Online Reference Tools: Open Access Journals

Video and lectures and supplemental content from over 30 colleges and universities including Harvard, MIT, Yale, NYU, Princeton and Stanford

Lectures from the European Graduate School

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Access course materials from MIT

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Smart people on interesting subjects

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Video lectures from Yale University

A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community.

From the website, "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages"

Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. (Proquest)

Comprehensive tool for locating open-access books, journals, dissertations and other scholarly sources available world wide.

Portal to multimedia collections about Africa. Developed by Michigan State University's MATRIX center and the African Studies Center in collaboration with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa.

A compilation of secondary material that supplements and explains a selection of 13 important literary works including The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Things Fall Apart and One Hundred Years of Solitude...

A digital library, Hathi Trust aims to digitize and make accessible the collections of major research libraries. Currently there over 60 partner institutions. There is a lot of material here that you can access. The site has a number of other features as well, such as a "collection builder" that allows you to create your own collection and share it with others.

"A searchable collection of archived copies of human rights websites created by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, tribunals and individuals."

Non-profit that was founded with the intent of building an Internet library and offering permanent access to material that exists in digital format. You can access textual, video, audio material as well an archive of old websites.

Full list of digital projects developed by MATRIX. A digital humanities research center devoted to "the application of new technologies for teaching, research, and outreach." A number of interesting resources are listed here

From the website, "the UT Videogame Archive seeks to preserve and protect the work of videogame developers, publishers and artists for use by a wide array of researchers."