Open Access Resources: Primary research

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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. Dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions.

BASE provides more than 120 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. Approximately 60% of the indexed documents are Open Access. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. It focusses on high quality academically relevant resources including journal articles, preprints, digital collections, images / videos or research dataYou can browse by DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification), document type, access and terms of re-use / licence.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) disseminates scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities and has been expanding into the life, physical, health, and applied sciences. Research is often pre-publication.