Open Access Research Articles in Biology
- Public Library of SciencePublisher of open access journals, mostly biomedical. Their journal PLOS ONE is highly multidisciplinary and ranges into other sciences as well. Look for the section about articles with recent news coverage.
Content is freely available and openly licensed for reuse. - BioMedCentralPublisher of many open access journals, mostly biomedical. Once you select a journal, see the "most accessed" section for the most popular articles.
Content is freely available, and typically openly licensed. - PubMedCentral (Repository from the NIH of freely available articles.)PubMed Central is a large repository of freely accessible journal articles from a wide variety of publishers.
NIH policy requires authors to deposit a copy of an article (funded by the NIH) within a year of its publication.
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- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Open access (freely available) peer reviewed journals in all disciplines. Full text searching for many journals.
Open Access Research Articles in the Earth Sciences
- American Meteorological SocietyArticles related to climate, weather, and oceanography. All articles older than 2 years are freely available, but not openly licensed.
- USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)The USGS website contains public-facing articles and news stories as well as technical reports (scholarly articles). Most content produced by USGS employees is in the public domain, but the website contains material from other authors and organizations as well.
- arXivFree. Full text access to the pre-prints available at the arXiv.org website in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
Open Access Research Articles in Chemistry
In general, there is less open access content in chemistry than in the other natural sciences.
- Open chemistry journals from SpringerA small set of open access journals in chemistry from the publisher Springer.
- Chemical ScienceA new open access journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Articles from 2015 to the present are freely available.
Open Access Research Articles in Physics
- arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowOpen access to over 1 million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- New Journal of PhysicsAn open access journal from the Institute of Physics across all physics topics.
- Physical Review XAn open access journal across all physics disciplines from the American Physical Society.
Education and Pedagogy Journals
- ERIC - Education Resources Information CenterIs an online library of education research and information.
- Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and ResearchEmphasizes real-world case studies that focus on issues that are relevant and important to STEM practitioners.
- International Journal of STEM EducationA multidisciplinary journal in subject-content education that focuses on the study of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
