Freely Available Resources for Alumni

PLos (Public Library of Science) publishes open access journals, primarily in biological and health sciences fields.

A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online. Articles in bioRxiv are categorized as New Results, Confirmatory Results, or Contradictory Results.

A not-for-profit research repository for preprint works related to ecology, evolution and conservation.

Multidisciplinary, open database covering all aspects of human impact on environment with resources from scholarly, government and general interest sourcing.

This site provides access to non-peer reviewed preprint publications from all subdomains of Earth Science and related domains of planetary sciences.

SEARCH is the USDA National Agricultural Library's main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines. Searching content from AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC) in one place.

Full-text access to scientific journal articles by USDA researchers, plus indexing of peer-reviewed articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, Contains over 300,000 full-text journal articles on the agricultural sciences.

Database containing citations and abstracts of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. It does not include full-text journal articles; however links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

MedlinePlus, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, provides high-quality, relevant, trusted health and wellness information that is easy to understand, in both English and Spanish.

Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data. Reports and other query systems are also available.

High-quality healthcare information from prominent publishers, available free to registered Medscape.com members. Includes a broad range of full-text material from clinical journals, clinical reference books, professional periodicals, newsletters, searchable databases, etc.

Free Medical Journals was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. Journal titles may be sorted by free access immediately, after 1-6 months, after 7-12 months, and later.

The world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more including content from ChemlDplus and the NLM Drug Information Portal.

An open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

Excellent online source for engineers seeking background in all domains of the discipline. Extensive directory, educator's resources, free tools, forum, career center, directories and related content.

Resources, Tools and Basic Information for Engineering and Design of Technical Applications!

Non-peer reviewed preprints in all areas of engineering from 2016.

Includes some free textbooks, but also a list of titles in many engineering disciplines in a variety of formats.

The IET Journals span all areas of engineering and technology – covering the disciplines of electrical, electronics, computing, control, biomedical and communications technologies.

An information platform for the high energy physics community, comprising 8 interlinked databases on literature, conferences, institutions, journals, researchers, experiments, jobs and data.

This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Standard Reference Data Program.

Arranged by engineering discipline. To browse resources within a discipline, select the appropriate icon below. Note that some specific disciplines have been grouped within a larger discipline (e.g., transportation engineering texts can be found in civil & environmental engineering). If you don't find a needed discipline, try the search icon, which will connect you to the Mason OER Metafinder search engine.

The primary search tool for Department of Energy science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

PubChem is a component of the NIH Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative, providing information on the biological activities of small molecules.

Coverage of US Federal science information from federal agencies that support open science initiatives, programs and events. Governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance

zbMATH Open contains about 3 million direct links to electronic versions of the indexed mathematics publications, to the publishers’ websites and/or to electronic libraries and repositories with open access to the full texts.