Free Scholarly Sources: Open Access Directory

What does Open Access or Open Source mean when it comes to library resources?

Open Access/Source means that scholars have published their works online and made them free for all!

Multidisciplinary Topics:

• Directory of Open Access Journals A directory of over 5000 OA journals (almost 2300 of which are article searchable). DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• OpenDOAR OpenDOAR is an authoritative worldwide directory of academic open access repositories.
• OpenStax allows you to look at and distribute information in chunks that can be organized into usable pieces.
• The Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository is an open access repository.
• Elsevier Open Access Journals has over 100 free peer-reviewed journals.  Check out their A-Z list.
• Highwire Stanford University Free online full-text articles are available from Highwire Press.

Science and Medicine:

• ABC-Chemistry: Directory of free full-text journals in Chemistry.
• PLOS (Public Library of Science): Free science journal articles.
• Pubmed Central Open Access: You may be able to find medical articles from PMC's Creative Commons.
• Science Direct has hundreds open access journal articles in the field of science.
• SpringerOpen: Springer’s portfolio of 160+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.
• Wiley has dozens of open access science journals.

Other subjects:

• Math journals: UC Berkeley's list of free online math journals.
• Law: The American Bar Association's free full-text online law review and legal journals.

Dissertations:

• American Doctoral Dissertations at www.opendissertations.com has full-text theses and dissertations from 1902-present

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