Open Access Journals
Open access journals are journals available for free that are easily accessible for users to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.” Many scholarly and peer-reviewed articles can be found through open access sites. Many of these journals can be found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Academic Journals
Academic Journals “provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers.” Journals from the medical sciences, social sciences, biological sciences, arts and education, and more can be found.
Directory of Open Access Journals
“Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.” All journals are peer-reviewed or have strict quality control. You can search by topic or browse through the journals.
Highwire Press Full Text Articles List
Highwire Press provides a detailed list of free full-text articles by journal, providing links to each journal and dates when the recent articles are available for free.
Social Science Network
“Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 800 leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.” SSRN provides access to articles from its connecting networks for accounting, cognitive science, economics, health, marketing, and English and American literature.
BUSINESS/ACCOUNTING
Electrical Journal of Business Research Methods
“The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods (EJBRM) publishes papers and provides perspectives on topics relevant to research in the field of business and management.”
EDUCATION
Alan Review
“The ALAN Review contains articles on young adult literature and its teaching, interviews with authors, reports on publishing trends, current research on young adult literature, and a section of reviews of new books.”
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teaching Education
CITE Journal is an “online, peer-reviewed journal, established and jointly sponsored by five professional associations” that also integrates multimedia into articles.
First Monday
First Monday, hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, “is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.”
Journal of Technology Education
The Journal of Technology Education focuses on “research, philosophy, and theory. In addition, the Journal publishes book reviews, editorials, guest articles, comprehensive literature reviews, and reactions to previously published articles.”
ENGLISH
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)
Online journal devoted to 19th century British literature
SCIENCE
Biomed Central
“Online publisher of free peer-reviewed scientific articles in all areas of medical research and biology.”
International Journal of Integrated Care
“The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.”
The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
“The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship (IJNES) is the first fully electronic peer-reviewed journal in which original papers on nursing education issues and research are published.”
Online Journal of Health Ethics
“The Online Journal of Health Ethics is a forum for the discussion of the difficult issues in healthcare today. “ Analysis of moral and ethical issues in the medical field is addressed from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
PubMed Central
“PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.” Full-text articles about the health sciences and psychology can be found here.