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HAL is a multidisciplinary open archive for the sharing of published and unpublished research. It is at the service of researchers in academic institutions, both public and private. In France, HAL is the national archive chosen by the scientific and academic community for the open dissemination of its research results. The repository is also at the service of researchers affiliated to foreign academic institutions, whether public or private. HAL is both: - a software, - a unique and multidisciplinary repository (see domain list), - and a shared platform for more than 140 institutional archives of universities and research organizations, an open repository dedicated to Human and Social Sciences (HAL-SHS), an open repository for the dissemination of PhD thesis, and an open repository for visual and audio data (MediHAL).

This fulltext search index includes over 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and preprints crawled from the World Wide Web. Content in this search index comes in one of three forms: - public web content as preserved in The Wayback Machine and Archive-It partner collections - digitized print materials from paper and microform collections - general materials from archive.org collections, including collaborations with partners

OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly papers, researchers, journals, and institutions — along with all the ways they're connected to one another.

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW. The full texts collected here (mostly working papers, but also journal articles, conference proceedings, etc.) are all freely accessible according to the principles of Open Access. Authors and editors can also submit papers to EconStor free of charge. EconStor is among the largest repositories in its discipline with 247,016 full-texts. More than 500 institutions use it for the digital dissemination of their publications in Open Access. EconStor is also an important input service for RePEc, where it is one of the most highly frequented archives. Moreover we also distribute our titles to search engines like Google, Google Scholar or BASE and to academic databases like WorldCat, OpenAire and EconBiz.

World Transit Research (WTR) is designed to help public transport practitioners and researchers get easier access to quality research in the field of public transport planning. WTR is a free repository of research papers, reports, research abstracts and links to research findings from leading research journals indexed and searchable to ensure easier access to topics of interest.

Trusted by researchers, scientists, students and government bodies in 158 countries across the globe, FSTA is the definitive way to search over fifty years of historic and emerging research in the sciences of food and health. Covering a wide range of interdisciplinary content, from journal articles and trade publications to conference proceedings and industry patents, FSTA is full of high-quality scientific abstracts – with more than 2,200 new entries added every week.