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Alabama Repositories

Alabama OER Commons The Alabama OER Commons is a place for Alabama educators, students, and the general public to find and share free educational resources. We aim to bring together in one location some of the most useful OER textbooks and other materials available, and also to provide a central location for OER that are “made in Alabama” - original creations, as well as OER that have been adapted or remixed to fit the needs of Alabama students and residents.
ACHE/ACCS Open Educational Resources Grant Program The Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) and the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) have a common goal of reducing the cost of college for Alabama’s students. Since textbooks are a major expense for both university and community college students, ACHE and ACCS have co-sponsored two grant programs with $70,000 in total awards to encourage faculty members at Alabama’s public institutions of higher education to replace existing expensive traditional textbooks and other costly teaching and learning materials with open educational resources (OER). Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that instructors and students may freely use and reuse at no cost without asking permission. Unlike traditionally copyrighted resources, OER are developed and posted for public use by the creators who agree to retain few, if any, ownership rights.
Alabama Virtual Library AVL provides ad-free, safe, and reliable information from databases for all Alabama residents 24/7 free of charge. AVL is a legislated entity that is funded by the state's Education Trust Fund.

Other Governmental Public Domain Repositories

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's free online repository of biomedical resources including books, still images, videos, and maps. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to NLM's rich resources.

Institutional Repositories

Digital Commons Network The largest repository of scholarly works from higher education institutions. Over two million works from over 400 institutions.
eScholarship at the Univeristy of California eScholarship provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide.
HathiTrust Digital Library HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
MIT Open Courseware MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses in literature and writing. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.
The New York Public Libraries' Digital Collections More than 180,000 of the items in the NYPL Digital Collections are in the public domain.
Openstax OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. Our mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. We do this by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more.
Open Textbook Library Open Textbook Library offers a variety of textbooks that are licensed by authors and publishers to be used freely. You can browse through the various subject categories on the website. These categories offer a broad range of subjects from Mathematics to Business and many others.
ScholarWorks ScholarWorks operates as a shared institutional archive managed by the Grand Valley State University Library. If you're a college student looking for free textbooks, ScholarWorks is the right place.

Company or Organizational Repositories

American Memory-Library of Congress American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Bookboon Living up to its name, Bookboon provides free textbooks written by professors from top universities and industry-leading authors. The platform aims to make it easy for you to develop yourself through high-quality content. Bookboon offers a free student plan where you can access a variety of academic material, to access this plan, you are required to sign up for a free subscription.
Digital Public Library of America Access thousands of primary sources (images, documents, films, etc.). Refine search by type, date, source, and subject.
Google Books Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.
Internet Public Library Writing help for academic essays and research papers.
Khan Academy The Khan Academy is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide a free-world class education for anyone anywhere.
OER Commons Education launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization's pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

Open Scholarly Journal Resources

1findr "From the get-go, 1findr has aimed to include all articles published in peer-reviewed journals, in all fields of research, in all languages and from every country. The free edition of 1findr takes on uncurated data sources such as Google Scholar."
Academia An social media site for researchers to share publications. Members can also add followers and follow those that interest them to get custom updates in a chosen discipline.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) The DOAJ reviewed all its journals in 2014 and awarded those that meet specific criteria in openness, level of peer-review, and transparency standards a DOAJ Seal. The green tick means the journal was accepted into the DOAJ after 2014 when they reviewed their standards for inclusion.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
PLOS (Public Library of Science) A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians striving to make scientific literature freely available to the public. All PLOS content is at the highest possible level of Open Access, meaning that scientific articles are immediately and freely available to anyone, anywhere, to be downloaded, printed, distributed, read, reused and remixed (including commercially) without restriction, as long as the author and the original source are properly attributed according to the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
PubMed PubMed comprises more than 27 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.
Research Gate Social media site for researchers to share publications with others.
Social Science Research Network SSRN's eLibrary provides 726,225 research papers from 335,176 researchers across 30 disciplines.

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