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Open Access Resources

In addition to our subscribed databases, a wide range of Open Access content can be found in this guideÌýproduced by members of the ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ SSEES Library's specialist staff. Resources include freely available versions ofÌýe-books, e-journals, datasets, papers, e-thesis and other resources.

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OA resources by area

Russia

Russia

Central Europe

Austria

Czech Republic

Germany

Hungary

Slovakia

Poland and the Baltic states

Estonia

Finland

Latvia

Lithuania

Poland

South East Europe

Albania

Balkans

Bosnia and Herzegovia

Bulgaria

Greece

North Macedonia

Romania

Serbia

Slovenia

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OA resources with the European coverage

Primary sorces
  • - DigitalÌýarchive of over 220.000 primary sources from Central EuropeanÌýarchives.Ìý
  • ​- Online sources for European History.
  • Ìý- Primary sources drawn from the emergence of resistance movements in the 1980s, the events of 1989, and the immediate aftermath in Eastern Europe.
  • Ìý- Historical maps of the HabsburgÌýMonarchy and its successor states.
  • Ìý-Ìý Historic NewspapersÌýdigitisedÌýby the Bavarian State Library.Ìý
  • - A portal bringing together cultural heritage from over 3500 European museums, libraries and archives.
  • Ìý- Videos, images, text and audio from European broadcasters andÌýaudiovisualÌýarchives ranging from the earlyÌý1900sÌýto the present day.
  • - Single access point to films, images and texts from selected collections of 38 film archives across Europe.
  • - virtual tours.
Secondary sources
  • - A digital library and publishing platform. It contains publications mainly from the humanities and social sciences.ÌýÌý
  • - The library aims to concentrate as many e-books as possible in open access mode. It currently contains more than 20,000 titles from various fields of human activity.Ìý
  • - A European system for searchingÌýgreyÌýliterature, contains partially full texts.Ìý
  • - An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
  • - A discovery ofÌýOpen Access books. It supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting.
  • - An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
  • - A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship.
  • - A single publicly accessible database that provides the public with information related to orphan works contained in the collections of publicly accessible libraries, educational establishments and museums, as well as archives, film or audio heritage institutions and public-service broadcasting organisations established in the Member States.
  • - A library of over 60,000 to download or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
  • - Provides open access to research theses from 619 Universities in 28 European countries.ÌýYou can search the database by keywords or browse by author, year of award, collection, awarding institution (where known) or country.
  • PQDT Global contains over a million full-text dissertations and theses from 1861 onwards that are available for download in PDF format.
  • - Includes links to a number of international search tools and portals.
Statistical databases
  • Ìý - A database of national and regional statistics of EU countries.Ìý
  • - Enables users to search for and extract data from acrossÌýOECD'sÌýmany databases.
  • - Enables users to search for and extract data from acrossÌýOECD'sÌýmany databases.
  • - Leading-edge analysis and insight on the latest trends and developments in the EBRD countries.