Trove provides access to more than 380 million multi-disciplinary resources produced by Australians, about Australia or of interest to the Australian community. Includes collections from Libraries Australia, Music Australia, Universities and other collecting institutions. Resources include: sheet music, sound recordings, interviews, images and newspaper articles.
Promotes open access to the research literature, pre- and post-peer-review, through author self-archiving in institutional eprint archives. Registry has two functions: (1) to monitor overall growth in the number of eprint archives and (2) to maintain a list of GNU Open Access Repository sites (the software Southampton University has designed to facilitate self-archiving).
See the Library Guide for your discipline to identify relevant subject repositories e.g. arXiv, for physics, mathematics and computer science
Indexes of OA Scholarly Works
Indexes of OA Scholarly Works
All repositories have their own search engine, usually offering a variety of access points including author and keyword. Additionally, the content of many are indexed by multi-discipline databases e.g.
Index and extensive fulltext access to multi-discipline, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from a wide variety of academic publishers & professional societies.
Currently provides access to more than 50 million records from over 2000 contributors. Digital resources include items such as digitised (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, theses, audio files, images, movies and data-sets.