Library, Learning Support and Cultural Services aims to share and promote Royal Holloway’s scholarship, art and cultural offer, for wider social benefit, including to students and academics based in areas affected by conflict, or relocated to safety in the United Kingdom.
- Due to licensing agreements with commercial publishers, we are unable to provide access to subscription-based resources for individuals who are not affiliated with the University. However, in keeping with our commitment to openness - as reflected in our University Values and our Statement on Open Research - we strive to make our own academic outputs as freely accessible as possible.
- A wide range of articles, book chapters and other scholarly outputs from Royal Holloway can be accessed via the research portal. Use the Open Access filter on the left-hand side menu to limit your search to open access content only.
- We maintain a list of online resources, including many that are open access or freely available. These resources are marked with a green open padlock icon to indicate their free accessibility.
- If you are an academic or student scholar based in the UK under schemes such as that provided by the Council for Academics at Risk (CARA), our reference access to library spaces, print collections and online enquiry service are available to you as an external user.
Other open access and research resources
If you're looking for freely available academic and research materials, these online resources are recommended:
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - A large collection of research papers from university repositories and journals worldwide.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Free access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic journals and articles.
Directory of Open Access Books - A wide range of scholarly books available to read for free.
HathiTrust Digital Library - Millions of digitised books and documents from academic and research institutions.
JSTOR Open Access Books - Free ebooks from 90 publishers.
Project Gutenberg - A library of over 75,000 free ebooks, including many literary classics.
OAPEN - Free access to academic books in the humanities and social sciences.
Research4Life - Offers access to research content for institutions in eligible countries, provided by participating publishers.
Unpaywall - A browser extension that helps you find free, legal versions of academic articles.
Although Royal Holloway, University of London cannot offer a scan and deliver service from its print collections, Oxford University is providing this service to Palestinian scholars: Support for Palestinian scholars and students.
