Open Access resources are digital materials made available online free of charge. The term refers mostly to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles that scholars willingly publish without licensing restrictions, i.e. without expectation of payment. [Find out more about O.A.].
Open Access resources on the LAU Libraries pages are identified by the icon shown above (or by the acronym “OA” in the absence of images).
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Full textArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
Biomedical 
Current Full textBioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the full text of over 100 peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
Multidiscipline Current Weekly Full textThis database includes articles/theses available in any of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries institutional repositories.
Pharmacy Current Full textThe Center is a consumer watchdog in America’s healthcare system. CDER’s best-known job is to evaluate new drugs before they can be sold. The Center’s review of new drug applications not only prevents quackery, but it provides doctors and patients with the information they need to use medicines wisely. The Center makes sure that safe and effective drugs are available to improve the health of consumers. CDER ensures that prescription and over-the-counter drugs, both brand name and generic, work correctly and that the health benefits outweigh known risks.
Sciences Current Full textCogprints is an electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and many other areas of computer science.
MultidisciplinaryCUFTS is an open source journal finder also called link resolver. It includes a knowledge base of over 280 electronic resources with 289,000 journal title records.
MultidisciplineThis service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1,135 journals in the directory. Currently 296 journals are searchable at article level. To date 50,478 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
MathematicsHosted by the European Mathematical Society, this rich database provides a number of books and conference proceedings, in addition to a wealth of journals online.
Energy 1948-present Monthly Full text + abstract + citationContains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
Education 1966-Present Monthly Citation + abstractERIC is the world"s largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database is updated monthly with the latest citations available, and provides access to ERIC Document citations and ERIC Journal citations from 1966 to the present.
Health and Medicine Current Abstract + full textThis site provides free access to selected medical journals published in English and other languages such as French, German, and Spanish. Browsable by subject, alphabetically and by language.
Life Science 1995–present Current Full textHighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 850,000 online fulltext articles.
Library & Information Science 1965–Present CitationLISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Medicine/Pharmacy 1966–Present Citation + abstract + full text linkNLM’s website for quality, uptodate, and totally private consumer health information. Health Topics are the core of MEDLINEplus. The Health Topics link to clinical trials; health information from NIH and other sources; and relevant Medline searches. Also included are: drug information from the US Pharmacopeia; the adam.com medical encyclopedia; dictionaries for easy-to-read medical definitions; directories of libraries, hospitals, doctors/dentists or other health professionals or facilities; and the Publications/News section for textbooks, newsletters, and health news sources.
Multidisciplinary Current Citation + Abstract + Full text linkMetaPress provides access to hundreds of thousands of articles from hundreds of journals, newsletters and other professional and academic publications.
Art ImagesNYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Multidisciplinary Weekly Full text + abstract + citationOAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service providing free access to academically-oriented digital resources such as electronic books, theses, onlin e journals, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mpeg, quicktime), reference texts (e.g., dictionaries). It includes about 5,381,107 records from 475 institutions.
Documents 1946-Present Full textThis database is the electronic repository for official documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents is accessible in PDF format in all official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). Documents are stored in two databases: United Nations documentation, with comprehensive coverage beginning in 1993 and selected earlier coverage, and United Nations resolutions, which includes the official records version of resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
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Economics Current Full textResearch Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. It consists of over 200,000 free items.
Bibliography 1998–2002 Full textThis portals allows to access for free the full-text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002.
Business It is the electronic business and knowledge network of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization that seeks to foster worldwide cooperation and partnership towards increasing development growth. Note that your membership entitles you to participate actively to the network and to publish your own business, technology and knowledge opportunities.