Open Access Resources

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Business
Crunchbase
EDGAR Company Filings (SEC)
e-Secretary of State
Forbes Lists
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Public Register's Annual Report
THOMASnet

Citation and Writing 
American Psychological Association Citations
Purdue OWL

Computers and Information Science
arXiv
CiteSeerX
InTech Books
InTech Journals

Data
Data.gov
DataPlanet
Google Public Data Explorer
National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot (NAIRR Pilot)
Registry of Research Data Repositories

Dictionaries
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

e-Books
Directory of Open Access Books
Project Gutenberg

General
Academic Journals
Bentham Open
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Google Scholar
HathiTrust
The Internet Public Library (IPL)
SpringerOpen
Taylor & Francis Open Journals
Wiley Open Access

Math and Science
Khan Academy
Mathematical Applets
Math Forum
Project Euclid
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Science.gov
Wolfram MathWorld

Poetry
Academy of American Poets
Famous Poets and Poems
Library of Congress Poetry & Literature

Programming Languages
The C++ archive
Java
Perl
W3Schools

Science and Health
arXiv
BioMed Central
BioOne Open Access
BMJ Open
PubMed Central
ScienceDirect Open Access Journals