Finding open access content
Cornell University Library has extensive collections as well as partnerships with other universities to help you get the materials you need for your classes and research, but situations may still arise where you want to find openly accessible content. For example, you may be writing for a public (non-academic) audience, without access to the collections and services of a large research library.
One strategy is to limit your search results in a database to just open access content. Web of Science and Scopus are two widely used databases that support this feature.
Here are a few more tools for finding open access content:
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)This is a searchable directory of open access journals across all disciplines.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
- Open Accesss ButtonAvailable as a browser extension, use the Open Access Button to find open access versions of articles by searching by title, DOI, URL, and more.
- UnpaywallAvailable as a browser extension, Unpaywall looks for open access versions of published articles that have a DOI.