Open Access Resources
The University of Jos Library has carefully curated Open Access Resources to enhance your Teaching and Research activities. Below is a List
1000s of free journals that are widely indexed:
1. 813 Pubmed indexed journals
2. 349 well-indexed free journals
3. Over 12000 DOAJ-indexed free journals
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Academic Journals (Free) This link opens in a new window
Academic Journals currently publishes over 100 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
ACLS Open Access Humanities eBooks This link opens in a new window
The foundation makes available a set of digital open-access editions of titles that are currently out-of-print from a range of different sources and rights holders.
ACRL Open Access Digital Publications This link opens in a new window
Alt Names:academic and research libraries
A collection of digital publications from ACRL in PDF format.
Add Health This link opens in a new window
Alt Names:National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Four waves of health, behavior and social contexts data on about 21,000 people first surveyed in 1994 who are being followed into adulthood. It also includes some parent and biomarker data. The restricted-use contract includes four hours of free consultation with appropriate staff; after…
African Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective open access journal service that preserves and makes available African journal literature dating as far back as 1906, originating from a wide base of publishers and societies on the African continent. The Carnegie Corporation of New York…
African Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective open access journal service that preserves and makes available African journal literature dating as far back as 1906, originating from a wide base of publishers and societies on the African continent. The Carnegie Corporation of New York…
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics This link opens in a new window
AgEcon Search serves as the permanent archive for this literature, providing stewardship, reliable long-term access, and broad dissemination of the digital scholarly and administrative works of agricultural and applied economics researchers worldwide]
American Center of Oriental Research Archives This link opens in a new window
The ASOR Archives holds over a century of records. This list represents materials that have been or are in the process of being organized and digitized. Check back often to see newly-processed collections.
American Center of Oriental Research Photo Archive This link opens in a new window
The database provides primary visual documentation of Jordan, including the major archaeological and cultural heritage projects the center has sponsored across the country for decades. With its broad range of content and subject matter, the ACOR Library photographic…
American Hospital Association (AHA)) - Statistics & Studies This link opens in a new window
Provides current and historical data on utilization, personnel, revenue, expenses, managed care contracts, community health indicators, physician models, and more.
Ancient Near East Monographs This link opens in a new window
Open source series from The Society of Biblical Literature. The focus of this series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras.
Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) This link opens in a new window
The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) is an initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. AWDL will identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a broad range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.
AnthroHub This link opens in a new window
Full text journals and monographs produced by the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Included are books, journal articles, book chapters, reference entries, book reviews, oral histories, obituaries and some gray literature, as well as images, sound recordings and audio-visual…
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropological literature based on the holdings of the anthropology Library at the British Library. [1957 - present]. The free version of the the Anthropolgical Literature based on the holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Library.
Archaeopress: Open Access
The range of our publications includes monographs, conference proceedings, catalogues of archaeological material, excavation reports and archaeological biographies
Art, llengua societat I cultura catalanes (ARCA)
ARCA is an open portal giving access to relevant journals and magazines for the history of Catalonia which are no longer published. It is a collaborative repository of digital preservation promoted by the Biblioteca de Catalunya with the support of the Consorci de Serveis…
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) offers literature on biodiversity through open access as part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL has digitized taxonomic literature, representing tens of thousands of titles and >100,000 volumes.
Bloomsbury Academic Open Access Collections
Highly selective Bloomsbury titles available in an open access model. Available collections: Bloomsbury Open 2016, Bloomsbury Open 2015, Bloomsbury Open 2014,
Bloomsbury Open 2013, and Bloomsbury Open 2008-2012
Brill Full Open Access Journals
Selected open access journal titles available from Brill
Brill Open E-Book Collection
Selected open access eBooks from Brill
Bureau of Justice Statistics
A free website from the Department of Justice covering a wide range of statistics, searchable publications, and key facts. Also provides data analysis tools and links to other topic-based government websites.
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California Department of Education DataQuest
Find facts (API reports, enrollments, etc.) about California schools and districts.
Calisphere
Digitized images including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts that reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
Cambridge Open Access Journals
Open Access academic journals from Brill. Please filter to Open Access.
Campbell Systematic Reviews
Alt Names:Campbell Collaboration
Campbell Systematic Reviews is the peer-reviewed online monograph series of systematic reviews prepared under the editorial control of the Campbell Collaboration. Campbell Systematic Reviews follow structured guidelines and standards for summarizing the international research…
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available.
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) Open Access papers
Working papers from CCIS
Center for Global Development Open Access Publications
The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision makers. They focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments…
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections This link opens in a new window
Research Connections offers public access to child care and early education research data, some of which have never before been publicly available. Researchers can download analysis-ready data directly to their desktop or analyze selected data online free of charge
ChildStats.gov This link opens in a new window
Provides access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. Includes the annual Federal monitoring report "America's…
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
The database 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). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the…
CIA World Factbook
Online factual information, including maps, on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for hundreds of world entities.
CiteScore Journal Metrics
The open source database provides citation metrics for over 39,000 journals and serials index in SCOPUS, Elsevier's premier abstract and citation database.
Cities and Buildings Database
A collection of over 12,000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world.
Clinical Trials Network
Sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this site provides data on approximately 3,000 participants from 13 clinical trials of substance abuse treatments.h
ClinicalTrials.gov
Provides free access to information on clinical studies that cover a wide range of diseases and medical conditions. The site contains over 125,000 trials with locations in 181 countries.
CuminCAD: Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design
A cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design.
CAMBRIDGE OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
This database includes more than 107 Open access journals. It has over 83858 open-access articles and 316 journals containing open-access.
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DOAB-Directory of Open Access Books
It contains open-access books from publishers like Brill, De-Gruyter, and Springer Nature. Subjects include: Agriculture and Food Sciences; Arts and Architecture; Biology and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Health Sciences; History and Archaeology; Languages and…
DOAJ-Directory of Open Access Journals
It is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open-access, peer-reviewed journals. It contains 11,150 Journals with 2,903,520 Articles. Subjects include Education, Fine Arts, Law, Language and Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology.
De Gruyter Open Access Books
De Gruyter’s open access book program allows faster publication time, increased visibility, readership and citations. All submissions are subject to peer review and authors retain copyright.
De Gruyter Open Access Journals
De Gruyter publishes fully open access journals across STM and HSS. All articles undergo double-blind peer-review and fast turnaround time from submission to online publication.
Digital Commons Network
The Digital Commons provides full-text open access to 600,000+ peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work from hundreds of universities and colleges. This constantly growing body of…
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Digital Research Library @ University of Pittsburgh
The Open Access database provides access to over 4,500 primary sources including books, images, maps, manuscripts, etc
Digital Scriptorium
A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
DigiZeitschriften Open Access
Open Access content provided by DigiZeitschriften. DigiZeitschriften (Zeitschriften means journals) is a German non-profit association. It is supporting scientific research by making retro-digitized scientific journals online available.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ 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…
Discovering American Women's History Online
Access to digital collections of primary sources that document the history of women in the United States. [17th century - present]
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
A collection of various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. [1969 - 1974]
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EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics. It is provided by the ZBW - German National Library of Economics, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
EconStor is a disciplinary repository for Economics and Business Studies which offers research literature in Open Access and makes it findable in various portals and search engines. The service is operated by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Wikipedia
Search over 200 individual encyclopedias and reference books from the worlds most trusted publishers.
This database provides access to education literature and research. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.
EUROPEAN VIEWS OF THE AMERICAS:1493 to 1750
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
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The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations,
FREE FULL PDF
It is a powerful free search engine for scientific articles in PDF format
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Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.
Access the list of magazines available through Google.
It offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its scholarly, government, and general-interest titles include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than…
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HIGHWIREThis link opens in a new window
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!
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IDEAS is the main bibliographic archive dedicated to Economics, and it is publicly available on the Internet. It indexes over 3,400,000 pieces of literature, including over 3,100,000 that can be accessed in full text, according to RePEc
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
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LISTA-Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management
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A curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed to and used by an international education community.
Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.
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Online library of open access books ... Browse by: ... OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure.
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators worldwide to improve curriculum.
Your guide to every English word and phrase.
OneLook scans 18,955,870 entries in 1061 dictionaries
OPEN ACCESS THESES & DISSERTATIONS
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 7,439,716 theses and dissertations.
The Open Research Library (ORL) is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly monographs that is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform.
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
Alternate Name(s):American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
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PDF Drive is an online PDF search engine that lets you search, preview and download PDFs.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.
PubMed® comprises more than 37 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
PubPsych is a vertical open-access information retrieval system for psychological resources
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Alternate Name(s):Business news
It covers regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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SCIENCE DIRECT OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Provide access to 119 open access journals which covers Science, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering and technology, physics, medicine and more.
The Springer Open database includes Springer’s portfolio of 160+ peer-reviewed fully open-access journals across all areas of science ranging from very specialized titles to SpringerPlus; an interdisciplinary open access journal that covers all disciplines
Includes OA books across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine (STM), and humanities and social sciences (HSS). Springer Nature publishes open-access books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan & Apress imprints.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network
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The Social Science Research Network is a repository for preprints devoted to rapidly disseminating scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.
Standard Ebooks is an open source, volunteer-driven project to create and publish high-quality, fully featured, and accessible e-books of works in the public domain.
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TAYLOR & FRANCIS OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Taylor & Francis Group’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon your work.
The AMICA Library contains over 108,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. Types of works include paintings, sculptures…
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for over 250 world entities.
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Wiley publishes several journals across biological, chemical, and health sciences..All research articles published in Wiley's fully open-access journals are immediately freely available to read, download, and share.
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World Bank Group Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank is the single largest source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the official open access repository for the World Bank’s research outputs and knowledge products
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This database contains more than 3 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts currently drawn from more than 3,000 journals and serials, and 170,000 books. The coverage starts in 1826 and is complete from 1868 to the present
