OPEN ACCESS Resources
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
PubMed
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.
The PubMed database contains more than 34 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature as well as a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences literature.
Open Knowledge Map
Open Knowledge Maps is a charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to dramatically increasing the visibility of scientific knowledge for science and society alike.
Knowledge maps provide an instant overview of a topic by showing the main areas at a glance, with relevant papers and concepts attached to each area. Knowledge maps operate as the largest visual search engine for research in the world.
IOPSCIENCE
IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.
IOPscience has been designed to make it easy for researchers to discover relevant content and manage their research information.
GHJournalSearch
GHJournalSearch is an easy-to-use free resource developed by USAID and supported by the John Hopkins Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project in collaboration with The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).
GHJournalSearch aims at presenting the major core peer-reviewed global health journals in one place, providing authors with a simple tool to discover and choose the “best fits” for their intended publication; enhancing publication quality and the probability that important evidence will make its way into the literature.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the pioneer open access e-health journal and is the flagship journal of JMIR Publications. It is the leading digital health journal globally in terms of quality/visibility, and in the medical informatics category, and is also the largest journal in the field. The journal focuses on emerging technologies, medical devices, apps, and engineering, telehealth and informatics applications for patient education, prevention, population health and clinical care
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Emerging Infectious Diseases, an open access, peer reviewed journal published monthly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promotes the recognition of new and reemerging infectious diseases around the world and improves the understanding of factors involved in disease emergence, prevention, and elimination.
DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 18% of which comes from sponsors, and 82% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
DOAJ operates an education and outreach program across the globe, focusing on improving the quality of applications submitted.
Nature Communications is an open access, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, health, physical, chemical and Earth sciences. Papers published by the journal aim to represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.
Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. Open access is an integral part of our commitment to a collaborative, inclusive and transparent world of research where authors, researchers and academic institutions can share knowledge and build on each other’s work to advance outcomes.
biomed central
- BioMed Central (Journal of Biomedical Sciences➡️)
- Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy – Access Link➡️
- Arthritis Research and Therapy – Access Link➡️
- Breast Cancer Research – Access Link➡️
- Critical Care – Access Link➡️
- Genome Biology – Access Link➡️
- Genome Medicine – Access Link➡️
- Stem Cell Research and Therapy – Access Link➡️
multimedia resources
HSTALKS
Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks) is a leading provider of specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies for medical schools. Based in London, UK, HSTalks publishes two highly regarded collections (The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection and The Business & Management Collection).
HSTalks is a member of the Henry Stewart Group which has been a leader in providing graduate and continuing professional education in science, business and management for over 40 years through peer-reviewed vocational journals, conferences and online education for medical schools, business schools, universities, and government and commercial enterprises.
CSurgeries
CSurgeries publishes high-quality surgical content that is open to students, residents, surgeons, and patients regarding both common and complex surgical procedures.
Our publications can be used to share innovative techniques with other surgical experts, educate surgical trainees, or can be used to educate patients on surgical procedures they may undergo