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The USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 7 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.

Open access repository of pre-print articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an online library providing free and open access to the legacy literature of taxonomy and biodiversity. Materials in BHL are provided by a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries who have come together to digitize the literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make it available as part of a global 'biodiversity commons.' The bulk of material in the BHL is in the public domain in the United States, meaning that the publication date is prior to 1923. Many of the collections contain rare published literature previously available only to those who could visit the institutions.

Contains journals that are available as open access including Environmental Health and BMC Biology.

DOAB provides open access to hundreds of Academic peer-reviewed books from over 25 publishers.

This includes articles from more than 700 titles from around the world. Syracuse University is adding these to the e-journal list linked from the SUMMIT database home page, so you can search for specific titles or browse topics. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Fishery Bulletin, Journal of Construction Education, and Biopolicy Journal are just a few of the titles included.

This is a collaborative initiative to collect information on every species on earth and share that knowledge in an open, freely accessible digital resource.

This is a search engine for scholarly publications from peer-reviewed journals, professional societies, books, theses, and other sources. Very useful for counting times items are cited.

Offers some free articles in biological, physical and social sciences and medicine. Click here for a list of included titles.

A collection of open access peer-reviewed research journals in science and medicine that include original research as well as timely feature articles. Journals cover the fields of medicine, biology, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, neglected tropical diseases and clinical trials.

Open access full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM).

This is a new publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, health, education, and social sciences. Links to online issues are included.

This is a combined catalog of over 10,000 libraries worldwide, reflecting a wide variety of formats. Locations of owning libraries are shown, to facilitate interlibrary loan.