Thanks to the Open Access (OA) movement, which seeks to make scientific research free to the public, there are also other places online where you can discover or find scholarly articles for free without a subscription. Some of the library's databases also pull in Open Access content, including eBooks and articles.
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
Watch the Video
Learn more about OA in the following video.
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