Open Access Publishing

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

PubMed is a free resource that includes over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Google Scholar is a free search engine that allows you to search for scholarly content across multiple disciplines, formats, and sources.

OAIster is a catalog of over 50 million records representing open access resources from collections worldwide.

BASE is a freely available search engine for academic open access resources on the web.

The DOAB is a searchable index of academic, peer-reviewed, open access books that includes links to the full-text books on the publishers' websites.

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

A VCU Libraries guide to open and free image sources.

This search platform created by Creative Commons helps you search multiple sites for Creative Commons licensed images, video, music, and other media based on the type of use you want to make.

This repository of public domain and freely-licensed educational media content contains free to use content, but for all media not in the public domain, you’ll need to check the license and comply with its terms.