Open and Free Access Materials for Research

In response to libraries and archives being closed during the lockdowns in 2020 the IHR launched this page to steer researchers to freely accessible online research resources. We continue to update the page as part of our remit to help researchers nationally and internationally. We're also asking you for additional recommendations to make this resource as useful as possible. 

Open Access - Creative Commons

Using the Chicago History Museum's Research Collections - Chicago History Museum

Open science - Wikipedia

14 Websites to Download Research Paper for Free - 2023 - iLovePhD

The Society for Conservation Biology

Materials An Open Access Journal from MDPI

Open educational resources and intellectual property rights

PDF] Building open access in Africa

Open source scientific information

Peer Community In - free peer review & validation of preprints of articles