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Free electronic journals


The following portals contain links to e-journals containing free content.  The alphabetical list of journals beneath the list of portals are some of the e-journals that can be found within them.  The name of the appropriate portal is indicated in italics directly after the e-journals' name.


Portals

Link icon ABC Chemistry
Directory of free full-text journals in chemistry

Link icon BioMed Central (The Open Access Publisher)
The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are open access.

Link icon Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central publishes peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry from BioMed Central.

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

Link icon EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines
EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources.

Link icon Gold Bulletin
The sole journal focused on the science, technology and industrial applications of gold

Link icon Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Link icon HighWire Press (from Stanford University)
Free online full-text articles

Link icon Hindawi Publishing Corporation
A commercial publisher of science, technology and medicine.

Link icon Journal @rchive
Journal @rchive is an archive site of J-STAGE operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Link icon NIST Virtual Library
National Institute of Standards and Technology (from the United States)

Link icon Novel Antibiotics Database
A full text searchable index developed by the Japan Antibiotics Research Association.

Link icon PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Link icon PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Link icon Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Promoting open access to the research literature pre- and post-peer-review through author self-archiving in institutional eprint archives.

Link icon Scirus Search Engine
A comprehensive science-specific search engine

E-journals

A


  • The AAPS Journal (via ABC Chemistry) - From the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
  • AAPS PharmSciTech (via ABC Chemistry) - From the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
  • Acta Biochimica Polonica  (via ABC Chemistry) - The Journal of the Polish Biochemical Society and of the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Acta Chimica Slovenica (via ABC Chemistry) - From the Slovenian Chemical Society
  • Acta Chromatographica (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica (via ABC Chemistry) - From the Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
  • Acta Pharmaceutica (via ABC Chemistry) - From the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society
  • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Analusis (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Analytical Sciences (via ABC Chemistry)
  • ARKIVOC (via ABC Chemistry) - From ARKAT USA, Inc.
  • Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions (via ABC Chemistry)

B


  • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Biochemistry (Moscow) On-Line (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry & Applications (BCA) (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry (via ABC Chemistry) - From the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry
  • BMC Biochemistry (via BioMed Central)
  • BMC Biotechnology (via BioMed Central)
  • BMC Chemical Biology (via BioMed Central)     
  • BMC Genetics (via BioMed Central)
  • BMC Molecular Biology (via BioMed Central)
  • BMC Pharmacology (via BioMed Central)
  • BMC Plant Biology (via BioMed Central)
  • BMJ - all articles after 12 months (via the Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
  • Boletin de la Sociedad Chilena de Quimica (continued as: Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society) (via Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (via Journal @rchive)
  • Bunseki Kagaku - The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (via ABC Chemistry)

C


  • Cell Structure and Function (via Journal @rchive)
  • Chem-Bio Informatics Journal  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin  (via ABC Chemistry)   
  • Chemical Senses  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Chemicke Listy  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Chinese Chemical Letters (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Ciencia e Tecnologia de Alimentos (via ABC Chemistry) - Abstracts in English, full-text in Portuguese
  • Clinical Biochemist Reviews (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Clinical Chemistry (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Combinatorial Chemistry - an Online Journal (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Croatica Chemica Acta (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Current Contents (Citation Classics) (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Current Science (via ABC Chemistry)

D


  • DNA Research (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Drug Metabolism and Disposition (via ABC Chemistry) 

E


  • e-Polymers  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Ecletica Quimica  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Electronic Journal of Environmental Agricultural and Food Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Electronic-Liquid Crystal Communications  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Energy & Fuels  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source (via BioMed Central)
  • European Cells and Materials Journal  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)

G


  • Genome Research (via HighWire Press)
  • Geochemical Transactions (via ABC Chemistry)

I


  • IDrugs (via BioMed Central)
  • Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Indian Journal of Pharmacology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • International Journal of Drug Testing  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • International Journal of Pharmacology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Internet Journal of Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Internet Journal of Pharmacology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Internet Journal of Science - Biological Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Iranian Polymer Journal (via ABC Chemistry)

J


  • The Journal of Antibiotics (via Journal @rchive)
  • Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Automated Methods & Management in Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology (via HighWire Press)
  • Journal of the Brasilean Chemical Society (via the Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Journal of Business Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology (via the Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
  • Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Chemical Sciences (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society (via the Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (eJIFCC)    (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • The Journal of Lipid Research  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Nanobiotechnology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Nanomaterials  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • The Journal of Nutrition (via the Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
  • Journal of Pharmacological Sciences  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Proteome Research  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Research of NIST (via NIST Virtual Library)
  • Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Journal of Toxicological Sciences  (via ABC Chemistry)

M


  • Marine Drugs  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Molecular and Cellular Proteomics (via the Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
  • Molecular Cell  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Molecular Pharmacology  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell (via the Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
  • Molecules and Cells  (via ABC Chemistry)

N


  • Nucleic Acids Research  (via ABC Chemistry)

P


  • Pharmacological Reviews  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Platinum Metals Review  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Protein Science  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Proteome Science  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Pure and Applied Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)

Q


  • Quimica Nova  (via ABC Chemistry)

S


  • The Scientist - Daily news free (via BioMed Central)
  • South African Journal of Chemistry  (via ABC Chemistry)

T


  • Toxicological Sciences  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Turkish Journal of Chemistry (via ABC Chemistry)

U


  • Ukrainica Bioorganica Acta (via ABC Chemistry)

Y


  • Yakugaku Zasshi  (via ABC Chemistry)

Z


  • Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures  (via ABC Chemistry)
  • Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie  (via ABC Chemistry)