Health and Social Studies guide

A communal service for researchers for sharing your publications, reading other researchers’ publications and communicating with network members. Requires login.

This website compiled by FinElib lists services that provide open access to publications as well as browser add-ons that automatically search for OA versions of articles.

A search engine maintained by the German Bielefeld University's library that searches for scientific OA material online.

The service collects articles and theses from international repositories and contains more than 125 million publications.

Peer reviewed scholarly books freely available online.

Google Scholar targets searches at scientific literature: scientific articles, theses and doctoral dissertations, books, abstracts, technical reports and even patents. Google Scholar searches also cover licensed databases and social media channels used by researchers. A Google Scholar search allows you to determine if OA versions of an article beyond a paywall are available. When you are logged in, you can save search results to "My Library" by clicking on the star in the link description. Click on the quotation marks to get ready-made citation templates.

The Google Books service allows you to search for and use books and journals scanned and described by Google. Google restricts the viewing of the scanned books based on copyright terms.

An online service for networking, citation management and presentation of one’s publication activities. Requires login. Research service that can be used for networking and reference managing. Requires login.

An Open Access collection maintained by OCLC that contains over 50 million documents.

Open Access Button is a browser extension (add-on) that helps you find scientific peer reviewed OA articles. The link takes you to instructions for use prepared by FinElib, which contain a link to the website of the actual service.

A directory of OA publication archives. Global Directory of Open Access Repositories.

A comprehensive international reference database of health sciences. Also contains OA articles.

ResearchGate is a communal service on which researchers can share their publications, read other researchers’ publications and communicate with other network members. Requires login.

Contains both references and full-text OA material.

Unpaywall is a browser extension (add-on) that helps you find OA versions of scientific articles. The link takes you to FinElib's instructions for using Unpaywall. The instructions provide a link to the website of the service.

The Health Campus Turku Guide on health and technological sciences: Open Access (OA) resources that anyone can find and use online. Here you can find information on health and technological sciences and links to various OA materials (books, articles, reports, evidence based practice materials, etc.).