There are also other places online where you can discover or find scholarly articles for free without a subscription.
Examples
- Google Scholar crawls the web for content that seems academic, such as books & articles, and while you can't restrict to peer-reviewed content, it's a good place to run searches.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a growing list of OA journals, and you can run a search for articles.
- PubMed helps you find biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books, which may include links to full text from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
- some academic publishers are fully OA, while those who publish a mix do point to their OA content on their websites
- scientific professional association websites
- science professor or university research lab websites often point to research they have conducted
- science information from U.S. federal agencies
- Some of the library's databases also pull in OA content
