Full-text scholarly online databases

volunteer effort to digitize and archive books

JSTOR ( ; short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge. JSTOR is part of the nonprofit US academic digital library and learning platform provider, Ithaka Har

search engine for books by Google

repository of freely accessible biomedical journal articles

online project for book data by the Internet Archive

ScienceDirect is a searchable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publications from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books. The access to the full-text requires subscription, while the bibliographic metadata are free to read. ScienceDirect was launched by Elsevier in March 1997.

digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries

HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries, administered by the University of Michigan. Its holdings include content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

online database of journals and ebooks

Online research library.

database

French digital library

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature. Originally established in Brazil in 1997, today there are 16 countries in the SciELO network and its journal collections: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay, and V

database of biomedical research

BioOne is a nonprofit publisher of scientific research.

library

research database focused on computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, and allied fields

Cairn.info is a French-language web portal, founded in 2005, containing scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences and recently scientific, technical, and medical sciences. Much of the collection is in French, but it also includes an English-language international interface to facilitate use by non-francophones. Primary research areas include communications, economics, education, geography, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, political science, law, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. The site provides gratis open access to some publications.

US Department of Education online repository

INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s.

online database of dissertations and theses

J-STAGE (Japan Science Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) is an electronic journal platform for Japanese academic journals.

Noor Specialized Magazines () is a website founded and administered by Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS) that offers digitized versions of specialized journals concerning Islamic studies, social sciences and the humanities.