The library contains approximately 8 million printed books, manuscripts, and digital holdings. Collections include medieval Jewish manuscripts, Hebrew manuscripts, Islamic manuscripts, and Christian works. The library also provides links to the collections of other libraries

This UNICEF website provides data and statistics on issues and situations of women and children throughout the world. There are brochures, country profiles, journal articles, and publications available.

The CIA library contains unclassified current publications, basic references, reports, and maps. One featured link is The World Factbook, a research database that provides facts about geography, history, transportation, and many other components of all of the countries in the world. This site is valuable for research in a variety of disciplines.

Clute Institute offers open access to 19 peer-reviewed academic journals in the areas of business, education, and science.

A multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research. It allows users to search more than 66 million open access articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher’s site, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.

DPLA provides more than 37 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the US. It offers Primary Source Sets to discover history and culture through primary sources. It also contains a portal enabling students to search the digital collections of thousands of libraries, archives, and museums nationwide.

DOAB offers more than 25,000 open access academic, peer-reviewed books from more than 300 publishers. Note: Some books have partial content only.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directly that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals globally. The database contains approximately 12,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities.

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. It now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations.

The eScholarship Open Access repository provides open access publications from the University of California. Repository holdings include more than 200,000 articles approximately 2,000 books, and approximately 34,000 theses covering the disciplines of social and behavior sciences, life sciences, physical sciences and mathematics, engineering, medicine and health sciences, arts and humanities, education, law, business, and architecture.

A search engine with the option to search over 500,000 doctoral theses within a variety of disciplines. This resource is run by the British Library. Some full texts are behind paywalls.

Fordham University lists open government resources (catalogs, indexes, libraries, statistical databases, etc.) in a variety of disciplines such as government, science/health, Library of Congress, demographics, law, and history.

Google provides the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books.

Ingenta provides free access to citations and abstracts of articles by browsing over 5 million articles from 13,000 publications. Articles may be access by pay per view or by online subscriptions to journals.

The archive contains 20 million books and texts, 4.5 million audio recordings, 4 million videos, 3 million images, and 200,000 software programs. Books published prior to 1923 are available for download and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through the Open Library site.

IPL is a web-based repository of more than 10,000 reference articles spanning diverse topics like literature, history, science, geography, and technology.

JURN is a search engine for 4,000 open access or free e-journals in the arts and humanities.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It contains 17 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in its collections. It contains databases for online articles, books, and other resources in the fields of arts and humanities, law, news and current events, regional and cultural studies, science and technology, and social sciences. Librarian assistance is available via email.

Luminos is an open access monograph program offered by the University of California Press. Books are available in a broad array of disciplines including American studies, art, business, communication, cultural anthropology, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, globalization, history, law, music, philosophy, political science, religion, and social sciences.

Open Access provides advances searches for almost five million graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

Open Library is an accredited California State Library run by the non-profit Internet Archive with access to more than 3 million free e-books and a lending library with more than 200,000 e-books.

OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents. It primarily contains bibliographic information; full text is generally not included. Students must create a free account to use the services.

The site contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200, as well as some texts selected from later antiquity.

Project Gutenberg contains a library of more than 60,000 free e-books. Project Gutenberg offers a variety of options for accessing their library of eBooks. The library is especially noted for its collection of classical literature.

SSRN provides a collection of more than 700,000 abstracts and more than 600,000 full-text papers gathered from an interdisciplinary community. SSRN is a hub for networking and resources in the areas of applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Registration is free and you must become a member to use the services.

This is the official site for data published by the US Census Bureau. It contains content previously available from American FactFinder including population, economic, housing, and geographic information and data about the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas. Data Gems is a series of short videos available for data users who are looking for an easy and quick way to enhance their knowledge of Census data and concepts.

The WDL is a project of the US Library of Congress. That provides free significant primary materials from all countries and cultures. Provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents in the fields of computer science and information, philosophy and psychology, religion, language, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, technology, the arts, literature and rhetoric, and history and geography.

A comprehensive reference site featuring original definitions with example use cases, definitions from Webster’s and other English language dictionaries, thesaurus entries from Roget’s, specialty definitions, encyclopedic information, audio pronunciations, etymology, and word games.