Suggested Links
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Open Access Science
Preprint Servers (access to early releases of submitted journal articles, conference proceedings, and more)
American Mathematical Society Open Math Notes
Free repository of math lecture notes and works in progress by mathematicians.
Free pre-prints of author-submitted physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics articles, conference papers, and lecture notes.
Index of published philosophy papers. Includes some free copies of articles when uploaded by authors.
Biomedical and life sciences citation database including many free full-text copies linked to citations (covers areas such as biology, medicine, psychology, and education).
Access to free copies of researchers’ journal articles uploaded by authors.
Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Searchable list of open access, peer-reviewed, journals. Journals must meet quality control criteria for inclusion in the database.
Directory of Open Access Scholarly Journals (ROAD)
Free resource to keep aware of open access items with ISSN numbers. Mostly tracks journals, monographs, academic blogs, and conference proceedings.
Paperity
Aggregates open access academic papers. There is a companion app available.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Nonprofit publisher of open access journals on many life sciences topics.
Web browser add-on to automatically find free, legal versions of journal articles.
Open Access Science Data
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Open Access Science Tools
Nonprofit that is attempting to create a library entry for every item ever published. Some entries include free full-text versions. Also houses a vast archive of websites and webpages (useful for looking up historical data once captured on now missing webpages). Includes media, TV, music, articles, books, magazines, websites, and much more.
Open Source Science Code
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Scientific Discovery in the News
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Citizen Science Links
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Websites on Innovation
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