Lesley University Library: Library Services for Alumni: Books & Databases

Open Access E-Books

National Academies Press
free PDFs of more than 6,000 scholarly books and reports
Project Gutenberg
over 60,000 free eBooks
Internet Archive
a wide range of free fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books

Other Library Catalogs

Open WorldCat
Find books, videos, etc., in libraries near you.

Open WorldCat searches thousands of library catalogs all at once. You can limit your search by your zip code to see the libraries nearest to you.

Databases

DigitalCommons@lesley
DigitalCommons@Lesley preserves and promotes the scholarly and creative output of students, faculty, and staff. It includes faculty and student research, university communications and publications, and collections from the university archives.

The following databases are freely accessible to anyone regardless of institutional affiliation; for more help locating freely accessible databases, just Ask Us!

NDLTD
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. 2005-present.
ERIC (education)
JSTOR Open Access
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Contains lesson plans, a resource library, professional development opportunities and more!
Discovery Education: Free Teacher Resources
Teacher Reference Center
RoJa Ro (music)
GreenFILE (environment)
PTSDPubs (formerly PILOTS trauma)
PubMed (medicine)
Medline Plus (health)
Agricola (agriculture)
NCJRS (criminal justice)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Google Scholar

Other Databases

Many state and public library systems provide remote access to research databases for their residents. Check with your local public library for more information!

Journal Articles

Resources for freely accessible journal articles; see also our Open Access guide!

AERA
Open access journals in Education
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 243 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scholarly journals available to anyone
Electronic Journals Library
A list of 8000+ journals which offer free full-text articles in a variety of disciplines maintained by the University Library of Regensburg, Germany. Many of the titles are non-english and international titles.
Free Medical Journals
Promoting free access to medical journals
HighWire Press
Many free fulltext scholarly science journals
PLoS: Public Library of Science
"PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization with a mission of leading a transformation in scientific and medical research communication. Every article we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use..." (from the website)

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