to view documents in alphabetical order by author, title, publication date, publisher, subject, type, etc. Options for filtering documents by author and publication date are additionally implemented. Search by keywords is provided throughout the repository or individual collections. Search results can be sorted alphabetically, by date or by relevance. You can view a brief and complete description of the metadata in Dublin Core format. Full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format. The repository has the function of displaying statistics on the use of repository resources by month, as well as by country and city, from where remote access to a particular document was carried out. You can view new arrivals as well. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
E-LIS	Established in 2003, E-LIS is an international open access archive for e-prints related to librarianship, information science and technology, and related disciplines in 22 languages. As of September 15, 2021, the archive contains 23,250 documents. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF, HTML, XML, PPT, DOC and RTF formats. Languages: English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and many others.
EconLit	Portal of the American Economic Association. Reviews, seminar and conference materials, training resources, and a collection of economic research data are available to users. It also includes a database of journals published by the American Economic Association. Some documents are available. All materials are in English.
Economics and Finance Library	The online library of monographs and theses on economy and allied disciplines. As of 01.04.2018, it contains 26 theses and 59 monographs in the public domain. Browsing by subject areas is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in DOC, PDF. All materials are in Russian.
EconPapers	An electronic archive of documents on economics and related sciences. EconPapers use the RePEc bibliographic and author data, providing access to the world's largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software. As of September 27, 2021, the website contains 1,040,404 working papers, 2,492,943 journal articles, 4,858 software items, 56,266 books and 174,609 chapters. The majority of the full text files are freely available. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for reading online and download in PDF format. Language: English.
EconStor	The online archive of scientific publications on economics, as of October 2019, contains more than 70 thousand scientific papers and conference proceedings. You can browse by author, year of publication, type of document, name of journal or conference. Simple search and filtering of data are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF format.
eDesiderata	The search service was developed by the Center for Research Libraries. As of 01.04.2018, it presents more than 800 reference and full-text databases. The service is designed for librarians and provides the access to the descriptions of the biggest full-text and bibliographical databases. Browsing by database titles and distributors of electronic information resources is provided. Search results can be refined by keywords, database type, owner, and subject area. Users have the ability to create personal accoun after registering. Resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
EDGAR Database (U.S. Companies)	Index of Internet resources containing materials on income of American companies registered by the Security and Exchange Commission.
Eldis	The reference catalog, created in 1996 by the Institute for the Study of Development Problems of Great Britain, contains more than 50,000 references to the full texts of 8,000 publishers. Eldis provides free access to relevant, scientific publications on international development issues. The documents are divided into collections according to the topics, countries to which they relate. There is a blog with comments and opinions of participants and partners. You can perform a simple search, also search information by topics and countries. Electronic resources are available both for reading online and for download in PDF format. All materials are in English.
Electronic Journals Library	The electronic journals library was founded in 1997 by the University Library of Regensburg in cooperation with the University Library of the Technical University of Munich. As of July 28, 2022, the website contains links to 74,847 journals which are accessible free of charge to anyone. On the website you can find journals on archaeology, architecture, biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geography, computer science, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, economics, etc. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Most of the documents are available for download in PDF format. The resource is multilingual.
Electronic library of the Minsk Theological Academy named after St. Cyril of Turov of the Belarusian Orthodox Church	The electronic library of the Minsk Theological Academy named after St. Cyril of Turov of the Belarusian Orthodox Church began work in August 2020. Scientific publications of teachers, graduate students and undergraduates, final qualifying works, materials of scientific conferences, periodicals published by the Minsk Theological Academy, teaching aids, methodological developments and other materials are presented in the public domain. Access to some documents is restricted to faculty, staff, and students. It is allowed to copy and quote materials exclusively for non-commercial purposes with the obligatory.
Electronic Library of Mathematics	Electronic library on mathematics, created by FIZ Karlsruhe. As of 01.05.2018 contains articles, monographs and a catalog of links to over 70 open access journals in open access Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. Languages of documents - English, German.
Electronic library of scientific and educational resources for rural areas of the Orenburg region	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, international conferences materials etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 5000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science	The international electronic library of materials on theoretical informatics. It contains more than 300 scientific journals (as of 2019). Search results can be sorted by journal, publication date and publisher.
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)	The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands e-Library, as of 01.03.2018, contains over 200 publicly available publications. Viewing publications by type and date is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All material is in English.
E-periodica	An electronic archive of Swiss journals, supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich). As of May 1, 2018, it contains 353,240 digitized articles from more than 8,500 issues of magazines, from the 18th century to present day. The full-text search is provided. Advanced search by author, title, and ISSN is available. Resources are available for download in PDF format. All materials are in German.
EPFL	Search service, created by the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland). Provides a search for over 140,000 records. Resources are available for download in PDF format. The language of the documents is English.
Eric Weisstein's World of Biography	The electronic encyclopedia was created by Eric W. Weisstein in 2002. As of 01.03.2018, it contains articles on astronomy, physics and chemistry, mathematics, and also includes scholars’ biographies. Browsing by subject headings is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online. All material is in English.
eScholarship	Electronic Scientific Library of the University of California. It contains collections of books, scientific articles, thesis texts, working papers and conference proceedings. Simple search and viewing collections are possible. Electronic resources are available both for reading online and for download in PDF format. All material is in English.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History	The electronic library of historical documents, created at Brigham Young University (USA), contains data on the history of 47 European countries. The section of each country includes materials in chronological order: video and sound files, maps, databases. Basic search is provided.
Erudit	A Pan-Canadian interuniversity consortium comprised of University of Montreal, Laval University, and University of Quebec in Montreal. The website provides access to many document collections in the social sciences and humanities: journals, books and proceedings, theses, and research reports. As of September 20, 2021, there are 116 open access journals, 96 titles of books and proceedings, 117,128 theses and dissertations. In addition, the website offers 5425 documents such as reports, working papers, communications, preprints, raw data and other types of scientific documents. Resources are available for viewing online and for download in PDF format. Languages: English, French.
FAO Corporate Document Repository	The thematic repository was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and contains documents since 2007 and covers topics such as agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forestry, and sustainable management of natural resources. It provides both simple and advanced search by key words. The documents are in English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
Financial Electronic Library	The online library was created by Y. Mirkin, Prof., scientific adviser of the Institute of Financial Markets and Applied Economy of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and head of the Department of the World’s Markets of Capitals at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As of 01.04.2018, it contains 290 books, 11 doctoral and 118 candidate theses, 422 diploma projects and master’s theses, 105 methodical developments and 781 articles. Google Custom Search provides a search in the library’s resources. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All material is in Russian.
Freebookcentre.net	The online collection of scientific books was launched in 2010. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 4,000 documents in the public domain. Subject areas: computer sciences, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology etc. The e-Library features Google Custom Search that provides a search for resources available to read online. Browsing by subject is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All material is in English.
FreeBooks4doctors	The e-Library was launched by Flying Publisher in 2000. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 369 books on medicine in the public domain. Subject areas: anatomy, cardiology, dermatology etc. Simple search and sorting search results by subject, language and year of issue are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Documents are in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
FreeComputerBooks	The electronic library contains training material in public domain: manuals and monographs on computer technology, programming, system administration, computer networks, computer graphics and mathematics. Search by categories, titles and keywords is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All material is in English.
Free Medical Journals	A service that promotes the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. As of September 16th, 2021 the website contains links to 5,088 journals on medicine, biology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, genetics, microbiology, neurology, oncology, physiology, and other topics. Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French.
Free Patents Online	The search system, created in 2004, provides a search for US, German, Japanese patents and other documents. Personal account options are provided. Free registration allows you to save search queries and subscribe to newsletters and RSS feeds. It also provides for the export of search results metadata (document number, document type, publication date, title, abstract, inventor's name, copyright owner, application number, filing date) in Excel. Simple and advanced search is available on default for US patents. Advanced search in Free Patents Online helps you create complex queries for searching by several criteria (country, year of publication, etc.). A paid AcclaimIP tool provides a more flexible search and analytics for patents. Electronic resources are partly available both to read online and download in PDF. The full text is not available for some US patents until 1976 and for a small number of documents after 1976. All material is in English.
FreeTechBook	The scientific books link directory was created in 2004. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 1200 publicly available books, textbooks and collections of lectures on computer technology, programming and mathematics. Search is provided using Google Custom Search technology. Sorting search results by author, publisher, year of issues is provided. You can also view the latest books added to the link directory and the most popular books. Electronic resources are available on copyright owners’ sites, both to read online and download in PDF. All material is in English.
Genamics JournalSeek	The journal database was created with the support of OCLC as part of WorldCat. As of 01.02.2018, it contains over 41,480 journals on all disciplines. The information about a journal includes the topic description, abbreviation, link to the homepage, category and ISSN. The resource allows you to quickly identify potential journals for the publication of your research, and also allows you to find new journals of interest for a specific field of scientific activity. Search is by title or ISSN only. Navigation by subject is provided. All material is in English.
Global ETD Search	A search tool provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. As of April 12, 2022, you can search the 6,223,465 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents can be downloaded in PDF format. Languages: English, Portuguese, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, and many others.
Gomel State Medical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses and abstracts, scientific and methodical publications, conferences and seminars materials, collections of scientific publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 3600 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Gomel State Technical University named after P. Sukhoy’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conference materials, scientific articles, periodicals, curricula, programs. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 11000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF formats to the library readers and partly to the users of the repository . It is possible to view new acquisitions. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2523-4102.
Gomel State University named after Francysk Skaryna’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses and abstracts, scientific and methodical publications, conferences and seminars materials, university periodicals, collections of scientific publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 6000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
Grodno State Medical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: periodicals, congresses, conferences, seminars materials, collections of scientific works, monographs, scientific articles. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 6400 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian and English. ISSN – 2523-4722.
Grodno State University named after Yanka Kupala’s electronic library	The repository created on the PERL Based platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific publications, materials of international conferences and seminars, periodicals, collections of scientific papers and reports, curricula, theses etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 24000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
GUPEA	Electronic library of doctoral dissertations, created by the Gothenburg University (Sweden). As at 01.05.2018 contains more than 10,000 doctoral dissertations, from 2004 till now. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. Languages of documents - English, Swedish.
Google Books	A multilingual service from Google that allows you to read books and magazines, download them (free or for money), cite them, and translate them. Google Books was launched in 2005. Some books are provided by publishers, while others are scanned as a part of the Library Project. You can view full texts of books in the public domain and download it in PDF and EPUB formats. For materials protected under copyright, Google often provides previews.
Google Scholar	A web search engine that allows you to search for scholarly literature across many disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Publicly available documents can be read online and are available for download in PDF format.
Government of Canada Publications	The website contains an extensive variety of Government of Canada electronic publications. Canadian government policy requires that federal institutions provide portable electronic copies of every publication they author in all available language editions. As of September 21, 2021, the catalog contains over 526,500 publications. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF, EPUB, MP3, MP4 formats. Languages: English, French.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture	One of the Cornell University Library digital collections. The collection includes landmark agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. These full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. As of September 20, 2021, the website contains 2,084 books and 934 journal volumes. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Documents are available for viewing online. Language: English.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation	A publishing corporation which was created in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt. As of January 27, 2022, the website contains more than 240 open access journals on biological sciences, medicine, physical sciences, social sciences, education, mathematics, engineering, and computer science. For each journal, you can find journal metrics such as impact factor, acceptance rate, and others. Articles are available for reading online and download in PDF, XML, EPUB. Language: English.
HKUST SPD	An institutional repository of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As of September 13, 2021, the repository contains 107,013 research outputs. On the website you can find articles, conference papers, theses, book chapters, books, patents and other publications. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, French, Spanish, Finnish, Italian.
Hprints and humanities	Hprints and humanities is a repository of the Scandinavian countries in the humanities and social sciences, such as history, linguistics, philosophy, literature, social anthropology, archeology, psychology, religion. As of October 2019, it contains 235 scientific works, including articles, reports, conference proceedings, book chapters, etc. you can browse by authors, subject areas, publication date, laboratory data, and latest entries. Basic and advanced search is provided by author, document title, publication date, scientific journal, type of document. You can filter the search results by type of documents, author, subject area, laboratory, language, date of publication. Documents are provided in PDF format and are available for download.
Hrčak	The electronic archive of journals of Croatia includes 457 journals, 14,362 published issues and 181,868 published articles on all fields of knowledge in public domain (as of 20.01.2018 ). Simple and advanced search, web-site visits statistics and navigation by topic are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All material is in Croatian.
HathiTrust Digital Library	A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. The website provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives. Items in the public domain are in full-view for everyone, and items held in copyright are searchable. As of September 22, 2021, the website preserves more than 17 million digitized items such as books, newspapers, photographs, maps, journals, manuscripts, and others. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for viewing online and for download in PDF, TXT, JPEG, TIFF and other formats. Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and many others.
IBIMA publishing	The IBIMA publishing e-Library was launched in 2008. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 61 journals on social and engineering sciences and medicine in the public domain. Simple search, viewing recently added articles and browsing by subject and year of issue are provided. Resources are available article-by-article to read online and download in PDF. All material is in English.
ICTP Preprints Archive	The electronic library contains texts of scientific publications in the field of the economy of agriculture and environment. AgEcon Search includes reports, journal articles, book chapters and government documents. Both simple and advanced search are provided. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF format. All materials are in English.
IDEAS	The largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and related areas, which is based on RePEc. As of September 28, 2021, IDEAS indexes over 3,700,000 items of research, including over 3,400,000 that can be downloaded in full text. The website contains working papers, journals, software components, books, book chapters, and other types of documents. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
iLoveLanguages : Your Guide to Languages on the Web	The electronic library includes educational resources for learning more than 50 languages: articles, manuals, dictionaries, magazines, language lessons, teachers’ guidebooks, links to various sites for communication in foreign languages, conference proceedings. The resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in English.
Indiana University's Institutional Repository	The repository of Indiana University (USA) provides access to 10 thousand publications and dissertations of university employees. The subject area is related to the culture of the United States. You can search by author, publication date, title and topic. Basic search is provided. Search results can be filtered by various parameters.
Infoteca-e	The repository of technical documents contains data on the technology developed by Embrapa and its partners. The database is of interest to farmers and agricultural specialists. As of October 2019, it includes more than 22 thousand documents. You can search by author, year of publication and subject area. Documents are available for download in PDF format.
INION Database	The reference database was developed by the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION). As of 01.03.2018, it contains over 4 million bibliographic records. About 100 thousand records are annually added. The database includes annotated descriptions of books and journal articles in 140 languages, acquired by the INION Fundamental Library. The descriptions of books and articles include shelf codes and links to full-text originals stored in eLibrary – the Scientific Electronic Library. All materials are in Russian.
IntechOpen	The world's leading publisher of open access academic books. As of September 29, 2021, the website contains 5,400 peer-reviewed open access books on physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Documents are available for viewing online and download in PDF format (after registration). Language: English.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)	Online encyclopedia of open access to background information on philosophy. It also contains biographies of famous philosophers. You can view information in alphabetic order, as well as a simple search using Google Custom Search technology. The encyclopedia is assigned ISSN 2161-0002. The encyclopedia is supported by 300 authors and 30 editors. The encyclopedia site has over one million visits per month.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project	The portal was launched by Paul Halsall with the support of Fordham University (New York, the USA), in 1996. Free access to training material on world history (mostly European) is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
Internet Movie Database	The electronic encyclopedia contains extensive information concerning the world cinema: directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, composers, designers, cameramen, special effects masters and many other things related to cinema and television. Users have the ability to comment and view comments on each article. All materials are in English.
InterPARES (The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems)	The resource offers for review the results of international research called InterPARES. The research aims at developing the knowledge essential to the long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form and providing the basis for standards, policies, strategies and plans of action to ensure the longevity of such material and users' trust. The website contains project books, glossaries, case studies, models, databases, methodologies and other documents. Materials are sorted by project phases. Document search is available on the website. Text documents can be downloaded in PDF, DOC, ODT formats. Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. Website language: English
Jewish Encyclopedia	The electronic encyclopaedia containing, as of the beginning of 2018, more than 15,000 articles on the history, culture and traditions of Judaism and the Jews up to the early 20th century. Originally published in New York in a 12-volume edition (1901–1906, Funk and Wagnalls Company), it forms the basis of the Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia. The documents are in English and German.
Journal portal of the FTI named after. A.F. Ioffe	The online collection of journals was launched in 2016 by the Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 300 issues of 5 journals in the public domain. Subject areas: amorphous semiconductors, micro- and nanostructures, defects and admixtures, alloying and implantation, radiation effects, epitaxy and growth of thin films, energy-band structure of semiconductors, transport phenomena, tunneling effects, applied aspects of material science. The archive is from 1992 to present day. Users have the ability to view statistical significance of journal articles. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Copyright owners of English versions of the journals are other publishers. Documents are in the Russian and English languages.
Journals Published by Virginia Tech Libraries	The Virginia Tech e-Library, as of early 2018, contains over 48 journals on all disciplines in public domain. Simple and advanced search and brief description of resources are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in English.
J-STAGE	An electronic journal platform for science and technology information, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). As of June 30, 2022, the website contains more than 3000 journals, 317 conference proceedings and other academic publications on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medical and health sciences, engineering and technology, information sciences, humanities and social sciences. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Japanese.
JSTOR: Open Access Content	A digital library was founded in 1994. JSTOR provides access to primary sources in 75 disciplines. On the website you can find Open Access books and journals, as well as journal content published before 1923 in the United States (and prior to 1870 elsewhere). As of September 22, 2022, the “Early Journal Content” on JSTOR includes more than 500,000 public domain articles from more than 200 journals on the JSTOR platform. The website also provides free access to a curated set of more than 34,000 research reports from more than 140 policy institutes. Documents are available for reading online and for download in PDF format. Languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and others.
Katalog HINT	Polish scientific interdisciplinary repository containing as at 01.05.2018 more than 3700 scientific publications. Search by author and title is provided. Resources are available for download in DjVu format. The language of the documents is Polish.
Kazan Federal University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, collections of scientific reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 26000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
LERSSE Digital Library	The e-Library on information security contains journals, conference proceedings, presentations, books and reports in public domain. Simple and advanced access is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in English. Last update on 12.07.2017.
Literary Encyclopedia	The online Literary Encyclopedia, which was launched in 2000, includes over 4,000 articles on literary critics and related disciplines such as history and philosophy. The articles were written by more than 2,000 scientists, most of whom are today university teachers. Overview of author profiles, literary terms and separate literary works in the English language, and also simple and advanced search are provided. All materials are in English.
Making of America	Electronic library, created in 1995 by Cornell and Michigan universities. It contains more than 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles on the pre-war period of American history, education, psychology, sociology, religion, science and technology. Electronic resources are available both for reading online and for download in PDF format. The language of the documents is English. Not updated since 2007.
Mechanics and machine-building in the Republic of Belarus	The database includes bibliographical descriptions, abstracts of monographs, books and brochures, authors’ abstracts of dissertations, collections of scientific papers, materials of conferences (congresses), standards, patents, and articles from national and foreign magazines. The resource comprises more than 10 thousand records.
MDPI Open Access Journals	Electronic library of magazines of MDPI publishing house. It contains 188 peer-reviewed scientific journals. As of January 1, 2018, 30 magazines have an impact factor. Impact factor of Genes magazine in 2017 is 3.600. Both simple and advanced search are provided. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF format. All materials are in English.
Medical Conferences Online	The scientific and industrial magazine was founded in 2009. Periodicity of publication is 6 times a year. The journal publishes review articles on the most pressing problems in the field of biopharmaceuticals, the results of experimental and clinical studies. The documents are in Russian and English.
Minsk Innovation University’s electronic library	The repository contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific journals, collections of scientific articles, materials of scientific conferences, seminars, scientific publications, educational publications. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. The documents are in Russian.
Mogilev State University named after A. Kuleshov’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: abstracts of theses, conference proceedings, scientific publications, periodicals. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 6000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks.” The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
MoMA	The electronic Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as of October 2019, contains over 65 thousand digital copies of paintings from 1850 to the present. You can search by author, title and genre.
Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education	The e-Library of the Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education was launched in 1996. As of 01.03.2018, it provides access to 173 books on mathematics presented by authors and publishers, and also lectures, collections of tasks and course syllabuses in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
Mozyr State Pedagogical University named after I. Shamyakin’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: author's abstracts of theses and master's theses, conference proceedings, scientific publications, periodicals, etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 2500 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
MSU Bulletin : Chemistry	The electronic open access journal publishes articles on various areas of fundamental and applied research in chemistry, including medical chemistry and pharmacology. The journal publishes review articles, original research articles and brief reports. The periodicity of the journal is 6 issues per year. You can view the journal issues and texts of articles by years. An open access to full texts is available for 1 year.
Munich Personal RePEc Archive	The Munich personal economics repository collaborates with the database Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). As of November 2019, it contains 47,420 documents in 39 languages – English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, etc. Subject areas: general economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic history, economic methodology, interdisciplinary scientific areas and many others. You can view scientific articles by author, educational institution, publication date, and language. Basic and advanced search is performed by keywords, author, publication date and subject area. It is possible to sort the results by date, author and title of publication. Documents are available for download in PDF in German, English, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
Museum Crush	Information science portal, created with the support of the Arts Council of England. As of 01.05.2018 contains in the open access more than 500 relevant scientific articles. Subject areas - art, archeology, history, etc. The portal has the ability to view the approximate time for reading each article. Resources are available for reading online. The documents are in English.
Muzejnaja Moskva onlajn (Музейная Москва онлайн)	The online archive of museum exhibits in Moscow, as of October 2019, includes more than 36 thousand copies of museum exhibits that are stored in various museums in Moscow. You can search by name of museum, author of work, name of exhibit, date and genre. Search results are sorted by relevance, uniqueness, date of creation, date of addition, museum and type of exhibit.
Medknow	Medknow provides publishing services for peer-reviewed scholarly open access journals in medicine on behalf of learned societies and associations. As of September 22, 2021, on the website you can find 492 medical journals in over 40 specialties. The website does not contain the full-text files of articles, but provides links back to the journal websites where you can find full-text articles and download it in PDF format. Language: English.
Nature Precedings	The electronic preprint library of the leading scientific publishing house Nature (now merged with another major publishing house, Springer). As of October 2019, it contains 5 thousand publications on bioinformatics, biotechnology, chemistry, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology and microbiology. You can browse by subject area. Simple and advanced search by title, author and publication date are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF format.
Nazarbayev University	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific publications, materials of international conferences and seminars, periodicals, collections of scientific papers and reports, curricula, theses. As of 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 2800 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF, DOC, DOCX to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian, Kazakh.
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System)	The portal provides access to scientific information and publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities and other research institutes. As of April 12, 2022, the portal contains 2,401,206 publications, 1,021,151 of which are open access. On the website you can find articles, conference papers, doctoral theses, reports, preprints, books, datasets and other resources of almost all scientific areas. Documents can be downloaded in PDF format. Languages: English, German, Dutch.
Nashol.com	The e-Library contains educational editions, on all disciplines, fictions and language learning manuals in public domain. Navigation by author, topic and year of issue, and also a forum for users and website visit statistics are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF, FB2 formats). All materials are in Russian.
National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC)	African scholarly publisher of resources on biomedicine, humanities, science, and social science. The website contains peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly books. Some of them are open access. Documents are available for download in PDF and EPUB formats. Language: English.
New York Public Library Digital Collections	The New York Public Library Electronic Document Collection, as of October 2019, includes over 870 thousand documents: scans of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, musical instruments, postcards and many other types of documents. You can search by key phrases. Search results are sorted by name, relevance and date. Search results can be filtered by topic, genre, geographical location, publisher, collection name and the type of scanned images
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server	The NASA Database, as of 01.01.2018 , contains more than 500,000 documents on space research in public domain. Simple and advanced search by author, year of issue and collection is available. . Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in English.
Novosibirsk State University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, final qualification works and master's theses, methodical materials, scientific works, periodicals. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains about 11000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian.
National Research Council Canada (NRC) Publications Archive	An institutional repository that includes citation records for corporate reports, technical reports, peer-reviewed publications (e.g., articles, proceedings, books, and book chapters), presentations, theses, and other types of publications that have been sponsored by Nation-al Research Council Canada, or authored/edited by NRC employees. The Archive dates from 1916. As of September 22, 2021, the website contains 60,578 publication citations and provides access to 19,519 digital objects. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF, MP4 formats. Languages: English, French.
National Science Open (NSO)	An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, which is published by EDP Sciences and China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (Science Press). The journal contains the most influential research, covering the full arc of natural sciences and engineering. Articles are available for viewing online and download in PDF and EPUB formats. Language: English.
Numdam	A French reference digital mathematics library. On the website you can find journal articles, seminar and conference proceedings, books, monographs, doctoral theses. As of September 22, 2021, the website contains 60,929 articles, 698 books and 263 theses. Some of them are in public domain, and some are freely downloadable after a variable moving-wall. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF and DJVU formats. Languages: French, English.
Nature Portfolio	A division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes journals on biological sciences, business, earth sciences, health sciences, humanities, social science, and other disciplines. The publisher has several open access journals. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Open access articles are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
Obstetrics. Gynecology. Reproduction	The online journal was launched in 2007. As of 01.03.2018, the database contains over 30 issues of the journal in the public domain. The journal is issued 4 times per year in 8,000 copies and is listed in the Higher Attestation Commission List of the Leading Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals. Simple and advanced search is provided. Electronic resources are available article-by-article to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
OER Africa	Being established in 2008, OER Africa works to develop competencies and skills of stakeholders within African higher education institutions so that they can implement open educational resources (OER) practices to improve the quality of teaching and learning. The website contains moderated collection of resources relevant to everyone interested in the development of open education resources. On the website, you can find case studies, conference papers, presentations, courseware, journal articles, readings/reference materials, reports, useful templates on the following topics: OER resource collection, agriculture OER, health OER, teacher education and others. Documents are available for downloading in PDF, DOC, PPT. Language: English.
OER Commons	A public digital library of open educational resources, which was created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. As of October 1, 2021, the website contains over 50,000 high-quality OER, including full university courses, interactive mini-lessons, adaptations of existing open work, open textbooks, lesson plans, etc. You can find resources on applied science, arts, humanities, business, communication, education, history, law, life science, mathematics, physical science, social science and other subject areas. Documents are available for viewing online. Some documents can be downloaded in PDF format. Languages: English, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, etc.
Old Book Illustrations	The electronic collection of book illustrations, as of October 2019, contains more than a thousand illustrations of the 18th –20th centuries. You can search by keywords, book title and year of publication. Search results can be filtered by author, title and date. There is an accompanying text for Each illustration has a descriptive text.
OMICS	The OMICS online collection of journals on medicine, as of 01.03.2018, includes 63 journals in the public domain. Simple search, sorting by impact factor (IF), viewing brief descriptions of journals and browsing by the year of issue are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in English.
OnePetro	The online library of technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production provides access to more than 200,000 items. You can browse by collections of scientific conferences and journals. Advanced search by author, educational institution, publication date and publisher is provided. The content is partially paid. Free materials are available for download in PDF format.
Online Etymology Dictionary	The Online Etymology Dictionary of the English Language gives an explanation of what English words mean and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates next to each word indicate the earliest year when the given word was recorded. The main sources are: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Oxford English Dictionary (second edition), Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, Holthausen's Etymological Dictionary, and Kipfer and Chapman’s Dictionary of American Slang. Simple search, viewing of the most popular words and navigation in alphabetical order are provided. An app for smartphones with the same name is also available. All materials are in English.
Open archive of engineering Powered by OSF Preprints	As of 07.10.2019, the archive contains 700 scientific articles. Subject areas: aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, digital and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, biomolecular engineering and more. The preview of specialized engineering areas is provided. You can search for information and filter the results by subject area, relevance and publication date. Documents are available for download in PDF format. All materials are in English.
Open Access Archive of the St. Petersburg State University	The repository of St.-Petersburg State University, as of 01.03.2018, includes more than 7,500 documents on engineering and social sciences. Search by author, title, topic and collection is provided. Some documents are available as full-text files, for the university students only. Search by metadata field and full text is provided. Electronic resources are partially available to read online and download in PDF. Documents are in the Russian and English languages.
Open Book Publishers	Electronic library of the publisher Open Book Publishers. As of 01.05.2018 contains in the open access more than 200 scientific monographs. Subject areas - mathematics, culture, history, law, art, etc. Navigating through the resources of the archive is carried out by subject areas. Electronic resources are available for free download in PDF format. The language of the documents is English.
OpenEditionhttps	Electronic library of the French publishing house of the Center for Open Electronic Publications (Cléo). As of 01.05.2018 it contains 482 multidisciplinary journals, of which 203 are in open access. Resources are available article by article for reading online. Languages of documents - French, English.
OpenDOAR	The quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. On the website you can find repositories on health, medicine, business, economics, social sciences, law, history, arts, humanities, ecology, biology, biochemistry, IT, geography, philosophy, religion, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, psychology and other subjects. The repositories contain journal articles, theses, dissertations, books, chapters, conference and workshop papers, reports, working papers, datasets, patents, software and other types of resources. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Languages: English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and others.
Open Humanities Press	An international open access publishing initiative specializing in the humanities. As of September 23, 2021, the website contains 54 books and links to 21 journals on humanities, culture, and related areas. Documents are available for reading online and download in PDF format. Language: English.
OpenStax	The online library has millions of users per month. It contains tens of thousands of training materials. Subject area: mathematics, biology, chemistry, psychology, etc. Advanced search by author, title, subject, keyword, document type, language and publication date is provided.
Open Textbook Library	The resource is supported by the Open Education Network. On the website, you can find open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers. Textbooks are free to use and distribute and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. As of September 8, 2021, the website contains 915 open textbooks on business, computer science, education, engineering, humanities, journalism, law, mathematics, medicine, natural sciences, social sciences, etc. Textbooks are available for viewing and downloading in PDF, EPUB, XML. Language: English.
Orenburg State University Bulletin	The multidisciplinary scientific online journal was created by Orenburg State University. As of 01.04.2018, 198 issues of the journal are in the public domain. The archive is from 1999 to present day. The journal is listed by VINITI Journal Abstracts and Database and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. Search by author and title of article is provided. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
O rganic Eprints	The electronic library of the French publishing house of the Center for Open Electronic Publications (Cléo). As of 01.05.2018 it contains 482 multidisciplinary journals, of which 203 are on open access. Resources are available article by article for reading online. Languages of documents: French, English.
Oxford Text Archive	The online archive was launched by Oxford University in 1976. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 27,230 documents. Subject areas: literature and linguistics. Simple and advances search is provided. Documents are available to read and download in XML, HTML, ePub, mobi (Kindle). All materials are in English.
Open Access Government	A digital publication that publishes articles on key public policy areas from all around the world, including health and social care, research and innovation, technology, government, environment, and energy. Each quarterly edition features a wide range of prestige contributors, including government ministers, European commissioners, members of the European Parliament, industry associations and charities. The website contains articles, e-books, news, and a wide range of special reports and publications that provide a high level of detail on key policy issues, such as health and research. Documents are available for reading online and download in PDF format. Language: English.
Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press publishes the highest-quality journals on arts, humanities, law, medicine, science, mathematics, and social sciences. As of October 6, 2021, the website contains 73 fully open access journals. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
Physical culture and health	The online journal was created by Voronezh State Pedagogical University and Teaching and Methodological Council on Physical Culture of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. As of 01.04.2018, the online archive contains 22 issues of the journal in the public domain, from 2013 to present day. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All material is in Russian. ISSN 1999-3455.
Physical culture, sports - science and practice	An electronic quarterly reviewed, refereed scientific journal created by the Kuban State University of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism and the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports of the Krasnodar Territory. As at 01.05.2018, there are 41 full issues of the magazine in open access. The archive is maintaining from 2008. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The documents are in Russian.
Physical Sciences Successes	The online journal publishes overviews of the current state and issues of physics and related disciplines. The archive is from 1918 to present day. As of 01.03.2018, 1,011 issues of the journal are in the public domain. The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index, Current Contents, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts. In 1958, the American Institute of Physics began translating the journal into English, starting from volume 66. The Impact-factor made 2,301 in 2016. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Document languages are Russian and English.
Perseus Digital Library	The e-Library, which was launched by Tufts University (US) in 1995, contains material on Ancient Greece, Greco-Roman classics and the English Renaissance, and materials dedicated to the Germanic peoples. Ancient Greek works in Perseus are stored as a beta code, but they can be reformatted for display in various transcription systems. A link directory of online resources in public domain is also provided. The documents are in English, Greek and Arabian.
Poetry Archive	The online collection of English poetry, as of 01.03.2018, contains more than 2,000 verses in the English language and their audio records. A search in the library is provided. All materials are in English.
Polessky State University repository	The repository of Polessky State University contains over 9,000 conference proceedings, 34 abstracts, 6 scientific journals etc in the public domain (as of 01.04.2018). Browsing by date, author, collection, heading and topic is provided. Users have the ability to search in the whole repository and in a particular collection. Search results can be sorted by date, alphabet and relevance. Subject areas: biology, economy, finances and physical culture. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
Polotsk State University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: abstracts of theses, conference proceedings, scientific publications, periodicals etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 1700 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2310-7677.
Problems of modern education	The online journal contains the outputs of actual theoretical and practice-oriented research in the field of education, philosophy, pedagogy and psychology, as well as materials of discussions concerning the problems of the development of Russian science and education. The interdisciplinary journal is included to the Russian Scientific Citation Index (RINC). All issues since 2010 are available. Navigation by year of issue is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download (PDF format). All materials are in Russian. ISSN 2218-8711.
Project Gutenberg of Australia	The database contains nearly 2,000 full-text books.
Propylaeum-DOK	The repository of the University Library of Heidelberg (Germany) contains monographs, articles and lectures on basic research. As of October 2019, it contains 4,463 publications. You can browse by author, type of document, year of publication, subject area and country. Simple and advanced search by author, type of document, publication date, country and keywords are provided. Documents are available for download in PDF format.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)	A nonprofit Open Access publisher founded in 2001 PLOS publishes a suite of 12 influential peer-reviewed Open Access journals across all areas of medicine, biology, health, genetics, etc. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Articles are available for viewing online and download in PDF, XML. Language: English.
PubMed Central	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). As of August 26, 2021, 7.2 million articles are archived on the website. All content is free to read (in some cases, following an embargo period). The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for downloading in PDF. Also, there is a built-in viewer to customize the text for comfortable reading. Language: English.
PubChem	An open chemistry database at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was launched in 2004. It is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. The site provides chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations, and more. Resources are available for download in PDF, XML, JSON, SDF, and ASNT formats. Language: English.
Psychological Publications Portal	The online library on psychology was created by the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. As of 01.04.2018, it contains 20 scientific journals, 62 collections of conferences and research papers and more than 10,000 articles are in the public domain. The library is ranked 55th by the Ranking Web of World repositories (as of 2015). The publications are listed by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian federation, EBSCOhost etc. Browsing by subject headings, authors and keywords is provided. Users have the ability to view new acquisitions on the homepage. Advanced search is by ISSN, publisher, type of document and title. Google Custom Search provides a search in the library’s resources. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
Project Euclid	A project was developed by the Cornell University Library and is now jointly managed by the Cornell Library and Duke University Press. The website contains journals on applied mathematics, computer science, logic, mathematical physics, mathematics, statistics, and probability. As of 2018, Project Euclid hosts 1.8 million pages of open-access content. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Articles are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)	Decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components in Economics and related sciences. RePEc is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries. As of August 20, 2021, over 2,000 archives from 102 countries have contributed about 3.5 million research items from 3,600 journals and 5,300 working paper series. Language: English
Republican Scientific Medical Library’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: conference materials, atlases, monographs, popular scientific publications, collections of scientific papers. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 80 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. The full text documents can be protected by "watermarks”. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The documents are in Russian.
Research in Learning Technology	A peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Association for Learning Technology. The journal publishes articles in the following broad areas: technology-enhanced learning, online learning, distance learning, mobile learning, flexible learning, pedagogy, open educational practice and others. All articles are available for viewing in HTML and downloading in PDF, EPUB, or XML. Language: English.
Research Institute for Symbolic Computation	An electronic archive created by the Institute for Symbolic Computing Research (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation). As at 01.05.2018 contains more than 1150 publications and technical reports of the Institute. The archive is maintaining from 1965. Search by keywords is provided. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. Languages of documents - English, German.
RIAN	The portal brings together the holdings of the Institutional Repositories of the seven university libraries and other Irish research repositories. The website contains books, book chapters, conference items, theses, journal articles, multimedia, patents, reports, reviews, working papers and other materials on medicine and related sciences. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. RIAN does not include full-text document files but provides a link to the original repository where the full-text file can be downloaded in PDF. Languages: English, Irish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Spanish and many others. Website languages: English, Irish.
Russian Biographical Dictionary	The electronic biographical encyclopedia accumulates the most authoritative Russian biographical sources published before the Russian Revolution. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 15,000 biographies of Russian historical and cultural figures, and also articles about Russian semi-mythical and folklore characters; materials of the volume "Russia" including essays on Russian history, Russian political, legal and financial systems; articles on the history of culture and science written by reputable scientists of the early 20th century; about 2,000 portraits and pictures of noble families' arms; 86-volume Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 25-volume Polovtsov Russian Biographical Dictionary, Consolidated Dictionary-List of Russian Biographies, the Granat Brothers Encyclopedic Dictionary etc. The encyclopedia contains, along with text articles, portraits and coats of arms, audio records and video files. The information on the site concerns the historical epoch before 1917. All material is in Russian.
RussianPortal for Education. Economy, sociology and management: Dissertations	The federal educative web-portal contains 364 annotated entries, authors’ abstracts of dissertations and dissertations in full text in the field of economy, sociology and management prepared in Russia and abroad.
Russian Society of Psychiatrists	The Russian Society of Psychiatrists online library, as of 01.03.2018, contains 24 journals and lectures in the public domain. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
Russian State Vocational and Pedagogical University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, collections of scientific reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 2400 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. The documents are in Russian. ISSN – 2410-7328.
Royal Society of New Zealand Journals	The Royal Society of New Zealand was founded in 1867. As of November 3, 2022, it publishes 8 quality, peer-reviewed research journals on agriculture, botany, geophysics, zoology, social science, and other subjects. Open access articles are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
Sage Journals	The SAGE Publications online library provides browsing by publication title and subject area. Viewing brief description of resources is available. Advanced search is by keywords, author, date, and company name. Users have the ability to select search in resources in the public domain. As of 01.04.2018, it contains 81 journal on science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities in the public domain. Sorting search results by relevance, date and number of downloads or citations is available. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in English.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System	The digital library for astronomy and physics researchers supports three bibliographic databases with more than 14.8 million records and electronic publications. Subject area: astronomy, astrophysics, and physics. The full texts of publications on astronomy and physics are indexed and searchable through the new ADS interface, as well as traditional “classic” search forms.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks	Saylor Academy's main project is providing free courses to students around the world. The website contains open textbooks, which are available to use, keep, revise and share under open licenses. You can find textbooks on the following subjects: Accounting, Management, Advertising, Sales, and Marketing, Business Law, Business, Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, Writing and Communication, Professional and Personal Development. Open Textbooks are available for viewing online. Language: English.
Simon Fraser University Digitized Collections	Digitized Collections of the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. As of September 24, 2021, the website contains over 130 collections with more than 1.3 million digitized newspapers, photographs, documents, sound recordings, and other objects. You can find collections dedicated to activism and social movements, oral histories, British Columbia and Canada, immigrant experience, indigenous people. Some collections are available for viewing online. Language: English.
SciELO	An open-access full-text journal database. Originally established in Brazil in 1997, the database covers a selected collection of peer-reviewed scholarly journals from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, South Africa (16 countries in total). On the website, you can find academic journal articles on many disciplines. Documents are available for viewing online and downloading in PDF. Website languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish.
Science-advisor	The search system with forum elements was developed by Scimetrica Company (Sweden). As of 01.03.2018, it provides access to 1,815,476 documents on physics, astrophysics, mathematics and biology. Search by metadata and viewing visitor statistics, publication reviews and recommendations are provided. The full texts of publications are available to read online and download in PDF from the repositories arXiv.org, PubMedCentral, and partially PubMed Online Library. All materials are in English.
Science and Technology	The scientific online journal was launched by Belarusian Technological University. As of 01.04.2018, articles from 85 issues of the journal are in the public domain. The archive is from 2004 to present day. The journal is listed by the Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus, EBSCOhost Database and is indexed by Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index), ROAD, DOAJ etc. Browsing by author, issue of the journal and title of article is provided. Users have the ability to view the latest issue of the journal. Search is by author, title of article and keywords. Search results can be sorted by date, alphabet, author and relevance. Electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
ScienceDaily Magazine	The information scientific report portal was created in 1995. As of 01.03.2018, it contains more than 65,000 scientific reports, 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries, 1,500 book reviews in all filed of knowledge in the public domain. The site is highly regarded by students, researchers, public health officers, state employees, teachers and wide audience around the world. Browsing by subject, site search and viewing of popular articles and new acquisitions are provided. Electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
ScienceDirect	A website that provides access to journals, books, and textbooks of the commercial publisher Elsevier. ScienceDirect contains research on health, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. As of October 4, 2021, the website hosts 1.4 million open access articles. Simple and advanced search capabilities are provided. Documents are available for viewing online and download in PDF format. Language: English.
SCIENCEDOMAIN international	The SCIENCEDOMAIN international online collection of journals contains, as of 01.03.2018, 73 peer-reviewed international journals on physics, astrophysics, mathematics and biophysics in the public domain. Viewing journals in alphabetical order and by topic is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in English.
Sciencegate	The link directory was developed by Novalogix AG. It contains links to scientific papers from over 1,400 universities and publishers on various disciplines. As of 01.04.2018, more than 2 million articles are in the public domain. Search by date, type and keywords, as well as sorting of search results by date and popularity are provided. All materials are in English.
Scientific Periodicals Ukraine	Electronic library of scientific periodicals of Ukraine, created by the National Library of Ukraine named after V. Vernadsky. It contains over 2,600 journals, 800,000 full texts of articles in open access. Both simple and advanced search are provided, as well as search by keywords, rubrics etc. The electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF format. Materials are in Ukrainian, Russian and English
Scitation	The Scitation Search System is maintained by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and provides effective search among numerous interdisciplinary scientific and technical publications supported by the AIP, including articles in public domain. Scitation allows you to access the full texts of AIP Publishing’s journals and conference proceedings, as well as the resources of partner publishers. All materials are in English.
The Septic's Companion	The online dictionary of British slang, as of 01.03.2018, contains about 875 words. Users have the ability to subscribe and get a weekly newsletter with an added word for learning. All words are classified by categories for easier navigation. Search by dictionary is provided. All materials are in English.
Small town newspaper	The online collection of US newspapers, published in small towns, contains over 250 publications in the public domain (as of 01.04.2018). Users can browse newspapers issued in a particular State. Simple search in pieces of newspapers and browsing articles by headings are provided. The electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
Social sciences and humanities	Bibliographic databases by Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for social and humanitarian information (INION). The databases contain the following series: State and Law, History, Archeology and Ethnology, Literature, Sciences, Religion, Philosophy and Sociology, Economy and Demography, as well as the Database of the INION new acquisitions (2002-2004).
Society Publishers with Open Access Journals	This Google Spreadsheet is part of the Societies and Open Access Research (SOAR) initiative from the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). The spreadsheet contains the list of open access journals and the following information about them: print and online ISSN, society name, URL, publisher, geographic location, subject, indexing and abstracts, print availability, publication fees, etc. As of December 21, 2021, the list consists of 1,047 journals. The spreadsheet is available for viewing online and downloading in XLSX, ODS, PDF, CSX, TSV and HTML. Language: English.
Studencheskij nauchnyj forum (Студенческий научный форум)	The electronic archive of the students' scientific forum of Russia contains scientific publications in various subject areas, from 2009 to the present. You can search by name of author and title of article.
Siberian Federal University’s electronic resources archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: dissertations and final qualifying works, materials of conferences, seminars, scientific journals, publications of employees, working programs of disciplines, educational, scientific and other publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 36000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)	The public scientific repository was founded by financial economists Michael Jensen and Wayne Marr, in 1994. As of 01.03.2018, it contains 778,990 scientific articles on social sciences, humanities and economy. In 2011 and 2013, it ranked as the best, according to Ranking Web of World Repositories (the Cybermetrics Lab research group of the Spanish National Research Council). Simple and advances search, sorting search results by number of downloads and date are provided. Users have the ability to view number of downloads and citations for each article, and also number of articles and downloads for a particular author. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF after registration on the site. All materials are in English.
Socionet (Соционет)	A geographically distributed database of scientific publications in various disciplines: economics, medicine, natural sciences, philosophy, history, sociology, computer science, law, physics, mathematics, earth sciences, agricultural sciences, psychology, demography, etc. Socionet takes information from a variety of servers, which belongs to Russian and foreign scientific and educational organizations which participate in the international initiatives RePEc and the Open Archives Initiative. Full texts can be downloaded in PDF. Languages: Russian, English. Website language: English
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	The electronic encyclopedia was launched by Stanford University in 1995. Professors at 65 academic institutions from all over the world were involved to the projects. Along with online status, the encyclopedia supports the traditional academic approach used in most encyclopedias and academic journals, achieving quality through expert authors and careful checking of articles by a competent editorial board. By several parameters, such as the citation index, the encyclopedia is the most successful and authoritative resource in philosophy. The electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
Sports Science Bulletin	The online journal archive was launched by the Federal Scientific Center of Physical Culture and Sports. As of 01.04.2018, the archive contains 67 issues of the journal in the public domain, from 2006 to the present day. The journal is indexed by the Russian Science Citation Index. Browsing by year of issue is provided. The electronic resources are available to download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
SpringerLink	A publisher platform which provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings. As of September 6, 2021, you can search among 14.460.726 resources on biomedicine, business and management, chemistry, computer science, economics, history, geography, law, literature, chemistry, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and other the disciplines. Some resources are open access. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Open access documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and others.
SpringerOpen	The collection of more than 200 Springer’s peer-reviewed open access journals on biomedicine, business, chemistry, computer science, dentistry, Earth sciences, economics, history, social sciences, humanities, mathematics, medicine, physics, etc. Articles are available for viewing online and downloading in PDF. Language: English.
St. Petersburg State University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, conferences, seminars materials etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 9,900 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V. Belinsky’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, collections of scientific reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 31,000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
SUDOC – Systeme universitaire de documentation	The bibliographic database of universities and scientific libraries in France (about 3 thousand institutions), as of early 2018, contains more than 6 million records of scientific papers (monographs, dissertations, periodicals and articles). Most records have links to authors and subject headings. Each record contains an indication of locality of the document with the possibility of ordering it from the fund-holding organization. Simple and advanced search is provided. All materials are in French.
Symbols	The online encyclopedia was launched by STANDS4 LLC Company (US). It contains information about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs, as well as a wide range of symbols used in different fields, from alchemy to modern currency. Search by category, alphabet and keyword is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
SyntheticPages	The interactive database on chemicals and synthesis of chemical compounds was created by the Royal Chemical Society in 2007. Each chemical is assigned a unique identifier that is part of the corresponding URL. As of 01.03.2018, it contains in the open access information about more than 63 million molecules from more than 280 sources. Search by keywords is provided. The electronic resources are available to read online. All materials are in English.
Theory and methods of physical education	Theory and methods of physical education https://tmfv.com.ua/journal/issue/archive International scientific and methodical journal, founded in 2000. It covers scientific research in the field of physical education of children, adolescents and students, physical rehabilitation and sports training. As at 01.05.2018 it contains 69 open-source issues of the magazine, as well as individual articles from all issues of the magazine. The archive is maintaining from 2001. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. Materials are in Russian, Ukrainian, English. ISSN 1993-7997.
Theses Abstracts of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus	The online collection of abstracts, created by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus, provides the access to bibliographical descriptions and full texts of abstracts of theses defended in the Republic of Belarus. As of October 7, 2019, it contains over 2,5 thousand documents. Simple search and search by field of knowledge are provided. Resources are available to download in PDF after registration on the site. All materials are in Russian.
Theses and Dissertations Online	The PhD theses repository in Spain is providing access to full-text dissertations defended in the universities of Spain. As of 01.03.2018, the repository contains 30,170 documents. Simple and advanced search, browsing by university, author, title, year of issue and visitor statistics are provided. The electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. Materials are in Spanish and English.
Theses Canada	A collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Canadian universities, which was launched in 1965. It strives to: acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities, provide free access to Canadian digital theses and dissertations in the collection, facilitate access to non-digital theses and dissertations in the collection. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.
Thesis Doctorales en Red (TDR)	Doctoral dissertations of Spain. The free access to full text doctoral dissertations (more than 4,000 dissertations since 2000) produced by Spanish universities.
Tomsk Polytechnic University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, collections of scientific reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 44000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
Tver State University's Repository	The repository of Tver State University, as of 01.03.2018, contains 922 articles form 12 journals in the public domain. Search by UDC, organization, journal title and recent acquisitions is provided. The electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in Russian.
TRID	An integrated database is maintained by the US Transportation Research Board. The database covers all modes and disciplines of transportation. As of October 5, 2021, the database contains more than 1.3 million records of published research. More than 330,000 records include links to full-text documents. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Languages: English, German, Spanish.
UCT Computer Science Research Document Archive	The archive of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, which provides access to the products of research in the area of computer science and information technology. The archive contains books, conference proceedings, technical reports, journal articles, dissertations and other publications. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
University of Hawaii Library	The repository of the University of Hawaii contains publications about the Asia-Pacific region written by anthropologists. Advanced search by keywords, year of publication, subject area, author, title and type of document is provided. You can search by author, publication date, title and subject area. Search results can be filtered by name and publication date.
University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER)	Electronic archive of the Melbourne University. Electronic resources are available for reading online and for download in PDF. All materials are is in English.
University of Southampton Institutional Repository (ePrints Soton)	The repository contains University's of Southampton research output. On the website, you can find articles, books, conference or workshop items, patents, theses, software, websites on engineering, archaeology, psychology, medicine, economics, geography, social sciences and other subjects. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents can be downloaded in PDF, XLSX, PPTX, MP3, MP4, and other formats. Language: English.
University of British Columbia (UBC) Library’s Open Collections	As of August 11, 2022, UBC Library's Open Collections include 265,685 unique digital objects on agriculture, arts, culture, business, education, geography, law, medicine, politics, religion, science, sports, and many other topics. On the website you can find digital photos, books, newspapers, maps, videos, theses, etc. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for viewing online and download in PDF format. Language: English.
Ural State Forestry Technical University’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, final qualification works and master's theses, methodical materials, scientific works, reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 5700 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian. ISSN – ISSN – 2310-7561.
Ural State Pedagogical University’s electronic library	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, scientific publications, periodicals, collections of scientific reports etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 8200 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian. ISSN – 2412-4818.
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)	Full-text patent and trademark database, which was launched by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an agency of the US Department of Commerce. On the website you can find American patents published from 1790 to the present day. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Documents are available for reading online. Language – English.
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics	The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics provides access to data on labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the American economy. Documents are available for viewing online and download in PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, XLS, and other formats. Language: English.
UWC Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository	The repository of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, which provides access to UWC full-text electronic theses and dissertations. The repository contains documents on arts, community and health sciences, dentistry, economics and management sciences, education, law, natural science, etc. Documents are available for download in PDF format. Language: English.
VideoLectures.Net	Open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given at the events like conferences, summer schools, workshops, etc. On the website you can find lectures on architecture, arts, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, data science, earth sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, social sciences and other subjects. Lectures are available for watching online. Accompanying documents can be downloaded in PDF format. Languages: English, Slovenian, French, German, Dutch etc.
Vitebsk State Medical University’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: scientific and methodical publications, articles from periodical, continued and serial publications, scientific publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 7500 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The electronic resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian.
Vitebsk State University named after P.Masherov’s Repository	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses and abstracts, scientific and methodical publications, conferences and seminars materials, university periodicals, collections of scientific publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 13,000 documents. The full texts of documents are available for download in PDF format to all users of the repository. It is possible to view new acquisitions. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian. ISSN – 2519-4534.
VTechWorks	The repository created by the Polytechnic University of Virginia (USA) on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: dissertations and final qualifying works, materials of conferences, seminars, scientific journals, publications of employees, working programs of disciplines, educational, scientific and other publications. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 67000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. Materials are in Russian, English.
Wageningen Dissertation Abstracts	Wageningen University Dissertations Abstracts (Netherlands). The free access to national database by Wageningen University. Dissertations and authors’ abstracts of dissertations since 1918.
Wikibooks	A Wikimedia Foundation project which was founded in 2003 to collaboratively write open-content textbooks that anyone can edit, read, copy, publish. As of August 27, 2021, the website contains over 3,300 textbooks and 92,696 pages in English. The number of resources may vary depending on the selected language. Documents are sorted by subject. The resources are available for reading online and download in PDF. Languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, etc.
Wiley Open Access journals	Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines such as biological, chemical, health sciences and so on. As of 2021, Wiley Open Access journals contains more than 250 open access journals and more than 300 open access journals of Hindawi publisher, which became a part of Wiley. The website provides simple and advanced search capabilities. Articles are available for download in PDF format. Language: English. Authors from Belarus can publish their article in open access for free in any of 250+ Wiley open access journals. A 100% APC publication fee cancellation applies automatically when the author indicates his country as Belarus when submitting a manuscript.
WIReDSpace	A digital repository which contains the research and intellectual output of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The repository provides full-text open access to research papers, articles, conference presentations, multimedia, theses and dissertations, and other works produced by university staff, researchers and postgraduate students. Subject areas include commerce, law, management, engineering, health sciences, humanities, etc. Documents are available for download in PDF. Language: English.
World Bank Online	The World Bank’s statistical database on economy includes over 17,000 documents from 220 countries in the public domain (as of 01.03.2018). Sorting search results by document type, region or country is provided. Electronic resources are available to read online and download in PDF. All materials are in English.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository	The database includes publications on the problems of primary and financial education, and equality of citizens. As of November 2019, it contains over 29,000 documents. You can select viewing by authors, date, topic, title. Basic and advanced search is provided by title, author, publication date, topic, keyword, country, type of document. It is possible to filter the search results by author, type of document, publication date, topic, keyword, country. Materials are presented in 4 languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Some electronic documents are provided simultaneously in several languages. All materials are available in PDF format for download.
World Digital Library (WDL)	World Digital Library provides free multilingual Internet access to materials about world culture.
World health organization-Publications	The online library, which was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains articles and journals of the World Federation of Public Health Associations. These include: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Weekly Epidemiological Record, WHO Drug Information. All issues up to 2008 are presented. As of 01.03.2018, it includes over 70 issues of the journals in the public domain. Search on the site is provided. Electronic resources are available article-by-article to read online and download in PDF. Materials are in Russian, English, French and Italian.
World of Science	The scientific online journal on pedagogy and psychology was created by the publishing house “Mir nauki” (“The World of Science”). As of 01.04.2018, 26 issues of the journal are in the public domain. All articles published in the journal are placed to the Russian Science Citation Index Database of the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU. Electronic resources are available article-by-article to download in PDF. Yandex technology provides a search in journal articles. All materials are in Russian. ISSN 2309-4265.
WWW Virtual Library	A virtual electronic library, created in 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee, a famous WWW researcher (author URI, URL, HTTP, HTML technologies). WWW Virtual Library is the largest catalog that contains a structured collection of a huge number of links to various sources of information - from electronic journals to institutions. It covers resources in various subject areas: agriculture, art, business and economics, communications and media, informatics, education, engineering, humanities, mathematics, biology, physics, medicine and health, etc. You can use a simple search and view links by topic. All materials are in English.
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Yaroslavl State University named after P. Demidov’s electronic archive	The repository created on the DSpace platform contains full texts of the following types of documents: theses abstracts, final qualification works and master's theses, methodical materials, scientific works, partner’s materials collections etc. As at 01.05.2018 the repository contains over 5,000 documents. It is possible to view new acquisitions. Electronic resources are available for download in PDF format. The resources are indexed in OpenDOAR, ROAR databases. All materials are in Russian. ISSN – 2310-7561.
York Digital Library	The online media archive of the University of York, as of October 2019, includes about 70,000 images and audio files. You can access some materials with no registration. To access the section of dissertations and examination papers, authentication is required. Basic search by document title is provided.
YorkSpace Institutional Repository	The repository of York University (Canada), created in 2002, contains more than 16,000 documents on all fields of knowledge in the public domain (as of 01.03.2018). Search by year of issue, author etc., as well as sorting of search results by author, subject and year of issue are provided. Electronic resources are available article-by-article to read online and download in PDF. Materials are in English and French.