Open Access Collections of Scholarly Research
Online collections, or repositories, that house research articles, data sets, field notes, dissertations, images, and other scholarly work, may be associated with a particular research institution, academic discipline, or a research funder.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and DissertationsDirectory of links to worldwide ETD databases.
- Open Access Directory: Disciplinary RepositoriesA directory of many open access repositories organized by discipline.
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations"OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1000 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 2,793,878 theses and dissertations."
- OpenDOAR"OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories." Search for scholarly research on all topics, shared by authors worldwide.
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new window"A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine...PMC is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the Public Access Policy mandated by NIH and similar policies of other research funding agencies. As of June 2015 there are 3.5 million articles archived in PubMedCentral.
Digital Repository Service
The Digital Repository Service is a secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community. It expands upon IRis, Northeastern's previous repository platform, which was first developed in 2005.
Anyone is welcome to use the DRS to discover publicly available content, like theses and dissertations or the University Archives and Special Collections Digital Collections.
Members of the Northeastern community are encouraged to sign in to access additional content that may not be publicly available, like photographs from the Office of Marketing and Communications or certain research materials.
There are several ways for DRS users to deposit material in the DRS. Northeastern faculty can sign in and start depositing right away, and departmental staff can contact DRS staff to get permission to start depositing on behalf of their department.