Open Access Databases: Journals & Newspapers

The Africana Periodical Literature database provides metadata of articles on Africa covering a wide range of topics, from geography, history and anthropology to agriculture, women's studies, medicine and health. It currently (January 2020) contains more than 179,000 records from over 800 journals. The majority of the journals are in English or French. A smaller number is in German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. There is a strong focus on journals published in Africa. More than 50,800 articles have a link to full text, and more than 75,800 articles have an abstract.

Over 265 peer-reviewed open access journals from 29 African countries covering a range of academic disciplines.

Arabic preprint server - Arabic open science repository, Arabixiv provides free, open access, open source archives for Arabic publications in different domains such as architecture, humanities, business, engineering, sciences, medicine and social sciences.

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,742,906 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access. This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communication.

bioRxiv is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a white list of open access journals that aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material. Users can leverage the DOAJ's open APIs and discover open access academic scholarship across the disciplines.

EarthArXiv provides free, open access, open source archives for the Earth Sciences. It offers a preprint home for all Earth science domains and sub-domains as well as computational, data, and instrumentation research relevant to the Earth sciences.

A collection of 86 current open access journals published by University of California covering various topics in addition to 23 archived journals.

IASJ is one platform where all scholarly journals published by the Iraqi universities and research institutions are indexed and discovered. All journals in IASJ are peer-reviewed and open access.

A list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services.

A full-text collection of scholarly journals and trade publications available to everyone. It includes publications covering our subject collections in addition to the African Journal Archive.

A list, prepared by Simmons College, of active (currently published), full (non-hybrid) open-access journals published or hosted by libraries.

The Journals Repository page presents full contents of journals published or co-published by committees and institutes of PAS and Bureau of Science Promotion at Polish Academy of Sciences.

SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future. SocArXiv is directed by a steering committee of sociologists and members of the research library community.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Includes Springer's portfolio of peer-reviewed fully Open Access journals and books across all areas of sciences, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences.

A collection of over 1200 open access scholarly online journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to meet the communication needs of researchers in the Global South, particularly those in Latin America and the Caribbean. Journals from Portugal, Spain, and South Africa are also included.

Hindawi publishes over 430 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, and medicine in addition to social sciences.

1findr is a curated index composed exclusively of articles published in academic, scientific and technological research journals. It comprises articles in all fields of academia: arts, humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, health sciences, natural sciences and engineering.

A portal to online news sources from around the world. The database is primarily composed of links to online newspapers, but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. ABYZ News Links does not contain actual news content but only links to other news sources.

Collection of historical Spanish-language newspapers. Most papers are from Spain but also includes some papers from Mexico and other parts Latin America. Interface available in English and Spanish.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside. Contains significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922. Users will need to create a free account in order to download PDFs.

CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. CNDL will have on-going newspaper digitization, expanding the geographic, temporal, political and linguistic variety of the newspapers.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

The CEDEJ (Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have digitized more than 800,000 articles in Arabic, English and French, 40 years of Egyptian political, cultural and economic life - from the mid-1970s until 2010. This work was carried out from 24 Egyptian and Arabic newspapers - daily and weekly - including 13 print and 11 digital media. Through these scanned articles, we can follow the evolution of swathes of contemporary Egyptian society.

Explore the headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to 1996.

Consists of 143 titles which comprise 500.000 pages representing a wide variety of Spanish press of all types: political, satirical, technical, literary, sports, religious, etc., ranging from 1772 to 1933. Digitized by the National Library of Spain, this collection of periodicals and newspapers is the first phase of the Biblioteca Virtual Hispánica which aims to make publicly accessible Spain's bibliographic patrimony.

A database of more than 20,000 newspaper titles from over 150 countries dating back over 350 years. A useful source for identifying the titles of newspapers from a region during a given time period. (The source does not link to full text.)

Provides links to non-US news archives available on the Web arranged by region and country.

Project Jara’id is a research tool providing a chronology of nineteenth-century (1800-1900) periodicals in Arabic, in Arabic with another language, or in Arabic written in a different script. The website provides a useful bibliography of sources on Arabic periodicals and various indexes of associated peoples, organizations, locations and holding institutions.

With a preliminary release of over 100,000 pages from 15 titles, the MENA Newspapers collection will eventually encompass up to 500,000 pages of historical news content providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historical events from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Content in MENA Newspapers is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French.

Large numbers of historical newspapers are digitized every year by libraries, archives, historical societies and other organizations but they remain underutilized because they are virtually buried in the web. NewspaperCat, the Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers, was developed to improve access to this rich, primary resource material through one searchable database. The Catalog currently links to over 1,500 freely available digital historical newspapers from across the United States and the Caribbean with the goal of including as many North American newspapers as possible. Search the catalog by keyword, title, or location (city, county, or state) to locate links to these digitized newspapers and a treasure trove of information.

Digitized newspapers from the Lebanese diaspora in the Americas, provided online by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive including: Al-Funun, الفنون; Al-Hoda, الهدى; al-Majalla al-Tijarriya [The Syrian-American Commercial Magazine]; Al-Wafa, الوفاء; Kawkab Amirka, كوكب أمريكا;
Mira’at al-Gharb [Mirror of the West]; The Syrian World.

Trove Newspaper Collection includes most of the digitized newspapers with full-text access. This collection was created as a part of a larger database of the digital resources by the National Library of Australia.

Provides links to Web versions of dozens of U.S. news archives and their full text, online back files. Sources are alphabetically arranged by state.