Open Resources

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Many colleges and universities maintain OA repositories with fulltext access to scholarly sources. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

PLOS was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

This search engine, maintained by the National Institutes of Health, contains MANY free, fulltext articles. To access fulltext articles, click "free full text" on the lefthand menu of your search results.

A listing of hundreds of open-licensed textbooks, many of which are many peer reviewed.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.

More than 2,500 Open Access ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

Project Gutenberg includes 50,000+ open-access books, including epub books and free kindle books.

A web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that helps find, track, and use Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories.