Open Access scholarly journal articles may be found in:
- Open Access journals
- In Institutional Repositories such as UoB's
- Preprint servers and subject repositories
- Researcher's own webpages
- Open-web database or platforms such as Jstor which also offer paid for access via the JPASS scheme.
- Academic networking and discovery sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu which often allow downloads of articles, or the ability to request an author to share a copy.
For a fuller list of options and examples see The UoB guide to Open access repositories
Google Scholar is a useful academic-focused search engine. See the UoB Guide on how to make best use of Google Scholar.
