SCSU Hilton C. Buley Library: Open Access Resources: Journals

General Open Access Journals- either full open access or open access to back issues

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Journal consists of free, online, full text, scholarly journals on all subjects from around the world. DOAJ lists several thousand journals, about half of which are searchable at the article level.
Agriculture, Food Sciences, Arts, Architecture, Biology, Life Sciences, Business, Economics, Chemistry, Earth, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, History, Archaeology, Languages, Literatures, Law, Political Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Philosophy, Religion, Physics, Astronomy, Science, Social Sciences, Technology , Engineering

Open J-Gate
Scholarly journals in all fields. Not all are peer-reviewed (~60%).
FindArticles
over 900 resources, mostly popular, trade, and news magazines. Some "premium" content requiring trial subscriptions to fee-based collections. There is a "free only" search check box. NOTE: Many of the Premium articles are available in our full text databases; use the journal finder to locate the full text.
Research Now
Search the "quasi open access" BEPress Journals (mostly Business and Law) plus several dozen institutional repositories for materials from Aerospace to Urban Planning.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's answer to article databases includes journal tables of contents from several major publishers, and "scholarly" content from the open web, but it is not a good Open Access discovery tool. While GS creates a good index, full text may not be directly available. Before paying for any article found via Google Scholar, be sure to check in the SCSU Journal Locator to see if the full text is available.
Google Scholar covers all scholarly fields, but is particularly strong in the sciences and medicine. To access library subscriptions, set your library preferences for Google Scholar.

Google Scholar Guide
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Subject Based Journal Article Collections

Avano
Marine and aquatic sciences resources (articles, papers, presentations, etc.)

Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new window
The collection of a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries, including digitized books and journals. Especially strong in 19th century writings. See BioStor (below) for additional searching options.
The collection of a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries, including digitized books and journals. Especially strong in 19th century writings. See BioStor for additional searching options.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
over 100 Open Access journals in the life sciences and medicine. Also searchable via PubMed.
over 100 Open Access journals in the life sciences and medicine. Also searchable via PubMed.
BioStor This link opens in a new window
Search interface and tools for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see above) and related resources.
Search interface and tools for the Biodiversity Heritage Library and related resources. Citation searches, EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley integration, etc.

Chemical Sciences Article Repository
The open access article repository for chemistry run by the UK-based Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC published articles only.)
CogPrints
papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, and other disciplines related to cognitive science.
E-LIS
E-prints in information and library science
Eprints in the Scientific and Technical fields
journal articles, technical and conference papers in disciplines of interest to the US Department of Energy.
Free Full Text Journals in Chemistry
Online chemistry journals available either in full or in a trial. Separate lists for educational and Russian journals.
Geo-Leo edocs
Earth and space sciences articles, papers, presentations, etc.
Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America
Scanned historic US newspapers from 1836-1920, and a US newspaper directory, make up this collection from the Library of Congress.
LIS Scholarship Archive Preprints
Preprints (pre-publication versions of articles, including non-published papers, conference papers, etc.) in Library and Information Sciences
Open Folklore
A developing open access project in folklore studies. The project itself is still in development, but there are links to the existing online collections in each category.
OSF Preprints
Center for Open Science collection of preprints and speciality preprint archives. (Preprints are pre-publication versions of articles, including non-published articles, conference papers, etc.)
PrePubMed
A medical/life science oriented pre-print (pre-publication versions of articles) search engine. Currently searching Figshare, PeerJ Preprints, bioRXiv, and F1000. See Help for more info and search suggestions.
PubMed Central
a digital archive of biomedical literature, sponsored and maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Some very recent material may be indexed before the online access is available. Full text articles are linked directly from the PubMed version of MEDLINE.
Science.gov
Search the technical and report literature from many of the science-related agencies of the US federal government, such as the Department of Energy and the EPA.
Science Accelerator
abstracts and full papers primarily from the Department of Energy programs and projects, covering most areas of science and science policy.
Scirus
Scirus is a search engine devoted to science subjects. On the advanced search page, you can limit your search to articles. If you also uncheck the "All journal sources" box, you will get only web based materials, including many full text articles in institutional repositories, such as University of Toronto's T-Space. (To search the journal literature covered by the "All journal sources", log in to the SCSU database ScienceDirect with a lot of full text available by our subscription.)
Social Science Research Network
abstracts and full papers both submitted by the authors and harvested from partner publishers' databases. Topics include Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, Legal Scholarship, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, and Social Insurance. Search by keyword or browse by topic. Some articles are pay-for-access.