To enhance the visibility and impact of research, GUST Library supports open access initiatives that provide free access to academic resources and research publications, fostering collaboration and innovation. The value of investing in research is maximized only when its findings are widely used. The GUST Library Search Catalogue integrates the following open access resources: BASE, DOAB, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, OAIster, OpenStax, OAPEN Library, Open Research Library, and Unpaywall.
Resource Providers
Digital Public Library of America
DPLA offers millions of digital resources from U.S. libraries, archives, and museums for free. A single portal to books, photographs, historical records, and more promotes equal knowledge access for education and study.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a free, public digital library and search engine for computer and information technology academic publications. It automatically indexes and analyzes research publications, tracking citations and references. It helps access and analyze scholarly content.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library providing complimentary access to an extensive array of digital content, encompassing books, websites, music, movies, and software. It is renowned for its Wayback Machine, enabling users to access archived iterations of websites as they were at various moments in time.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
OAPEN Foundation, based in the Netherlands, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing open access for peer-reviewed academic books. They collaborate with publishers to curate a high-quality collection and provide infrastructure services for hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation to support the transition to open access.
Open Education Resources
OER Commons is a digital network that provides complimentary, openly licensed educational resources (OER) for educators, learners, and autonomous scholars. These resources encompass textbooks, lesson plans, courses, and multimedia content across diverse subjects and educational tiers.
ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen offers free academic articles across fields for Open-access research and publishing platform. Researchers can find, exchange, and review scientific content using its scholarly publishing, networking, and collaboration facilities. It promotes scientific transparency through post-publication peer review, open peer commentary, and editorial services.
Social Science Research Network
SSRN is an open repository for scholarly articles in the social sciences, including economics, law, and business. Researchers disseminate preliminary papers, facilitating unrestricted access and prompt distribution of scholarly work.
SpringerOpen
SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication.
Wiley Open Access
Wiley Open Access publishes peer-reviewed, open-access journals in several fields. Researchers can publish their work for free, allowing increased distribution and access to study findings. Open science is promoted by Wiley Open Access through transparency, cooperation, and accessibility in research.
