Research After Graduation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for your Post-Georgetown Life

Project Gutenberg has thousands for free, public domain books from all over the world available to download as ebooks. Many of these even have audiobook versions!

This is a collection of books digitized from libraries in the US. Books published before 1923 will be freely available as well as a very small subset of works after that date. All books available, however, can be searched.

The Internet Archive provides access to books and documents. Books published before 1923 are freely available, with some pamphlets, books, and other works published after that date also available.

An open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources from American libraries, universities, archives, and museums.

Resources of digitized images and texts from European archives, museums, and libraries. Use the drop-down menu in the main search bar to select Italy as the place. Create an account to add your own tags, create collections, and save searches, among other features.

A partnership with UNESCO and the Library of Congress to collect digitized primary sources from around the world.

A product of the US Government Publication Office, collecting digital versions of a large collection of government documents.

You can click on the second radio button that says "Case Law" to search US cases.

Muckrock organizes Freedom of Information Act requests and shares them publicly.

NYU has a guide to finding case law and doing legal research throughout the world. Many official government legal case databases are free to access and search.

United States open datasets

Datasets and statistics from the United Nations

Collects municipal data especially in a portal to search.

Site maintained by the department of health and human services with US health data and statistics

A directory of collections of open access articles called repositories. Check for a repository related to your discipline or an author's institution to see if there might be a free version of an article. Or use it for searching. Don't forget that Georgetown has its own Institutional Repository, too!

arXiv is the place to find pre-prints of articles for a large number of scientific disciplines.

A catalog for OA peer-reviewed books

Search open access journals and journal articles