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1Academic JournalsProvides access to full-text articles in the Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Education and Legal Studies
2ALFREDProvides vintage Federal Reserve economic data on specific dates in history.
3Archive of African JournalsTo expand free, online access to full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals published in Africa
4ArXiv.org1,106,143 e-prints in Computer Science, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
5Asian Development Bank (ADB)Most recently published ADB documents are available freely
6Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) JournalsProvide a comprehensive search facility for all 45 academic law journals in Australia and New Zealand
7Background Notes (U.S. State Department reports)Include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty
8Bizjournals.comProvides access to more than 40 bizjournal resources for a 10 year time period
9Business Databases A-ZBMI Research (formerly Business Monitor Online), eStatement Studies, Business Ratios (RMA), Foundations and Trends in Business and Economics
10California Digital Library eScholarship Editions ebooksIncludes over 500 freely accessible ebooks from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, humanities, social sciences, science, and literature. E-books are in HTML
11Data.govThe home of the US Government’s open data
12Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license
13Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals
14Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR)A comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users
15E-Books DirectoryA daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks (9425 free e-books in 666 categories), documents and lecture notes
16eBooks@CambridgeFree E-Books collection
17EBSCO Open Access Business and Economics CollectionExplore over 950 full text journals related to the business and economics fields
18EconBizTo support research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts.
19EconPapersThe world’s largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software
20Electronic Journals Library (EZB)Offers online access to articles published in scientific and academic journals. Currently, 486 libraries and research institutions take advantage of this service in their daily work (97 389 journals).
21ERIC – Education Resources Information CenterAn online digital library of education research and information
22EspacenetFree access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today
23FedStatsProvide statistics published by the federal government
24FREDDatabase of approximately 3000 economic time series
25Freelunch.comFree Economic, Demographic & Financial Data
26Google BooksCollection of books and magazine issues
27HighwirepressFree online Full-text articles
28IDEASDatabase of more than 300,000 economics books, articles and working papers, many with downloadable full text.
29InTech open BooksLargest open access collection of books has published 2,582 books, 5 journals and collaborated with 91,375 international scientists
30OAPENThe OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences
31Open Access PublicationsProvides immediately free online access to all users worldwide.
32Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) World Bank15,629 publications in 9 collections, 238 sub-collections
33Open-JgateComprehensive portal to open access full-text journals from around the world
34Oxford OpenIncludes full and optional open access to more than 100 journals drawn from every subject area
35PQDT OpenProvides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
36project GuttenbergOver 45,000 free ebooks
37Public Finance India: Reports & Budget LibraryThis library is a repository of budgets and reports of state and municipal governments. Each document is classified state wise, year wise, under the categories of Budgets, Economic Survey reports, Audit reports, Annual Accounts, Bond information reports. The library also houses Macromoney research reports. The library is free to use. There is no charge for downloads. However, registration is required to access the library;
38RePEc: Research Papers in EconomicsOver 1,800 archives from 86 countries have contributed about 2 million research pieces from 2,300 journals and 4,300 working paper series
39Reserve Bank of India (RBI) DatabaseData on various aspects of the Indian Economy
40SpringerOpenIncludes over 155 peer-reviewed open access journals across all areas of science.
41The World Bank Open DataFree and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
42WHO Library Database (WHOLIS)Reference database, full-text database. All WHO publications and more, often with links to full-text documents
43WILEY open access JournalsLibrary has access to more than 600 journals with perpetual access of Wiley. It covers subjects, humanity, social science, economics, mathematics, business and management, law, etc
44World Bank Group Documents and ReportsGives access to more than 14,000 free World Bank documents
45World FactbookLists country profiles for each nation, including history, people, government, economy, military, industry, flags, and maps

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