Open Access Portals

Over 100 academic open access journals, many from developing countries

(research4life)

Free or low cost access to over 15,000 journals and 50,000 books for developing countries

(CABI Digital Library)

agriRxiv (pronounced ‘agri-archive’) is a free, open access source of unpublished preprints across the agricultural sciences. It is hosted and managed by CABI, an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

(INASP – International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)

Access to over 600 African scientific journals; about half have free full text, others feature a document delivery service

Current awareness service + index of medical articles; free abstracts

(Cornell University)

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for over 2 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

Portal to scholarly journals published in Bangladesh, Nepal, The Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Indonesia

(American Society for Microbiology)

Access to 13  ASM journals and dozens of special collections; open access after embargo of 4 months

(Universität Bielefeld)

Open access repositories harvester: hundreds of millions of documents from over 10,000 repositories

“bepress: the new standard in scholarly publisher”

(Brazil)

Over 50 open access journals from various developing countries

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

Over 300 digital-only open access journals

500 revues de sciences humaines et sociales

(collaboration of various societies)

ChemRxiv (pronounced ‘chem-archive’) is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. ChemRxiv gives researchers across a broad range of fields related to the chemical sciences the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and receive recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

Combined electronic resource of (mostly American) institutions

 (OAPEN Foundation)

Open access to over 60,000 open access books

(Lund University Libraries)

Portal with over 18,000 bona fide open access journals

(Lund University Libraries)

A wealth of knowledge from libraries, archives, and museums: over 46,000,000 items

(Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg)

Links to electronic journal editions

Self archiving and open archives; OAI compliant, over 250 archives, over 500,000 documents

European alternative to open access repository PubMed Central, with over 40,000,000 full-text articles

Europe’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums; over 60,000,000 items from 34 countries

(Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

Links to electronic journal editions

(AmedeoGroup)

Over 5,000 free journals; featuring a current awareness service

Over 80 million free scientific articles

 (Germany)

Links to open access German medical articles

Search ‘grey’ literature

(Stanford University Library – MPS)

(research4life)

Free or low cost access to over 22,000 journals and over 68,000 e-books for research institutes from developing countries

(IRD, France)

Open access to IRD (formerly: ORSTOM) documents

Open access publisher of over 5,400 scientific e-books

(WHO – World Health Organization)

(Japanese Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic)

Links to over 3,200 Japanese electronic journals

Redefining access to scholarly literature

 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory et al.)

medRxiv (pronounced “med-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.

(Médecins Sans Frontières)

Open access repository of MSF members publications

 (various American University Presses)

Scholarly journals online

(Netherlands)

Digital Academic Repositories – Digital library system for universities

 (South Africa)

African databases and journals

 (OCLC / WorldCat)

Over 50,000,000 items from over 2,000 digital academic open archives

(research4life)

Free or low cost access to over 6,000 journals and e-books for developing countries

(EU)

Over 20,000,000 items from over 2,700 repositories. Follow up project to Driver

Directory of over 5,600 Open Access Repositories

Over 2,700 resources, mostly arts and humanities

Over 4,000 resources, mostly on development issues

Eprints.org at Southampton serving Open Archives

Making scientific literature freely accessible to the public – 12 open access journals

(NIH – NLM – NCBI)

Over 8,000 open access journals (often with embargoes), over 8,000,000 full-text articles

European mirror site of PubMed Central

(CISMEF)

Links to French periodicals (mostly without open access)

Registry of over 4,700 Open Access Repositories

(BIREME)

Portal with over 1,800 Latin American open access journals, over 750,000 articles

Research+publishing network

Access to over 1,175,000 papers

(ITM Library)

Open access repository of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Shared research in Europe