Skip to Main Content

Open Educational Resources

This guide is to help promote and educate about open educational resources in higher education.

Journals

Open Access Journals

  • PLOS Journals
    PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Topics cover science, health, and medicine. 
  • ScienceDirect
    From foundational science to new and novel research, discover our large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied.
  • SpringerOpen Journals
    The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010. It now offers researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities, and social sciences a place to publish open-access journals. 
  • JSTOR Open Access Journals
    JSTOR’s mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. As a not-for-profit, we partner with libraries, museums, and publishers to reduce costs, extend access, and preserve scholarship for the future.
  • PubMed
    PubMed® comprises more than 35 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 web sites.
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) 
    DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open-access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.