The most well-known open source academic library providing access to journal articles istheDirectory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which offers a curated collection of peer-reviewed open access journals across various disciplines.

Other options to consider:
Google Scholar:A free search engine that allows access to full text or metadata of scholarly literature, including many open access articles.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) https://doaj.org/
• OpenDOAR:A directory of open access repositories where researchers can search for freely available research across various disciplines.https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/cgi/search/repository/advanced
• BioMed Central:A publisher specializing in open access journals, primarily within the fields of science, technology, and medicine.
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• Key points about open access libraries:
Free access:Articles in open access libraries are available to read without requiring a subscription or paywall.
• Peer-reviewed content:Most open access journals undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure quality.
• Repository access:Some open access libraries may also link to institutional repositories where researchers can deposit their work.

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Examples of repositories to search directly:
arXiv(preprint repository)
• OSF Preprints(preprint repositories like SocArXiv or AfricArXiv)
• DSpace@MIT(includes anOA articles collectionwith accepted manuscripts & final published versions)
• PubMed Central(biomedical and life sciences archive from NIH; includes accepted manuscripts and final published versions)
• Social Science Research Network(preprint repository)
• From <https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/find-oa-articles/>
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Top 10 open access library databases
If you’re a student, researcher, or professional, you can join the Open Access movement and access millions of journals, proceedings, articles, and more for free now. Here are 10 of the most popular Open Access library databases:
Zendy Open

Zendy is an online library that provides open access research worldwide. With over 43 million articles, journals, and e-books, Zendy is a publishing platform that offers a diverse selection of research across all major disciplines. From science to mathematics, technology, humanities, biology, physics, and more. What makes Zendy unique is that we help you make research easy. You cansave listsbased on your projects, favorite articles you want to read later, and even access your full reading history.

Research4Life
Research4Life equips institutions in low and middle-income countries with online access to academic peer-reviewed resources. This open access library specialises in teaching, research, and policymaking in health, agriculture, environment, and physical and social sciences.

DOAJ –Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ was launched in 2003 and started with 300 open access journals and has now grown to 18,000 journals. This publisher offers community-curated lists of open access material and holds together a variety of reputable researchers and content.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that locates full text or metadata of scholarly literature in an array offields and formats. Google Scholar offerspeer-reviewedonlineacademic journalsand e-books, conference papers, dissertations,abstracts,technical reports, and other scholarly literature.

OAPEN
OAPEN is a non-profit organization that is based in the Netherlands. This open access library is a great source for open access academic research. Creating a platform for a diverse set of fields and disseminating the research within those fields, OAPEN is a veryreliable publisher of peer-reviewed books.

ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen functions as a research and publishing network. Offering over 74 million articles in all areas of science, all you need to do to access full-text articles is register for free.

ResearchGate
Established in 2008, ResearchGate is a valuable platform that allows researchers to connect, collaborate and share their research with everyone. Most researchers on the platform specialize in medicine or biology however academic content on engineering, computer science, agriculture sciences, and psychology is also abundant.

OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR was launched in 2005; the platform is a collaboration between Lund University and the University of Nottingham. OpenDOAR serves as a global directory of open access repositories.

Social Science Research Network
The social science research network houses academic sources across all scientific disciplines. Dedicated to worldwide open access dissemination of research, SSRN is a great open access platform that works across a plethora of networks and disciplines.

arXiv e-Print Archive
arXiv is an open access archive for over 2 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, electrical engineering, and economics. Publishing across these various disciplines, the network has well-rounded academic content that is posted after a series of moderation but is not peer-reviewed.

It’s a transformative time for Open Access. Together with leading global publishers, Zendy is committed to empowering discussions about how Open Access content can contribute to a more equitable future.

Discover millions of journals, proceedings, e-books, and more now onZendy

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Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources

• General
• Journals
• Books
• Humanities
• Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Primary Sources
• Newspapers
• Dissertations
• Journals
Cambridge University Press Open AccessOpen access journals from Cambridge University Press.
• Digital Commons NetworkThe Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
• Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• JSTOR: Open Access JournalsGrowing collection of Open Access journals cover topical areas in sustainability and security studies, and offer broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• LOADB: Listing of Open Access DatabasesThe objective of Listing of Open Access DataBases (LOADB) is to create a web-enabled, linked, classified and categorized collection of Open Access Databases which one can access from a single portal. Although initial focus is on science and technology subjects, the ultimate aim is to include all subject areas.
• Open Library of HumanitiesOpen Library of Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology.
• Project Muse Open Access JournalsOpen Access journal content from Project Muse.
• Sage Open AccessOpen access journals published by SAGE. All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license.
• SciELOScholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa
• SpringerOpen: JournalsIncludes Springer’s portfolio of 160+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.
• Books
Directory of Open Access BooksA directory of academic, peer reviewed open access books.
• Hathi Trust Digital LibraryThis link opens in a new windowA partnership of more than sixty major research institutions with Google, the Hathi Trust Digital Library includes all the book images from these libraries that have been digitized by Google. Only out-of-copyright images (generally pre-1923) can be displayed, or others where the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained, though both in-copyright and out-of-copyright materials can be searched. Out-of-copyright books can be downloaded by Northwestern users who register with the site.
• Internet Archive: eBooks and TextsThe Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large.
• JSTOR: Open Access Books7,000+ Open Access ebooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
• Luminos

Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.
MIT Open Access BooksOpen access titles from MIT
• Open Book PublishersOpen books in humanities and social sciences.
• Open Textbook LibraryOpen textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
• OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European NetworksThe OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries andresearch funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
• Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read themonline.
• Project Muse Open Access BooksOpen Access books from Project Muse
• TOMEThe Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses have launched an initiative to increase access to humanities and social sciences scholarship.
• University of Michigan Press Open AccessOpen access books available through the University of Michigan Press.
• WorldCat.orgWorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.more…
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