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Open Education Resources (OER): Journals and Articles

Journals and Articles

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

  • Open access, peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.

PubMedCenter (PMB)

  • Free full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles.

BioMedCentral

  • Over 200 open access, peer reviewed journals (Science, Technology, Medicine).

Wiley Open Access

  • Open access journals available to read, download, and share.

Open Access Library

  • Over 4 million open access scholarly journal articles (STEM and Social Sciences).

SpringerOpen

  • Over 160 open access science journals.

Digital Commons Network

  • Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Includes peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other resources.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

  • PLOS is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization focused on science and medicine. Every article they publish is open access. All written content and images are licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license. Searching through PLOS journals and collections can yield many highly useful images including figures, tables, and graphs.

Attribution
Regardless of the specific licensing requirements, it is important to provide an Attribution when using Open Educational Resources. Use the attribution builders in the OER Faculty Resources tab to help you build an attribution statement.