OPEN  ACCESS RESOURCES

                                                                               "Science and art belong to the whole world." Goethe
                    

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 BMC JOURNALS

BioMed Central (BMC),a UK based publishing house, provides immediate and open access to full-text of research articles published in its 100+ online journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.

BioMed Central journals: A to Z

BioMed Central journals: by subject

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 PLoS JOURNALS

Public Library of Science (PLoS), a California non-profit group of bioscientists formed in 2000, currently publishes seven online peer-reviewed journals.

PLoS Biology
Publishes research papers in all areas of biological sciences.

PLoS Clinical Trials
Reports results of randomized trials in all fields of healthcare.

PLoS Computational Biology
Presents significant findings in the area of computational biology.

PLoS Genetics
Publishes research articles in genetics and genomics.

PLoS Medicine
Publishes research papers in all areas of medical sciences.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (forthcoming in Fall 2007)
Will publish research on all scientific, medical, and public-health aspects of the world's most neglected tropical diseases such as elephantiasis, river blindness, leprosy, hookworm, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping sickness.

PLoS ONE
Reports on primary research from any scientific discipline.

PLoS Pathogenes
Publishes research articles that significantly advance the understanding of pathogens and how they interact with their host organisms.

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 DIRECTORIES

Bioline International
Provides open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. In addition to peer reviewed journals, Bioline provides other material of interest to bioscientists such as reports, conference proceedings and newsletters.

Directory of mathematics preprint and e-print servers
From the American Mathematical Society. Covers e-print servers in the United States, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, and Russia.

Directory of open access journals
As of July 25, 2007, includes 2,767 scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. 

Directory of open access repositories
A project of the University of Nottingham and the University of Lund. Provides a listing of open access repositories around the world.

E-Print Network, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Provides access to over 16,000 e-print archives. Subject areas range from chemistry, biology, engineering, information technologies, materials science, physics, and other disciplines relevant to the DOE.

Free Medical Journals
Indexes and sorts the journals by specialty and language. For some journals, provides information about the impact factor.

HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles
A division of the Stanford University Libraries. Offers the alphabetical directory of scientific and medical journals that offer full or partial free access to their contents. As of July 25, 2007, 1,698,909 free full-text articles are included in this directory.

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
(restricted to subscribers: GMU patrons access via Database list)
Allows to search for and directly access the home pages of open access journals by using an "Open Access" search limiter on the Advanced Search screen. 

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 ARCHIVES

arXiv.org e-Print archive
An online archive of preprints of the articles in the field of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Operated and funded by Cornell University.

Cell Press journal archive
The online archive of the Cell Press journals. Available on both ScienceDirect and on the Cell Press journal sites. 

INIST, France
A digital archive of BioMed Central journals.

MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service)
A digital archiving system and an institutional repository at George Mason University.

The National Library of the Netherlands
A digital archive of BioMed Central journals.

Open Archives Initiative
The open archives initiatives from the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and from National Science Foundation Grant No. IIS-9817416.

Potsdam University, Germany
A digital archive of BioMed Central journals.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
The online archive of the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (1915- to 6 months ago). Immediate open access to some articles.

PubMed Central (PMC)
An open access digital repository of life sciences journals at the National Institutes of Health.

UK Pubmed Central (UKPMC)
An open access digital repository of life sciences journals at the National Institutes of Health. Based on Pubmed Central, UKPMC is part of a network of PMC International repositories.

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 REPOSITORIES

ARNO Project: Academic Research in the Netherlands Online
Funded by IWI (Innovation in Scientific Information Supply). 

DAREnet: Digital Academic Repositories
A joint initiative of the Dutch universities with the cooperation of the KB (National Library of the Netherlands), the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).

e-Scholarship Repository/University of California
A service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. 

LOCKSS: Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
A digital repository program developed at Stanford University. LOCKSS enables any library to maintain their own archive of content from various publishers, with minimal technical effort and using affordable hardware for preserving e-journals and other web-based content.  

MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service)
A digital archiving system and an institutional repository at George Mason University.

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 INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS
(included are selected scholarly open access journals in English )

Academia Brasileira de Ciencias. Anais
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias; papers and reviews on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, and engineering.

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
Polska Akademia Nauk; original papers on brain research.

American Society for Information Science and Technology. Journal
John Wiley & Sons;  research papers on automation applications, communications, and computer technology

Annales Geophysicae
European Geosciences Union; original research in the field of Solar Terrestrial Physics.

Annals of Mathematics
The Johns Hopkins University Press; research papers in mathematics.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
European Geosciences Union; original research on the Earth's atmosphere and the underlying chemical and physical processes.

Brazilian Chemical Society. Journal
Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica; research papers in all fields of chemistry, except the education, philosophy and history of chemistry.

Brazilian Journal of Physics
Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica; original research and review articles in physics.

Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology
Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia Vegetal; original research articles and reviews in plant physiology.

Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science 
Universidade de Sao Paulo; research articles in veterinary medicine, zootechny and related fields.

Canadian Medical Association Journal
Canadian Medical Association; original research and review articles in public health and clinical practice.

Electronic Journal of Probability
Institute of Mathematical Statistics; research articles in probability theory.

Electronic Library of Mathematics: Mathematical Journals 
Includes a number of open access mathematical journals.

Environmental Health Perspectives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; research on the effect of the environment on human health.

European Cells and Materials (ECM)
Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Tissue & Cell Engineering Society; original research papers, reviews, and laboratory reviews in the field of biomaterials and bioengineering.

European Physical Journal A. Hadrons and Nuclei
Springer-Verlag; original research articles in experimental and theoretical physics on hadron and nuclear structure.

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Oxford University Press; research papers in complementary and alternative medicine.

International Journal of Medical Sciences
Ivyspring International Publisher; research papers, reviews, case reports, and analyses in all areas of medical sciences.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Switzerland; reviews, research papers, and short notes in chemistry, molecular physics, and molecular biology.

ISJ - Invertebrate Survival Journal
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; research articles on basic defense mechanisms in inverterbrates, in particular with a view to identifying biotechnologies able to act against derived diseases and related economic damage.
 
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; original research and review articles in biochemistry.

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Hindawi Publishing Corp.; original research in all areas of biomedicine and biotechnology.

Journal of Lipid Research
Lipid Research Inc.; original articles and reviews on subjects involving lipids in any scientific discipline.

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Canadian Medical Association; original research articles and review papers in clinical psychiatry neuroscience.

Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics
Kazanskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Russia; research papers and review articles on mathematics.

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; original research and review articles in structural and functional properties of proteins and their expression.

Nucleic Acids Research
Oxford University Press; research papers on nucleic acids, constituents and analogues; RFLP sequence reprints, sequence data, NMR assignment data and methods.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
The National Academy of Sciences; a multidisciplinary scientific publication of research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy.  Immediate open access to some articles; free access to archive 1915 - to 6 months ago.

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 NEWS

Open Access News
News about the open access movement edited by Peter Suber.

SPARC E-News
A bimonthly newsletter containing Publisher Partner items and SPARC activities.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter
A monthly newsletter covering the developments related to open-access publishing authored by Peter Suber

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Designed and maintained by Victoria Shelton
Life Sciences Librarian, George Mason University Libraries

Last updated September 20, 2007