SJSU Research Guides: SJSU ScholarWorks: Open Access Resources

Author's Rights

BioMed Central
BioMed Central's portfolio of 206 journals includes general titles alongside specialist journals that focus on particular disciplines. All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access.

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A database of over 5000 free, full text, peer reviewed scientific and scholarly journals from around the world.

Free Medical Journals
Promoting free access to medical journals.
JURN
A curated academic search-engine, indexing over 3,500 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
A non-profit organization founded by a group of biomedical scientists, currently publishes seven open access biomedical journals.
PubMed Central
"The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature."

SHERPA/RoMEO
Search by journal title, ISSN, or publisher name to find a summary of permissions related to self-archiving that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
Publisher policies for authors funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

SHERPA/JULIET
This page provides summaries of funder policies related to grants, and gives information about requirements for open access, self-archiving, and data archiving.