العربية Global Open-Access Platforms
Directory of Scholarly Research & Dissertations
Showing all 36 platforms
| No. | Link & Platform | Characteristics & Scope (English) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CORE (core.ac.uk) | The world’s largest aggregator of open-access research papers. It provides access to millions of full-text articles from various institutional repositories. |
| 2 | BASE (base-search.net) | One of the most voluminous search engines for academic web resources, providing full texts for about 60% of indexed documents. |
| 3 | Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) | While widely known, it is most effective when you look for the “[PDF]” or “[HTML]” links on the right side of the search results, which often point to free versions hosted on university servers. |
| 4 | Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org) | An AI-powered research tool that highlights the most influential papers and provides direct links to open-access versions. |
| 5 | UCLA eScholarship (escholarship.org/uc/ucla) | This webpage serves as the UCLA-specific portal for the eScholarship repository, providing a platform for the university’s community to access and share open-access publications, research units, and scholarly journals. |
| 6 | Columbia Academic Commons (academiccommons.columbia.edu) | Academic Commons is Columbia University’s open-access repository, managed by the university libraries to make research and scholarship produced by Columbia and its affiliate institutions globally accessible and discoverable. |
| 7 | NDLTD Find ETDs (ndltd.org) | List of Resources for Finding ETDs. |
| 8 | OATD (oatd.org) | A primary resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published worldwide. |
| 9 | EThOS British Library (ethos.bl.uk) | The UK’s national thesis service. You can search over 600,000 doctoral theses; many are available for immediate free download after a simple registration. |
| 10 | ProQuest (proquest.com) | An international index for finding free, open-access graduate theses and dissertations. |
| 11 | DOAJ (doaj.org) | (Directory of Open Access Journals) A community-curated list of over 20,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed open-access journals spanning all disciplines. |
| 12 | PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) | A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. |
| 13 | arXiv (arxiv.org) | The premier repository for preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and related quantitative fields. |
| 14 | SSRN (ssrn.com) | Excellent for early-stage research, working papers, and articles in the social sciences, humanities, and law. |
| 15 | University of Bath Theses (researchportal.bath.ac.uk) | This page provides access to research theses submitted to the University of Bath. It serves as an open-access repository for students’ academic work, allowing the public and the university community to search, browse, and view research outputs. |
| 16 | OhioLINK ETD (etd.ohiolink.edu) | The OhioLINK ETD Center is a publicly accessible, online database that hosts thousands of theses and dissertations written by students from member academic institutions across Ohio. |
| 17 | LMU Munich edoc (edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de) | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) is a digital archive where doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates and postdoctoral researchers (Habilitanden) from LMU Munich electronically submit and publish their dissertations, theses, and academic papers to fulfill their mandatory publication requirements. |
| 18 | Harvard DASH (dash.harvard.edu) | DASH is the central, open-access institutional repository of research by members of the Harvard community. Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS) operates DASH to provide the broadest possible access to Harvard’s scholarship. This repository hosts a wide range of Harvard-affiliated scholarly works, including pre- and post-refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, working papers, and reports. |
| 19 | SciELO (scielo.br) | (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a major digital library and cooperative electronic publishing model for scientific journals. |
| 20 | ERIC (eric.ed.gov) | Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). |
| 21 | Digital Commons Network (network.bepress.com) | This Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. |
| 22 |
MIT Open Scholarship (dspace.mit.edu) Search Libraries |
MIT Open Scholarship repository is an open access research, scholarship, and institutional publications from MIT — peer-reviewed articles, theses and dissertations, technical reports, working papers, task force reports, annual reports, teaching resources, and archived OpenCourseWare materials. Most items are openly accessible to anyone. For a broader search across all library systems including articles, books, archival finding aids, research guides, databases, geospatial data, and more, try Search MIT Libraries. |
| 23 | Oxford ORA (ora.ox.ac.uk) | The Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) is an open-access digital repository that provides public access to the research outputs of the University of Oxford, including journal articles, conference papers, and doctoral theses. |
| 24 |
Cambridge Apollo (repository.cam.ac.uk) Policies |
Apollo is the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge, managed by the Open Research Systems team based in Cambridge University Library. The Repository is committed to store and preserve the University’s research outputs. Research outputs can include, but are not limited to, publications, conference proceedings, book chapters, monographs, theses, various forms of research data (video recordings, spreadsheets, computational scripts, code, images etc.), presentations and others. |
| 25 | Stanford Repository (purl.stanford.edu) | The Stanford Digital Repository supports the management of scholarly information resources of enduring value to Stanford University. Search results may include individual digital items or curated collections — or organized groupings of related materials, often based on shared provenance, subject, donor, or archival source. |
| 26 | eScholarship (escholarship.org) | eScholarship is the University of California’s open-access repository and publishing platform, managed by the California Digital Library to provide free, global access to the university’s research and scholarly publications. |
| 27 | Columbia Academic Commons (academiccommons.columbia.edu) | Academic Commons is Columbia University’s open-access repository, managed by the university libraries to make research and scholarship produced by Columbia and its affiliate institutions globally accessible and discoverable. |
| 28 | Yale EliScholar (elischolar.library.yale.edu) | EliScholar is a digital platform for scholarly publishing provided by Yale University Library. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments and centers on campus. |
| 29 | Princeton DataSpace (dataspace.princeton.edu) | DataSpace is a digital repository meant for both archiving and publicly disseminating digital data which are the result of research, academic, or administrative work performed by members of the Princeton University community. DataSpace will promote awareness of the data and address concerns for ensuring the long-term availability of data in the repository. |
| 30 | Edinburgh ERA (era.ed.ac.uk) | ERA is a digital repository of original research produced at The University of Edinburgh. The archive contains documents written by, or affiliated with, academic authors, or units, based at Edinburgh that have sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by the Library, but which are not controlled by commercial publishers. Holdings include full-text digital doctoral theses, masters dissertations, project reports, briefing papers and out-of-print materials. |
| 31 | Toronto TSpace (tspace.library.utoronto.ca) | TSpace is a free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of University of Toronto. |
| 32 | UBC cIRcle (circle.ubc.ca) | cIRcle is the University of British Columbia’s open-access institutional repository, designed to preserve and provide global access to research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. |
| 33 | Sydney eScholarship (ses.library.usyd.edu.au) | The Sydney eScholarship repository collects and provides global access to University of Sydney research. With the exception of Higher Degree by Research theses, the Sydney eScholarship is a self-submission repository open to all University of Sydney researchers. |
| 34 | UTokyo Repository (repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) | The UTokyo Repository is the official institutional repository for the University of Tokyo, designed to centrally store, preserve, and provide free global open access to digital academic resources and research findings produced by the university’s community. |
| 35 | NUS ScholarBank (scholarbank.nus.edu.sg) | ScholarBank@NUS is the National University of Singapore’s institutional repository, designed to showcase, preserve, and provide open access to the research outcomes and scholarly publications of the university’s faculty and students. |
| 36 | HKU Scholars Hub (hub.hku.hk) | The website hub.hku.hk is the HKU Scholars Hub, the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong that collects, preserves, and provides open access to the university’s research publications, intellectual output, and academic expert profiles. |