Open journals and articles
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A large multidisciplinary index of peer-reviewed open-access journals and article records, useful for literature discovery across BUET subjects.
Open Access / OER
Open Resources for BUET
Curated open-access and open educational resources that can enrich BUET department pages without subscription barriers.
Preprints and open scholarly articles
arXiv
Open research archive for computing, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, systems science, statistics, quantitative fields, and related engineering research.
Open course materials
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free course materials, lecture notes, exams, videos, and teaching resources across engineering, computer science, architecture, planning, science, and humanities.
Open engineering and science courses
NPTEL
Open online course materials from IITs and IISc covering engineering, basic sciences, management, and humanities topics relevant to BUET coursework.
Open textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Reviewed open textbooks for teaching and learning, including computer science, engineering-adjacent science, mathematics, business, and social science areas.
Peer-reviewed open textbooks
OpenStax
Free, openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks for foundational science, mathematics, business, social science, and humanities courses.
Open biomedical and life-science literature
PubMed Central
Open full-text biomedical and life-science literature for biomedical engineering, materials, chemistry, environmental health, and interdisciplinary research.
Open research metadata
OpenAlex
Open scholarly metadata for works, authors, institutions, venues, topics, and citations; useful for research mapping and discovery workflows.
Open-access research repository search
CORE
Searches open-access research outputs aggregated from repositories and journals, useful for finding freely available full text beyond subscribed platforms.
Open-access books
OAPEN / DOAB Open Books
Open-access scholarly books and book discovery, especially useful for architecture, planning, humanities, social science, policy, and interdisciplinary research.
Curated open learning objects
MERLOT
A large curated collection of online teaching and learning materials with discipline browsing for science, technology, mathematics, humanities, business, health sciences, and social sciences.
Open engineering courseware
TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Free university-level courseware with strong coverage in energy, environment, water, infrastructure, mobility, architecture, and engineering design.
Open engineering textbooks
TU Delft Open Textbooks
Freely accessible textbooks produced by TU Delft teachers for bachelor and master courses, useful for engineering, architecture, water, energy, and design subjects.
Interactive math and science tools
GeoGebra Resources
Free interactive activities, simulations, exercises, calculators, and 3D graphing tools for mathematics, geometry, statistics, and science teaching.
Mathematics and statistics journals
Project Euclid
A mathematics and statistics publishing platform with many open-access journal and proceedings records for pure and applied mathematical research.
Open-source software discovery
GitHub Topics
Topic-based discovery for open-source software projects, datasets, research code, teaching examples, and engineering tools.
Open technical reports
NASA Technical Reports Server
Open technical reports, conference papers, and historical engineering documents useful for aerospace, mechanical, materials, systems, computing, and energy research.
Open earth and water science reports
USGS Publications Warehouse
Open geoscience, hydrology, hazards, mapping, climate, and water-resource publications useful for civil, water, planning, environmental, and materials research.
European open research discovery
OpenAIRE Explore
Open research discovery across publications, datasets, software, projects, and organizations, useful for finding European-funded open outputs and linked research objects.
Open research repository
Zenodo
Open repository for publications, datasets, software, posters, presentations, and project outputs across science, engineering, humanities, and social sciences.
Global low-income country research access portal
Research4Life (INASP Access Portal)
Provides free and low-cost access to up to 200,000 peer-reviewed journals, books, and reference databases across health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences, and law for Bangladesh researchers.
Peer-reviewed open access books
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
A digital directory of over 80,000 peer-reviewed academic open access books and monographs from hundreds of scholarly publishers worldwide.
Open electrical and computing journals
IEEE Open Access
IEEE's dedicated portal for fully open access peer-reviewed journals in electrical engineering, computer science, robotics, power systems, and biomedical engineering.
Open science and technology journals
SpringerOpen
Fully open access peer-reviewed journals and books covering all areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, humanities, and social sciences.
Open access journal articles and books
ScienceDirect Open Access (Elsevier OA)
Millions of peer-reviewed open access journal articles and book chapters published by Elsevier across engineering, physical sciences, chemical engineering, and materials science.
Open access peer-reviewed journals
Wiley Open Access
Peer-reviewed open access journals published by Wiley, offering immediate global access under Creative Commons licenses.
Open access biomedical & health journals
BioMed Central (BMC)
Pioneer open-access publisher with over 300 peer-reviewed journals in biomedical engineering, bioengineering, biotechnology, public health, and molecular biology.
Open access books in science & tech
IntechOpen
Leading open access publisher of academic books in Science, Technology, and Medicine, covering artificial intelligence, robotics, materials science, and civil engineering.
Preprints and open social science research
SSRN Research Network
Preprint and open-access research repository for engineering management, urban planning, economics, law, sustainability, and social sciences.
Multidisciplinary open archive
HAL Open Science Archive
Multidisciplinary open access archive for scientific documents, preprints, thesis dissertations, and research papers across physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.
Global open access search engine
BASE Academic Search Engine
One of the world's largest search engines for academic open-access web resources, indexing over 300 million documents from 10,000+ repositories worldwide.
Open access theses and dissertations
NDLTD Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Global network and portal providing open access to millions of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from universities worldwide.
Open research datasets
Dryad Scientific Data Repository
Curated open data repository providing discoverable, freely reusable scientific datasets across biological, physical, and engineering sciences.
Open AI and machine learning datasets
Hugging Face Open Datasets
Leading open repository for machine learning datasets, artificial intelligence models, NLP corpora, and computer vision research artifacts.