Open Access Content: Science and Social Sciences: Databases
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- DOAJDOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors and 60% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
PubMed
- PubMedPubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
Browser Extensions
Two free Chrome browser extensions help you access free and legal open access academic articles from university repositories, publishers, and individual authors.
- Open Access ButtonGive 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.
- UnpaywallIntegrated into thousands of library systems, search platforms, and other information products worldwide, Unpaywall harvests open content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories.
Michigan e-Library (MeL)
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionProvides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines. Provides indexing, abstracts and full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
- Health Source: Consumer EditionSubjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health, and more. Information comes from magazines, books, Clinical Reference System reports, and pamphlets.
- Academic Search CompleteDesigned for academic institutions. Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary resource of scholarly research. Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text resources for STEM research. Social sciences and the humanities also covered.
- Alt Health WatchProvides information on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness. Sources include journals (some peer-reviewed) and reports.
- College Students from Learning Express LibraryMath, reading, grammar, and science review with eBooks. Practice tests for six graduate school record exams including the GRE, LSAT, and MCAT. Includes multiple college placement exams including ACCUPLACER and ASSET preparation. Includes practice for the CLEP exams. Create a free account to access tools to help you do well on your college admissions tests and essay.
- Consumer Health CompleteSupports the health and wellness information needs of patients. Covers mainstream medicine as well as complementary and holistic medicine.
- Education SourceProvides scholarly research for education students, professionals, and policy makers. Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Covers specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collectionovers a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines. For psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students.
- Last Updated: Jan 6, 2025 12:18 PM
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