While many databases are available for (walk-in) visitor use, our licenses limit remote access to affiliated users, defined as "currently enrolled Brown students, staff, and faculty". We suggest that non-affiliated users visit their local public libraries - many states now provide publicly available state-wide online databases to taxpayers. In Rhode Island, it is the AskRI service.
Alumni Borrowing Cards provide book borrowing privileges free of charge; however, access is denied to many databases and to Interlibrary Loan. Some free fulltext online books may be found through services such as the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg and/or Google Books.
This page lists some free search tools but these generally do not provide fulltext journal materials; these materials must be obtained through your public library or a commercial information broker such as http://www.infotrieve.com/ or http://www.researchsolutions.com/.
Please contact the Access Services Office for additional details.
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Tovah Reis 863.3334 Science, Technology & Medicine |
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Michael Jackson 863.3581 Social Sciences |
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Holly Snyder 863.1515 Humanities & Arts |
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Gerald Gaidmore 863.6414 University Archives |
Free Resources by Topic:
Science, Technology & Medicine
Social Sciences
Humanities & Arts
Catalogs:
WorldCat: find research materials around the world and at a library near you !
E-journals:
Directory of Open Access Journals: Free full-text scholarly journals in all subjects and languages
E-texts for Everyone:
Download e-books in the language you want on the topic of your choice.
Citation Managers:
EasyBib: This web service, founded by a Brown alum, allows you to maintain citations in MLA format, dowload them to Word, and autocite websites and books. Additional "premium" services, available for a fee, allow you to include Turabian and APA formats, as well as switching between formats.