Research Guides: Alumni Resources: Free Resources

Free Online Databases

This is a select list of resources that should be free to access and use; however, some might require registration. The CMU Libraries is not directly affiliated with any of the providers.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
" The finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options."
Digital Commons Network
" A database of open access scholarship (600,000+ articles) ....represents thousands of disciplines and subject areas — from Architecture to Zoology... full-text, open access research and scholarship are included...peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. "
Directory of Open Access Journals
This site provides free, full-text scientific and scholarly journals covering a broad selection of subjects.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research."
HathiTrust Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible well into the future. The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of more than fifty partner institutions in digital form.
Hindawi
Hindawi publishes more than 300 Open Access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All articles published in Hindawi journals are open access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Independent Voices
An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

JSTOR
Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Free, limited access with registration.
Open Educational Resources
"The idea behind Open Educational Resources (OER) is simple but powerful—educational materials made freely and legally available on the Internet for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute."

PubMed Central (PMC)
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

WorldCat
"Find items in libraries near you."

Newspapers

Digital Michigan Newspaper Database
From the CMU Clarke Historical Library
Michigan Newspapers
Links to newspaper websites throughout Michigan
Tribal Observer (Print)
Run by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. Print newspapers are located at the north end of the 2nd floor, in the area near the Library Services Desk. The library retains the most recent two months of print newspapers. For in-library use only.
Morning Sun (Print)
Mount Pleasant, MI news, sports, weather and more. Print newspapers are located at the north end of the 2nd floor, in the area near the Library Services Desk. The library retains the most recent two months of print newspapers. For in-library use only.

Alumni Resources: Free Resources

Michigan eLibrary

Free Online Databases

Newspapers