Open Access: OA: Articles / Journals / Dissertations

Articles and case law.
Note: not all content you find on Google Scholar is open access (free).

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

A search engine, which searches articles, chapters, e-books, and more.

PubMed® comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

"PLOS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Rigorously reported, peer reviewed and immediately available without restrictions, promoting the widest readership and impact possible."

One of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide with around 113 M full-text publications in multiple languages, mainly in natural and social sciences: articles, doctoral and master theses, book chapters, reviews, reports, and more. For best results use the Advanced Search option.

30+ journals and 40,000+ articles from various disciplines.

BioMed Central, eScholarship, Ingenta Connect, and more. Provided by University Library, California State University Long Beach.

Open a free account and "search the full text and citations of our millions of papers. Download groups of related papers to jumpstart your research. Save time with detailed summaries and search alerts."

Open a free account and "access over 135 million publication pages and stay up to date with what's happening in your field."

The Free Library offers free, full-text versions of classic literary works by celebrated authors. Check the "Literature" box to search books. The FL has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals that includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.

Informative and brief (3-5 min) E-Learning Modules (video tutorials) for Students: Searching Titles and Languages, Names, Cited References, Supplemental Files, and Subjects. All videos are accompanied by transcripts in Word format files, which download directly to your device.

More than 90 videos on how to use JSTOR humanities collections and teaching resources, how to do research, and much more.

Access to 1,247,000+ open access research theses from 579 Universities in 29 European countries. Refine results by country, author, university, language, and more.

Provides open access to over 800,000 dissertations from 26 US universities and the UK. Coverage varies, it can go as far back as 1800 (the British Library collection).

Coverage: 1800 to date. Registration/log-in is required to download theses from EThOS.

Provides free access to millions of dissertations (6,000,000+) and thesis abstracts from universities around the world, and links to full text when freely available.

"OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,366,266 theses and dissertations."

Explore the catalog of over 40 free journal titles and more than 3,000 eBooks.

Open and free content in the humanities and arts on JSTOR and Artstor: journals, books, chapters, images and media.

Institute of Education Sciences. Search education resources.

48 journals and 40,000+ articles in all subject areas, most of them in Arts & Humanities, Medicine & Health.

Journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.

Artstor’s ever-growing public collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.

Overview the Artstor Public Collections and search them by categories and providers.