Open Access Resources for Linnean Society Fellows and Library Users

All links accurate and functional as of 29.04.2020. Any broken links – or suggestions for further resources to include – please contact the library.

COVID-19 specific resources

 American Roentgen Ray Society: AJR COVID-19 collection of articles  Brill: COVID-19 Collection  BMJ: BMJ's Coronavirus (covid-19) Hub  JoVE: Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center  AAAS/Science: Coronavirus: Research, Commentary, and News  British Society of Thoracic Imaging: COVID-19 BSTI Imaging Database  Society and College of Radiographers: COVID-19 resources  British Institute of Radiology: COVID-19 resources  Elsevier: COVID-19 resources  Johns Hopkins University: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center  Radiological Society of North America: RSNA Coronavirus cases

Biological Sciences resources

Open Access Publishers

 Bioline International  Highwire  SpringerOpen

Open Access Databases

 arXiv: e-prints of quantitative research papers in many science disciplines, sponsored by Cornell University  BioMed Central: open access journals  DOAJ: the Directory of Open Access Journals provides full text coverage of scientific, scholarly journals.  E-Print Network: scientists have created this network of information gleaned from websites and databases to create a database of e-prints.  FreeFullPDF: over 80 million free scientific publications available  InTech: open access to STEM books, chapters, and journals  ORA: Oxford University’s online research repository  PLoS (Public Library of Science): a database of open access, peer-reviewed science journals  PubMed Central: a free digital archive of biomedical and life science journal articles  ROARMAP: links to open access repositories worldwide  SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition): the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition provides access to papers, articles, blogs, newsletters, and news for research scientists

History and History of Science resources

General Resources

 Gallica: the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).  HathiTrust Digital Library | Millions of books online  Internet archive: a huge, rambling collection of books, films, and websites  Internet Archive Book Images on Flickr: over 2.6 million searchable images taken from books in the public domain

British History

 BFI Archive Resources Online  British Cartoon Archive  British Library Digitized manuscripts  British Library’s British in India collection  British Library oral history collection  Digital Bodleian  Getty Images  Hansard, 1803–2005: British parliamentary debates  Imperial War Museum Collections  LSE Digital Library  The National Archives  National Library of Scotland Maps: excellent collection of free online maps  A Vision of Britain through Time: historical maps, census statistics, and travel writing since 1801.

History of Science

 Darwin Correspondence Project  Darwin Online  Digital Archival Sources for Historians of Southeast Asia  Food & Agriculture Organization Open Archives project  Francis Galton Archive  Linnaeus Link: international union catalogue of institutions with Linnaean material, run by the Linnean Society of London  Linnean Online: platform for the digitized collections of the Linnean Society of London  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Digital Collections  NHS at 70: an oral history of the NHS  Qatar Digital Library  United Nations Digital Library  UK Medical Heritage Library  UK Medical Officer of Health Reports  U.S. National Library of Medicine  Wellcome Library: vast collections covering a huge swathe of scientific and medical material  Wellcome Library: History of Genetics  World Health Organization: reports and publications from 1950 to the present  John Thomson photograph collections: 19th century photographs and notes from East Asia

Art and Museum Collections

 ArtUK: the UK’s public art collection  Lewis Walpole Library (a collection of eighteenth-century prints)  Museum of London collections  National Museum Scotland collections  National Portrait Gallery collections  National Trust Collections (art and objects)  Royal Collection Trust  Victoria and Albert Museum

In addition, JISC have helpfully compiled a spreadsheet of publishers known to be widening access to their resources during the COVID-19 crisis. This list is current as of 29 April 2020.

 JISC list of publishers widening access to their resources