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Finding open access research

This page contains a list of links and directories to help you find open access resources across UCL and further afield.

UCL Discovery

 is UCL’s open access repository, showcasing and providing access to the full texts of UCL research publications, such as journal articles, conference papers, books, chapters and theses. Publications hosted in UCL Discovery are made open access under conditions specified by the author or publisher. If you have any questions about access to publications in UCL Discovery, please contact »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË's Open Access Team.

UCL

  • – UCL’s open access repository for research data.
  • – UCL’s open access repository for open educational resources.
  • – UCL’s open access university press.
  • UCL Digital Collections – a collection of UCL’s digitised materials.

Browser extensions

These online tools/browser extensions search for legal open access copies of research articles when you encounter a paywall:

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Directories

External collections

  • – database of UK doctoral theses.
  • – aggregator of open access research outputs.
  • – digitised items from an international collaboration of academic and research libraries.
  • – collection of open access musical scores.
  • – collection of open access e-books.
  • – international database of open access graduate theses and dissertations.
  • – collection of open access Classical and other texts.
  • – shared repository platform for research held by the British Library and other UK institutions.