How To Find Free, Scientific Online Journals and Articles

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The following is a list of free, scientific, online journals and tools for searching online journals. My purpose in creating this list is to help people find reliable information. It's to help people find orignal sources of information, rather than summerizations or secondhand explainations. This page is a work in progress. Lasted updated: October 15, 2010.

Google Scholar

Using the advanced search option, this is a very powerful tool for finding journals and articles.

PubMed Central

PubMed Central is the United States Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life science journal literature. The site lists journals and articles and specifies which ones are free and which ones are free after a certain period of time.

Public Knowledge Project - Open Archives Harvester

The PKP Open Archives Harvester is a free metadata indexing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

Public Library of Science

Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Directory of Open Access Journals

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

HighWire Standford Univeristy - Free Online Fulltext Articles

As of October 15, 2010, HighWire Standfor University lists 46 completely free sites. and 284 sites that have free back issues.

Free Medical Journals

This site has a list of 60 medical journals. Most of the journals provide free access to articles that are couple months old (6 to 12 months). There are also 4 or 5 totally free journals.

Journal of Scientific and Mathematical Research

The Journal of Scientific and Mathematical Research publishes original research and reviews in the widest range of fields. The Journal seeks to unify all branches of scientific and mathematical inquiry by publishing the highest quality, peer-reviewed research in a very broad range of topics of current interest.

Searches can be narrowed with the following options:

Algebraic methods -> General Mathematics
		     Geometry
		     Integrable Systems
		     Optimization
		     Ordinary Differential Equations
	             Quantum Numbers

Phenomena & Mechanism -> Flud mechanics
			 General physics
			 Gravitation physics
			 Information theory
			 Mathematical physics
			 Relativity & quantum cosmology

Applications ->	Aerodynamics
		Computer security
		Cryptography
		Forensics
		Symbolic Computing
		Dynamic systems
		Measurement
		Control systems
		Energy resources
		Quantum electronics
		Quantum computing