Digital and Technical Services Librarian
Open Access Journals
The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Subjects included are: Law, Social and Behavioral Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Life Sciences; Education; Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences; Business; and Architecture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals covering biology, medicine, and health.
A collection of open access journals and resources organized by Oxford University Press.
Public Library of Sciences (PLOS) Collections
PLOS Collections aggregate and curate related content from PLOS journals and the PLOS Blogs Network to provide structured access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus and demonstrate innovative approaches to the assessment, organization and reuse of research, data and commentary. PLOS Collections can be broadly divided into two types: archive and special collections.
PubMed Central (PMC), U.S. National Library of Medicine
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
ScienceDirect is a scientific, technical, and health database that currently contains over 1500 open access journals.
SpringerOpen publishes a wide selection of open access books across various disciplines. All SpringerOpen books are freely available online at SpringerLink and listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Additionally, Springer Open has 160+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science ranging from very specialized titles to SpringerPlus.
Taylor & Francis Online Open Journals
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals, with no subscription content. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication. Authors have the option of publishing their open access article under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, as mandated by some research funders.
Wiley Open Access journals are supported by a network of authoritative journals and societies as well as internationally renowned editorial board members. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download, and share. Created by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.