Open Access Journals & Websites
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the south-to-north knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation, and international development.
BioMed Central provides full-text access to a range of open-access, and subscription-based journals in biology and medicine. A keyword search option allows you to locate papers already available on the website and to view them in HTML or PDF format.
Complete contents of current issue, both U.S. and international editions.
o Chronicle of Higher Education
Articles and commentary on contemporary U.S. education issues.
Online journal of the latest developments in computing and cyberspace.
Open access articles on nursing theories and models.
Explore, discover, view, and celebrate the rich diverse cultural heritage of the Pacific. This site is a key part of the Pacific Virtual Museum project. It is an easy single-access point to digitise Pacific cultural heritage items held in different museums, galleries, and library collections. The collection results from collaboration between the National Libraries of Australia and New Zealand, and other government partners.
o Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journals.
In-depth economic news and analysis from around the world. The latest issue is in full text.
o eLife
Publishes research in life sciences and biomedicine, from the most fundamental and theoretical work, through to translational, applied, and clinical research.
Over the next few years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free, and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge - the new standard in medical publishing - will have a major impact on medical practice.
o HEDBIB
HEDBIB is a database on higher education systems, administration, planning, policy, and evaluation.
Backfiles of medical journals. Articles are 12 months or older.
o The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Journal of Education
The IAFOR Journal of Education (JoE) encourages interdisciplinary research where the primary focus is on addressing critical issues and current trends in education.
o International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
A selection of articles from the Institute of Physics was chosen for their quality and recency.
Influential regional journal, archived from 2004
Island Studies Journal (ISJ) is an open-access academic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of islands, archipelagos, and the waters surrounding and connecting them.
o Journal of Biological Chemistry
Full-text access to Stanford University's outstanding journal.
o Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting
Open access journal for forensic and investigative accounting.
o Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, and Journal of Information Technology Education: Discussion Cases
The Journal of Information Technology Education is now three different titles.
The Journal of Pacific History is dedicated to researching the Pacific Islands' history, including its political, economic, religious, and cultural history.
o Journal of Pacific Studies (from University of the South Pacific)
o JURN
Search millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses.
Excerpts and interactive features from the world-famous magazine.
One of the world's leading general science magazines. Articles on the homepage can be read for free.
o Newsweek
General interest in current events. Contains the full text of current articles.
o Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
This page lists freely accessible archives of serials (magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals).
Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search millions of free journal articles and open-access book chapters.
Peer-reviewed open-access books and journals in the humanities.
o Open Library of the Humanities (OLH)
The Open Library of Humanities is an open-access publisher of international academic scholarship. Our mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities – for free, for everyone, forever. Our goal is to liberate university research from commercial control.
Simplifying research communication and transforming reading into a process of collaboration.
o Paperity
The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.
o Public Library of Science (PLOS)
PLOS publishes influential journals from all areas of science and medicine that contain rigorously reported, peer-reviewed open-access research articles.
o reliefweb
Informing humanitarians worldwide 24/7 — a service provided by UN OCHA
o RNpedia
Complete nursing notes, practice exams, care plans, and community
SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open-access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and reviews articles in an interactive, open-access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities.
o SciELO
Scientific Electronic Library Online - some open-access journals.
Some free articles and content are on the homepage of this site. Not all back issues and current issues are free to view.
Outstanding selection of links to full-text articles from the world's foremost online scientific publications.
o Slate
Widely read electronic magazine. The focus is on politics and culture.
o South Pacific Islands Web Archive
The South Pacific Islands Web Archive collection complements the print materials from the South Pacific Islands that the U.S. Library of Congress currently holds. Most, if not all, of this documentation is available online from government portals, ministries and agencies, parliaments, and other government institutions and includes vital primary source materials. The collection period began in February 2017.
o SPORE
The magazine for agricultural and rural development in ACP countries.
o Time
General interest in current events. Contains some full text of articles.
Wiley Open Access publishes online journals across biological, chemical, and health sciences.
o World Bank Group, East Asia & Pacific
The World Bank Group works in every major area of development. They help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to modern-day challenges.
o World Health Orgainziation IRIS
The Institutional Repository of Information Sharing (IRIS) is the World Health Organization official open access repository for its publications and technical documents.
o World Inequality Database on Education
The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) highlights the powerful influence of circumstances, such as wealth, gender, ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but which play an important role in shaping their opportunities for education and life. It draws attention to unacceptable levels of education inequality across countries and between groups within countries, to help to inform policy design and public debate.