Open Access E-Journals

Africa Journal Online

A Non-Profit Organisation that works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

Focuses on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Its purpose is to help facilitate a person’s liberal arts education.

American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) maintains a list of open source and open access mathematics textbooks that have met the AIM Editorial Board’s evaluation criteria and are suitable for use in traditional university courses.

Athabasca University Press

Journals on research, environment, labour and education among others.

Bibliomania

Novels on Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories, Reference Books and Dictionaries

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Books, journals, and other materials on biodiversity from a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries. Provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes from the 15th to the 21st centuries.

Bioline International

Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity. Bioline increases the visibility of this research by making it readily available to researchers across the world. Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement.

BioMed Central

Open Access Journals in Biomedicine, Chemistry, Criminology and Criminal, Justice, Dentistry, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Sciences

Brill Open Access Journals

Subject areas include African Studies, American Studies, Ancient Near East and Egypt, Art History, Asian Studies, Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, Book History and Cartography, Classical Studies, Education, History, Jewish Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Social Sciences, Theology and World Christianity, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, International Law, International Relations and Biology

CLOCKSS Triggered Content

Focuses mainly on Medicine, Health, Chemistry, and Biology.

CERN OpenData

Explore more than five petabytes
of open data from particle physics!

CODESRIA

A significant part of CODESRIA’s work is to ensure that our community of scholars, young academics, and those conducting research within the social science and humanities have a one-stop location that serves as a guide on where to access information.

Core

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers

DeGruyter Open

De Gruyter is home to around 100 fully open access journals across STEM and HSS disciplines.

DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa

Affidavits, Articles, Focuses on Biographies, Books, Briefs (Legal Documents), Circulars, Conference Papers, Constitution, Correspondence, Essays, Interviews, Journal article, Legislation, Letters, Maps, Memorandums, Music, Newsletters, Oral Histories and Painting

Digital Public Library of America

An open network of online resources that draws on America’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums. Includes thousands of items from the American Government Printing Office’s Catalogue of Publications and the Medical Heritage Library research collection.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world in Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health, Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political, Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses dating back to 1955.

Education Open Access

Education research and in the classroom journals.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Electronic text editions in Commerce, Education, Animals, Christianity, Comedy among other various subjects.

Firenze University Press – Journal Archive

Journals that cover a wide range of subjects including Fashion, Culture and the Environment.

Globethics Library

Collections in Education, Ethics, Philosophy, Religious Ethics and Theology and ecumenism.

Hindawi

Subject areas in Biological Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Case Reports, Social Sciences and Education, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science.

Knowledge Unlatched

Journals in Language, European Culture, Anthropology, Environment, Conflict and Migration.

ieee Xplore

Subject areas in engineering and technology.

NB* Narrow your search results by choosing Open Access Only which is to your left of your results list.

IntechOpen Journals

IntechOpen journals in AI, Computer Science, Robotics Technology, Digital Medicine,
Healthcare Technology, Green Energy and
Environmental Technology.

Karger Open Access Journals

Searchable gateway of open access journals for every biomedical discipline.

Medieval Review

Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies since 1993.

Michigan Materials

Michigan eLibrary’s gateway to different digital projects, including photographs, oral histories, and other materials, from different repositories throughout the state.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

National Science Digital Library

Serving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education.

Open Science Journals

Agriculture, Library science, Education, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Language and Literature, Law, Medicine, Military Science, Music and books on Music, Naval Science, Philosophy. Psychology. Religion, Political science, Science, Social Sciences, Technology.

Oxford Text Archive

A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources

Oxford University Press – Open Journals

Open journals in Medicine and Health, Science and Mathematics, Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Law, Arts and Humanities.

Project Euclid – Open Access

Complete holdings of selected mathematics and statistics journals from a variety of publishers hosted by Project Euclid.

Public Library of Science

Journals in Biology, Medicinal, Computational, Genetics, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Pathogens.

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)

Explore economic literature on two RePEc services. On EconPapers and IDEAS, search and browse, or follow links to author profiles, references, citations, keywords, or classifications. You can get notifications of new material with two other RePEc services, NEP and MyIDEAS.

Sage Journals

Journals in Engineering, Social Sciences, Life sciences and Medicine.

SciELO

SciELO Network provides Open Access (OA) to journals’ contents in Agricultural Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Exact and Earth Sciences, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Linguistic, Literature and Arts.

Science Direct

Hundreds of free journals from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform.

ScienceOpen

ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it.

Sharing the Word

The Sharing the Word ELibrary provides full text and free online access to a wide array of English language resources in the areas of Catholic faith, living and spirituality, history and culture.

Sigma Repository

Open access, global digital resource that collects, preserves, and shares nursing research and evidence-based practice materials.

Springer Open

With subject areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social scienceVisit our subject pages covering all subject areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

Taylor & Francis Open Journals

Subjects in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Bioscience, Engineering & Technology, Environment & Agriculture, Health and Social Care, Physical Sciences, Environment and Sustainability, Behavioral Sciences, Geography, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry

Thieme Open Access Journals

Subjects in Health, Medicine and Science.

UCL Press

UCL Press publishes 15 Open Access Journals, that cover a broad range of topics across the humanities, law, and social sciences, as well as science, technology, and engineering. We are also home to UCL Open: Environment, the first and only dedicated, multi-disciplinary, Open Science Journal, that publishes broadly across all environment related subjects.