Library Databases & Search Engines

Casa College students have access to the following databases and search engines. 

DOAB: The Directory of Open Access Books covers free, full-text, quality-controlled academic and peer reviewed books.

DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine is a search engine especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

CORE: Aggregates all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.

ROAD: Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources provides free access to a subset of ISSN bibliographic records identifying online scholarly resources available in Open Access: journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories.

Open Knowledge (OKR): The largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

OpenAire: It is one of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide. It includes publications and collections of scientific data from European projects, ensuring the wide dissemination of research results worldwide.