Open Access
Tools to find open access documents
- Unpaywall add-onUnpaywall is a useful add-on that can be freely installed on a web browser in order to find an open access version of a scientific article.
- BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search EngineBASE search engine searches in more than 80 million documents from more than 4,000 sources. 70% are open access documents.
- Google ScholarSubject(s) : All Fields of Engineering
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Coverage Period : Unknown - Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)DOAB is a global index of over 80,000 open-access scientific books. Works must comply with the standards and rules of scientific publishing (peer review) to be included in the list.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)DOAJ is a global index of over 20 000 scholarly journals in open-access. Journals must apply and meet specific criteria to be included in the list. The organization is also the founder of Think.Check.Submit., a website offering tools to identify trustworthy academic publications.
Institutional repositories of Canadian universities offering Science and Engineering programs
Here are some links to institutional repositories granting access to publications from various Canadian university research communities. These repositories contain articles, dissertations, theses, technical reports, and other document types.
- Concordia University
- École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
- McGill University
- Polytechnique Montréal
- Queens University
- Université de Montréal
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Université Laval
- University of Ottawa
- University of Alberta
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Toronto
- University of Western Ontario
Institutional Repositories
- OpenDOARAn international directory of open access repositories.
PolyPublie
Find documents deposited in PolyPublie, the institutional repository of Polytechnique Montréal
Discipline-based repositories
- arXiv.orgFree archive of articles and preprints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Quantitative Biology.
- PubMed CentralFree archive of mostly biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Articles are uploaded by publishers, and not by authors.
