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
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 This link opens in a new window
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.
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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
