Open Access Journals, Collections, and Literature Search Tools

Open Access is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

This section is categorized into the following;

Journals - monthly/ quarterly publication
Journal Collections - full-text journal collections
Literature Search Tools - searchable guides to open access journals

These resources have been reviewed by librarians at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary.

Journals

Biomed Central's Health Research Policy and Systems-health research policy.
BMJ's Evidence-Based Nursing - nursing practice journal
BMJ's Evidence-Based Medicine - primary care and internal medicine journal
BMJ's Evidence-Based Mental Health - mental health journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal - Canadian Medical Journal
Informed - peer-reviewed health services publication
Landes Bioscience - access available 1 year after publication
The Lancet - selected articles only.

Journal Collections

BioMed Central - collection of peer-reviewed biomedical research open access journals
BMJ - collection of international medical journals
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Health Sciences Journals
Free Medical Journals - collection of free, full-text medical journals
Highwire Press - access available 6 months after publication, full-text life science articles
Patient Safety Resources Guide - Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) - database of patient safety references
PLoS: Public Library of Science - collection of Open Access Journals
PubMed - Citations index of MEDLINE and biomedical journals, links to full-text and other resources.

Literature Search Tools

CISMeF - Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux Francophones
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
Medscape - Medical Full-text Journals and Medical News. Requires registration to access articles.
NOAH - New York Online Access to Health
PEDro - Physical Therapy Evidence Database
PRANA (PRevention & AwareNess for South Asians) - Palo Alto Medical Foundation' South Asian Wellness Task Force
PubMed Central - Free Archive of Biomedical and Life Sciences Literature
Women's Health Matters - searchable in English and French
WorldCat - Literature Search Tool to find library-owned resources near you.

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