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13 Databases Found for:Open Access

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  • Data
  • Open Access
Alternate Name(s):Abacus
A repository of open and licensed data hosted by UBC and shared by SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic. Includes Statistics Canada datasets available under an open license.
  • Full Text
  • Free Online Resource
Explore this site that contains a glossary of accounting terms to help understand financial reports. Acronyms are both abbreviated and defined, while related terms are cross-referenced.

B

  • Full Text
  • Open Access
  • Contains Peer Reviewed Content
  • Journal Articles
199 peer-reviewed open access science, technology and medical journals, providing instant full-text access to all articles.
Licence Summary:BioMedCentral licence (E-reserves=Yes CMS=Yes Course Pack=Yes Link=Yes Alumni=Yes ILL=Yes Walk In=Yes Print=Yes)

C

  • Full Text
  • Legal Resource
  • Canadian Content
  • Open Access
CAN LII provides links to all federal and provincial and territorial statutes, regulations and court tribunal decisions.
  • Multimedia Content
  • Canadian Content
  • Free Online Resource
Thousands of video and audio clips from current and historical CBC television and radio programming.

D

  • Full Text
  • Books
  • Open Access
  • Academic or Scholarly Content
Alternate Name(s):DOAB
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
  • Full Text
  • Open Access
  • Contains Peer Reviewed Content
  • Journal Articles
Alternate Name(s):DOAJ
A community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material.
Licence Summary:Directory of Open Access Journals licence (E-reserves=Yes CMS=Yes Course Pack=Yes Link=Yes Alumni=Yes ILL=Yes Walk In=Yes Print=Yes)

F

  • Data
  • Canadian Content
  • Open Access
Search FRDR to find research datasets originating from researchers affiliated with Canadian institutions. Data deposited to other repositories across Canada can also be found by searching in FRDR. Any researcher affiliated with a Canadian institution can deposit data into FRDR.

I

  • Full Text
  • Canadian Content
  • Open Access
Alternate Name(s):iPortal
The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

P

  • Full Text
  • Open Access
  • Academic or Scholarly Content
  • Contains Peer Reviewed Content
  • Journal Articles
  • International Content
Alternate Name(s):PMC
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine containing more than 6 million full text records.

S

New
  • Open Access
Alternate Name(s):SciFree

SciFree is a  tool  for researchers looking to publish Open Access for free (or at a reduced cost) from the Ontario Tech Library's publisher agreements.  Use the platform to search by journal title, imprint, publishing model, or APC type to discover all the Open Access publishing options offered through your Library services.  

W

  • Books
  • Open Access
  • Journal Articles
  • International Content
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. This resource is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Z

  • Index & Abstract Only
  • Open Access
  • Academic or Scholarly Content
  • Contains Peer Reviewed Content
  • International Content
Alternate Name(s):ZB Math, Zentralblatt Math
The world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. Access 4.2 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts drawn from more than 3,000 journals and book series, and some 190,000 books. Coverage starts in the 18th century, and is complete from 1868 to the present.
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