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Citations and abstracts for approximately 300 journals and proceedings in a broad range of fields including: all areas of physics, materials science, nanotechnology, biological physics, and astronomy. Created by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
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Journals published by the American Physical Society, including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Features resources (activities, case studies, media) that focus on core concepts and processes in biology, with interdisciplinary resources that connect to environmental science, chemistry, and math and statistics.
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A collection of approximately five million items including: newspapers, journals, documents, and archives from a global network of sources. Available for free to the IIT community through interlibrary loan, electronic delivery, and on-site use at CRL in Chicago.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
The Open Access Directory (OAD) maintains a list of open data repositories as part o their website. While not searchable, the list is broken out by subject area.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Data.gov is a searchable database of public datasets maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration. In addition to the searchable web interface, there are also a number of free APIs.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
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Films covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. The collection addresses specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.

The Ethics Codes Collection is the largest online repository of ethics codes and guidelines in the world. With over 2500 individual codes and guidelines from over 1500 organizations around the world, including current and historical codes dating to 1887, it is maintained by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology.

  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Google Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover freely available datasets hosted in thousands of open access repositories across the Web.
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The library catalog searches through all of Illinois Tech’s physical library holdings and hundreds of thousands of digital titles available through our databases and digital collections. Sign in to your Illinois Tech Library account to access all available materials and review your current loans, requests, fees, blocks, messages, and other personal details.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty, and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of OERs to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
The Mason OER Metafinder allows you to simultaneously search across the multiple OER repositories (e.g., MERLOT II, OAOpen.org, OER Commons, OpenStax CNX, etc.) as well as many open archival repositories (e.g. HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, etc.).
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The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
The NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR) provides mechanisms that enable NSF-funded investigators to meet the deposit requirement and to include the relevant information in their project reports
  • Mostly free or Open Access. Some content may be paywalled or restricted to Illinois Tech
The NTRL fills a recognized void in access to a large collection of historical and current government technical reports that exists in many academic, public, government, and corporate libraries. Through NTRL, NTIS provides a comprehensive offering that delivers high-quality government technical content in all subject areas directly and seamlessly to the user's desktop.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
OER Commons is a collection of free open educational resources, such as recorded class lectures, exercises, and document spanning all subjects and all age groups from preschool through college-level.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
The eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 500 free and openly-licensed educational resources.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Launched by the University of Minnesota, the Open Textbook Library hosts a large collection of openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks in all subject areas.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
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Rice University's resource which contains peer-reviewed open textbooks in science, math, business, and the social sciences.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. In addition to the fully functional search and browse features on the website, they offer a free API to facilitate retrieval of data.
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The repository supports cross-disciplinary collaboration by collecting, preserving, disseminating, and providing persistent and reliable access to all faculty, staff, and student digital research and scholarship. It is supported and maintained by the Paul V. Galvin Library. The repository also preserves library and archival collections, and serves as a living archive for other materials representing the many diverse aspects of the IIT community.
  • Free to search. Full-text content likely to be paywalled or restricted to Illinois Tech
Retraction watch is a searchable database of research papers that have been retracted due to ethical issues, such as plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of research results, or unauthorized release or publication of data. Because of these problems, retraced papers should not be cited or used in your own research.
  • Free or Open Access Resource. Unrestricted public access.
Focuses on the critical thinking skills in use across the scientific disciplines. Starting with critical issues in the contemporary world, from climate change to the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence, the course encourages active learning and inquiry-based instruction.
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The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is an initiative led by the University of Arizona in collaboration with CRL and other interested agencies to identify, digitize, archive, and provide access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

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