Tulane University library's research guide for Alumni offers research databases, ebook resources, and digital collections available to the public without a subscription.
Rutger Library has assembled an array on online databases that are available for use without subscription or institutional affiliation. They have also gone one step further and categorized them by subject area.
Includes a wealth of information including information about Texas, Texas Treasures (images of artifacts and documents), resources for librarians, catalogs and indexes.
Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Provides a directory to free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals published on the Internet in a variety of academic subjects. All journals included use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. DOAJ is hosted by the Lund University (Sweden) Libraries; funded by the Open Society Institute--Budapest (Hungary); and also supported by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
Digital journals, books, reference works, and proceedings. The majority of the content is focused on the sciences. Not all of the publications are freely available; some have a 1 year embargo.
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC contains more than 5 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research (late 1700s to present).
SSRN is a pre-print server for economics, business, law and humanities. Many universities and research centers publish their working papers at SSRN. Uploading and searching working papers is free; a number of fee-based sources is also available. Acquired by Elsevier in 2016.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
A tool to provide access to and manipulate data about the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas. The data sources include several censuses and multiple surveys.
Formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and non-financial assistance programs administered by the Federal government.