Internet Archive
The mission of the Internet Archive is to give “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” It provides free access to books and texts, images, videos, software programs, web pages, and audio recordings.
Journals, primary sources, and books:
JSTOR provides scholarly content such as journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 subjects. The platform has made its content freely available till December 31, 2020 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gutenberg Project:
Project Gutenberg was the first to make ebooks freely available to the public. It is an online library with a focus on older literary works.
Poetry Foundation:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
The Poetry Foundation is a literary organization with the aim to increase the visibility of poetry. It seeks to make the best poetry available to a large audience and is the publisher of the Poetry magazine.
Directory of Open Access Journals:
The Directory of Open Access Journals, as the name implies, is a database for journals within all fields of humanities, social sciences, medicine, science, and technology. It is committed to providing the latest, quality, and peer-reviewed open access scholarly content.
Google Scholar:
Google Scholar is a convenient platform to search all academic content across disciplines. It allows you to explore books, articles, abstracts, theses, court opinions, and so on from publishers and repositories around the world.
Research Gate:
ResearchGate is an open platform to share, discuss, and discover research across disciplines. It also allows you to keep track of who is citing your work and has a research-focused job board.
Reference resource:
https://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/
Bartleby is an e-text archive. It provides free access to a diverse range of searchable reference works within the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and more.
Literary Theory and Criticism:
As the name suggests, this is a platform dedicated to Literary Theory and Criticism. It offers open access to eZines, ebooks, lectures, and scholarly articles.
Humanities Text Initiatives:
The Humanities Text Initiative provides online access to full text resources within the various fields of humanities.
The Sonnet:
Sonnet Central is a repository of English sonnets. It also provides useful links and commentary, as well as a platform for poets to promote their work.
Classical Antiquity:
Perseus Digital Library focuses on the Greco-Roman world. It’s broader mission, however, is to show the similarities between the other disciplines within humanities and Classics.
Internet Medieval SourceBook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Internet Medieval Sourcebook is a compilation of texts available in the public domain. This is specifically designed to aid Medieval History teachers as one of its parts contains classroom sized extracts, while the other one contains the full sized documents.
Audible
Audible, an Amazon company, has opened up its collection of stories for children for free streaming. This is an initiative to sustain learning through stories during the time that schools are closed to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
https://www.base-search.net/about/en/index.php
BASE is a repository of research documents such as articles, dissertations, theses, and so on. It is operated by Bielefeld University Library. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
OATD is a catalogue of open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. The database comprises research from around 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.