Research Guides: Upward Bound: Explore Open Collections

Below we've collected and openly available recommended resources.

Resources at a distance

Below you'll find some of our favorite open access databases and resources that you may access from anywhere.

CORE
Collection of open access research papers.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media. More than 30,000 public media programs are available.
U.S. Census Data
Tool to retrieve recent data on the people and economy of the U.S.
American Memory
Digital record of American history and creativity.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Essential resource for statistics and data concerning labor, employment, and economics in the United States.
Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection
Historical newspapers from Colorado published from 1859 to 1923.
Digital Public Library of America
Brings together digital materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of open-access scholarly journals, strong in the sciences.
ERIC
This freely available version of ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and serves as a clearinghouse for published and grey literature related to Education and related disciplines.
EuroDocs: Online Source for European History
Links to primary sources in the digital collections of archives, museums, etc.
Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web. Some materials may be openly available while others may require a fee or license to view a full text.
JSTOR Open Access eBooks
Open Access monographs available on the JSTOR platform.

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Oxford Open
Open access journals published by Oxford University Press.
New Mexico Archives Online
Information about archival collections in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Tool to discover what historical materials are available for study and where they are located.
SciELO
Bibliographic database and digital library, as well as a cooperative electronic publishing model, of open access journals.
Science.Gov
Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 19 U.S. government science organizations, a gateway to government science information and research results.
UN Data
Collection of international and comparative country data on a wide variety of topics from the United Nations and related organizations.

JSTOR & ARTSTOR Open Content
Open access journal articles and books.
Social Science Research Network
Pre-print repository from SSRN´s. Provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 65 disciplines.
Arxiv
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,965,396 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
More openly available resources

OER

A community of open educators worldwide generously create and contribute to an every expanding body of Open Educational Resources (OER), teaching and learning resources that are assigned creative commons licenses or reside in the public domain. These resources allow free use by educators and are findable in search engines, repositories, and referatories. Below you'll find a few a few we recommend. When searching for OER, consider what you are looking for before you begin. Are you interested in texts, digital lectures, test banks? Use these terms and search features to filter your results.

Want to learn more about OER? Visit our OER guide.

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