Open Access Databases

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW

ADB Data Library – https://data.adb.org/
The ADB Data Library is a platform that hosts publicly available data from the Asian Development Bank. The ADB Data Library serves as the central repository for all publicly accessible data from Asian Development Banks. Explore the data, view visualizations, and interact with the API.
ADB Publications – https://www.adb.org/publications
It provides open access to publications such as books, conference materials, guides, articles, brief reviews, reports, periodicals, and many other publications.
OpenStax – https://openstax.org/
OpenStax is a non-profit educational initiative founded at Rice University. They publish high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for colleges with an open license that are entirely free online and affordable in print.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) – http://repec.org/
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is an initiative aimed at disseminating research results in the field of economics and related areas. We aim to make research more accessible to both authors and readers. RePEc is a crowdsourcing effort: a) thousands of individuals and organizations contribute raw data, b) the core group of participants manages the system, and c) sponsoring organizations provide the infrastructure. As a result, the RePEc initiative doesn’t require centralized expenses and can offer all services for free to all users.
The National Bureau of Economic Research – https://www.nber.org/
The National Bureau of Economic Research, founded in 1920, is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of how the economy works and to conducting and disseminating economic research among government policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. Early research efforts were focused on economics as a whole, delving into business cycles and long-term economic growth in detail. Pioneering work by Simon Kuznets on national income accounting, influential research on economic cycles by Wesley Mitchell, and Milton Friedman’s investigation into money demand and determinants of consumer spending were among the initial studies conducted at NBER. Confirming its status as one of the leading nonprofit economic research organizations in the United States, eighteen of the 33 American laureates in the Nobel Prize in Economics and six former chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers have been affiliated with NBER researchers. On this website, you will find a range of economic resources available in full text for free.
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.

FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCE

BioOne – https://bioone.org/browse/title
BioOne journals cover all areas of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Popular journals include the Australian Systematic Botany, Southwest Entomologist, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Cactus and Succulent Journal, South American Journal of Herpetology, and others.
ChemRxiv – https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/public-dashboard
ChemRxiv (pronounced as “chemical archive”) is a service for free submission, distribution, and archiving of unpublished preprints in the field of chemistry and related areas. ChemRxiv provides researchers in a wide range of fields related to chemical sciences with the opportunity to share their initial findings with colleagues and receive recommendations for improvement before official peer review and publication.
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.
Cogprints – https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/
CogPrints – an electronic archive for self-archiving articles in any field.
HathiTrust Digital Library – https://www.hathitrust.org/
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Hindawi Open Access Journals – https://www.hindawi.com/
Founded in 1997, Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines and publishes over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals.

FACULTY OF HISTORY

Directory of Open Access Books – https://www.doabooks.org/
This is a community-driven search service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books, and helps users find reputable open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free, and all data is openly accessible.
National Digital History – https://e-history.kz/en
The internet portal “National Digital History” was created as part of the implementation of the 87th step of the National Plan “100 Concrete Steps” within the framework of the fourth institutional reform, “Identity and Unity.” Its purpose is to promote national history and culture through the internet.
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) – https://library.oapen.org/
OPEN works with publishers to create a collection of open access books with controlled quality and provides services to publishers, libraries and sponsors of research in the field of distribution, quality assurance and digital storage. The OPEN Library is designed to host and distribute open access books. The usage of the collection is reported after the COUNTER-compatible usage statistics.
The European Library – https://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/
The European Library is designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of 48 national libraries in Europe and leading European research libraries. Users can cross-search and reuse over 26,394,274 digital items and 168,238,832 bibliographic entries. The objects come from institutions located in the countries of the Council of Europe and range from catalog entries to full-text books, magazines, journals and audio recordings. There are thirty-five different languages among the searchable objects.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets – https://dp.la/primary-source-sets?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tags%5B%5D=arts
Collections of primary sources that study the topics of history, literature and culture, developed by teachers, supplemented with textbooks for use in the classroom.

TECHNICAL FACULTY

NIST chemistry webbook – https://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
This website presents thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST as part of the Standard Reference Data Program. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) strives to provide a high-quality copy of the database and ensure that the data contained within it are selected based on sound scientific judgment. However, NIST makes no warranties, and NIST does not assume liability for any damage that may result from errors or omissions in the database. The NIST Chemistry WebBook was developed in part with funding from the System Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) program at NIST.
UNCTAD – https://unctad.org/publications
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) is a continuously operating intergovernmental body established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1964. It provides authoritative data and analytical materials on trade, investments, finance, and technology, and it also develops solutions for the key challenges faced by developing countries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable among them.
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.
National Academies Press eBooks – https://nap.nationalacademies.org/
The National Academies Press (NEWS) publishes publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. NAP publishes over 200 publications per year on a wide range of topics in science, technology, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently verified information on important health science and policy issues.

FACULTY OF PEDAGOGY

OATD (Open Access Dissertations and Theses) – https://oatd.org/
OATD strives to be the best resource for finding open access theses and dissertations published worldwide. Metadata (information about dissertations) is collected from over 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. Currently, OATD indexes 6,339,869 theses and dissertations.
Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free eBooks: choose free ebooks in epub format, free kindle books, download them or read them online. This resource provides high-quality electronic books. All eBooks have been previously published by reputable publishers. They have been digitized and meticulously reviewed by thousands of volunteers. No payment or registration is required, but donations are welcome.
UNESDOC – https://unesdoc.unesco.org/?locale=en
UNESDOC is a database of UNESCO documents and publications dating back to 1945. Covered topics include education, science, culture, communication, and information. If the full text is unavailable, the option to purchase is provided
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.
Modern Education – https://www.bilim.expert/
The magazine “Modern Education” reflects and approves all the best that appears and finds permanent residence in domestic education. Much attention is paid to the career guidance of young people, the exchange of opinions, the discussion of topical issues of education and upbringing, the effective implementation of the Strategy 2020 of the national school.
Казахстанская Национальная электронная библиотека – https://kazneb.kz/
Kazakhstan National Electronic Library.
HERDSA – https://www.herdsa.org.au/publications
The Australasian Society for Higher Education Research and Development is a scientific society for people committed to advancing higher and tertiary education. It was founded in 1972 to promote the development of policies, practices and the study of teaching and learning methods in higher education. HERDSA encourages and disseminates research in the field of teaching and learning and the development of higher education. He also works to build strong academic communities. The current HERDSA Constitution was adopted in 2017.
Open Textbook Library – https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed for free use, adaptation, and distribution. These books have been reviewed by teachers from various colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for free or printed at a low price. All textbooks are either used in several universities; or are associated with an institution, a scientific society, or a professional organization. There are currently 692 students in the library, and their number is constantly increasing.

PROFESSIONAL AND CREATIVE FACULTY

Europeana – https://www.europeana.eu/en
Europeana provides access to millions of cultural heritage objects from institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music and art-related videos, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sports, and much more.
Казахстанская Национальная электронная библиотека – https://kazneb.kz/
Kazakhstan National Electronic Library.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets – https://dp.la/primary-source-sets?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tags%5B%5D=arts
Collections of primary sources that study the topics of history, literature and culture, developed by teachers, supplemented with textbooks for use in the classroom.

FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY

Open library of Humanities – https://www.openlibhums.org/
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship without any author processing charges (APCs). All scholarly articles undergo rigorous peer review, and the scholarships we publish showcase some of the most dynamic research taking place today in the humanities disciplines, spanning from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology, and history to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, as well as digital humanities.
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.
Казахстанская Национальная электронная библиотека – https://kazneb.kz/
Kazakhstan National Electronic Library.
Open library of Humanities – https://www.openlibhums.org/site/who-we-are/
The Open Library for the Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organization dedicated to publishing scholarships in the public domain without any fees from authors for processing articles (APC). All scientific articles are carefully reviewed, and the scholarships we publish showcase some of the most dynamic research being conducted in the humanities today — from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets – https://dp.la/primary-source-sets?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tags%5B%5D=arts
Collections of primary sources that study the topics of history, literature and culture, developed by teachers, supplemented with textbooks for use in the classroom.

FACULTY OF PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS

SCOAP3 – Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics – https://repo.scoap3.org/
SCOAP3 is a unique partnership involving over three thousand libraries, key financial agencies, research centers in 43 countries, and three intergovernmental organizations. Collaborating with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has transformed key high-energy physics journals into open access, freely accessible to authors. SCOAP3 centrally covers the costs associated with publishers providing their services, and in turn, publishers reduce subscription fees for all their customers, who can redirect these funds to support SCOAP3. SCOAP3 journals are open for publication to any scientist without financial barriers. Authors retain copyright, and the CC-BY licensing allows for intellectual analysis of text and data. SCOAP3 meets open access requirements without burdening authors. All articles appear in the SCOAP3 repository for further dissemination and are also openly accessible on publisher websites.
Digital Library – https://dl.acm.org/journals
The Digital Library publishes over 50 scientific peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of computer and information disciplines. Available in both print and online formats, ACM’s high-impact peer-reviewed journals represent a vast and comprehensive archive of computer innovations, encompassing new and existing research in the field of computing for both practical and theoretical applications. ACM journal editors are thought leaders in their respective fields, and ACM’s emphasis on rapid publication ensures minimal delay in disseminating exciting new ideas and discoveries.
Urayt – https://urait.ru/
“Urayt” is an educational platform that serves as both an online store for printed books and a digital hub for accessing courses and textbooks. This platform offers a wide range of educational content and unique services, including course creation, online class management, and student certification, catering to both higher and secondary vocational education needs.
ArXiv – https://arxiv.org/
ArXiv is a free distribution service and an open access archive for 2,139,203 scientific articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, as well as economics. The materials on this site are not reviewed by ArXiv.
Kaye & Laby’s Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants (16th ed.) – https://web.archive.org/web/20190506031327/http:/www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/
Kaye & Laby’s Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants (16th ed.) For many years, scientists working in a wide variety of fields, specialists, engineers and students have used Kaye and Laby as an invaluable reference in their work. At the time of launch, this online version includes all the unedited content of the 16th edition (published in 1995) and is overflowing with data tables, formulas, graphs and diagrams. This information covers topics from fundamental constants to fiber optics, from superconductivity to Raman spectroscopy and many others. The content will be regularly reviewed and updated to reflect advances and developments in physics and chemistry.