Open Access Resources by Subject

Open access to over 500,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and more...

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.

Provides communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada (includes mapping capabilities).

Guides to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

Studies of selected pivotal ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74.

Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges around the world. The network includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings and other scholarly work.

Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.

This catalogue searches ALL Federal Government publication. To limit to just publications produced by a particular department go into the advance search option and put the department title of your choice in the Department/Agency box. You can further limit your search by filling in other boxes.

Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to over 6 million objects digitized from our collections - from ancient art to modern manuscripts and audio visual materials.

Videos in 13 subject areas, including math, natural science, social science and humanities

Concise video lectures on math, science and, increasingly, other subjects, including computing, arts and humanities, and economics and finance.

Part of Google Arts & Culture, allowing students to explore iconic locations in 3D.

Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.

Square one for finding and properly using publicly available American data in student projects.

A service of University of California, Irvine faculty, this collection offers a full curriculum of recorded lectures for multiple subjects; among the most popular is OpenChem, which contains video lectures and other materials for nearly every course needed to achieve an undergraduate chemistry degree.

The UNESCO website includes a wealth of information relating to activities of the Organization. This information is at risk of disappearing and the UNESCO Archives and the Division of Public Information have therefore launched a web-archiving project to preserve this valuable web heritage

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

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

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

Contains: Maps, Photos, Books, Manuscripts, Periodicals, etc

Interdisciplinary peer-reviewed, open access journal specialising in Canadian history, politics, culture and society and has been published annually since 1984.

MemoryNS provides access to archival records from institutions across Nova Scotia, and is an initiative of the Council of Nova Scotia Archives. Search MemoryNS to find detailed information about the records and their creators as well as contact information for the contributing archives.

Online materials for over 800 indigenous languages and the people that speak them. Includes language learning worksheets, vocabulary lists, and a geographical index of Native American tribes.

The Advisory Council was established in 1977 to educate the public and advise the provincial government on issues of interest and concern to women.

Open access journal publishing papers documenting original research and reviews covering all aspects of science and technology of Ceramics, Glasses, Composites, and related materials.

The journal publishes original articles covering political, economic and social development in contemporary East Asia conducted by scholars and experts both within and outside Japan.

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

Provided by Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

The most cited legal periodical in the United States and selected non-U.S. regions in the topical area of gender, social policy and the law.

Scholarly research journal devoted to critical work in a variety of formats that reflects current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies.

Mandate is to publish feminist legal scholarship that critically examines the intersection of gender with one or more axis of subordination, including, but not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation, and disability.

Peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research.

The Advisory Council was established in 1977 to educate the public and advise the provincial government on issues of interest and concern to women.

Focuses on the role of women in the U. S. economy; historical, manuscript and image resources from Harvard University's library and museum collections