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Open Access Databases 1. Brill Open Access It is one of the largest open access publishers in Humanities and Social Sciences.
2. BioMed Central Providing access to journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.
3. cK-12 It provides access to open source content and technology tools that will empower students and teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence and circumstances.
4. dblp Computer Science Bibliography It is an online index of major computer science publications. Although it provides access to both free access articles and those behind a paywall, you can limit your search to only full-text articles. The site indexes more than three million publications, making it an invaluable resource in the world of computer science.
5. Digital Library of the Commons Repository It is a multidisciplinary journal repository that allows users to check thousands of free and open access articles from around the world. You can browse by document type, date, author, title, and more or search for keywords relevant to your topic.
6. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) An open access directory of books that meet academic standards.
7. Directory of Open Access Journals Provides access to quality controlled scientific Open Access Journals covering several subject areas.
8. EconBiz It is a great resource for economic and business studies. A service of the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, it offers access to full texts online, with the option of searching for open access material only.
9. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) It allows you to search by topic for material related to the field of education. Links lead to other sites, where you may have to purchase the information, but you can search for full-text articles only.
10. EThOS It is run by the British Library. It allows you to search over 400,000 doctoral theses in a variety of disciplines. Although some full texts are behind paywalls, you can limit your search to items available for immediate download, either directly through EThOS or through an institution's website.
11. Free medical journals Promotes access to medical journals over the internet.
12. Frontiers A leading open access journals publisher and open science platform.
13. Full text Journals in Chemistry Covers access to journals in chemistry, biochemistry and its related subjects.
14. HighWire Press Major source of free access to high impact, peer-reviewed life sciences journals on the internet sponsored by Stanford University Libraries.
15. Internet Archive Scholar A full text search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth-century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
16. JURN It is a multidisciplinary search engine that provides you with links to various scholarly websites, articles, and journals that are all free access or open access. Specifically covering the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine. JURN has indexed almost 5,000 repositories to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
17. NeoK12 Best collection of educational videos, games, quizzes, diagrams and puzzles.
18. Omics International Research that aids in the progress in Clinical, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Chemistry, and Management disciplines.
19. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) An open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
20. Open and Free Content on JSTOR and Artsor JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
21. Open Culture It brings together high-quality cultural and educational media for a lifelong learning community.
22. Project Muse (Open Access Content on MUSE) Project MUSE hosts over 2000 open access books and a small number of fully open access journals, all from distinguished not-for-profit scholarly publishers. These books and journals are permanently, freely available to libraries and users around the world. Please filter the search to “Only content I have Access to” or sources that can be accessed have a logo “Free”.
23. PQDT OPEN Provides full text of open access of dissertations and theses.
24. Public Library of Science It is a big player in the world of open access science. Publishing seven open access journals, the non-profit organization is committed to facilitating openness in academic research.
25. PubMed Offers unrestricted access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
26. ScienceOpen It is a research and publishing network; it offers open access to more than 28 million articles in all areas of science. You need to register to view the full text of the articles; registration is free.
27. Scientific Journals International Publishes peer-reviewed open-access journals for all disciplines.
28. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) It is a collection of papers from the social sciences community. It also offers more than 700,000 abstracts and more than 600,000 full-text papers. There is not yet a specific option to search for only full-text articles, but because most of the papers on the site are free access, it is not often that you encounter a paywall. You have to register and be a member to use the services, but registration is free and it enables you to interact with other scholars around the world.
29. World Data Bank Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
30. Another Link Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
