Need Help?
Finding Publicly Available & Free Resources
Many of the resources collected on this guide require an affiliation with URI or use of a public computer within the URI Libraries. You can always check access restrictions for recommended resources by looking at the icon next to each link. The little green "A" icon to identifies resources that are accessible.
- Free Resource: All Can Access
- URI Only (must be a URI student, faculty, or staff member to access)
You can also check out the recommendations on this page for additional resources you can access without a logon restriction!
To browse for open access, freely available scholarly material on your topic, check out the Directory of Open Access Journals linked below!
- Directory of Open Access JournalsAn index of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals covering a range of disciplines.
Online eBook and Journal Resources
- FreeTechBooksThis site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
- CiteSeerX Scientific Literature Digital Library This link opens in a new window
- What's included? Full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking.
- What else should I know? Offered by the NEC Laboratories America and Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology.
- What's included? Full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking.
- Interaction-Design.orgProvides access to the "Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction," as well as a number of other open access books, courses, and more. All materials are licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons license.
On-Demand Classes and Tutorial Resources
- Khan AcademyAn extensive library of content for learning, including interactive challenges, assessments, and videos. The library of content covers math and science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics.
- SourceForgeAggregator website of download links for open source software. Also features business solutions, articles, and case studies.
- CodecademyWeb resource for self-directed learning. Free and paid on-demand classes are available. Tracks include JavaScript, HTML/CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby, and API programming.