Open Access & Other Freely Available Collections Available Through reSearcher (CUFTS and CJDB)

The following collections of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals, and vetted lists of quality, freely available serials, are all freely available to anyone over the internet, as an A to Z list or a MARC records to download for your library catalogue. Downloadable tab-delimited or .csv title lists are available for many of these lists (links below). Any data downloadable from this page belongs to the public domain, under the emerging norms for sharing of data. That is, feel free to download and use this data any way you choose, including commercial uses; but be responsible. For example, if you have lists of free or open access collections, please share those freely, too - and please send us the URL! As a default, open access collections are set up in CUFTS for all BC ELN partner libraries, and added to OutLook OnLine to facilitate free access for all users of this gateway to BC's public and post-secondary libraries.

Enjoy! CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group.

The Collections

• Bioline International. Not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. 66 journals as of March 2009. download title list in csv format
• BioMedCentral. 210 journals as of August 17, 2009. Articles are immediately, freely available. Subscriptions may be required for other content, such as reviews or paper reports. download title list in tab-delimited format
• BioOne Open Access. 7 titles. BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Title lists are available from the BioOne site.
• Canadian Historic Newspapers - new March 2009 - 89 titles. The Canadian Historic Newspapers title list was hand-created by SFU Library's Faith Jones, from digitized resources available at a number of sites including Multicultural Canada, Multicultural Alberta, Peel's Prairie Provinces, Manitobia, Bibilotheque Nationale du Quebec, and the Prince George Newspaper Project, to name a few. view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Directory of Open Access Journals . Over 4,200 titles as of August 2009. Librarian-vetted list of fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Frequently updated, growing at rate of 1-2 titles per day. To download a title list, go to the DOAJ site.
• GreenFILE (EBSCO) 598 titles as of April 2009. (New) download title list in tab delimited format
• elanguage. 6 journals as of August 14, 2009 Brief description of the eLanguage project from the Linguistic Society of America website: The goal of the eLanguage Project is to effectively utilize modern, web-based publishing technologies in order to provide researchers in the the academic discipline of Linguistics with a platform for the management of peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journals. This collection is expected to grow significantly in the near future.
• Highwire Free. Hand-created list, 292 titles as of April 2009. A list of titles and embargo periods is at http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
  download title list in tab delimited format
• Hindawi Journals. 158 journals as of April 2009. Hindawi is one of the world's largest fully open access publisher of scholarly journals. New 2009. download title list in tab delimited format
• ICAAP (International Coalition for the Advancement of Academic Publication - Athabasca University. 36 journals. download title list in tab delimited format
• J-Stage. Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic. 444 titles; about 330 are free access. New 2009. download title list in tab delimited format.
• Medknow Publications 62 high-quality, peer-reviewed journals in the medical area as of August 2008 (up from 45 in 2007). A list of titles and links to journal home pages is available at: http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp. download title list in tab delimited format
• Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Open Access Archive. 33 titles download title list in tab delimited format
• Niscair (India's science library, similar to CISTI). 17 titles (Aug. 2009).
• Open Access Government Serials. Hand-created by the CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group (246 titles as of April 2009, up from 206 titles as of September 2008). view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Open Access Journals. Hand-created by the CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Peer-reviewed, open access journals not included in DOAJ. (544 titles as of April 2009, up from 437 titles as of August 2008 (up from 360 journals as of July 2007). view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Open Access Magazines. Hand-created by the CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Free magazines and non-peer-reviewed journals of interest to academic libraries. Collaborative initiative developed by BC ELN partner libraries. (145 titles as of April 2009, up from 79 titles as of August 2008 (up from 17 titles as of July 2007). view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Open Access Multilingual Journals. Hand-created by the CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group 73 titles (April 2009). Most are from Jan Szczepanski's lists. view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Open Access Poetry Journals. 194 titles. Thanks to Jan Szczepanski and SFU Library. view title list. download title list in tab delimited format
• Project Euclid Journals Free view title list. download title list in tab delimited format. 47 titles.
• PubMedCentral 585 journals of April 2009. Up from 482 journals as of September 2008 (up from 160 in 2007). fulltext journals, Medicine download title list in tab delimited format
• Public Library of Science 8 journals. download title list in csv format (scroll to bottom of page)

Depository Collection available through reSearcher National Research Council Press
Not totally open access, but available to Canadian libraries through the depository program. 18 journals. download title list in tab delimited format

Scielo (Scientific Electronic Library Online) A substantial collection of open access journals from Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Spain). Not yet available through reSearcher.

Potential Future Collections

BT Net. Commercial service, includes free and premium content. A to Z list, subjects (business, reference, technology, news, lifestyle). Article-level search. Thanks to Paula Rankin, North Island College.

Lists last updated August 17, 2009. Lists updated on an irregular basis, updates will be infrequent from September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2010.