Open Access Resources by Subject

The Alpheios Reading Tools provide reading aids for any Latin or Ancient Greek text on the web, with experimental support for Classical Arabic and Persian.

The APGRD is a research project based in the Classics Centre at the University of Oxford. It investigates the performance of ancient texts in any medium and any period, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day.

The Classical Art Research Centre leads and supports research on ancient art. At its heart is the Beazley Archive, which includes the world's largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.

ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations.

The Kelsey Museum Artifact Database is an online version of the museum catalogue intended to aid researchers

The Anthropological Index Online (AIO) is published by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in cooperation with Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum. It is an index to articles in journals taken by the Library and to films held at the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Established in 1986, the peer-reviewed journal of the SCA has expanded the boundaries of the discipline and brokered new engagements with adjacent fields. Committed to innovation in scholarly communication, the journal went open access in 2014.

International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. It considers articles in the fields of Anthropology and Ethnology, concerning theory, policy and practice, especially the critical global issues and challenges people are facing up to all over the world.

Free access to online dictionaries, literature, fiction, verse. Material is in the public domain

Information on Canadian poets with selected poems in fulltext from the University of Toronto Library.

Peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access journal, publishes new scholarship in theory and criticism, comparative literature, and cultural studies.

Merlot presents a selection of open access resources on American literature including collections, textbooks, and online course modules.

Purdue OWL provides: Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), Job Search and Professional Writing

An international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language.

Fully Open Access. Dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy.

The Journal of Religion & Film is a peer reviewed journal which is committed to the study of connections between the medium of film and the phenomena of religion, however those are defined.

The NFB website is a destination for point-of-view documentaries, animation films, interactive projects and Canadian films. There are over 3,000 documentaries, feature films and animation films for free.

A peer reviewed open access journal

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes: a variety of world, regional, country, ocean, and time zone maps; Flags of the World; and a Country Comparison function that ranks the country information and data in more than 75 Factbook fields.

Open access international journal publishing original articles from across the spectrum of geographical and environmental research

This list is updated frequently as availability of openly accessible publications grows

Primary access point for exploring a variety of historical maps, charts and plans digitized from collections held at the Nova Scotia Archives.

An inter-disciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of bespoke maps and spatial diagrams across the physical and social sciences.

"PLOS was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine."

high-level peer-review

From the Library of Congress, AM provides access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints and maps.

Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

An annotated guide to online sources on the history of the Canadian Black community.

Diaries, letters, other documents, prints and photographs.

Besides its empirical focus the journal promotes discussions about European traditions and perspectives in futures research

An effort by an international collaboration of scholars to see the world whole, c. 500 to 1500 CE, to deliver the stories of lives, objects, and actions in dynamic relationship and change across deep time.

A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press for publishing open access monographs.

Primary access point for exploring a variety of historical maps, charts and plans digitized from collections held at the Nova Scotia Archives.

Libraries, Archives and Museums Nova Scotia (LAMNS) is a collaborative network comprised of several organizations/associations

Multiple resources related to the Titanic

Remembering events that happened on this day.

The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more.

Estudios Irlandeses, the scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies.

Provided by Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Open access, bilingual, scientific, and professional journal that publishes empirical research (framed within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods paradigms), theoretical articles, essays, and original literature reviews.

The longest-running publication devoted exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems.

Links to Dance Resources

This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, is regularly updated and currently holds over 8,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.

Fully Open Access. Dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy.

Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps."

PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.

PhilSci is a free electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. The Archive aims to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work.

Scholarly reference work in philosophy. Entries and updates are refereed and quarterly fixed editions are archived on the site.

The Journal of Religion & Film is a peer reviewed journal which is committed to the study of connections between the medium of film and the phenomena of religion, however those are defined.

The Wabash Center keeps the most current & up-to-date index of websites and e-resources of relevance to research in religion and theology.

An international forum where researchers and practitioners can advance communication research on the Catholic church and other religious communities through the application of data analysis and theoretical inquiry.

AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.

Leading museums share their collections through virtual, augmented and mix reality.

Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives