Open Access

Artcyclopedia
The Fine Art search engine. Note that the listings on this site are a unique compilation of information and are protected by copyright worldwide.

BAILII
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, where you can find British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.

Central Statistics Office
The mandate of the CSO, as set out in the Statistics Act 1993, is “The collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State”.

The Cochrane Library
A regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.

Coronavirus Research Database
A free health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP)
The project publishes essential source material for anyone interested in the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919.

eLife
eLife publishes outstanding research in the life sciences and biomedicine, from the most fundamental and theoretical work, through to translational, applied, and clinical research. 19 Senior editors and 170-member Board of Reviewing Editors are among the most respected and accomplished individuals in their fields from human genetics and neuroscience to biophysics and epidemiology.

ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center is an online digital library of education research and information, sponsored by the US Institute of Education Sciences and the US Department of Education. It provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.

ESRI
The Economic and Social Research Institute produces research that contributes to understanding economic and social change in the new international context and that informs public policy making and civil society in Ireland.

EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex offers access to EU law, case-law by the Court of Justice of the European Union and other public EU documents as well as the authentic electronic Official Journal of the EU – in 24 languages.

Europa.eu
Official website of the European Union. Provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration.

Europeana
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include images, texts, sounds and videos.

Fine Art Online
Artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online.

The Freesound Project
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter

Greenfile (EBSCO)
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Iris Oifigiuil
Iris Oifigiuil is the official Irish State gazette and is published twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays). In addition to the bi-weekly publication of Iris Oifigiuil, a number of supplements are published at varying times during the year.

Irish Government
Information on the Irish state: Government Departments, Citizens Information, Irish Statute Book, Revenue and more

Irish Legal Information Initiative
IRLII (Irish Legal Information Initiative), hosted by UCC School of Law, is the Irish hub of the global Free Access to Law Movement (FALM). IRLII was established to contribute to the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). Access Cases, Journal Articles, Statutes and Statutory Instruments.

Irish Statute Book (eISB)
The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) includes Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments, the official versions of which remain the printed versions published by Government Publications. You can track amendments to legislation, access the Constitution and a selection of pre-1922 legislation while links to external legislation resources are also provided.

Irish Tax Institute
The Irish Tax Institute is the leading representative and educational body for Ireland’s Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA) and is the only professional body exclusively dedicated to tax.

The Law Reform Commission (Publications Library)
The Law Reform Commission is an independent statutory body corporate established under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, to keep the law under review and to make recommendations for its reform. This includes work on consolidation of statutes and statute law revision.
Since it was established, the Commission has published 200 documents containing proposals for law reform. All Law Reform Commission publications may be downloaded for free from this website.

Life and Fitness Magazine Ireland
Life and Fitness Magazine Ireland contains informative articles on fitness, weight loss, health, nutrition, wellness, sport and travel. Our contributors are some of the nation’s leading experts. Keep an eye on this website as it is updated frequently with new articles, news and events.

Media Street
Media sourcing hub.

Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.

National Building Specification
NBS’ Resources section brings together a wide range of information, from reading lists and a library of specially written articles to a directory of industry organisations and one of the largest collections of construction-specific recommended links available.

Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Open Culture’s mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high-quality content whenever and wherever you want it.

Physics World
News, views and information for the global physics community from IOP Publishing

Public Library of Science
PLOS was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.
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SciCentral
Since 1997, the SciCentral editors have been aggregating breaking research news from the most reputable and reliable sources. The service has received over 30 Web awards and enthusiastic reviews from leading science publishers (e.g.; Science Magazine, The Lancet, The New Scientist) for the quality of its service. Over 700 other websites point to SciCentral as a trusted source of information.

SoundCloud
As the world’s largest music and audio platform, SoundCloud lets people discover and enjoy the greatest selection of music from the most diverse creator community on earth.

Taylor & Francis Open
Taylor & Francis currently publish a number of pure open access journals, with no subscription content. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

VADS
VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images.

Whole Building’ Design Guide
The WBDG is a web-based portal providing government and industry practitioners with one-stop access to up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a ‘whole buildings’ perspective