Open Access Resource Directory

Open Access resources bring new up-to-date information. They can be a good source of information not only for a term paper, but also for a bachelor's or master's thesis. The main advantage of OA resources is that the information obtained from OA journals or repositories is free online.

Registries and aggregators of OA resources

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

http://www.base-search.net/about/en/

The Open Access Academic Resources Register is operated by the Universitätsbibliothek Universität Bielefeld. It allows searching the content of the repositories through a simple and advanced search interface. One interesting way of searching is the possibility to use the multilingual thesaurus EUROVOC (allowing search terms to be translated into language equivalents in several European languages). Searches can be limited not only in time but also in location (per country or continent). You can search by document type or by the Dewey Decimal Classification.

Preprint servers

Preprints

https://www.preprints.org/

 A multidisciplinary register of preprints of scientific outputs.

Software repositories

GitHub

https://github.com/

A development platform for hosting and reviewing code, managing projects and creating software.

Czech OA resources

Digital Library of the University of West Bohemia

https://dspace.zcu.cz/

The Digital Library of the University of West Bohemia is an institutional repository of the University of West Bohemia, whose primary goal is to store and provide unlimited online access to the full texts of publications by authors from the University of West Bohemia, journals and proceedings published at the University of West Bohemia and qualification theses defended at the University of West Bohemia. The repository is accessible in English and Czech and contains contributions in English, Czech and Slovak.

FOREIGN DIGITAL LIBRARIES OF QUALIFICATION THESES

Australia Trove – Theses

http://trove.nla.gov.au/book/result?q&l-format=Thesis

The sub-base of the Australia Trove digital library, operated by the National Library of Australia, provides free access to the full texts of qualification theses (mostly dissertations) defended at Australian universities and colleges.

Foreign disciplinary digital libraries and institutional repositories

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The multimedia digital library managed by the Library of Congress of the USA includes thematically arranged collections of primary documents - texts, images, maps, audio and audiovisual recordings, etc., related to the history of the North American continent, especially the history of the USA.

Useful tools

QOAM

https://www.qoam.eu/

A database of open access journals that assigns scores to relevant journals based on author ratings and experience.

Search engines and citation registers

CiteSeerX

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu

A citation database for open access resources, maintained by Pennsylvania State University, indexes information resources primarily in the fields of information and computer science. It allows you to track citation links and view a list of references. In case of direct availability of a cited document, it allows immediate access in the form of a link.