Free E-Resources: Periodicals and Other Documents

News from the Associated Press.

News articles from the Left, Center, and Right.

American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.

Online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.

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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress."

An index of all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey. From the New Jersey State Library.

"The Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive is a freely accessible web resource developed and hosted by Penn State University Libraries. The archive provides access to the Commonwealth’s historical newspapers as a single portal for all digitized Pennsylvania newspapers."

Openly Licensed Course Materials

Find, create, and use open textbooks.

Great resources for STEM, including interactive resources

Real-time federated search for OER content.

"North Broad Press is a joint publishing project between Temple University Press and Temple University Libraries. We publish works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the Temple University community. All North Broad Press titles are peer reviewed and freely available online."

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

From Michigan State University.

OPEN.ED@PSU offers high-quality learning materials written by Penn State faculty. These materials are freely available for you to use, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute under a creative commons license.

"Originally named Connexions, OpenStax started as an Open Educational Resource (OER) repository where faculty around the world could publish, share, and remix educational materials."

The Open Textbook Library, from the Open Education Network, is based in the Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.

Online content and courseware development.

Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.

"We are a global community working together to create and share Open Educational Resources (OER)."

Workforce Development

The Astronomical Journal (AJ), the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), and the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS); and the Planetary Science Journal, are now fully open access.

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

The collection contains nearly 500,000 articles from 200+ journals. Pre-1923 journals in the US and pre-1870 journals elsewhere.

The Public Domain Review is an online journal, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation, showcasing works which have entered the public domain.

Includes Springer’s portfolio of 160+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science ranging from very specialized titles to SpringerPlus, an interdisciplinary open access journal that covers all disciplines.

SpringerOpen journals and books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication.

This collection provides the public with access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the United States Congress.

Its mission is “to promote civility, critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to debatable issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way."

The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.

Searchable database by poet or poem.

An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, magic, and more. It contains over 6000 full text articles on gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world. The user searches alphabetically by category (such as Greek Mythology) or by keyword (among other options).

Google Scholar attempts to point to more scholarly sources. ViewIt@CCP Library will link back to the Library's subscribed databases.

"This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web."

Resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

A comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 14,650 documents. From Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Free access to historical scientific articles and papers more than 70 years old.

Order documents (many free) from this site. Search by keyword or subject. Documents are usually received in 10-14 working days.