Open Access Catalogues

These catalogues can help you find Open Access resources.

© G. Meuli

Tools from the University of Liège

• ORBi – Directory of scientific publications from the University of Liège
• ULiège Dataverse – ULiège’s open data sharing repository
• DONum – Our digitized heritage collections
• MatheO – Master’s theses defended at ULiège
• PoPuPS– The portal for scientific journal articles and conference proceedings provided by ULiège Library
• e-publish – The open access book publishing tool developed by ULiège Library
• Mosa – The search portal for scientific publications in Belgium and Luxembourg created by ULiège Library 

Search tools

There are numerous tools available for finding open access resources (publications or other research outputs). 

A list of directories organized by research field can also be found on the Open Access Directory wiki.

Open-access scientific publications

• PeriScops – A web portal offering centralized access to scientific publications from the institutional repositories of the five universities in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, coordinated and funded by the FNRS and developed by ULiège Library. 
• OpenAire – A European platform that brings together millions of open access scientific publications and data.
• BASE – An academic search engine from Bielefeld University that indexes documents from scientific publication repositories.
• CORE – A global aggregator that collects open access articles from thousands of institutional repositories.
• OpenAlex – A database of scientific publications (users can filter results to show only those available via open access).
• HAL – A French open archive where researchers and institutions deposit their scientific publications.
• PubMed Central – An open archive providing free access to the full text of millions of articles in medicine, biomedical sciences, and life sciences.
• Isidore – French platform providing access to open access resources in the humanities and social sciences.

Open-access journals and books

• DOAJ – This directory of open-access journals also allows you to search for articles published in certain journals listed in the directory.
• DOAB – Directory of open access scientific books.

Research data and outputs

• Zenodo – A free repository developed by CERN that allows users to deposit and share various scientific research outputs (publications, datasets, educational resources).
• Harvard Dataverse – A platform for depositing and sharing research datasets maintained by Harvard.
• Recherche Data Gouv – A French directory for sharing research data.
• Figshare – A platform containing open access data, documents, figures, and other research materials
• Open Science Framework – A platform for managing and sharing research projects. It includes research projects, datasets, preprints, protocols, pre-registrations, and other documents produced as part of research (excluding publications).

Open educational resources

• OER Commons – A global library of open educational resources.
• Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) – A federated search tool for finding open educational resources.

Software, code and research projects

• GitHub – A collaborative development platform that allows users to version, share, and make code, data, or scientific projects openly accessible.