Open Access Resources: E-Journals

Multi-Subject Database : Academic Journals is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.

Bielefield Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a search engine for academic open access resources on the web.

Bentham Open publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals, covering all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

BMC is a publisher of STEM open access, peer-reviewed journals.

BMJ Open is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas.

Brill is a scholarly publisher with open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Open access, peer-reviewed journals and articles published by Cambridge University Press.

Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER)--is an easy-to-use internet system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. It provides access to a wide array of public health information.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. The vision is that children are well cared for and have rich learning experiences, and their families are supported and able to work. Through this Web site, we offer research and data resources for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and others.

From the Library of Congress, digitized newspapers from 1836-1922 can be browsed and searched by state, keyword or advanced search. Additional links are available to a newspaper title directory for publications from 1690 – present.

CogPrints, an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behavior genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

Library of Congress' website about the United States Congress containing the full-text of Congressional publications (bills, hearings, reports, debates, and statutes). It also contains committee information and information on the legislative process.

Open Access repository for research papers.

This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that provides access to open access, peer-reviewed journals.

EBSCO sponsored open access repository for dissertations.

Open access academic research from top universities on the subject of education.

A collection of open access, peer-reviewed journals published by Elsevier.

Official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) began as a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 2004. FRASER’s mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

Froniters is a publisher of open access, peer-reviewed journals and an Open Science platform.

GeoRef provides full access to journals and series in geology, geography, and related disciplines.

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. This link will take you to a page that explains how to set up MSU's resources in Google Scholar first.

Highwire Press assists in publishing over 2 million free full text articles.

Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.

Individual accounts enable independent researchers to access free JSTOR articles. Although they are intended for individuals who are unaffiliated with a school or library, these accounts also provide tools for all kinds of researchers, from students to scholars to independent historians, to save their work (and organize citations for projects, articles, and papers) directly on the JSTOR site.

Directory of open access Arts and Humanities journals.

Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline

Portal of legal scholarship made available through bepress Digital Commons repositories. Includes journal-published content, working papers, books, law school publications, government materials, etc.

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) is a leading scholarly open access publisher.

One of the original open access databases with over 23 million records. Originally developed at the University of Michigan with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation it gathered Open Archives Initiative compliant resources (still a standard of Open Access) but is now maintained by OCLC and delivered on the Worldcat platform.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions

Open access, peer-reviewed journals published by OMICS.

Search engine that allow users to search for research articles without subscriptions.

International library consortium with the sole mission of advancing open access to research in academic journals across the humanities disciplines. All academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.

ProQuest sponsored open access repository for dissertations and theses.

PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 46,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. PEDro is produced by the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

Public Library of Science Provides open/free access to scholarly journals over a wide range of biology and medicine topics. Dates of Coverage: 2000 - Current.

Platform for open access journals and eBooks.

PubMed Central is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Open access, peer-reviewed journals/articles published by SAGE.

An interagency portal that makes available selected authoritative scientific web sites and databases of technical reports¸ journal articles¸ conference proceedings¸ and other published materials from science agencies throughout the federal government. The web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simultaneously from the search page. Includes links to full text.

Open access, peer-reviewed journals published by Springer Nature.

The Social Science Open Access Repository contains both pre- and post-print articles from a wide range of the social sciences. It is certified by the German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI). It has both English and foreign language publications.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open access repository of abstracts and full text papers by social science researchers from around the world.

Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access, peer-reviewed journals. They also include hybrid journals with open access articles.

The Pubs Warehouse provides access to over 130,000 publications written by U.S. Geological Survey scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau. This includes official publications such as USGS-authored journal articles, series reports, book chapters, other government publications, and conference proceedings.

A collection of open access, peer-reviewed journals published by Wiley.