Below you will find a list of OER journals with peer-reviewed articles and other materials that can be accessed online for free. Remember to consult with a librarian if you need help using these resources.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) Academic Journals – Journals on Life Science, Health Science, and Sustainability Science – https://plos.org/our-journals/
BMC Journals – Covers Biomedicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Dentistry, Earth Science, Education, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Philosophy, Psychology, and Social Sciences. https://www.biomedcentral.com/journals
Perseus Digital Library – Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections
American Presidency Project – Our goal today is to be recognized as the authoritative, non-partisan online source for presidential public documents. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/about
Europeana – Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of European cultural institutions. https://www.europeana.eu/en
Library of Congress World Digital Collection – This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections. https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library/about-this-collection/
The History Journal – The Historical Journal continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/open-access
The Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. It is committed to ensuring quality content is openly available online for everyone. https://doaj.org/
The University of Michigan Open Access eBooks – Over 80% of the eBooks published by the University of Michigan Press are available for free online – https://www.fulcrum.org/michigan
ScienceDirect by Elsevier – Advance research and scholarship with the world’s leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical, and health literature. Our intuitive features make it easy to stay informed and work more efficiently. https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books?accessType=openAccess
Springer Open – The Springer Open portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. https://www.springeropen.com/
The Internet Archive – is a non-profit that is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. https://archive.org/
Sage Open – is a peer-reviewed, “Gold” open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in an open access format. Accepted articles span the full extent of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Google Scholar – Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. https://scholar.google.com/
MIT Open Access Articles -The MIT Open Access Articles collection consists of scholarly articles written by MIT-affiliated authors that are made available through DSpace@MIT under the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, or under related publisher agreements. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433
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. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Science.gov is an official website of the U.S. government providing ready access to the massive stores of federally funded scientific research results. Research results include scientific and technical reports, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, digital data, software, conference presentations and proceedings, and other scientific and technical information that federal agencies publish resulting from their research investments. https://www.science.gov/index.html
Cambridge University Press – At Cambridge University Press, Open Access submissions are accepted in more than 350 of our journals. https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/open-access