JCU Library has been celebrating International Open Access Week this week, and there has been much discussion about research outputs, publishing and journals which support Open Access publishing. The Library Databases page is another way to discover reliable and authoritative Open Access resources outside of our subscribed collections. Just go to JCU's Databases page, and from the 'All Database types' drop down menu, select 'Open Access'. Alternatively you can look for the Open Access icon found beside database titles.
These resources have been selected and reviewed by librarians familiar with your subject areas. Currently there are 85 open access databases. We have given a small sample below, but there are many more free resources to delve into.
We have information here for all disciplines and all levels, from undergraduate to teaching.
For statistics in the social sciences, there is the World Bank Open Data , Australian Bureau of Statistics ,Statistics Queensland and ILOSTAT.
Medical information and articles are provided by PubMed, SpeechBite, Merck Manual, and ChemSpider.
ReefBase, Plant List , the National Science Digital Library and BHL Australia cover the natural sciences.
There are also a number of indexing services to help guide researchers to information in your area of study - try Worldcat, American Doctoral Dissertations, Google Scholar, AMS Digital Mathematics Registry, PEDro, REHABDATA, SafetyLit and LawCite.
In the arts and history fields, you will find much in the Text Archive, Project Gutenberg Australia, OAPEN eBook Library, Literature.org, Trove (Picture Australia), the HathiTrust, Film Literature Index, and DOAB.
Don't forget law and legislation - The Federal Register of Legislation, ParlInfo Search and AUSTLII are very useful.
Not sure what Open Access is - check out JCU's Open Access LibGuide.
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