Research Guides: Academic Databases: Free & Open Access databases/journals

List of free & open access (OA) databases

African Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature.

A retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
African Journals Online (AJOL) This link opens in a new window
A collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. Open Access Journals offer access to full text articles.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
Publishes 248 peer-reviewed open access journals.

University of Ghana is a Foundation Member, and as an author you can publish in any BioMed Central, Chemistry Central or SpringerOpen journal without any article-processing-charge being payable.
Database of African thesis and dissertations (DATAD) This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in African universities.

The launching database includes abstracts of theses & dissertations from ten leading universities, including University of Ghana, covering all subject areas.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access licence. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR) aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users who wish to find particular archives or who wish to break down repositories by locale, content or other measures. Users can search for repositories by the following regions: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Free citation database. Begin your research from here if you do not have a subscription to Scopus.

Provides both full text and abstracts and information on how many times the article has been cited.
HighWire Press This link opens in a new window
A content integration platform meant to support a wide range of scientific and scholarly publications covering a wide range of subjects.

Currently hosts nearly 1200 books, including monograph titles, reference works, handbooks and book series,
InTech This link opens in a new window
Full text books and journals in the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities.

A pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
POPLINE This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database of the world's reproductive health literature.

Provides access to 350,000 carefully selected publications and resources related to family planning and reproductive health
Topics in Development This link opens in a new window
A World Bank initiative

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Academic Journals This link opens in a new window
It is a project of Sabinet Gateway, a non-profit organisation promoting and supporting library and information services in Africa.Provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. It is a multi-disciplinary resource. Provides access to full-text articles in the Medical Sciences, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Education and Legal Studies .
African Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature.

A retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
AgEcon Search This link opens in a new window
AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics. It includes working papers, conference papers and journal articles.
Agricola This link opens in a new window
An online index to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
It is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository.
Farmland Information Center This link opens in a new window
A site from the American Farmland Trust and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service devoted to farmland protection and land use.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations This link opens in a new window
Worldwide coverage of agricultural topics. Includes factfile archive, databases & guides.
FreeFullPDF This link opens in a new window
over 80 million free scientific publications in the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Physics Sciences, Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities.
PLOS (Public Library Of Science) This link opens in a new window
A nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization with a mission of leading a transformation in scientific and medical research communication. Every article published is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use.
The World Bank Open Data This link opens in a new window
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. Provides download access to over 8,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.
WorldWideScience.org This link opens in a new window
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information. Resources available via WorldWideScience include DOAJ and all the Journals Online projects (JOLs).

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Academic Databases: Free & Open Access databases/journals

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List of free & open access (OA) databases

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