Open Access Electronic Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

It is a database of the University of Lund (Sweden) which provides access to quality controlled scientific Open Access Journals covering several subject areas. Open access journals use a funding model that does not charge the readers. Approximately 1,670 titles are available in full text. Currently 414 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 76,402 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

FindArticles

http://findarticles.com/

It is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com.ph/

It enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed 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 repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

It is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.