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Open Access resources: Free databases

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.

Open Access databases

  • The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource with books, journals, and digital documents related to African policy issues.
  • African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.
  • The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
  • Globethics.net is a global network of teachers and institutions with the vision to embed ethics in higher education.