Free Resources for Students in Arkansas: General Research Databases

Full-text, academic journals locally published in Australia and New Zealand. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

BASE contains more than 130 million documents from more than 6,000 academic sources. The database is 60% open access (free), so there may be some things you cannot access. The database is provided by the Bielefeld University Library.

Free online textbooks for students that are focused and to the point. Written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.

A Canadian focus on current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles.

Research on accounting, auto mechanics, building trades, computing science, graphic design, healthcare, photography, sales and retail & more in the Vo/Tech curriculum for both students and instructors

Free online and printable college textbooks from the College Open Textbooks Collaborative, a collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges.

Provides access to full-text academic journals locally published in European countries such as France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal.

Cornell Open is a global open access portal for both new and classic out-of-print titles from the distinguished catalog of Cornell University Press.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Explore over 10 million items from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.

Collection of over 2,000 academic peer-reviewed books from 280 academic publishers across the world.

An online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access to over a million peer-reviewed articles.

Full-text, academic journals locally published in the East and South Asian countries. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

Full-text, academic journals locally published in the East and Central Europe region. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

Collection from ProQuest providing access to authoritative ebooks from the world's top publishers on a range of subjects: arts, business management, education, general knowledge, health & medicine, history & political science, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology, and social science.

General reference collection of periodical and digital media content specifically tailored for K-12 schools and libraries of all kinds, covering a variety of subjects including business, education, general interest, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.

Provides access to eLibrary's periodical and digital media collection through a user interface specifically designed for student researchers.

Open access journals from the University of California. Journals cover a wide range of topics.

We've created an online guide featuring hundreds of free online databases from universities, to state resources, to open educational resources.

Searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. A mixture of free and subscription material.

Custom Google Search that searches over 4,600 university repositories at once. Most results are fully available online for free.

This large-scale digital repository includes many government documents.

Full-text, academic journals published locally in India. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

A growing list of over 100 Open Access ebooks from respected presses, such as University of California Press and University of Michigan Press.

Custom Google Search to search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses from a variety of publishers.

Full-text, academic journals locally published in Latin American countries including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, Spain and Portugal. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

Provides language learning experiences with step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. *First time users must create a profile in order to use this resource.

Search nearly 19,000 online maps from the 1800's through 1960 digitized from the Library of Congress massive map collection. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000.

Full-text, academic journals published in a number of Middle Eastern and African countries. Subjects cover major areas of study: uding business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of record. Collection includes digitized books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts and more.

This search requires you to already have a citation, title, DOI, or URL before searching and scours the Internet looking for legal, open access versions of your requested article.

Free, peer-reviewed and developed textbooks. OpenStax is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations.

Over 46,000 free ebooks, most of which are out of copyright. Good place to find classics.

A cross-disciplinary research tool with 30 databases that can be searched together or individually.

Offers over 50,000 streaming videos on History, Science, Engineering, Health, Performing Arts, Religion, and films for research. Institutional access limited to school and public libraries.

Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away.

A mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the top 150 subject areas.

Background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. Contains more than 3.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Full-text, academic journals locally published in Turkey. Subjects cover major areas of study: business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.

Full-text, academic journals locally published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Subjects cover major areas of study: business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Premier resource for students and researchers at the university level with comprehensive reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.