Academics

African Journals Online
http://www.ajol.info/
AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic discipline

Look Smart Find Articles
http://www.findarticles.com/
Find articles is a Look Smart product that searches and provide free access to millions of articles from academic, industry and general interest publications.

Agricultural

AGORA Program
http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
The AGORA program, set up by FAO of UN together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain free or reduced cost access to a digital library collection of 913 journals in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. 

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library
http://teeal.cornell.edu/index.html
The library of agricultural literature is available on CD-ROM or LAN access only.  Purchase of back files is available at US$3,500 for 1993-2003 data, and US$1,000 each for 2004 and 2005 subscription
 

Bio-related

Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br/
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service to provide open access to health and bioscience journals published in developing countries.

BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house that provides immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.  BioMed Central's portfolio of 168 journals includes both general and specialist journals.

Indian Medlars Centre
http://indmed.nic.in/
A database lists open access biomedical journals published in India.

Medknow publications
http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp
Medknow Publications is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals.   The company offers open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals.

Chemical

DSpace, National Chemical Laboratory, India
http://dspace.ncl.res.in/dspace/index.jsp
Digital repository of the National Chemical laboratory, India.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Archive
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/Index.asp
RSC Publishing is a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. RSC is offering free access to the RSC Journal Archive to educational and research institutions in developing countries.

Economics

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
http://www.nber.org/
The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to economics.

Education

American Educational Research Association
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
List of open access journals worldwide in the field of education, maintained by American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group.

Health

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3,480 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries.

Health Transition Review
http://htc.anu.edu.au/html/htrV1new.html
Published by the Health Transition Centre of The Australian National University focusing on the cultural, social and behavioral aspects of health.

POPLINE
http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
The INFO Project initiated by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to provide access to world’s reproductive health literature.

Humanities

Humanities Magazine
http://www.neh.gov/index.html
A magazine published by the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA.

Information Technology

Association for Information Systems
http://plone.aisnet.org/
It was agreed in 2000 that countries that are not high income economies (according to World Bank definition) should be granted free subscriptions to their Information Systems publications, Communications of AIS and the Journal of AIS.

Mathematics 

American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/
National Mathematical Reviews Subscription Program offers access to Mathematics Reviews (paper, cd-rom, online) at extremely discounted prices for developing countries.

Electronic Journals Delivery Service, ICTP
http://www.ejds.org
The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is a prototype program geared to facilitate the access to scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics.

Medical/Scientific

Blackwell Synergy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
A global publisher to provide access to sciences and medical journals

BMJ
http://www.bmjjournals.com/
BMJ focuses on the publishing of medical science journals. Free access to the journals is available to developing countries and via the HINARI initiative.

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
List of medical journals accessible free of charge.

New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/
The New England Journal or Medicine makes online access free to some countries.  This program provides full-text access to all articles in both HTML and PDF formats; but it does not include access to PowerPoint slides, personal archives, CME exams, PDA services, or letter alerts.

OpenMED@NIC, India
http://openmed.nic.in/ 
OpenMED@NIC is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. 

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making scientific and medical literature freely available as a public resource.

Washington D.C. Principles For Free Access to Science
http://www.dcprinciples.org/signatories.htm 
On March 16, 2004 representatives from US’s leading not-for-profit medical/scientific societies and publishers announced their commitment to providing free access and wide dissemination of published research findings.  The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science website is dedicated to the initiative.

Physics

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
http://www.ictp.it/pages/organization/publications.html
ICTP open access science journals - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics was founded in 1964 by Abdus Salam (Nobel Laureate).  The Centre operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian government. UNESCO and IAEA, to foster advanced studies and research in developing countries.

PhysNet
http://ccsd.cnrs.fr/PhysNet/journals.html
PhysNet is a global network of Physics Departments and Documents, providing information services to physicists.  The website provides links to free access journals relating to the field of physics.

Psychiatry

The Royal College of Psychiatrists
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/ 
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has made full-text access to the online version of its three journals - the British Journal of Psychiatry, the Psychiatric Bulletin and Advances in Psychiatric Treatment - free to some developing countries.

Science 

BMJ
http://www.bmjjournals.com/
BMJ focuses on the publishing of medical science journals. Free access to the journals is available to developing countries and via the HINARI initiative.

e-Biosci
http://www.e-biosci.org
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)’s e-BioSci is a platform for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences.

ePrint of IISC
http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/
Open access repository of The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (IISC) research publications.

Free High School Science Texts (FHSST)
http://www.fhsst.org/
FHSST is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
http://www.inasp.info/
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established in 1992 to improve access to information and knowledge in emerging and developing countries.  The organization provides supports in sharing, accessing and networking of information for researchers, scholars, scientists, and academics.

Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
http://www.pnas.org/
PNAS Online is a database of proceedings from National Academy of Sciences.  It is freely and immediately available to more than 140 developing countries.

PubMed Central (PMC), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NLM. Access to PubMed Central (PMC) is free and unrestricted.

Scientific Electronic Library Online – Latin America
http://www.scielo.org
The website hosts scientific journals published in Latin American countries, mainly Brazil. No charge for access at present.

Social Science

Global Development Network
http://www.gdnet.org/
The Knowledge Base brings together social science knowledge from research centers world-wide including 10,900 research papers, 3,340 organizations, and 5,750 researchers.

Various Subjects

Association of Commonwealth Universities, Low Cost Journals Scheme
http://www.acu.ac.uk/lowcostjournals/
Association of Commonwealth Universities’ scheme to help universities in Commonwealth developing countries to secure access to high quality journals on various subjects at a price they can afford.

arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Berkeley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/
“…The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes its current slate of journals freely available to researchers in the developing world.” (Yale Library Developing Nations Initiatives List)  Subjects covered include law, business and economics, political science, medicine, and technology.

Developing Nations Initiatives, Yale University Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml
List of free and low cost journal access initiatives on various subjects for developing nations, compiled by Yale University Library.

Directory of Open Access Journal
http://www.doaj.org/
Directory of open access journals is freely accessible.  It covers a board range of subjects including art and humanities, life sciences, law, mathematics, social sciences, and technology.

HighWire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries that hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content in the world, with 999 journals and 1,441,926 free, full-text articles online covering various subjects including science, technology and biomedicine.

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/about/africa/openafrica.html
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.  JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in Arts & Sciences, Health & General Sciences, and Biological Sciences.

Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_devco.asp?TAG=&CID=
Multilingual Matters is an international independent publishing house publishing journals on bilingualism, second/foreign language learning, sociolinguistics, translation, interpreting and books for parents.  The company gives developing countries free access to its journals.

National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.  Free access to reports is given to developing countries.

Oxford Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/developing_countries.html
Oxford Journals is a major international publisher of academic and research journals publishing over 180 titles on various subjects, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies. The publisher provides developing countries with free or greatly reduced rate access.

Project MUSE
http://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE is collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Others

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/
Journals and newsletters published by CDC on public health issues such as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Child Rights Information Network
http://www.crin.org/
The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst NGOs, UN agencies, inter-governmental organization, educational institutions, and other child rights experts. 

HelpAge International
http://www.helpage.org
The HelpAge International network was established in 1983 to provide training and support on issues relating to ageing.  Regular publications are accessible free to developing countries.

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
http://puck.ingentaconnect.com/vl=3406340/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/ffp/14711893/contp1.htm
Journal published by the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists on family planning and reproductive health care.

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) Project
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
A joint project of The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and several leading publishers to provide free access to environmental science literature to developing countries.

Society for Conservation Biology
http://www.conbio.org/
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study on conservation biology.  The Society is offering free access to developing countries.

Open Access Digital Library

Africa Virtual University
http://www.avu.org/dlibrary.asp
Digital library of Africa Virtual University to provide access to electronic journals, text and online references.

Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
A website on BOAI as a result of meeting in Budapest convened by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2, 2001.  The website provides links to the signatories of the initiative who support and offer open access journals.

Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 128,000 title records from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 88,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while the others are available at cost

Electronic Information for Libraries
http://www.eifl.net/index.html
EIFL.net is an independent foundation that advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in developing countries.  It lists open access journals in French, Spanish and Portuguese.

High Beam
http://www.highbeam.com/
Users subscribe to the research library at US$99.95 per year to access a vast collection of over 3,000 sources including articles from leading publications and images.