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Open Access / Free Resources
Local Resources
- 聽is the local public library.聽 Please note that some of their databases are only available on-site.
- 聽features online entertainment as well as research options.
- 聽offers a library card to any resident of West Virginia.
- 聽is the state library and offers a variety of educational resources to West Virginia residents.
- is a collection of databases that the West Virginia Library Commission provides to state residents.
- – The Library Commission provides a variety of resources for local history and genealogical research.
- can be accessed via the Library Commission.
- 聽is West Virginia’s online arm of the public library. 聽Access is available with a current West Virginia Public Library card. 聽eBooks and eAudiobooks that can be downloaded and accessed via multiple devices/platforms.
Journals
- 聽is a free, open source information center for the Covid-19 pandemic. Updated regularly.
- 聽maintains a聽聽for which it provides linking infrastructure services. The聽聽of this non-profit is “to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content”.聽 It is known to remove journals of dubious reputation from membership and thus from the list, so presence of a title on this list may be useful positive indicator.
- 聽is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.聽
- 聽Open Access Journals is a collection of fully peer reviewed and freely available journals available for download from ScienceDirect.
- Elseiver offers free access to relevant research for health emergencies.
- Patients and聽聽to help them better understand the latest research on their conditions.
- Everyone can access a collection of the work from聽
- The archives for 140 journals, including聽聽research journals, open 12 months after publication.
Search for Elsevier open access journals
- is a platform that allows researchers to search simultaneously across millions of publicly available datasets to find immune-mediated and infectious disease data for reanalysis. It also provides a resource for finding bioinformatics and computational tools that can aid analyses. The platform was developed by NIAID to support open science and access to infectious disease data and resources.
- is Springer’s portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. SpringerOpen views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings. SpringerOpen publications are subject to high-level peer review, editorial, author and production services, ensuring the quality and reliability of the work.
- 聽lists and describes traditionally published and open access journal titles.听听 It can tell you whether a journal uses peer review, what discovery tools/databases index it, etc.聽
- publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines. Wiley Open Access journals are supported by a network of authoritative journals and societies as well as internationally renowned editorial board members. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.
Books
- 聽is an ongoing eBook collection project including older U.S. literary works which have exceeded their copyright protection and fall into the public domain.
- 聽provides access to millions of pages of in-print books (not all books will be fully accessible).
- 聽is the University of Adelaide’s (Australia) open access literature project which includes texts covering a wide range of topics such as travel, philosophy, religion, science, history and gastronomy.
- ,聽created by the University of Pennsylvania, is a growing collection of free eBooks and currently houses special collections like a Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books Online, and Prize Winning Books Online.
- 聽provides free cultural and educational media: eBooks (fiction and non-fiction, including text books), audiobooks, movies, films, and language lessons.
- 聽houses thousands of reference, literature and non-fiction eBooks.
- 聽is the first public library created for an Internet community. 聽It offers reference materials, fictional works, an Ask a Librarian feature, youth & children’s materials, etc.
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