Facilitating institutions of higher learning by connecting to the server as an engine of growth for the Socio-Economic development of Pakistan.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase the discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility, and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogs, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer-reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them, or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. 

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them, or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. 

HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives. Items in the public domain are in full view for everyone, and items held in copyright are searchable.

Facilitating institutions of higher learning by connecting to the server as an engine of growth for the Socio-Economic development of Pakistan.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 22% of which comes from sponsors, and 78% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge, including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.

SciELO is a database with more than 1,249 scientific journals. It offers open access to scholarly documents in the fields of biology and technology. SciELO Network provides Open Access (OA) to journals’ contents. Journals are organized in national and thematic collections. Each collection is managed by a nationally recognized research organization. The selection of journals to be indexed in and discontinued of a collection is the entire responsibility of each collection management organization, usually with the support of a scientific advisory committee.

ScienceOpen is an incredible research and publishing network offering open access content from more than 24,000 journals. ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context-building services for publishers to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.

EThOS is the UK’s national service, which aims to maximize the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 500,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 260,000 of these also provide access to the full-text theses, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 220,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitization-on-demand facility.

An initiative of the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad.

OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools. We hope that you will take a moment to upload your theses, dissertations, and other publications — and ask your colleagues to do the same. The more comprehensive our database is, the more useful it is to everyone!

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduates and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (Information about theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,060,940 theses and dissertations.