Alumni Guide: Library Resources for Public Health Lifelong Learning, Research, Productivity & More: Online Journals & Articles

BioMed Central publishes over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals in biological, geological, and health sciences, and other topic areas.

PLoS publishes open access journals, primarily in biological and health sciences fields.

Social network for scientists enabling sharing of articles, research, collaboration, and some altmetrics. It also has active Q and A forums where you can get help and advice.

Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.

Open access journals, books, working papers, conference proceedings, and more from UC researchers. You can find the open access research repositories of other institutions using The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).

Patients and caregivers can make requests for individual papers related to medicine and healthcare at no cost.
In addition, patients and caregivers who participate in the publication of an article and have a preference or need to publish that article open access, but lack the funds for the Article Publishing Charge, can make a request for a waiver of the APC.

EAI is a partnership of the NLM, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the Association of American Publishers and other publishers. EAI provides temporary free access to full text articles from major biomedicine titles to healthcare professionals, librarians, and the public affected by disasters. This site is active only when a disaster event is named and the access period specified.

The JSTOR Access Initiative program provides free or reduced-fee access to more than 1,500 institutions in a number of nations. This is made possible through a combination of philanthropic support and the fees paid by libraries in other countries around the world, as well as publishers’ eagerness to support this work. It offers unlimited access to a collection of all of all archival journals and primary sources on JSTOR.

Research4Life enables low GNI (Gross National Income) countries to gain access to scientific literature. It is the collective name for four programs:
HINARI (biomedical and health literature)
AGORA (food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences literature)
OARE (environmental science literature)
GOALI (legal research & literature)
ARDI (development, innovation, technical information literature)
A country's eligibility for Access to Research4Life is based on a its Gross National Income. Eligible institutions include universities and colleges, research institutes, professional schools, extension centers, government offices, local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), hospitals and national libraries. Your institution may also be eligible for document delivery of journal articles. Research4Life is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

SRKS negotiates free and low-cost online resources from a wide range of publishers across many disciplines and facilitates support of librarians and IT staff to ensure researchers, teachers and students can access and use the research literature.

Give us a scholarly paper and we’ll search thousands of sources with millions of articles to link you to free, legal, full text articles instantly. If we can’t get you access, we’ll start a request from authors, and guide them on making the work available to you and everyone who needs it. Use either the website, browser extensions or API.

Find open-access versions of paywalled research papers, instantly. Get free, legal fulltext of research papers as you browse. When you view a paywalled research article, Unpaywall automatically looks for a copy in an index of over 10 million free, legal fulltext PDFs. If we find one, click the green tab to read the article.