Major Search Engines
Yahoo!, Google.com, and Google Scholar
: many of the major open access sites provide their data linking information to these search engines. These sites provide access to only a small,
but expanding corpus of scholarly open access information. Please note: some scholarly open access information may be searchable in Google.com
and NOT listed in Google Scholar - for a thorough review search both Google sites.
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PubMed : the major site to search
for medical and health information, both licensed and open access.
Multidisciplinary open access search sites
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : over 2800 titles |
OAIster : over 12 million records in 800 repositories |
Scientific Commons : over 16 million publications by 6 million authors from 800 repositories |
Scirus : one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of academic literature
Subject-specific open access sites
AERA SIG : Open Access Journals in the Field of Education |
HINARI : health information for developing countries, WHO
Institutional repositories
Texas Digital Library |
Aberdeen University Research Archive |
California Digital Library eScholarship Repository |
Dspace : MIT's online research repository |
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository |
Open J-Gate |
Registry of Open Access Research Repositories (ROAR)
Information for scholars and researchers about open access
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