Research Guides: Free and Open Access: Journals

Global Availability

These journals are available for free access anywhere in the world. May require registration for access permission.

Unpaywall
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Multidisciplinary. Subjects covered include Business and Economics, Agriculture, Health and the Social Sciences.
The Journals Online Project (JOLs)
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Not a publisher. Provides various services for participating journals such as platforms and hosting options and promotes their websites to encourage discovery of the titles and their articles.
Electronic Journals Library
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For more information on Electronic Journals Library visit - http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/about.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Bioline International
Oxford Journals

Restricted Availability

Content available for free or at reduced prices to select developing Countries. May require registration for access permission.

Research for Innovation (ARDI)
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The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program provides free online access to major scientific and technical journals to local, not-for-profit institutions in least-developed countries and low-cost access to industrial property offices in developing countries across the world.
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
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Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture. Provides free access to several hundred journals from major scientific publishers in food, agriculture, environmental science, and the related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries. For more information, contact agora@fao.org
Global Online Access to Legal Information (GOALI)
Access to Research for Health Programme (HINARI)
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The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative. Provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profits in developing countries.
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
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Online Access to Research in the Environment. A partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme, Yale University and several leading science and technology publishers, OARE enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
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A searchable, offline, digital library of mainly agriculturally focused reference journals updated annually and delivered by the TEEAL Project Office at Cornell University’s Mann Library.
eJournals Delivery Service (eJDS)
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Sends articles as email attachments mainly in physics and mathematics to individual scientists.