http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/tags/O/free.html en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:17:58 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-access-theses-dissertations.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_oa-theses-dissertations.jpg" alt="Open Access Theses and Dissertations" height="74px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Green open access - self archiving" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-green.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://oatd.org/" title="Open Access Theses and Dissertations" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://oatd.org/')" shape="rect">Open Access Theses and Dissertations</a> </span></h2><p><i>Open Access Theses and Dissertations</i> is an index of over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-access-theses-dissertations.html">Full record</a></p> Fri, 03 May 2013 13:42:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-access-theses-dissertations.html Theses and dissertations Freely accessible databases Green open access: self archiving http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-knowledge-repository-from-world-bank.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_okr.jpg" alt="Open Knowledge Repository" height="111px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="Green open access - self archiving" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-green.gif" title="Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia" width="14" /> <img alt="Gold open access - publishing" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_open-access-gold.gif" title="Gold open access - publishing" width="14" /></div><h2><span> <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/discover" title="Open Knowledge Repository from the World Bank" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/discover')" shape="rect">Open Knowledge Repository from the World Bank</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Open Knowledge Repository</i> provides full-text reports, journals, working papers, books, and economic studies in HTML and PDF on international economic topics. 1978-present. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1001334"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-knowledge-repository-from-world-bank.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:42:00 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-knowledge-repository-from-world-bank.html Academic search engines Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Countries and cultures Ebook packages Reports, standards, and financials Statistics and data sets Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon Gold open access: publishing Green open access: self archiving http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/ornithological-worldwide-literature-owl.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_owl.jpg" alt="Ornithological World Literature" height="130px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.birdlit.org/OWL/" title="Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.birdlit.org/OWL/')" shape="rect">Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)</a> </span></h2><p><i>OWL</i> indexes citations and abstracts from journal articles, conference papers, reports, and dissertations on all aspects of ornithology. 1980-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/ornithological-worldwide-literature-owl.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/ornithological-worldwide-literature-owl.html Article searching Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Reports, standards, and financials Theses and dissertations Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-eprints.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_org-eprints.jpg" alt="Organic ePrints" height="166px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://orgprints.org/perl/search/advanced" title="Organic Eprints" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://orgprints.org/perl/search/advanced')" shape="rect">Organic Eprints</a> </span></h2><p><i>Organic Eprints</i> is a repository of preprints (pre-review), postprints (post-review) and reprints (published) of scientific papers, conference papers and posters, theses, reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles, web products, project descriptions, and other published or unpublished documents related to organic agriculture. 1990-present.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-eprints.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-eprints.html Article searching Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Professional and trade literature Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-agriculture-information-access-from-afsic.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_oais.jpg" alt="Organic Agriculture Information Access" height="170px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=boolean;c=nal" title="Organic Agriculture Information Access from AFSIC" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=boolean;c=nal')" shape="rect">Organic Agriculture Information Access from AFSIC</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Organic Agriculture Information Access</i> is an electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are almost 200 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. Documents available JPGs and text.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-agriculture-information-access-from-afsic.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/organic-agriculture-information-access-from-afsic.html Article searching Handbooks and manuals Reports, standards, and financials Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/opendoar-directory-of-open-access-repositories.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_open-doar.jpg" alt="Open DOAR" height="76px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.opendoar.org/" title="OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.opendoar.org/')" shape="rect">OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories</a> </span></h2><p><i>OpenDOAR</i> is both a directory of open access repositories and a database of the contents of most of those repositories. These repositories can include books, articles, conference papers, data sets, multimedia, patents, software, theses and dissertations, and manuscripts from all academic disciplines.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/opendoar-directory-of-open-access-repositories.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/opendoar-directory-of-open-access-repositories.html Article searching Catalogs (about publications) Conference papers, preprints, and working papers Ebook packages Multimedia Music recordings and scores Narratives, diaries, and letters Patents and trademarks Professional and trade literature Reports, standards, and financials Statistics and data sets Theses and dissertations Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-library-from-internet-archive.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_open-lib.jpg" alt="Open Library" height="113px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://openlibrary.org/search/inside" title="Open Library from the Internet Archive" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://openlibrary.org/search/inside')" shape="rect">Open Library from the Internet Archive</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Open Library</i> catalog allows searching ovver 20 million bibliographic records and the full text of over 1.7 million ebooks the public domain books in PDF, ePub, Daisy, DjVu and ASCII text.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-library-from-internet-archive.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/open-library-from-internet-archive.html Catalogs (about publications) Ebook packages Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/online-books-page-from-upenn.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/U/S_upenn-obp.jpg" alt="UPenn Online Book Page" height="133px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html" title="Online Books Page from UPenn" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html')" shape="rect">Online Books Page from UPenn</a> </span></h2><p>The <i>Online Books Page</i> is a catalog with links to freely accessible ebooks online. The index allows search and browsing by title, author, and subject, but not full-text searching.</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/online-books-page-from-upenn.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/online-books-page-from-upenn.html Catalogs (about publications) Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oaister-from-oclc.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_oclc-oaister.jpg" alt="OCLC Oaister" height="164px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://oaister.worldcat.org/advancedsearch" title="OAIster from OCLC" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://oaister.worldcat.org/advancedsearch')" shape="rect">OAIster from OCLC</a> </span></h2><p><i>OAIster</i> is a union catalog of digital resources from over 1000 contributors worldwide. Items include digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. Collections include theses, technical reports, research papers, and image collections. These resources, often hidden from search engine users behind web scripts, are known as the "deep web." This is the freely accessible version from OCLC</p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oaister-from-oclc.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oaister-from-oclc.html Catalogs (about publications) Freely accessible databases Contents of database in Summon http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oecd-organisation-for-economic-co-operation-and-development.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/O/S_oecd.jpg" alt="OECD" height="139px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/search/advanced" title="OECD iLibrary (Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/search/advanced')" shape="rect">OECD iLibrary (Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development)</a> </span></h2><p><i>OECD iLibrary</i> indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text journal articles, reports, and ebooks in all areas of world economics. Full text available in HTML and PDF, plus statistics in Excel. Our subscription includes six journals, though many content areas are freely available to any site visitor, such as the <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/factbook">OECD Factbook</a>, <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/papers">Working Papers</a>, OECD <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/statistics">Key Tables</a>, and more. 1997-present.  <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000823"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oecd-organisation-for-economic-co-operation-and-development.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oecd-organisation-for-economic-co-operation-and-development.html Article searching Catalogs (about publications) Countries and cultures Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs Handbooks and manuals Reports, standards, and financials Statistics and data sets Freely accessible databases Restricted to Virginia Tech users Contents of database in Summon