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Early Childhood Studies & Education Studies & Special Education

Open Access resources

Here you will find links to Open Access search engines and tools to find research that is freely available to access.

BASE (Bielefield Academic Search Engine) - a multidisciplinary search engine to find scholarly resources. Links to citations and where available Open Access literature.

Core - one of the world's largest collection of Open Access research papers.

Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) - Digital archive of documents published by the government and other bodies with a focus on education and training collected by the UCL Institute of Education.

Directory of Open Access Books - contains Open Access books.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - contains open access, peer reviewed journals.

OAPEN - Open Access academic e-books.

Open Access Button - a service that helps you find free, full text articles legally.

UCL Press - Open Access - Open Access e-books published by UCL Press.

Unpaywall - similar to Open Access button but is a browser extension you add to your web browser.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository