Open Access Resources

  1. Academia
    Login with google platform, Academia's mission is to make every scholarly and scientific paper available for free on the internet and to enhance academic discussion and collaboration. It has 25 million papers on various subjects
  2. Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
    Hosted by Cambridge University, houses a wide range of research outputs, published articles and conference papers
  3. Arts & Architecture
    Arts & Architecture magazine highlighted the development of single-family dwellings during the
    Post-war period, with specific focus on the work of Southern California architects like Richard
    Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, Charles Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Lautner among others.
    Published from 1929 until 1967, the website now dedicated to cataloging Arts & Architecture offers
    digitized versions of selected articles from 1945 onwards, as well as full issues from the magazine's
    last 11 years.
  4. a+t Architecture Publishers
    Buy and read some online publications at a cost.
  5. DART Europe E-theses Portal
    A discovery service for open access research theses awarded by European universities.
  6. DSpace Repository
    DSpace is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material. Library of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics – Pune, has many Government reports and books from the colonial period.
  7. Elsevier
    Link to open access journals published by Elsevier
  8. EThOS
    Electronic Theses Online Service offers free access, in a secure format, to the full text of electronically stored UK theses--a rich and vast body of knowledge.
  9. Iowa State University Digital Repository
    Hosted by Iowa State University, Department of Architecture, has architectural theses and dissertations. Can download pdf of graduate students of Department of Architecture.
  10. IDEALS—Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Education
    Dissertations and Theses - Landscape Architecture
  11. JSTOR resources during COVID-19
    JSTOR and its participating publishers are making an expanded set of content freely available through June 30, 2020 to their participating institutions where students have been displaced due to COVID-19; free read-online access extended from six to 100 articles per months
  12. Princeton University Library
    Finding Architecture Dissertations & Theses, you would need to login to download data
  13. ResearchGate
    Institutional Login, Research Gate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 17 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research and make research open to all
  14. ScienceDirect
    Large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied. Includes journals such as: Solar Energy, Energy and Buildings as well as Building and Environment
  15. SpringerOpen portfolio
    Springer Open portfolio offers researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish and view open access peer-reviewed journals and books.
  16. UMass Amherst Scholarworks
    Hosted by the Department of Architecture, one can download Masters Theses collection
  17. Unitec Research Bank
    Browsing Architecture Dissertations and Theses by Title. Can download pdf of architectural thesis
  18. UPenn Library - Open Access Architectural Journals
    List of links to open access journals
  1. Arch2o
    Links to websites with free architecture books
  2. Architecture Open Library
    Provides subscribers with access to the full range of titles in eBook form; more than 5,000 projects presented with photographs, architectural plans and descriptive texts provided by the architects, projects are organized and classified by categories, includes collection of conferences, videos and documentaries about architecture and design.
  3. Directory of open access books
    Open Access academic books, direct downloads
  4. E - Books Directory
    E - Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible e-books, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. More than 10000 books available.
  5. E - Books Library
    Direct download free architecture books
  6. e-PG Pathshala - Inflibnet
    E-PG Pathshala ia an initiative of the MHRD under its NAtional Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social science, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.
  7. Getfreeebooks
    16 Sites with free Architecture eBooks
  8. Hathi Trust
    Hathi Trust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
  9. Internet Archive
    Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
  10. MIT Press open access books
    Limited open access books of MIT press
  11. Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Project Gutenberg eBooks are mostly older literary works. Most were published before 1924, with some published in the decades after.
  1. IndCAT
    An online catalogue of India Universities in India. Hosted by Information and library network centre. It has records of 443 universities, books and theses.
  2. List of free resources during COVID Colorado by Christian University
    Quick links to portals of resources made free during the Coronavirus COVID-19 emergency.
  3. National Digital Library of India
    National digital library of India, has books and papers on various subjects.
  1. The British Library—South Asia
    Resources containing archives, books, images and manuscripts for the study of South Asia past and present.
  1. AA School of Architecture - Projects Review
    Projects Review is the culmination of the year’s work at the Architectural Association, showcasing student work from across the school
  2. AA School of Architecture - Lectures
    A comprehensive list of AA London lectures videos
  3. Architecture and Design Courses
    A dedicated collection of architecture and design courses and tutorials for architects, students, designers, and people interested in learning about architecture.
  4. Census of India (Digital Library)
    Census Digital Library makes available all Census Tables published from 1991 to 2011 Censuses, Census Reports and other digital files for free download in soft copy format.
  5. Issuu
    Instantly transform images, text, videos, and PDFs into ready-to-publish content for every digital channel, format, and device.
  6. MIT Open Courseware
    Open courseware, archive of courses, teaching tools, portfolios
  7. Open Government Data
    Open government data platform. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use.