Citizen science: Materials open to everyone

See also the guide of the California State University (Long Beach), they have compiled a large number of open databases from various disciplines in their guide.

In addition to the e-resources subscribed to by the library, there are other ways to access information using alternative access (AA). Our guide will help you find resources that the library has not subscribed to, such as Open Access (OA) resources.

• DOAJ  is the most extensive critical directory of scientific Open Access journals. 
• Persee.fr offers an open and free of charge access to several publications in French in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
• EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftbibliotek - Electronic Journals Library
• Journal.fi - Finnish scholarly journals online

• DOAB is the most extensive critical directory of scientific Open Access books. 
• Oapen offers an extensive, critical directory of Open Access monographs. 
• InTech Open Access Books contains openly accessible monographs.
• B.C Open Textbook Collection Multidisciplinary
• Open Textbook Library Multidisciplinary

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Tampere University Press (TUP) publishes peer-reviewed scholarly books. It is an Open Access publisher, which means that books are free of charge and freely available.

• On the page Events of Tampere University Community, you can find information about current public events, such as open lectures and dissertations.

• See the Library's guide on Open education and open educational resources. There we tell more about Open Educational Resources (OER).
  • OER are defined by UNESCO as materials such as course books, articles, online courses, or computer software that can be used freely and free of charge for teaching and learning. They are either free of copyright or licensed under a license that allows free use, modification, and distribution of the material. The development of open educational resources should also consider accessibility and suitability for a wide range of learners.
• Library of Open Educational Resources - aoe.fi is a national joint service of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish National Agency for Education where you can both use and share open educational resources in all levels of education. The service is constantly evolving.
• International open educational resources: 
  • Merlot
  • OER Commons

• Coursera
  Offers online courses on a variety of subjects, in collaboration with, for instance, Stanford University, Duke University and Google.
• edX
  Offers online courses on a variety of subjects, in collaboration with, for instance, MIT, Harvard University and Berkeley University.
• FutureLearn
  Offers online courses on a variety of subjects, in collaboration with, for instance, Johns Hopkins University ja The Open University.
• Free online courses by University of Helsinki, Finland
• DigiCampus.fi 
  Is a shared learning environment for Finnish universities and it contains also free courses.

By Open access network: Open access policies