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This is a starting point for collating free, web-based resources available to editors, as well as indexes to help point to sources. Please feel free to add new resources with a URL to the site, and a brief description. Don't worry too much about presentation or organization, this is just a draft. Add new headings as needed.

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Wikipedia

Articles

General

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - doaj.org
Online Books Page - repository of out-of-copyright, full-text e-books, onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
Project Gutenberg - 30,000 e-books, gutenberg.org
Google Scholar - index of both free, and paywalled academic articles, scholar.google.com
Internet Public Library - search engine of resources maintained by volunteer librarians, ipl.org
Open Access Directory (OAD): website
WikiProject Open Access Catalogue
OAPEN Library: website
Open Library
ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources: website
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): website
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR): website
COnnecting REpositories (CORE): website
OAD index of OA book publishers
OAD index of open data repositories
Mendeley research papers
Digital Library of the Commons
Library of Congress
SIRIS
Digital Commons Network
Opengrey
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
A Guide to Free & Cheap Books Online
MIT Open Courseware

By subject

See also Collections on Meta.

African studies

Agroforestry

American studies

Archival materials

ArchivesHub
National Archives (US)

Art history

Over 1,200 (and growing) books published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, up to c. 2009, fully available to download as PDFs (though content is still copyrighted) from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the MMA. Exhibition and collection catalogues, many very large and well-illustrated, and much else. Also useful for general history etc.
Oxford Art Online (select articles)

Asian studies

Biology and zoology

Encyclopedia of Life - collection of biology-related articles and links: eol.org
Biodiversity Heritage Library - access to legacy literature - http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Taxonomy Browser
Open Biology (web site)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/References
Zookeys (web site)
Phytokeys (web site)

Canadian studies

Chemistry

Culture

UNESCO Public Domain Resources and Virtual Library
Academy Awards database
BMI repertoire search and ASCAP search. Look up song titles, publishers and songwriters/composers.
Billboard magazine archives
Emmy Awards database
Grammy Awards database
Japanese Anime and manga WikiProject's list of sources
Rolling Stone magazine
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics/References
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Reference_library/Online_print_archive

Data and statistics

Earth and environmental studies

Economics

Education

European studies

Geography

Government and politics

Homeland Security Digital Library
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 to present
Reports and publications of the Brookings Institution, public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
Reports and publications of the Cato Institute, public policy think-tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Reports and publications of the Center for American Progress, public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
EULib: large, searchable collection of official European Union news and documents.
Foreign Affairs: periodical published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Foreign Policy: a leading quarterly of international affairs.
Marxists Internet Archive - Collection of primary source documents
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Conservatism/References
User:Superb Owl/Reliable Source Engines: only includes perennial generally reliable sources, including an option to only search sites without paywalls, making search results easier to filter out (though some op-ed pages remain)

History

Library of Anglo-American Culture and History
Gutenberg-e
Lectures in Medieval History
Digital Archive, Toronto Public Library
Australian Dictionary of Biography [1]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography [2]

Languages and linguistics

Law

African Court of Justice [3] - African Union
Coalition for the International Criminal Court [4]
Amnesty International: human rights.
European Union law [5]
Human Rights Watch
International Court of Justice [6] - (ICJ) United Nations' judicial body
International Criminal Court [7] - ICC is in Hague, Netherlands governed by the Rome Statute
Law Library of Congress [8] - United States Internet Law Library of Congress

Library and Information Science

Literature

Gale's Literary Index - database of Gale entries on literature and authors, as well as bibliographies: galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
Project Gutenberg

Mathematics

Medicine

Free Medical Journals - index of 3,630 free medical journals: freemedicaljournals.com
MedlinePlus
PubMed - index of over 22 million items in the biomedical field: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Merck Manual
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
BioMed Central
DrugBank
Drug Information Portal
CDC
Global Health Observatory (GHO) (web site)

Music

News

Google News
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – Digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, from October 26, 1841, to December 31, 1902; approximately 147,000 pages.
Chronicling America – Digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress; a smorgasbord of American newspapers published between 1836 and 1922; approximately 5,200,000 pages.
Old Fulton NY Post Cards – A private digitization project; contains over 21,000,000 old New York State historical newspaper pages.
Northern New York Library Network, overlapping some of Old Fulton's content but smaller (about 2,000,000 pages) and providing a different search interface.
Papers Past – Digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 2,000,000 New Zealand newspaper pages.
Trove – Digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 5,000,000 Australian newspaper pages.
Elephind – text searchable free database of approximately 2,700 newspapers.
The European Library – text searchable free database of approximately 3.3 million European newspaper pages; a project funded under the European Commission's CIP 2007 – 2013 programme.

Physics and astronomy

arXiv
NASA [12]
Space.com [13] - space news

Psychology

Classics in the History of Psychology

Religion and philosophy

Sciences (general)

Social sciences (general)

SSRN

Sports

Wikiproject Football's list of sources
Sports Reference
Sports Illustrated Vault
American College of Sports Medicine [15] - American Collge of Sports Medicine
ESPN [16]