Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Journals / Articles

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.

Core Discovery -- Firefox Extension
Browser extension which helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers.
Google Scholar Button -- Chrome Extension
"This extension adds a browser button for easy access to Google Scholar from any web page."
Google Scholar Button -- Firefox Extension
"This extension adds a browser button for easy access to Google Scholar from any web page."
Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and preprints crawled from the World Wide Web.
Open Access Button
"Give us a scholarly paper and we’ll search thousands of sources with millions of articles to link you to free, legal, full text articles instantly."
Unpaywall
"Unpaywall is powered by a database of 100 million scholarly papers. Of these, about 16 million have links to fulltext open access."

Journals / Articles

arXiv
"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."
Digital Commons Network
"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."
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.
OMICS Open Access Journals
"[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.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
"OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world."
Preprints.org
Multi-disciplinary, open access early versions of research papers and comprehensive reviews (content is not peer reviewed).
PubMed Central
"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)."
Springer Open Access Journals
A "portfolio of over 200 peer-reviewed, fully open access journals . . . covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences."

Newspapers

Chronicling America
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.
Newspaper Navigator
Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos.
Ohio Memory Newspapers
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.