Finding free publications

The following search tools are available for finding freely accessible full texts:

DOAJ:

The Directory of Open Access Journals can be searched for quality-assured Open Access journals as well as for individual articles that are freely accessible.

BASE:

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine is one of the world's largest search engines for academic documents on the World Wide Web. Approximately 60% of all documents indexed there are freely accessible in full text.

Unpaywall:

For online articles whose full texts cannot be accessed due to a paywall, the browser plug-in Unpaywall  online shows whether there is a freely accessible version of the article. It is available for FirefoxGoogle Chrome and Microsoft Edge zur Verfügung. Unpaywall uses symbols to indicate whether the text is available free of charge.

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