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PDFDRIVE https://www.pdfdrive.com/ (global PDF resources)
WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/ (Mostly US libraries)
COBISS.NET NETWORK https://www.cobiss.si/ (Slovenia)
OAIster OCLC search: https://www.oclc.org/en/oaister.html

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BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine https://www.base-search.net/
COAR Confederation of Open Access Repositories https://www.coar-repositories.org/
CORE Open Access research papers https://core.ac.uk/
Digital Commons Network http://network.bepress.com/
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books https://www.doabooks.org/en
DOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/
Open Access Digital Theological Library https://oadtl.org/
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/
Mason OER Metafinder https://oer.deepwebaccess.com/oer/desktop/en/search.html
MENDELEY - https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true
National Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/
Paperity - aggregates papers & articles https://paperity.org/ see https://paperity.org/about/
Post Reformation Digital Library (15th to 18th centuries) http://www.prdl.org/
ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/

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Worldcat provides a simple way to broadly search for free, downloadable scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

AOSIS https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=AOSIS&qt=results_page
Archive.org https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Archive.org&qt=results_page
Hathitrust https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Hathitrust&qt=results_page
Internet Archive https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Internet+Archive&qt=results_page
Intechopen https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Intechopen&qt=results_page
DOAJ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=DOAJ&qt=results_page
DOAB https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=DOAB&&dblist=638&fq=

Need access to dissertations?

There are many repositories that make digital copies of dissertations freely available!

Australian Digital Theses: https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/research
DART Europe Dissertations https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php
Dissertations Sweden http://www.dissertations.se/
EBSCO Open Dissertations https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
EThOS - doctoral theses British Library https://ethos.bl.uk/
NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations http://search.ndltd.org/
OATD - Open Access Theses and Dissertations https://oatd.org/
PQDT Open https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html
TDX Online Doctoral Theses SPAIN https://www.tdx.cat/
Theses Canada http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/
SUDOC France http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/
Theses France http://theses.fr/

Looking for scholarly publications from a specific country or language?

There nations provide open access books, articles and journals in their national library.

EOSC-hub European Open Science Cloud https://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/collections/
National Australian Library https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/research
National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System (Netherlands) https://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en
National Agricultural Library (USDA) https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
National Agricultural Library Digital Collections https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/
National Agricultural Publications (USDA) https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/
National Archives of the United States https://catalog.archives.gov/
National Digital Library of Slovenia http://www.dlib.si/
National Library of Education (US) https://nationallibraryofeducation.on.worldcat.org/discovery
National Library of Israel https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/newspapers/jpress
National Library of Medicine (US) https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Public Libraries Around the World: https://publiclibraries.com/world/
Humanities Commons https://hcommons.org/
Global Ethics https://www.globethics.net/library/home
Global Science Research https://www.globalscienceresearchjournals.org/open-access-journals-list.html
Journal Archives https://journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk/home
MDPI Open Access Journals - https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals
MPRA Economics https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/view/subjects/
New Testament Studies https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies/open-access
Old Testament Essays https://journals.co.za/journal/oldtest
Open Access Journals https://www.openaccessjournals.com/
Open Access Digital Library http://grweb.coalliance.org/oadl/oadl.html
Open Access Resource Collections http://www.gpntb.ru/elektronnye-resursy-udalennogo-dostupa/1874-1024.html
OpenAire https://explore.openaire.eu/
Open Library of Humanities https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/
OUP Open Access Journals https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access
PsycCRITIQUES - reviews of psychology & social science books https://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15960coll21/search
RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies http://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/search?sortby=rank&vid=NLI_Rambi&lang=en_US&mode=advanced
ROAR 4534 repositories worldwide: http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/
SAGE Open Journals https://core.ac.uk/
Scientific Press http://www.scienpress.com/journal.asp
Social Science Research Network https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/
Springer Nature - open access journals https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/journals-books/journals
Springer Open https://www.springeropen.com/
Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library https://www.whdl.org/?language=en
Wiley Open Access Journals https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/browse-journals.html

Still Looking?

Here is a list of other resources you may find helpful.

Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/
ACOR American Center of Oriental Research Photo Archive https://acor.digitalrelab.com/
Dag Hammarskjold Library (UN resources) https://library.un.org/
EarlyChurch.org.uk https://earlychurch.org.uk/index.php
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) US - https://eric.ed.gov/
European Collections https://classic.europeana.eu/portal/en
MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
National Archives of the United States https://catalog.archives.gov/
OASIS https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/
Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/
UNESDOC (UNESCO) Digital Library https://unesdoc.unesco.org/library
United Nations Archives https://archives.un.org/
United Nations Digital Library https://digitallibrary.un.org/?ln=en
What Works Clearinghouse (US Dept Education) https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

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