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Finding Open Access articles and etheses

Academic journal articles and research papers which are freely available on the web are often known as Open Access articles. These can be the final published article.  Or alternatively, preprints, i.e. the draft paper before it is submitted to a journal, or postprints, i.e. the peer reviewed article which has been accepted for submission to a journal.  Many Open Access articles are gathered into collections (also known as open access repositories or eprint archives) which can be subject or institutionally based.

How to find Open Access articles

Many Open Access Repositories can be cross searched using Open Access search engines. For example:

 from WorldCat. OAIster is a union catalogue of millions of records from open archive resources.

 provides a search across their authoritative directory of academic open access repositories

 - cross search the full text of items held in many open access repositories.

: cross search of repositories that cover the full research lifecycle: from grant proposals and research datasets to journal articles, etc. 

How to find e-theses/dissertations

Increasingly the full text of theses and dissertations are becoming available online.

The 爱漫岛’s research theses are available in 

 is a search engine for locating international graduate level theses and dissertations.

- available on and off campus to 爱漫岛 University students and staff. A database of theses submitted to Higher Education institutions in the UK and Ireland from 1716.