Online and Remote Studies: Open Access Sources

For a range of video tutorials and guides on using Open Access sources, see the Training page also see the Theses page for help searching our research repository for previous UoL theses and reserch outputs.

Open Access sources:

• arXiv.org   
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 
• Cogprints
• Cambridge Core
• OAISTER 
• CORE
• Google Scholar (Scholar is an external search engine which can behave differently, see alternative access below if this link has problems).
• Problems using Scholar / alternative link.
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)      
• Google Scholar can search licensed and Open Access resources, Note - the Library does not operate Scholar and cannot guarantee levels of service. Please access Scholar under the homepage of the Library for Online and Remote Studies or our A-Z of databases.
• University of Liverpool Repository (containing all open access research works of University staff and doctoral level works)

For all Open Access sources see our A-Z of databases.

Google Custom Search (Search for official papers, business reports, NGO reports and scholarly materials published online):