| What is Open Access? According to SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), "By open access, we mean its immediate, free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose..." |
You can search each Open Access (OA) Database individually or you can search them all at once using the Google Customized Search Engine below. All sources are full-text and peer-reviewed.
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| College & Research Libraries and College & Research Libraries News
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College & Research Libraries (C&RL)is the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. C&RL is published bimontly. |
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)Search DASH
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Hosted by Harvard University, DASH is "A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard." |
Digital Library and Archives (DLA)Search DLA
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Hosted by Virginia Tech, the DLA "...provides access to scholarly electronic serials that are peer-reviewed, full text, and accessible without charge. Their topics range from education, engineering, and literature to technology, philosphy and libraries. Most titles are available in both PDF and HTML." |
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Search DOAJ
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"The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact." |
History CooperativeSearch History Cooperative
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A premier resource for historians on the Web that provides access to the full-text of current issues of the following journals: The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Law and History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher, The Western Historical Quarterly, Common-place, and Labour/Le Travail. |
International Journal of ePortfolioSearch IJEP
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"The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online. The mission of the International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is to encourage the study of practices and pedagogies associated with ePortfolio in educational settings. The journal’s focus includes the explanation, interpretation, application, and dissemination of researchers’, practitioners’, and developers’ experiences relevant to ePortfolio. It also serves to provide a multi-faceted, single source of information for those engaging in projects and practices associated with ePortfolio." |
Open Humanities Press (OHP)Search OHP
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OHP journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen
by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. OHP's
journals are independent, published under open access licences and free of charge to readers and
authors alike." |
Public Library Of Science (PLoS)Search PLoS
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"PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the
world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Open access to 7 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology,
Genetics, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases. |
Scientific ReportsSearch SR
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"Online and open access, Scientific Reports is a primary research publication from the publishers of Nature, covering all areas of the natural sciences...Hosted on nature.com — the home of over 80 journals published by Nature Publishing Group and the destination for millions of scientists globally every month — Scientific Reports is open to all, publishing technically sound, original research papers of interest to specialists within their field, without barriers to access."
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