Open Access

Add Unpaywall to your browser. It will automatically check if there is an open access version of the article you want. The open access version may be the author's manuscript or a preprint version instead of the final published version.

Use this tool to connect to articles available at MCPHS and free articles. LibKey Nomad uses information from Unpaywall and from the library's subscriptions.

Add EndNote Click to your browser to find open access articles as well as articles you can access through library subscriptions.

ROAD synthesizes information about open access journals from a number of sources. Its base is a subset of the ISSN registry. Users may browse to find open access journals by country or by subject. Users may also search for an open access title by name, ISSN number, subject, or other concept.

This site provides information about publishers that allow the authors to deposit content in institutional repositories. Originally designed for journals, the site is now expanding to include information about books. Find information about publishers from many countries.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) contains over 8,000 open access journals of varying quality and open access policies that scholars can search and browse through to find the best suited open access journal for their own work. These journals are not all specifically related to bio or health sciences.

PubMed Central is maintained by the National Institute of Health and is a very reliable and safe way to make academic work open access, although researchers allowed to deposit their work are limited to a specific community. Additionally, researchers using NIH funding are legally required to deposit their work into PubMed Central.

This page provides more information about the articles and journals in PubMed Central that are fully open access, not simply free to read.

arXiv.org is maintained by Cornell University and serves as an online open-access despository for the sciences. This is an OA option for MCPHS faculty publishing research in: Biomolecules Cell Behavior, Genomics, Molecular Networks Neurons and Cognition, Other Quantitative Biology, Populations and Evolution Quantitative Methods, Subcellular Processes, Tissues and Organs. arXiv.org is a fairly reliable OA depository, however, it is much less credible than publishing through an OA journal or PubMed. To submit manuscripts you will need to register with arXiv by submitting your email address and creating a username and password.

Stay current in biology research, including research in medicine. Find articles here before they go through the normal publishing process. Search by topic or by date. To submit manuscripts you will need to register with bioRxiv by submitting your email address and creating a username and password. BioRxiv is modeled after arXiv and is maintained by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a non-profit educational organization.

This new system lets authors share their manuscripts in health sciences topics before they are officially accepted for publication in a journal. Submissions go through basic review for scientific integrity before posting. From Yale University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and BMJ.

Find open access academic books on a wide number of topics. From OAPEN Foundation.

A collection of digitized historical books from the University of Oxford. According to their home page, "The University of Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning." Download the files in several different formats, including html, ePub, and text.

Check the license information to see more about how you are able to use the content in it.

This site provides information about publishers that allow the authors to deposit content in institutional repositories. Originally designed for journals, the site is now expanding to include information about books. Find information about publishers from many countries.

Use this site to find data storage sites that are relevant to your interests. Search for a data repository by name or keyword. Browse for data repositories by subject, data format, and / or country. Each repository listed has a short description. Icons show if the repository has general information, is open access, has licenses, has persistent identifiers, has certificates and standards, and has policies. From Re3Data.org Project Consortium.