Macdonald-Kelce Library: Open Access (OA) Resources: OA Journal Articles

If you are wondering which journals in your field or subject area are open access, search the databases below.

Cabell's Directory This link opens in a new window
Search by title, discipline, or ISSN. Assists researchers in selecting journals most likely to publish their manuscripts. To find OA journals, click on "Filters" to the right of the search box to show the bottom menu, and then click on "Open Access."
Ulrichsweb This link opens in a new window
Search by ISBN, subject, publisher, or language. Over 300,000 journals with 900 subject specialties. You can narrow OA results by clicking on the "Open Access" option. OA journals are also indicated with the bright blue "unlocked" icon.
Provides data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians. You can narrow OA results by clicking on the "Open Access" option. OA journals are also indicated with the bright blue "unlocked" icon.

arXiv
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for over a million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
BioMed Central (BMC) Open Access
Contains peer-reviewed journals in the fields of science, technology, engineering and medicine.
Knowledge Commons CORE
The Commons is a nonprofit network that enables scholars, researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students to create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work. The Commons network is open to anyone, regardless of field, language, institutional affiliation, or form of employment.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities."

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC content dates back to 1966 and is updated monthly. It includes education-related documents, journal articles, program descriptions and evaluations, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, and instructional materials.

F1000Research
F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.
Google Scholar
A great place to start research that includes many UTampa databases. (PDF Handout Notes)
JURN
JURN is a search engine that helps you to find free academic articles and books on the web, including open collections from university repositories.
Open Library of Humanities
OLH publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology.
Springer Open Journals
"SpringerOpen, launched in June 2010, includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.

PLoS (Public Library of Science) This link opens in a new window
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Limit to Open Access with the search results filter on the left.
Contains Web of Science Core Collection, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Russian Science Citation Index, and SciELO Citation Indexota 2020.

Open Access (OA) Resources