PROJECT KNOWLEDGE
Like us, there are many who have been working with the vision of making education free and accessible for all. Such ventures work on different levels and platforms (not necessarily journals – podcasts, videos, lectures, catalogues, literature, events, etc.) and provide access to knowledge. Project Knowledge is an initiative to enlist all such endevours for dissemination to scholars. For regular updates on new and time-sensitive resources, subscribe to Project Knowledge here.
We have chosen a simple searchable table format to catalogue Open Access research resources. Users are encouraged to explore the same through subject specific keywords as well as through the categories it has been organized in:
- Time-sensitive
- Encyclopedias/Research resources
- E-text Repositories
- Online Library Catalogues
- Free streaming
- Podcasts
- Reviews/Articles
- Online Courses
- Open Access Publications/Directories
- Writing Resources
- Publication Opportunities
- Resource Databases
- Citation Tools
- Research Resource
- Virtual Museum Tours
Scholarly suggestions are invited to improve upon and/or add resources to this database.
| Resource name and Link | Description | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| The Labyrinth | The labyrinth is a free platform for content on Medieval Studies. It provides a brief overview of topics within Medieval Studies, like Chivalry, Armor, Coins, etc., as well links for further studies and resources. This site is no longer maintained, but remains as part of the history of the Labyrinth. The history of the Labyrinth is now permanently archived at Digital Georgetown, which is Georgetown University’s institutional repository. The permanent link for the archived resources is http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1061738 Place of Origin: USA (Georgetown University, Washington DC) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Luminarium | Luminarium is a multimedia library for content on Medieval to Restoration literature. It contains everything from author biographies, list of works, quotes, research articles, bibliographies, and further study resources to discussion boards dedicated to specific authors. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Shakespeare’s Globe | This is a collection of learning resources on a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by The Shakespeare Globe. It includes backstage production, character discussions, language usage, context and themes, and teaching resources including a research archive on the works of Shakespeare. Place of Origin: UK (London) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic scholarly reference work that publishes comprehensive entries on philosophy and related disciplines. It is unique in that it is regularly updated to incorporate new research and contains cross-references and links within their own articles. Place of Origin: USA (Department of Philosophy, Stanford University) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Victorian Web | The Victorian Web is an open platform for academic content on the British Victorian era. It differs from other open resources such as Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive in that it emphasizes the link between different information, as opposed to the simple search options present in other resources. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) | The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides detailed information on major topics and philosophers within the discipline of philosophy. It is an open access, not-for-profit, and peer-reviewed resource. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Encyclopedia Mythica | The Encyclopedia Mythica is an online platform for content on legends, folklore, and mythology from all over the world. It contains thousands of articles on beings and deities from various cultures. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Encyclopedia of Symbols | The Encyclopedia of Symbols offers information about glyphs, signs, flags, and symbols. This content is organized by categories such as religion, country, culture, etc. and can be searched via keywords, alphabetically, or category. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| The Catholic Encyclopedia | The Catholic Encyclopedia gives information on the Catholic doctrine, action, and interests. It is not restricted to content on the Catholic Church only, but also documents Catholic achievements for artistic and intellectual development of humans. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Sahapedia | Sahapedia is an encyclopedia for Indian cultures, arts, and histories. Designed with the principle of accessibility in mind, here you can find content in multimedia format, such as videos, photo essays, books, articles, interviews, and so on. Place of Origin: India | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| 1807 Commemorated | 1807 Commemorated contends with how Britain commemorates the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. It studies the representation of slave trade and its remembraces in museums, commemorative sites, and media, and provides a discussion forum for them. This is an archival website and not updated anymore. Place of Origin: UK (Arts and Humanities Research Council, The University of York) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Fashion and Consumption in the First World War | After the First World War, there was a growing need for women’s clothing that allowed them more freedom to work. In addition to this, scarcity of availability of good quality fabrics and reduction in consumer spending also had an impact on the fashion trends. Fashion and Consumption in the First World War, an archival website, is a catalogue of women’s clothing from 1916 and 1917. This website is an archive and no longer updated. Place of Origin: UK (Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| History of Africa with Zeinab Badawi | This is a series of 20 episodes based on a project by UNESCO, called GHA: the General History of Africa. The videos are about the heritage, culture, and history of Africa as narrated by Africans themselves. Place of Origin: USA (Youtube playlist) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Smarthistory | Smarthistory is an art history resource with thousands of videos and essays for learners at all levels. It’s aim is to make art history more engaging and accessible to people from all walks of life. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Critical Posthumanism | This website is dedicated to creating a genealogy of the posthuman paradigm. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| The syllabus | It is a collection of academic articles, essays, talks, podcasts, books, and more. The curation runs either along thematic lines – e.g. technology, political economy, arts & culture – or by media types such as Best of Academic Papers, Podcasts, Videos. One can also build their own personalised syllabus centered around their interests. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Internet Archive | The mission of the Internet Archive is to give “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” It provides free access to books and texts, images, videos, software programs, web pages, and audio recordings. Place of Origin: USA (San Francisco) | E-text Repositories |
| Gutenberg Project | Project Gutenberg was the first to make ebooks freely available to the public. It is an online library with a focus on older literary works. Place of Origin: USA (Salt Lake City) | E-text Repositories |
| Poetry Foundation | The Poetry Foundation is a literary organization with the aim to increase the visibility of poetry. It seeks to make the best poetry available to a large audience and is the publisher of the Poetry magazine. Place of Origin: USA (Chicago) | E-text Repositories |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), as the name implies, is a database for journals within all fields of humanities, social sciences, medicine, science, and technology. It is committed to providing the latest, quality, and peer-reviewed open access scholarly content. | E-text Repositories |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar is a convenient platform to search all academic content across disciplines. It allows you to explore books, articles, abstracts, theses, court opinions, and so on from publishers and repositories around the world. Place of Origin: USA | E-text Repositories |
| Research Gate | ResearchGate is an open platform to share, discuss, and discover research across disciplines. It also allows you to keep track of who is citing your work and has a research-focused job board. | E-text Repositories |
| Reference resource | Bartleby is an e-text archive. It provides free access to a diverse range of searchable reference works within the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and more. | E-text Repositories |
| Literary Theory and Criticism | As the name suggests, this is a platform dedicated to Literary Theory and Criticism. It offers open access to eZines, ebooks, lectures, and scholarly articles. | E-text Repositories |
| Humanities Text Initiatives | The Humanities Text Initiative provides online access to full text resources within the various fields of humanities. Place of Origin: USA (University of Michigan) | E-text Repositories |
| The Sonnet | Sonnet Central is a repository of English sonnets. It also provides useful links and commentary, as well as a platform for poets to promote their work. | E-text Repositories |
| Classical Antiquity | Perseus Digital Library focuses on the Greco-Roman world. It’s broader mission, however, is to show the similarities between the other disciplines within humanities and Classics. Place of Origin: USA (Department of Classical Studies, Tufts University) | E-text Repositories |
| Internet Medieval Source Book | Internet Medieval Sourcebook is a compilation of texts available in the public domain. This is specifically designed to aid Medieval History teachers as one of its parts contains classroom sized extracts, while the other one contains the full sized documents. Place of Origin: USA (Department of History, Fordham University, New York) | E-text Repositories |
| Audible | Audible, an Amazon company, has opened up its collection of stories for children for free streaming. This is an initiative to sustain learning through stories during the time that schools are closed to the Covid-19 pandemic. Place of Origin: USA | E-text Repositories |
| Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | BASE is a repository of research documents such as articles, dissertations, theses, and so on. It is operated by Bielefeld University Library. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). Place of Origin: Germany (Bielefield University) | E-text Repositories |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations | OATD is a catalogue of open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. The database comprises research from around 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. | E-text Repositories |
| British Library | British Library is a wide-ranging research collection for scientific, research, business, and academic communities. Artefacts from the entire history of written civilization can be found in their collection. Place of Origin: UK (London) | Online Library Catalogues |
| Library of Congress | The Library of Congress has millions of manuscripts, maps, photographs, books, newspapers, and recordings. It provides both online and in person services. Place of Origin: USA (Washington DC) | Online Library Catalogues |
| Brain Pickings | Brain Pickings is maintained by Maria Popova. She reviews all kinds of books, philosophers, and provides cross-references for related reviews. Rather than reviewing any and all material, this is a personally curated list of reviews. | Reviews/Articles |
| London review of books | Published twice a month, the London Review of Books is a magazine on ideas and culture. In addition to book reviews, you can also find a diary, letters, movie and exhibition reviews, ‘short cuts’, reportage, memoirs, and poems. Place of Origin: UK (London) | Reviews/Articles |
| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is a journal that publishes high-quality and substantive book reviews of the academic philosophical books released every year. The journal is peer-reviewed and available for free. Place of Origin: USA (Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame) | Reviews/Articles |
| Aeon | Aeon is a digital magazine offering provocative and profound answers to the big questions about humanity. Its content is in the form of essays as well as videos. | Reviews/Articles |
| Coursera | Coursera is one of the leading platforms for online higher education. You can enroll in free courses from all disciplines as well as pay a fee to earn a certificate. Place of Origin: USA | Online Courses |
| MIT Open Courses | MIT OpenCourseWare makes the course contents of MIT freely available to everyone. It can enrich the experience of both educators and learners. Place of Origin: USA (MIT, Boston) | Online Courses |
| Harvard Open Learning Initiative | Harvard Extension School brings together the best of Harvard faculty as well as professors from the wider academic community to offer open access courses for higher education. You can get self-paced undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, and graduate certificates here. Place of Origin: USA (Harvard Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University) | Online Courses |
| EdX | EdX is a global nonprofit organization offering free online courses in every subject. It reimagines the possibilities of conventional education systems by removing the issues of access, location, and cost. Place of Origin: China | Online Courses |
| Stanford Online | Stanford Online brings a variety of online courses to help enhance your career and learning from the best minds at Stanford. Place of Origin: USA (Stanford University) | Online Courses |
| Open Culture | Open Culture centralizes and curates open access higher education courses from various platforms like EdX and Coursera. Here, you can find enriching, educational media from across the web. | Online Courses |
| Massive Open Online Courses | MOOCs are openly available online courses where anyone can enroll. They offer a self-paced and affordable option to increase your skills and the scope of your career. | Online Courses |
| Swayam Central | SWAYAM is an educational program developed by the Government of India based on the principles of quality, equity, and access for everyone. The content available here is divided into 4 categories – video lectures, downloadable reading material, self-assessment tests, and a discussion forum. Place of Origin: India (Government of India) | Online Courses |
| History of Philosophy | History of Philosophy is a podcast series focusing on the historical context, lives, and ideas of major and minor philosophers. You can also buy book versions of these open access podcasts. Place of Origin: Germany (Ludwig-Maximillians University) and UK (Kings College London) | Podcasts |
| Talking Politics | Talking Politics is a weekly podcast about current politics. It covers events and ideas about everything, including fiction, philosophy, economics, and history. Place of Origin: UK | Podcasts |
| The Coronavirus Pandemic | The University of Utrecht has conducted an interdisciplinary study on the global crisis brought about by The Coronavirus Pandemic. The results are published in the form of videos and podcasts that are openly available for everyone. Place of Origin: The Netherlands (University of Utrecht) | Podcasts |
| Open Culture | It is a free cultural and educational media that has a lecture podcasts of great philosophers | Podcasts |
| LLIDS | Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal. It offers an interdisciplinary platform for research inquiries that substantially contribute to any academic discourse. Place of Origin: India | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Rupkatha | The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities is a non-profit open access initiative. It operates on the principle that anything with a form, either mental or visual, is worthy of discussion. Place of Origin: India | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Phenomenology and Pedagogy | Phenomenology and Pedagogy is an open access journal. However, it is meant for archiving purposes only and is not accepting any new submissions. Place of Origin: Canada (University of Alberta) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Journal of Literature and Science | The Journal of Literature and Science is an academic, peer-reviewed, open access journal. It welcomes essays on the topic of literature and science, as the name implies, and encourages a broad meaning of ‘science.’ Place of Origin: UK (Science and Humanities Initiative, Cardiff University) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology | Puncta is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of philosophy. It invites submissions on contemporary and classical phenomenology which make a critical contribution to phenomenological research. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Frontiers Publishing House | Frontiers is an Open Science Platform and an Open Access Publisher. It’s publishing model includes Community-Driven Journals, Research Topics, Collaborative Peer-Review, Impact Metrics, Loop (an academic network), and Frontiers for Young Minds. Place of Origin: Switzerland, UK, Spain, China | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Institute of Historical Research book series | The IHR book series of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, publishes monographs and edited collections in partnership with the University of London Press. All titles in the series appear in print and online formats, and have been made available free to all as Open Access. The website provides free online access to 28 books and 325 individual book chapters. Place of Origin: UK (Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Comparative Literature: East & West | Comparative Literature: East & West is an open access journal by Taylor and Francis Group which addresses all aspects and phases of Comparative Literature. The full scope of the journal includes Comparative Literature, world literature, literary criticism, translation studies, media studies, cultural studies, comparative poetics and so on with literature and comparison at the core of discussion and debate. The journal follows double-blind peer review policy. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology | The IPJP is an open access platform intended primarily as a forum for Southern African, Indian, Australian, Asian, New Zealand and Pacific Island scholars to discuss a broad range of phenomenological issues. The underlying assumption of the IPJP is that phenomenology provides researchers with a unique research philosophy which allows them to explore issues central to the question of being human. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Journal of Aesthetics & Culture | The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a peer reviewed Open Access journal to contribute to the discussions within the growing field of art and media. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Living Handbook of Narratology | The living handbook of narratology is an open access publication on narrative and narratology. It also provides a forum for registered narratologists where they can submit entries, suggest corrections, and comment on the current articles. Place of Origin: Germany (Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology, University of Hamburg) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Elements of Style by William Strunk | The Elements of Style is a style guide for American English writing. It is one of the most useful books for those interested in writing. Place of Origin: USA (New York) | Open Access Publications/Directories, Writing Resources |
| Writing Commons | Writing Commons is a group of researchers, teachers, and writers who want to help people realize their potential in the same fields. It provides a platform for teachers to share theoretical frameworks, research, and other practices. Place of Origin: USA (New York) | Writing Resources |
| MLA Style Center | The MLA Style Center is a companion to the MLA Handbook. It offers a quick citation guide, writing tips, sample research papers, lesson plans, and so on. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| Research Proposal | This is a detailed guide on how to write research proposals. It provides pragmatic information for students writing a research proposal as part of their application process to research degrees or postgraduate research funding. Place of Origin: UK (The University of Edinburgh) | Writing Resources |
| Postgrad Application Library | This is an open access Google Drive folder containing sample research proposals. You can get information about which ones were accepted, which ones got scholarships, and so forth. It can be used as reference while creating your own research proposal. | Writing Resources |
| Word Similarity | This website gives you several analogous terms for any given word and gives examples of usage, in different languages. | Writing Resources |
| Harvard Writing Guide | The link provides access to writing guides for various disciplines sponsored by Harvard Writing Project. The guides encourage better writing by giving students practical advice and useful examples. Place of Origin: USA (Harvard University) | Writing Resources |
| Harvard College Writing Center | Writing resources such as strategies and process for writing good academic essays, guides for discipline-specific writing, and various citation styles are curated by Harvard College’s Writing Center Place of Origin: USA (Harvard University) | Writing Resources |
| The Writing Center – University of Wisconsin | The link has a writing handbook and writing workshops for students, instructors, and faculty. Place of Origin: USA (University of Wisconsin) | Writing Resources |
| Call for Papers for Journals/Conferences | The Call for Papers website is maintained by the University of Pennsylvania where literature and humanities calls for papers are posted. They are organized by discipline and include events, publications, conferences, and so on. Place of Origin: USA (University of Pennysvania) | Publication Opportunities |
| Aerogramme Writers’ Studio | Established as well as emerging writers can find news and resources on the Aerogramme Writers’ Studio. These include writing tips, residency and prize announcements, publication opportunities, and more. | Publication Opportunities |
| H-Net [Humanities and Social Sciences Resources] | H-Net is an open access platform for scholars in the field of humanities and social sciences. It’s services include a Book Channel for announcements about the latest books in a field, H-Net Reviews for professional book reviews, H-Net Journals for open access, peer-reviewed, academic content, H-Net Commons that offers a content management platform for various online communities, H-Announce for announcements about events, calls for papers, conferences, funding, and so on, and finally, H-Net Job Guide. Place of Origin: USA | Publication Opportunities |
| Rekhta | With more than 30,000 Nazms and Ghazals of about 2500 Urdu poets, Rekhta is the largest digital repository of Urdu poetry. Upcoming Urdu poets can also showcase their work here. Place of Origin: India (New Delhi) | Publication Opportunities |
| Habitat World | Maintained by the India Habitat Centre, the Habitat World is an online culture calendar. It is a curated selection of webinars, shorts, features, and documentaries from emerging and renowned filmmakers across India. Place of Origin: India (New Delhi) | Resource Databases |
| Voice of the Shuttle | Voice of the Shuttle is an under-development directory to humanities resources, both primary and secondary. The annotated resource guide is structured according to the established and evolving disciplines within the humanities. Place of Origin: USA | Resource Databases |
| The Warburg Library Digital Collections | This Warburg Library Digital Collections lists online resources and databases on Medieval and Renaissance studies. It includes open access as well as subscription based databases. Place of Origin: UK (School of Advanced Study, University of London) | Resource Databases |
| Citation Machine | At Citation Machine, you can generate citations for your paper in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. You can also check your paper for plagiarism on this site. Additionally, Citation Machine has a student blog for the latest citation information and research tips. | Citation Tools |
| Purdue Online Writing Lab | The Purdue Online Writing Lab helps you cite in various formats such as APA, MLA, Chicago Manual, IEEE, and AMA style. In addition, it offers resources on how to conduct research as well as use it in your own documents. Place of Origin: USA (Purdue University) | Citation Tools, Writing Resources |
| Cite This for Me | You can create citations in Harvard, APA, and MLA formats for your bibliography at Cite This for Me. This website also has its citation guides for various formats to help you better understand citation. You can, moreover, cite while you search by installing their Chrome add-on. Place of Origin: UK, Canada, USA, and Australia | Citation Tools |
| EasyBib | EasyBib is another popular citation generator for MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. They have a weekly Student and Teacher Blog for Better Papers, as well as a writing center with plenty of infographics, articles, guides, lesson plans, videos, and other resources for the entire research process. | Citation Tools |
| Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | The Thyssen Museum offers a collection of virtual tours that you can explore on your screen as well as through virtual reality (VR) glasses. There are curated tours on Rembrandt, the impressionists, Balthus, and more. Place of Origin: Spain (Madrid) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | The virtual tours at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are self-guided. Visitors can also look at past exhibits that are no longer being displayed in the museum. Place of Origin: USA (Washington DC) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Louvre Museum | The galleries and exhibition rooms of the Louvre are available to visit via virtual tours. The Advent of the Artist, The Body in Movement, and Founding Myths: From Hercules to Darth Vader are just some of the curated tours available. Place of Origin: France (Paris) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Free Online Courses by Harvard university | Harvard University offers online classes, out of which some are available for free. Various topics from diverse range of subjects are covered in these short online courses. Place of Origin: USA (Harvard University) | Online Courses |
| The Metropolitan Opera | The Metropolitan Opera website has Nightly Opera Streams, which provides free access to a different performance each night. Place of Origin: USA (New York) | Free Streaming |
| Black Digital Humanities | A list of useful projects, events, and resources on African diaspora, Martin Luther King, transatlantic slave trade, race, African American, Malcolm X, jazz, and a lot more | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| British Museum | The British Museum - Virtual interactive timeline of Art and design, Living and Dying traditions, Power and Identity, Religion and Belief, and Trade and Conflict. Place of Origin: UK (London) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Cambridge Core | Textbooks | An initiative which has made millions of e-books freely accessible to all Place of Origin: UK (University of Cambridge) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Postgraduate Publishing | Advice on academic publishing. Place of Origin: UK (University of London) | Writing Resources |
| Excelsior owl | Excelsior Online Writing Lab provides various kinds of materials to help users with research and writing. Users are guided through each step of writing with interactive multimedia materials such as activities, quizzes, videos etc. for a fun and engaging learning experience. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| Writing@CSU | Writing@CSU is an open-access writing resource by Colorado State University. It provides free materials and guides for writers as well as teachers. Place of Origin: USA (Colorado State University) | Writing Resources |
| The Writing Center, UNC at Chapel Hill | The Writing Center of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides online tips and tools for writing. This includes various handouts on writing a paper, style guides and citations and subject-specific writing. Place of Origin: USA (University of North Carolina) | Writing Resources |
| Visuwords | Visuwords is a visual and interactive dictionary and thesaurus that allows users to not just learn meanings of words but also find associations with other words and concepts. The website provides a graphical network of meanings and synonyms that can be explored easily. | Writing Resources |
| APA Style | The APA Style website of the American Psychological Association has elaborate style and grammar guidelines. It also gives access to instructional aids such as tutorials, webinars, handouts and sample papers. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| BBC Academic Writing Exercises | The BBC Learning English website hosts several activities that help hone the users’ academic writing skills. This online course includes topics such as academic vocabulary, structuring the paper, citation, language of the argument etc. Place of Origin: UK | Writing Resources |
| Write at Home Blog | The blog of Write at Home by Brian Wasko hosts several articles that attempts to improve one’s writing skills. These articles cover various aspects of the English language—such as parts of speech, figures of speech and punctuations—as well as common mistakes, narrative tropes and themes, writing tips and so on. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| StringNet Navigator | StringNet is a lexicon that consists of multiword patterns in its database. It allows users to discover various patterns in which the searched term/s are commonly used. This means that the search results produce the most common ways in which the term has been used in a phrase. Place of Origin: UK (British National Corpus) | Writing Resources |
| OneLook Thesaurus | OneLook Thesaurus has a reverse dictionary feature in its search option. It not only provides synonyms for the word entered in the searchbox, but also provides a list of words or phrases for a concept described (in phrases or sentences). The search tool also allows users to find words based on certain patterns or sequences of letters entered. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| The Chicago Manual of Style Online | The Chicago Manual of Style website provides an online style guide for free. Other resources like Chicago style Q&A, video tutorials, citation quick guide, online forum for users, and online resources for students, teachers and librarians. Place of Origin: USA | Writing Resources |
| Postcolonial Studies Links and Resources | Post-colonial Web provides academic content on contemporary post-colonial and post-imperial literature in English. It is organized according to geographical countries like Africa, Australia, etc., according to authors such as Chinua Achebe, A.S. Byatt, etc., and according to themes such as history, religion, and so on. Place of Origin: USA | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Monmouth University | Resources for Writers | Monmouth University provides online resources for writers, which include skill sheets for research and documentation, grammar and punctuation, and other writing processes. Place of Origin: USA (Monmouth University) | Writing Resources |
| UEfAP | The Using English for Academic Purposes website (UEfAP.com) provides free access to resources that help improve Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking skills for English in an academic setting. The website has additional information regarding accuracy in the usage of English as well as vocabulary and grammar. These resources also include exercises for users to complete. Place of Origin: UK | Writing Resources |
| Conventions of Writing Papers in Humanities | This worksheet by Prof. Celia A. Easton at State University of New York College at Geneseo provides a brief explanation on the conventions of writing essays in the field of Humanities. Place of Origin: USA (State University of New York College) | Writing Resources |
| UNSW Sydney Writing Skills | The University of New South Wales, Sydney directs users to free writing resources on the university website. These resources are categorized under Essay and Assignment Writing, Postgraduate Research Writing, Grammar and Style, Science and Engineering Writing, and Academic Writing Links. Place of Origin: Australia (University of New South Wales) | Writing Resources |
| Free Writing Courses on EdX | EdX hosts several free, online writing courses aimed at a wide range of topics such as Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking, Academic and Business Writing, Fiction Writing, Script Writing, Personal essays and so on. Place of Origin: China | Writing Resources, Online Courses |
| Learning Lab and RMIT University | The Learning Lab at RMIT University provides tutorials in the form of worksheets, videos, quizzes to help improve users’ writing skills. This website includes resources on academic style, grammar, structuring, referencing, academic integrity, argument analysis, and much more. Place of Origin: Australia (RMIT University) | Writing Resources |
| Logeion | Logeion is an archive of Latin and Greek dictionaries. The search option of this website allows for a simultaneous lookup of entries from various dictionaries. Place of Origin: USA (University of Chicago) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| David Rumsey Map Collection | The David Rumsey Map Collection provides free access to around 100,000 digital maps. Online catalogues and other tools of comparison and analysis allow users to view these high-resolution images in various, experimental ways. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Literary Terms | This site contains an extensive glossary of literary terms along with their definitions and examples. Interactive tools such as videos, quizzes and flashcards are also available for the users as well. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Poe Stories | PoeStories.com is a helpful collection of resources for the stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Summaries, quotes, and wordlists with definitions are provided to study his works. The biography and timeline of Poe, along with images related to him are also available for users. The website also contains links for other works related to Poe. | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Shodhganga | Shodhganga is an online repository of theses and dissertations submitted to Indian institutions. All theses deposited in this repository are available in open-access for users. Place of Origin: India | E-text Repositories |
| Rare Book Room | Rare Book Room provides digital access to around 400 rare books. These books have been photographed at high resolutions by Octavo over the last decade. | E-text Repositories |
| Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) | Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) aims to increase discoverability of open access books. This directory allows users to find books using their search or browse options. | E-text Repositories |
| CORE (Connecting Repositories) | CORE (Connecting Repositories) is a collection of open-access research papers from over ten thousand data providers around the world. This website hopes to facilitate free access of all the open access research outputs. Place of Origin: UK | E-text Repositories |
| LingBuzz | LingBuzz is an open-access repository of academic materials for Linguistics created by Michal Starke. Its archives include scholarly articles (published and unpublished), discussions and other documents. | E-text Repositories |
| EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) | EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is an online aggregated record of doctoral theses from universities in the UK. It provides free access to around 260 thousand full-text theses awarded by approximately 120 institutions. Place of Origin: UK (British Library, London) | E-text Repositories |
| Jurn | Jurn is a search engine for open-access academic articles, chapters and theses of various disciplines. The website also consists of a directory of around 3,000 free journals in arts and humanities. | E-text Repositories |
| The Free Library | The Free Library by Farlex, Inc. is an online repository of periodicals and literature. Its database consists of millions of articles as well as classic literature that can be accessed for free. Place of Origin: USA (Pennysylvania) | E-text Repositories |
| Open Yale Courses (OYC) | Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides free lectures of liberal arts disciplines such as Humanities, Social Sciences, and Biological and Physical Sciences. Lectures are available as online and downloadable videos, audio formats and also transcripts. Place of Origin: USA (Yale University) | Online Courses |
| OpenLearn | OpenLearn by The Open University is a free learning platform that has free courses spanning various disciplines. The website also provides access to articles and interactive materials. Place of Origin: UK (The Open University) | Online Courses |
| OER Commons | OER Commons is a digital library of Open Educational Resources created by ISKME. Users can search for resources of various subjects such as university courses, open textbooks, lesson plans, worksheets, interactive materials etc. at different education levels. Place of Origin: USA (California) | Online Courses |
| Saylor Academy | Saylor Academy offers free online courses at college and professional levels. Around 100 full-length courses are available that can be completed at the user’s own pace and schedule. This open education academy also provides college credits for partner schools and digital certificates upon completion of courses. Place of Origin: USA (Washington DC) | Online Courses |
| Literary Roadhouse | Literary Roadhouse hosts discussions of literary works under 3 podcasts: (1) Weekly Short Stories discusses a wide range of short stories once a week. (2) The Bradbury Challenge features discussions of two writers who attempt to write a short story every week for a year. (3) Monthly Bookclub is a podcast where a novel is discussed in depth each month. Place of Origin: USA | Podcasts |
| Milne Open Textbooks | Milne Open Textbooks (previously known as “Open SUNY Textbooks”) is a catalogue of open access textbooks authored and reviewed by the faculty of The State University of New York College at Geneseo. Managed by Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo, this website provides free access to college-level textbooks of various disciplines. Place of Origin: USA (State University of New York) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| OpenDOAR | OpenDOAR is a Directory of Open Access Repositories for academic materials. It has easy search options to explore academic repositories that have been registered. Place of Origin: UK | Resource Databases |
| ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a free digital library offered to the public by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. Users have the options of searching for peer-reviewed articles and/or full-texts while exploring the database. Place of Origin: USA (US Department of Education) | Resource Databases |
| Van Gogh Museum: Enjoy the Museum from Home | The website for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam consists of virtual tours of their collections, stories about the life and works of Vincent van Gogh, and his letters and other writings. Videos and painting tutorials are also provided to learn more about his works and style. Games, colouring pages and stories are available for children to learn about the artist as well. Place of Origin: The Netherlands (Amsterdam) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Google Arts and Culture | Google Arts and Culture provides online access to works of art around the world using high-resolution images and various interactive methods. Users can view closely various artworks or take a virtual tour of galleries using ‘Street View.’ Educational resources are also available on artists, art movements, historical events, mediums etc. Place of Origin: USA | Virtual Museum Tours, Encycolpedias/Research Resources |
| Bryn Mawr Classical Review | Bryn Mawr Classical Review, one of the oldest online academic journals in the field of Humanities, publishes open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of scholarly articles and books pertaining to Classical Studies. Place of Origin: USA (Bryn Mawr College) | Reviews/Articles |
| Public Lectures at the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought of The European Graduate School | The public lectures delivered by several artists and professors over the past 15 years at the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought of The European Graduate School have been archived here. Place of Origin: Switzerland (Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought; The European Graduate School) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Lecture series - Separation, Isolation and Community in Literature | The Department of English at Heidelberg University hosted a lecture series on Separation, Isolation and Community in Literature during the Winter semester 2020-21. The audio files of the lectures, along with transcripts and supplementary material, are now available for the public on this website. Place of Origin: Germany (Department of English, Heidelberg University) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Public Books Database | In response to universities and libraries being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several academic presses have provided free, online access to hundreds of their titles. The Public Books website has collated a list of such academic books that are available for free. This database is regularly updated and currently directs users to the freely accessible titles under almost 50 presses. Place of Origin: USA | E-text Repositories |
| Romantic Circles | Romantic Circles is a peer-reviewed scholarly website dedicated to Romantic-period literature and culture. It provides free, online access to several academic resources under the following sections: - Praxis Series contains a series of peer-reviewed critical volumes. - Electronic Editions is an electronic archive of high standard, academic editions of Romantic-era texts. It currently offers 45 editions that can be read online. - Pedagogies consists of online resources and a peer-reviewed journal that are devoted to teaching Romanticism. - Scholarly Resources provides different kinds of online research tools. - Gallery contains a collection of images from the Romantic era. - Audio holds audio recordings of readings of Romantic works, interviews, and lectures. - Reviews and Receptions provide access to contemporary scholarship, including debates, book chats, curated book lists, reviews, etc. and even a list of appearances of Romanticism in popular culture. Place of Origin: USA (University of Colorado Boulder) | Encyclopedias/Research resources |
| Sarmaya Arts Foundation | Sarmaya Arts Foundation is one of India’s first digital archives that houses artworks, artefacts, and living traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Its website provides open access to curated collections of Cartography, Etchings and Engravings, Indigenous and Tribal Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Numismatics, Photography, and Rare Books. It also contains several virtual exhibitions, talks, and learning resources on Indian art, culture, history, and conservation. Place of Origin: India (Mumbai) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Digital Bodleian | Digital Bodleian is an online repository for digitized content from the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. This website hosts digital collections consisting of high-resolution images of rare books, manuscripts, maps, portraits, photographs, etc. that amount up to almost 15 thousand freely accessible items. Place of Origin: UK (University of Oxford) | Research Resource |
| Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) | The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), a part of the Harvard Open Access Project, is a social-tagging project tracks news regarding Open Access research. This crowd-sourced project aims to provide real-time alerts of OA developments as well as organize OA resources. Place of Origin: USA | Research Resource |
| The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) | The National Digital Library of India (NDLI), a project funded by the Indian Ministry of Education and developed by IIT Kharagpur, is an online repository of digital contents such as books, articles, videos, audios, theses, and other educational materials for various disciplines and levels of education. The website supports browse and search options in English and twelve Indian languages so far. In response to the lockdown due to the global pandemic, this website has been hosting around 3,82,00,000 freely accessible books and periodicals. Place of Origin: India (Ministry of Education, IIT Kharagpur) | E-text Repositories |
| Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast series | Speaking Otherwise, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, is an academic podcast series that deals with critical questions of our times. The CSDS website provides free access to the podcasts. Place of Origin: India (CSDS, Delhi) | Podcasts |
| Wesleyan University Press | The Wesleyan University Press has initiated a collection of Open Access E-books pertaining to the discipline of performing arts. With the support of the Humanities Open Book program by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Wesleyan currently provides free access to 16 of its titles on dance and theatre studies. Place of Origin: USA (Wesleyan University, Connecticut) | E-text Repositories |
| One More Voice | One More Voice is digital humanities project that aims to recover the non-European contributions from the colonial archives of the nineteenth century. This digital archive provides open access to various forms of materials such as archival texts, visual materials, books, and motion pictures, which cover travel narratives, autobiographies, letters, diaries, testimonies, interviews, treaties, maps, oral histories, genealogies, and vocabularies of non-Western voices. Place of Origin: USA (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | E-text Repositories |
| Postcolonial Text | Postcolonial Text is an open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes articles, book reviews, fiction, poetry, and interviews on postcolonial studies. Place of Origin: France (Paris) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Edutopia | Edutopia by the George Lucas Educational Foundation is a free online resource on education and teaching. The website aims to help implement six core strategies for innovation and reform in learning: comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, project-based learning, professional learning, social and emotional learning, and technology integration. Place of Origin: USA (George Lucas Educational Foundation) | Resource Databases |
| The Polish Journal of Aesthetics | The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, earlier known as Estetyka i Krytyka, is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes in the field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. This quarterly journal publishes articles that raise philosophical questions about aesthetic experience and the arts. Place of Origin: Poland (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Cornell Open | Cornell Open is an initiative by Cornell University Press to provide open access to new and classic out-of-print titles. With funding from the Humanities Open Book Program, several books in the fields of anthropology, classics, political science, literary criticism and theory, German studies, and Slavic studies will be made available for free online. Place of Origin: USA (Cornell University) | E-text Repositories |
| SSRN | SSRN is a permanent and searchable online database of early scholarly research available worldwide. It allows for authors to post their working papers and abstracts free of charge. Majority of papers can be freely downloaded from SSRN. Place of Origin: USA (New York) | Resource Databases |
| The Open Humanities Press | The Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing initiative that aims to make contemporary works of critical thought accessible worldwide. This not-for-profit organization brings together several scholarly communities with a focus on critical and cultural theory. Place of Origin: UK (London) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| disClosure | disClosure is an annual, no fee, open access journal of social theory published by the Committee on Social Theory (CST) at the University of Kentucky. This journal publishes articles, art, creative writing, interviews, and book reviews and aims to find new ways to approach social theory through various disciplines, geographies, theoretical perspectives, and genres. Place of Origin: USA (University of Kentucky) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Figure/Ground | Figure/Ground is a website that publishes interviews with scholars, scientists, professors, researchers as well as creators, artists, and filmmakers. These interviews are available for free on this open access website. Place of Origin: Argentina, Canada | Research Resource |
| The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Digital Archives | The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences provides open access to its digital archives, Urban History Documentation Archives, in collaboration with University of Heidelberg, The Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library, and the Center for Research Libraries. This resource contains digitized copies of books, manuscripts, official records, and journals in Eastern Indian languages from the public libraries of rural West Bengal. Place of Origin: India (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) | E-text Repositories |
| Transactions of the Burgon Society | Transactions of the Burgon Society is an annual peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of academical dresses. The back issues of this academic journal are available for free at this website hosted by The Burgon Society. Place of Origin: UK | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) | Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) is a digital archive of Ukranian cultural heritage institutions. The resources include scanned documents, artworks, and other materials from more than 3500 institutions of cultural heritage, which can be accessed for free at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and the Browsertrix crawler. Place of Origin: USA (Tufts University and Stanford University) and Italy (European University Institute) | E-text Repositories |
| Central European University Press | The Central European University Press publishes books on a wide range of subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including history, literature, media studies, human rights, and art history. It is providing free access to ten of its most pertinent titles on Ukraine and its neighbours. These provide a deeper look into Ukraine's history and how it affects the present. Place of Origin: Hungary (Central European University, Budapest) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing | Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series of peer-reviewed collections of essays with the aim of building a library of open access textbooks for the writing classroom. Each volume under this series is available to download for free under the Creative Commons license. Place of Origin: USA | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| SYNOPTIQUE | SYNOPTIQUE is a peer reviewed, open access journal of film and moving images studies, hosted by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. This student run academic journal aims to promote innovative research in film and media studies by providing a platform for publication, discussion, and reflection on the new political-cultural formations shaping these disciplines. Place of Origin: Canada (Concordia University, Montreal) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Mediations | Mediations is a journal of the Marxist Literary Group, which studies the social, political, and ideological elements and effects of literary texts and other cultural artefacts. This open access journal publishes dossiers of translated material on special topics and peer-reviewed general issues each year. Place of Origin: USA (Department of English,University of Illinois, Chicago) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| b2o: an online journal | b2o: an online journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collective, and publishes articles on topics of particular relevance to the online context and/or feature pieces that take advantage of the affordances of networked digital media. Place of Origin: USA (Duke University, Durham) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Open Library of Humanities | The Open Library of Humanities is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship. It supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal. They publish some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities. Place of Origin: UK (Birbeck, University of London) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Phenomenology and Mind | Phenomenology and Mind, a double-blind peer-reviewed, and open access journal founded in 2011, publishes systematic (in cooperation with experimental research) and scholarly/historical research that deal with the philosophical concerns of personhood or the moral agent. Place of Origin: Italy (Turin) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Forum: Qualitative Social Research | FQS is an open-access, peer-reviewed multinlingual online journal for qualitative research. Its triannual issues accept contributions on topics and methods important for qualitative research. Place of Origin: Germany (Center for Digital Systems, Frei Universitaet Berlin) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Indian Community Cookbook Project | The Indian Community Cookbook is an open archive of community cookbooks from across India. Started by three undergraduates of FLAME University, this project presents lesser-known cuisines of India and digitises cookbooks. Place of Origin: India | Digital Archive |
| Mapping the Gay Guides | Mapping the Gay Guides uses Bob Damron's guides for gay men in the United States, to explore the growth of queer communities over time. It intends to the correct the cultural erasure of historical geography, to make connections between historical queer communities, and to allow users to navigate through the nuances in queer geographies. Place of Origin: USA | Research Resource, E-Text Repository |
| Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database | MAELD and ADELD gather African Electronic Literature writers, readers, and scholars together. The database contains over 300 records in dozens of languages across 32 African countries (and beyond). The project aims to make these literary works available for readers, accessible to researchers, and to preserve them for posterity. Place of Origin: Africa | Research Resource, Resource Database, E-Text Repository |
| The Winnifred Eaton Archive | The Winnifred Eaton Archive is a research and teaching tool that offers over 200 works by Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve, a popular early Asian North American author, journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. This digital archive provides freely accessible scans and searchable transcriptions of most of Winnifred Eaton’s collected works. Place of Origin: Canada (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) | Open Access Publications/Directories, Archive |
| Udemy Free Resources | Udemy is a massive open online course provider aimed at professional adults and students. A selection of its courses are made freely accessible on this page. Place of Origin: USA, Turkiye, Ireland, Australia, India | Online Courses |
| Lives in Turkish | Lives in Turkish is an ongoing project that investigates the journey of life-writing in Turkish. This website compiles a bibliography of biographies published in Turkish since the early 1800s. The dataset comprises meta-data about the biographical volumes and biography subjects. Their ultimate aim is to bring out a historical survey of the genre of biography in the Turkish literary system and explore the potentials of digital approaches in the domain of translation history. Place of Origin: Turkiye (Bogazici University, Istanbul) | E-Text Repository |
| American Prison Writing Archive | The American Prison Writing Archive is a place where imprisoned people and prison staff can write about and document their experience. It is a site where all who live or work inside can bear witness to what is working and what is not inside American prisons, thus grounding public debate about the American prison crisis in lived experience. Place of Origin: USA (John Hopkins University, Baltimore) | E-Text Repository |
| Peopling the Past | Peopling the Past is a digital humanities initiative that hosts free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world and the people who study them. Place of Origin: USA | Podcast, Research Resource, Teaching Resource, Resource Database |
| Open Editions | Created by Jonathan Reeve, Open Editions provide open-source editions of public domain literature. This repository is currently focused on, but not limited to, the works of James Joyce Place of Origin: USA (New York) | E-Text Repository |
| Springer Journal Suggester | This journal matching tool offers personalised reccommendations based on the author's manuscript details. Authors can choose from a list of more than 2500 journals to find the best place for publication. Place of Origin: Germany | Publishing Resource |
| Wiley Journal Finder | This tool suggests Wiley journals that may be relevant for a user's research. The author needs to enter the title and abstract and the journal finder creates a list of potential journals to consider. Place of Origin: USA | Publishing Resource |
| Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester | This tool recommends relevant journals based on the title and abstract of the author's manuscript. Use the full abstract with all keywords to obtain more accurate suggestions. The list provides a short description of the journals and some citation and speed metrics. Place of Origin: UK | Publishing Resource |
| Elsevier JournalFinder | Enter title and abstract of a paper to easily find journals that could be best suited for publishing. JournalFinder uses smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match the paper to scientific journals. Place of Origin: The Netherlands (Amsterdam) | Publishing Resource |
| Huellas Incómodas/Uncomfortable Footprints | Under the absence, constant threats and the risk of disappearing from the memory of humanity, Huellas Incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints, emerges as a documentary preservation initiative that works to document, preserve and generate a (digital) legacy of collective memory and the right to the truth from the struggles for a more just society. Place of Origin: USA (The University of Kansas) | E-Text Repository |
| HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory | HAU is an international peer-reviewed, partly open-access journal that appears in both digital and print format. HAU welcomes submissions that strengthen ethnographic engagement with received knowledges, revive the vibrant themes of anthropology through debate and engagement with other disciplines, and explore domains held until recently to be the province of economics, philosophy, and the sciences | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Global Medieval Sourcebook | The Global Medieval Sourcebook is an open access teaching and research tool. It offers a flexible online display for the parallel viewing of medieval texts in their original language and in new English translations, complemented by new introductory materials. By presenting curated texts from a panoply of medieval cultures, the GMS seeks to help scholars and students broaden their understanding of medieval culture. Place of Origin: USA (Stanford) | E-Text Repository |
| Digital Himalaya Project | The Digital Himalaya project was designed as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region Place of Origin: USA (Yale University) | E-Text Repository, Research Resource, Resource Database |
| COVID-19 response tracker | Started by the Visionary Futures Collective, the response tracker uses data collection, testimony, and visualization to understand the impact of the pandemic on labor and safety in higher education. Place of Origin: USA | Research Resource, Resource Database |
| The People and The Text | The People and the Text: Indigenous Writing in Northern North America to 1992 is collecting and studying one of the most neglected literary archives in English Canada to produce the most comprehensive literary history of the period and new ways of training literary scholars by consulting and working collaboratively with specific Indigenous communities. Place of Origin: Canada | Archive, Research Resource |
| Tweets of a Native Son | This website features a series of data visualizations about James Baldwin’s 21st-century digital afterlives that can be explored by students, fans, and scholars: #BlackLivesMatter tweets, popular YouTube videos, library circulation data, and more. Place of Origin: USA (Seattle) | Resource Database |
| Feral Feminisms | Feral Feminisms is an independent, inter-media, peer reviewed, open access online journal. It is a space for students and scholars, artists and activists, to engage with the many sites and problematics of feminist studies – as understood broadly and across disciplines, genres, methods, politics, times, and contexts. Each issue of Feral Feminisms builds around a particular thematic, compiling diverse creative, queer, and always feral responses to the calls for papers. Place of Origin: Canada (Toronto) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Intersectional Apocalypse | Intersectional Apocalypse is a student-run, peer-edited, open access journal focused on collecting and sharing knowledge that is intersectionally feminist, LGBTQ2IA+ positive, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive. Authors maintain their rights over their creations and don’t have to pay to make their work openly available. Place of Origin: Canada (Simon Fraser University) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities | An open and online anthology, Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities addresses the relationship between social media, open access, collaboration, and crowd-sourcing in the humanities. The chapters in this volume work to describe this emergent discourse and seek to describe how social knowledge creation is transforming the humanities. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| HathiTrust Digital Library | HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform providing 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. Place of Origin: USA | E-Text Repository |
| The Met Collection | The Met Museum has adopted an Open Access Initiative which makes all images of public-domain artworks and basic data on all artworks in its collection available for unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. Data about the works and collections and over 490,000 images have been made available to download, share, and remix through the Met website. Place of Origin: USA (New York) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Historical Voices | The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics. Place of Origin: USA (Michigan State University) | Database, Repository |
| South Asian Open Archives | South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research and teaching - a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. Its collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure. Place of Origin: USA (Chicago) | Research Resource, E-Text Repository |
| Getty Publications Virtual Library | The wide range of books in the Getty's collections covers the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both the general public and specialists. Publications include illustrated works on artists and art history, exhibition catalogues, works on cultural history, research on the conservation of materials and archaeological sites, scholarly monographs, and critical editions of translated works. Place of Origin: USA (Los Angeles) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| digitalculturebooks | digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and digital humanities. Their content is available to view for free online and for purchase in print and ebook format. Place of Origin: USA (University of Michigan) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| punctum books | punctum books is an independent open-access publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. They specialize in neo-traditional and non-conventional scholarly work that productively twists and/or ignores academic norms. Place of Origin: USA (California) | Publication Opportunities |
| Video Lectures | Video Lectures is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of science and beyond. Place of Origin: Slovenia (Ljubljana) | Online Courses |
| History of Philosophy | History of Philosophy is a visualization of an ever-growing summary of the history of Western philosophy showing the positive/negative connections between some of the key ideas/arguments/statements of the philosophers. | Teaching Resource, Research Resource |
| Ada | Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, is an open-access peer reviewed journal featuring scholarship on gender, new media and technology. Its issues are published twice a year. | Open Access Publication/Directories |
| Cultural Survival Quarterly | Cultural Survival Quarterly is a publication by Cultural Survival, advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience. The issues are available to read for free online. Place of Origin: USA (Cambridge) | Open Access Publication/Directories |
| Digital Public Library of America | The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Place of Origin: USA (Boston) | Digital Library, Archives, E-Text Repository |
| OAlster | OAIster is a union catalog of over 30 million records representing open access resources. | Open Access Publication/Directories |
| UMass Boston OpenCourseWare | UMass Boston OpenCourseWare provides educational course materials for free to faculty, students, and self-learners world wide through an open content license. Courses are offered from a choice of 18 departments including Critical Thinking and Writing, Performing Arts, Early Education Development, History, Nursing and Health Sciences, Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Communication Studies and Computer Science. Place of Origin: USA (University of Massachusetts, Boston) | Open Courses |
| Grand Valley State University's Open Textbooks | This page hosts a collection of open textbooks offered by the Grand Valley State University. Place of Origin: USA (Grand Valley State University, Allendale) | Open Textbooks |
| Peer Community in | A non-profit scientific organization that aims to create specific communities of researchers recommending, for free, preprints in their field, based on rigorous peer review. | Publishing Resource |
| Environmental Humanities | Environmental Humanities is a peer-reviewed, international, bi-annual open-access journal that publishes interdisciplinary scholarship around environmental issues. Place of Origin: USA (Duke University, Durham) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Programming Historian | The Programming Historian is an open-access journal that publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help people learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Open Commons of Phenomenology | The Open Commons of Phenomenology is an academic, non-profit online platform that provides free access to articles, documents and images in the field of phenomenology. | E-Text Repository |
| Authorama | Authorama is a collection of classic literature available in public domain. The HTML books found here are web page versions of Project Gutenberg. | E-Text Repository |
| Digital Scriptorium | Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Place of Origin: USA | E-Text Repository |
| The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) | The University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) hosts more than 300 outstanding digital collections of rare books, manuscripts, global and generic maps, children's literature, newspapers, theses and dissertations, data sets, photographs, oral histories, and more for permanent access and preservation. Through UFDC, users have free and Open Access to the unique and rare materials held by the University of Florida and partner institutions. Place of Origin: USA (University of Florida, Gainesville) | Digital Library, Archives, E-Text Repository |
| Chronicling America | An offering of the Library of Congress, this website provides access to America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963, and lets readers use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Place of Origin: USA (Library of Congress, Washington DC) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Europeana | Europeana gives access to cultural heritage items including artworks, books, music, and videos, from more than 40000 institutions across Europe. Europeana also offers readers the chance to contribute to their blog and to share culturally-relevant stories. Place of Origin: European Union | Research Resource |
| Digital National Library of Serbia | The Digital National Library of Serbia provides full-text access to Cyrillic manuscripts, epic national poetry, old printed books, rare books, music and sound recordings, and maps and other cartographic materials. Place of Origin: Serbia | E-Text Repository |
| Digital Library of Slovenia | The Digital Library of Slovenia provides access to digitised materials of national significance including Slovenian literature, cultural artifacts, music, maps, prominent personalities, and historical and contemporary educational resources. The website is available in English but most of the resources are in Slovenian and German. Place of Origin: Slovenia (Ljubljana) | E-Text Repository |
| Cinemaazi | Cinemaazi is a digital repository and an open encylopedia of regional vintage cinema from India. Currently it features cinema from 18 languages as well as silent films. The encyclopedia can be used to search for films, people, and songs. Cinemaazi has also launched a crowd-sourcing initiative called the Cinema Memory Project, which aims to collect rare memories, memorabilia, and fan stories relating to cinema. Place of Origin: India (Indian Cinema Heritage Foundation, Mumbai) | E-Text Repository, Resource Database |
| Statelessness & Citizenship Review | Statelessness & Citizenship Review is a peer-reviewed, open-access and interdisciplinary journal dedicated to understanding statelessness and related citizenship phenomena and challenges to help meet the growing demand for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among scholars in the blossoming field of statelessness studies. Place of Origin: Australia (Melbourne) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Project Kallipos - Hellenic Academic Ebooks | Project Kallipos is a repository of open access electronic textbooks in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. The project aims to bring more interactive and multimedia textbooks into Higher Education through this repository. | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Anuvada Sampada | Anuvada Sampada is a translations repository by Azim Premji University to make high-quality academic resources in sciences, social science, humanities, and languages available and accessible to all in Hindi and Kannada. This initiative was begun with the belief that the availability of quality resources in Indian languages will support students to engage more deeply and thoroughly with concepts and ideas. Place of Origin: India (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) | E-Text Repository, Research Resource, Resource Database |
| arXiv | arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,190,408 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. | open-access archive |
| UC Press Luminos | Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. This website provides access to digital edition of scholarly monographs to anyone around the world, to be read online or downloaded, free of charge. Place of Origin: USA (University of California) | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture | Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture is an open access journal that publishes academic essays as well as more casual papers such as reviews, polemics, and discussion papers in philosophy of culture. This online, international English-language quarterly journal that aims to promote the development of philosophy of culture as a distinct sub-discipline within contemporary philosophy, to identify its main methods and problems. Place of Origin: USA, Poland | Open Access Publications/Directories |
| Sanchi Foundation | Sanchi is a not-for-profit organization working for the documentation of folk, classical art forms, and other steams of knowledge and release them under Creative Commons, for public usage. This website provides free access to audio-visual documentation of the plays of Ninasam Theatre Institute and folk performances of Yakshagana, Kathakalli, etc. It also provides digital access to Kannada books and the documentation of the impact of Netravathi River Diversion Project. Place of Origin: India | Research resource |
| Lectures in Medieval History, by Prof. Lynn H. Nelson | Prof. Lynn H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Kansas, has documented lecture notes of a three-credit-hour freshman survey entitled Introduction to Medieval History. These notes have been made available freely for public use, for any non-commercial purpose. Place of Origin: USA | Online Course |
| GoComics | GoComics is a large catalog of syndicated newspaper strips, political cartoons and webcomics. Cartoons, mobile content, and daily comics are available on this website, where the latest comic strips are available for free with a 30-day archive, or the entire archive is accessible for paying members. The free and premium subscription models both offer email updates and personalized access to the GoComics Archive. Iconic cartoons such as Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, and Ziggy, and other recent ones such as FoxTrot, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, The Argyle Sweater, The Boondocks, and Cul De Sac are available here. | E-text Repositories |
| Indiancine.ma | Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film, containing unique links for more than 60,000 films. It is intended to serve as a shared resource for film scholars and enthusiasts in India and beyond. Indiancine.ma archives all films, but only films that are out of copyright are available for public viewing. Place of Origin: India (Bengaluru), Germany (Berlin) | Digital Archive, Free Streaming |
| Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) | OASIS is a search engine that seeks to make the discovery of open access content across various disciplines simpler. It currently searches open content from 115 institutions and contains 440,380 records. Its resources include textbooks, courses, course materials, modules, interactive simulations, books, audio books, videos, podcasts, and more. Place of Origin: USA (State University of New York) | Research Resource |
| The Pulp Magazines Project | The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access archive and digital research initiative for the study and preservation of 20th century's all fiction pulpwood magazines. Users can read online or download contents in various formats like PDF, FlipBook, and HTML. It also gives information on the history of all fiction pulpwoods magazines along with the biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers. Place of Origin: USA | E-text Repositories |
| EuroDocs | EuroDocs is an online collection of primary source historical records from Europe, hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. This page consists of several links which connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural), and are arranged according to region and in a chronological order. | Primary sources |
| Indian Memory Project | Indian Memory Project is a visual and narrative based online archive that traces the histories and identities of the Indian Subcontinent, via photographs (and sometimes letters) found in personal archives. Place of Origin: India (Mumbai) | Research resource |
| Digital Commons Network | The Digital Commons Network collates free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. | E-Text Repository |
| Etana | ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Place of Origin: USA | Research resource |
| ArtStor | ArtStor provides curated collection of high resolution images, designed for easy research and exploration. This website is part of the ITHAKA group (that JStor is also a part of) with approximately 300 collections composed of over 2 million images. Place of Origin: USA | Research Resource, Visual Resources |
| Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (formerly, Prince of Wales Museum) | The website of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (former Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai, contains pictures of their vast collection of Indian art from different periods (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) across various styles (Buddhist, Jain, Miniature, Decorative), coins, sculptures, besides foreign (Chinese, European, and Japanese) art items. A separate section on Digital exhibitions contains interactive online modules (audio-visual shows) of their various collections such as Tanjore gallery, Indian Lamps from various eras, European Christian Art, Indian Art through the ages, different designs of sarees, and many others, in both Hindi and English languages. Place of Origin: India (Mumbai) | Virtual Museum Tours |
| Bichitra Tagore Online Variorium | The Bichitra Tagore Online Variorum is the work of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. The Ministry of Culture, Government of India sponsored the project on the occasion of Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary. It is a fully integrated knowledge site comprising all Tagore's literary works in Bengali and English, but excluding most letters, speeches, textbooks and translations (except Tagore's translations from his own Bengali). Place of Origin: India (Jadavpur University) | E-Text Repository |
| Academic Earth | Academic Earth is a digital educational platform, started in the year 2009, with an aim to collate the best available content across many subjects and distribute it in an engaging and useful way to learners worldwide. It provides with free online courses in various disciplines from the top universities across the globe. Place of Origin: USA | Online Courses |
| People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) | People's Archive of Rural India or PARI is a living journal and an archive of rural India. It has a database of published stories, reports, videos, and audios and also reports on everyday life in the countryside. All its content comes under the Creative Commons and the site is free to access. The digital library accessible via this website, i.e., The PARI Library contains reports and information on rural India for students, researchers and other readers. It includes official as well as independent reports, out-of-print books, rare documents and reviewed research articles. Place of Origin: India | Research resource, E-text Repository |
| LibriVox | LibriVox is a collection of audiobooks narrated by volunteers around the world of free public domain books. It is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project that releases audiobooks read out by volunteers from across the globe, in several languages. | Digital Library, Archives, E-Text Repository |
| Pad.ma | Pad.ma - short for Public Access Digital Media Archive - is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online and is free to download for non-commercial use. Place of Origin: India | free streaming |
| Classic Literature | Classic Literature is a portal that provides access to public domain ebooks of Classic Literature and children's picture books. These texts can be read for free online, and is hosted by Classic Literature Library. Place of Origin: UK | E-Text/E-books Repository |
| Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) | The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research (such as statistics, images, maps, books, journals, and bibliographies) on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. The Digital South Asia Library is a program of the University of Chicago and the Center for Research Libraries. The resources can be searched for by keywords or by exploring categories of collections. Place of Origin: USA | Digital archive/Research resource |
| CEPT Archives | CEPT Archives work on archiving information related to architecture, planning, design, and allied disciplines in India. The work archived is open for use in research and teaching. The immediate focus of this center is to gather the significant works from the city of Ahmedabad and other places in Gujarat, before they get lost in time. Place of Origin: India (CEPT University, Ahmedabad) | Digital archive/Research resource |
| Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies Projects | The Center for Palestine Studies at the Columbia University promotes the academic study of Palestine. Their projects include various digital archives connected with this field of study, such as the Al-Quds Archive, Edward Said Archive, Palestinians and the City Archive, the Nakba files, etc. Place of Origin: USA (Columbia University) | Digital archive/Research resources |
| Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) | The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) is a non-profit organization that digitalizes, cataloges and provides free access to collections of manuscripts originally located in libraries all around the world. The digital archive is contantly being updated, prioritizing manuscripts located in regions endangered by war and instability. Approximately 450.000 digitalized or microfilmed manuscripts are available in the Reading Room. Place of Origin: USA | Digital archive/Research resources |
| Study Portals PhD | Study Portals PhDs is an online search website that compiles information about PhDs, job opportunities, and openings. It is categorised according to various disciplines such as Humanities, Applied Sciences and Professions, Agriculture and Forestry, Engineering and Technology, Education and Training, Law, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Medicine, Social Sciences, Journalism and Media, etc. Place of Origin: Netherlands, USA, Australia | Digital archive/Research resources |
| Wayback Machine | Wayback Machine allows you to find deleted or changed webpages as it allows users to see what a webpage looked like in a particular time in history. It is an intitiative of the Internet Archive, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Place of Origin: USA | Digital archive/Research resources |
| National Gallery of Art | The Gallery Archives is the primary source for the history of the National Gallery of Art. The archives collects, preserves, and makes available documentation relating to the museum’s past and development, including its exhibitions, acquisitions, scholarly and educational programs, and buildings. Place of Origin: USA | Online gallery, Digital archive |
| Queering the Map | Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. | Research Resource |
| UNESCO Digital Library | The UNESCO Digital Library is the online repository of UNESCO, and a source of wide-ranging information on the various activities in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information. This website provides access to more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centres in UNESCO’s Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives. Place of Origin: France | Digital archive/Research resource |
| Shakespeare Documented | Shakespeare Documented is a large collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare. It consists of manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter. It is a project of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and the National Archives. Place of Origin: USA, UK | Digital archive/Research resource |
| World Digital Library | The World Digital Library hosts a digital collection of cultural treasures and significant historical documents including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films. It is a project by the U.S Library of Congress. The original WDL site and all descriptive metadata were translated from English and made available in six additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese. Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials in the WDL collection are presented in their original languages, and more than 100 languages are represented, including many lesser known and endangered languages. Place of Origin: USA | Research Resource, E-Text Repository |
| Early Modern Letters Online | Early Modern Letters Online is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence: a collaboratively populated union catalogue of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century letters. EMLO is an active project in continual development. Place of Origin: UK | Research resource |
| OAPEN Online Library | OAPEN is based in the Netherlands, with its registered office in the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books. They are building a quality-controlled collection of open access books and providing services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. Place of Origin: The Netherlands | Research Resource, E-Text Repository |
| The MAP Academy | The MAP Academy is a non-profit, open-access educational platform committed to building equitable resources for the study of art histories from South Asia. Through its freely available digital offerings—Encyclopedia of Art, Online Courses, and Stories—it encourages knowledge-building and engagement with the visual arts of the region. Place of Origin: India | Encyclopedias/Research resources |