LibGuides: Middle Eastern studies: Open Access

What is Open Access?

Open Access (OA) refers to free, unrestricted online access to scholarly materials.

Open Access enables the communication of research across boundaries of national borders and publication systems. Equal access to government funded, high quality research is a key principle of removing geographical, socio-economic and publisher barriers to credible information

The Australian National University, through its Open Research repository collects, maintains, preserves, promotes and disseminates its open access scholarly materials. You can search the collection of scholarly outputs of the University's academic community as well as digitised material of national and international significance from the University's special and rare collections.

You can also browse the ANU Press collection. ANU Press is a globally recognised leader in open-access academic publishing. They produce fully peer-reviewed monographs and journals across a wide range of subject areas, with a special focus on Australian and international policy, Indigenous studies and the Asia-Pacific region.

You can learn more about Open Access in the ANU Library's self-paced module, Scholarly communications 101.

Open Access

ANU Open Research
The Australian National University, through its Open Research repository, collects, maintains, preserves, promotes and disseminates its open access scholarly materials. Open Research holds a variety of scholarly publications including journal articles; books and book chapters; conference papers, posters and presentations; theses; creative works; photographs and much more in a number of collections and formats. The wider community is free to browse this material and all members of the ANU community (past and present) are encouraged to contribute their research.
Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL)
AMEEL is a Web-based portal and a digital collection of information for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development, and contemporary face. Within this portal, Yale University Library integrates existing scholarly digital content with newly digitized resources to make such materials easier to find and use efficiently and freely.
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Currently, AMEEL holds approximately 350,000 pages of full text, indexed and searchable in the language of publication including Arabic and Western scripts. The full text in AMEEL has been extracted using Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) rather than re-keying all works. Our digitization team aimed for accuracy rates of higher than 90% when converting modern Arabic text.
Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
A publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 10,786 volumes across 6,544 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.
HathiTrust Digital Library
A digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform providing long-term preservation and access services for public domain and copyright content from a variety of sources (e.g. Google, Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives).
Islamic Heritage Project (Harvard Library)
A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
Digital editions manuscripts and paintings from the Islamicate world representing the flourishing intellectual and cultural heritage of Muslim lands from 1000 to 1900, covering mathematics, astrology, history, law, literature, as well as the Qur'an and Hadith. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and Berber.
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The primary partners are Columbia University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania with signifiant contributions from Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. This collection is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Middle East Online books: UPENN
Access full list of Middle East online books at UPENN library.
Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
This project began as a consequence of a series of conversations in 2010 between Charles Jones and Peter Magierski at NYU about the need for a tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to the Middle East.