Open Access Resources

Search for scholarly articles

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Application Programming Interface (API) and open data

Digital Collections, US Copyright Office, Law Library of Congress, Congress.gov, teacher resources, research and reference resources.

Canadian interactive maps, reference maps, map archives, and more

Includes historic and modern maps of the United Kingdom from the British Library. Also includes online exhibitions with historic images from the UK.

Includes current and historical maps of the world, continents, National Parks and Monuments, and more.

Maps of topographical subjects, including earthquakes, water, volcanoes, landslides, and more. Current and historical maps.

Contains: quotation books, gazetteers, fact books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, style books, anthologies in the public domain

Official documents of the United Nations

Statistics about the population and economy of the United States

Government publications including the federal register, the Constitution of the United States, economic indicators, congressional bills, documents, reports, and more.

Library of Congress

A partnership of major research institutions working to preserve cultural heritage. Contains many scanned original documents.

Short, animated history from the U.S. National Archives. Archival GIFs featuring historic events, newsreels, National Parks, and more.

Film resource, actors, directors, etc.

The Library of Congress collections have millions of catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources.

Biographical information on people, history & culture, celebrities , nostalgia, and crime & scandal.

Free and open online collection for online teaching and learning.

Federal entity responsible for collecting and analyzing data related to educaion

The Poetry Archive features poets reading their own work aloud. It also has a section that contains lesson plans and resources for teachers.

Open educational resources from leading universities and colleges