Open Access Database

(International)

30 websites featured

1. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS 

• Link: doabooks.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers
• Content: books

2. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS 

• Link: doaj.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
• Content: journals, articles

3. EMERALD INSIGHT 

• Link: tinyurl.com/emerald-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: Their aim is to help researchers make their findings open to all, giving them the opportunity to create real impact and drive positive change across the world
• Content: journals, books, articles, chapters

4. OPENSTAX

• Link: openstax.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a part of Rice University who publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed open educational resources (OER) offering interactive learning technologies to support educators and students worldwide. 
• Content: books for higher education and K-12 resources

5. OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/opentextlib
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: They are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost, now offering 1790 open textbooks
• Content: books for higher education

6. ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY

• Link: dl.acm.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a research, discovery, and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM publications and collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
• Content: journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, books

7. ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK PUBLICATIONS

• Link: adb.org/publications
• Subject: Social Studies
• Description: It can access data-rich research, policy analysis, toolkits, guidelines, and other resources on economics and key development topics.
• Content: publications

8. CAMBRIDGE OPEN ACCESS

• Link: tinyurl.com/cambridge-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content that allows readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works.
• Content: books, journals

9. CK12

• Link: ck12.org/student
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It provides free and customizable K12 open educational resources.
• Content: books for higher education and K-12 resources

10. EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER

• Link: edc.org/resources
• Subject: Education
• Description: It is an online collection of educational resources for early childhood development and literacy and numeracy teaching and learning.
• Content: books, reports, websites, etc.

11. DE GRUYTER BRIL

• Link: tinyurl.com/degruyterbrill-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an independent, family-owned academic publisher and a global leader in the humanities and beyond.
• Content: books

12. ELSEVIER

• Link: tinyurl.com/elsevier-open
• Subject: Science and Technology
• Description: It is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare.
• Content: journals

13. GLOBAL LIBRARY OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE 

• Link: tinyurl.com/glowm-medic
• Subject: Medicine, Health
• Description: It offers a wide range of expert resources primarily designed to support doctors, while also providing extensive practical guidance for midwives, nurses and community healthcare workers.
• Content: textbooks

14. HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY

• Link: hathitrust.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries, administered by the University of Michigan.
• Content: books, publications

15. INTERNET ARCHIVE

• Link: archive.org
• Subject: Literature, Rare Collection
• Description: It is is a vast digital library that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge.
• Content: books, movies, software, music and even websites

16. JSTOR

• Link: tinyurl.com/jstor-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It offers one of the broadest and most diverse sets of openly accessible scholarly materials available
• Content: journals, books

17. MERLOT

• Link: tinyurl.com/merlot-textbooks
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
• Content: textbooks

18. MILNE OPEN TEXTBOOKS

• Link: milneopentextbooks.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
• Content: books for higher education

19. OER COMMONS & OPEN EDUCATION

• Link: tinyurl.com/oer-commons
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
• Content: books, articles

20. OPENALEX

• Link: openalex.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an open, comprehensive catalogue of scholarly works, authors, journals and institutions that supports discovery of research outputs across the science, social sciences and humanities without paywalls.
• Content: scholarly works, journals, articles, dissertations

21. OPEN EDUCATION STUDIES

• Link: tinyurl.com/oeducstudies
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal that publishes original and relevant articles in all fields of education research.
• Content: articles

22. OPEN RESEARCH LIBRARY

• Link: tinyurl.com/or-library
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly monographs which is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform.
• Content: books, chapters, articles

23. PROJECT GUTENBERG

• Link: gutenberg.org
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is one of the oldest and largest free online libraries featuring public domain works and offers over 60,000 free eBooks including classic literature.
• Content: books, publications

24. SEAFDEC/AQD INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

• Link: tinyurl.com/seafdec-free
• Subject: Fisheries, Aquaculture
• Description: It is the official digital repository of scholarly and research information of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD).
• Content: books, journal articles

25. SCIENCE DIRECT

• Link: tinyurl.com/sciencedirect-open
• Subject: Science, Technology, Health
• Description: It is the premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature.
• Content: journals, books, textbooks

26. SCILIT DATABASE

• Link: scilit.com
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a free, unique and fast-growing indexing database of scientific and scholarly literature that holds over 130 million works and more than 1.1 billion citations.
• Content: journal, books, chapters, conference papers

27. SPRINGER NATURE LINK

• Link: tinyurl.com/springer-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It publishes open access (OA) books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints.
• Content: books, conference proceedings, textbooks, journals, articles

28. SPRINGER NATURE FULLY OA JOURNALS LIST 2026

• Link: tinyurl.com/springer-openjournal
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is a list of fully open access journals, including APC information, Springer Nature Open Access Journal is a leading multidisciplinary and community-focused journals that offer rigorous, high-impact open access.
• Content: journals, articles

29. TAYLOR & FRANCIS

• Link: tinyurl.com/taylorfrancis-open
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is one of the world's largest publishers of open access research with a journals program that meets the needs of a wide range of disciplines and subject areas
• Content: journals

30. WORLD BANK OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

• Link: tinyurl.com/worldbank-okr
• Subject: Multidisciplinary
• Description: It is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products that collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.
• Content: World Bank’s serial publications, books, journals