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Searching for Open Access Articles
These resources can help you when looking for whether a specific article is available as an OER. You can also see the Open Access Journals/Articles box below on this page for links to resources which provide open access articles/journals.
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals though the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
"Open access to 1,486,542 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics."
"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."
"[H]osts over 700+ leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals" for a variety of subjects including business and management, computer science, economics & accounting, environmental sciences, and nursing & healthcare.
"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)."
A "portfolio of over 200 peer-reviewed, fully open access journals . . . covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences."
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
The Ohio History Connection provides free access to over 1,000,000 full-text searchable pages of Ohio newspapers through Ohio Memory and the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America.
