Open Access Publications

Search for freely available scholarly full texts (open access documents)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  Important index for pure, quality-controlled open access journals, of which the biggest part is searchable at article level with DOAJ's metasearch

• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  Important search engine for scholarly documents, approx. 60% are freely available in full text

• Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic
  Search engine for scholarly documents

• OpenAire
  EU-project to show open access documents

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
  List of freely available, academic, peer-reviewed books

• "Digitale Medien" in Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
  Comprehensive search, a lot of important portals for all types of OA materials

• Unpaywall
  Plugin for Firefox and Chrome that checks the free availability of scholarly articles and links directly

• Open-Access-Button
  Checks the free availability of scholarly articles after entering DOI, Titel, URL or something similar

The homepage open-access.net offers both general information about Open Access and a lot of specific information how to search open access material (journals, monographs, research data and portals) in different disciplines.

An additional overview how to search for scholarly full texts is accessible on the website of the Technical University of Munich