Internet Resources for free text

Directories / Search engines for Free Full Text Articles (constantly being added to)

New! Highbeam Library Research
A vast collection of articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years- from over 3000 sources.

Highwire Press
A division of Stanford University Libraries.
Highwire is the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content.
(Click on 'My Highwire', tab at the top, scroll down to 'My Access', and click on the link under 'My Institution's Subscriptions'. Browse by title, topic, or publisher under the "For Institutions' tab. (Note: not all articles are free, but those that are not, prices are indicated)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Launched in 2003, Sweden's Lund University Libraries hosts this. Provides no-cost access to full text of over 1900 journals. Many searchable at article level in the Sciences, Humanties an Social Sciences.

Magportal.com
Magportal is another site for finding freely available magazine articles on the Web, using keyword searching or category browsing methods. A little over 200 magazines, material of good quality, and unique software which measures similarity between articles, linking those of similar content.

FindArticles
As they say, " Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here" Now searches 10 million + articles from 'leading academic, industry and general interest publications"

PubMed Central
"Pubmed Central (PMC) is the U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine". Free full text articles from over 200 + journals.

FreeFullText.com
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents.

Google Scholar
'Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed (professional) papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint respositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.' (Some access restrictions apply)

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions (Some access restrictions apply)
'Yahoo! Search Subscriptionis enables you to search access-restricted content such as news and reference sites that are normallyl not accessible to search engines. Search all the sources listed above or check the specific sources you want to search'

EEVL's Ejournal Search Engine (EESE)
EEVL: the Internet guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, has an Ejournal Search Engine (EESE), which searches the content of over 250 freely available text ejournals in Engineering (160 freely available full-text ejournals), Mathematics (28 ejournals) and Computing (60 ejournals), selected for relevance and quality, 'including professional & trade journals and even some academic peer-reviewed journals. A list of all publications is available under the 'ejournals' link in the first sentence on the EESE homepage.