Open Scholarship

improving learning is a blog written and maintained by David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning. Posts are focused on opent content, educational technology, and instructional design.

The Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) allows you to search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.

A discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. They provide context building services for publishers and offer advanced search and discovery functions, post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features.

This site allows you to legally make your paper freely available on Google Scholar, Web of Science, your personal site and more to get a citation bump.

Columbia University's online repository, where current faculty, students, and staff can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research

The digital repository of Teachers College provides a universal viewer that displays captions, with options to zoom in on high resolution images in different formats, enhancing accessibility and allowing for high-speed downloads.

The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. You can search and access fully viewable materials in HathiTrust, and download materials where there are no third-party restrictions (~26% of the collection is in the public domain).

A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.