Any Free Academic Journals Out There?

MrKyle · 07-25-2010, 09:48 AM

Hey, I'm looking for Academic Journals that I can write a recipe to periodically download to my ebook reader. The main obstacle seems to be that 99% of Academic Journals cost money, and I'm broke, so I'm trying to find out if there are any free ones out there.

TimMason · 07-25-2010, 11:11 AM

Try this :http://www.doaj.org/

WillAdams · 07-26-2010, 07:48 AM

On what topic?

http://arxiv.org/

is the site for math / computer science / physics....

William

wayspooled · 07-26-2010, 11:08 AM

Oxford University Press offers free summaries which can be very interesting.
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/

DDHarriman · 07-28-2010, 06:43 AM

Hello

Try the world’s movement to make the science production of Academic and Research Institutions available for free via Institutional Repositories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository).

You can get a very complete list of available ones via OpenDoar (http://www.opendoar.org).

In Portugal we have several of them who can be accessed by the RCAAP portal (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal - http://www.rcaap.pt/index.jsp?locale=en), who by today aggregates information from 28 Portuguese Repositories and has 44.442 documents (most in Portuguese but also lots in English too).

Best regards,

Penforhire · 07-28-2010, 01:24 PM

NASA Tech Briefs ?

MartinParish · 08-04-2010, 10:48 PM

Excellent question!! Permit me to recommend PLoS - great collection of journals, publishes a lot of neat research in biology & genetics. If you follow the link, you'll see a list of their journals on the right hand side of the page - PLoS Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens (my personal favorite) and so on.

Also check out BioMedCentral, another publisher with some free journals. If you're looking for research on a particular topic, there's no better place to start than PubMed. If you do a search for a particular subject, PubMed is the best place to start; once you do a search, you can filter your results so that only free-access articles show up (it's cheap, I know, but I do that all the time)

MartinParish · 08-08-2010, 07:59 PM

And while we're on the subject of scientific journals, here's a PLoS Pathogens study I liked so much I thought I ought to share it. (Yeah, I'm a nerd, I know, but hey, biology is cool

) Just to summarize briefly: It's about an ongoing evolutionary arms race involving a species of maternally-inherited bacteria that selectively kills males.

Male insects, that is.

The victim is actually a species of ladybird, to be precise. I've read elsewhere about another genus of bacteria that exhibits comparable behavior (Wolbachia), but this one is especially cool because a gene sequence comparison suggests it's most closely related to similar bacteria in aphids, suggesting some unfortunate ladybird ingested this vile bacterium together with their dinner.

Bacteria that selectively kill males, are passed from mother to child and between predator and prey? The sci-fi fan in me loves this kind of stuff. Way too cool

07-25-2010, 09:48 AM	#1
MrKyle Writer Posts: 28 Karma: 326572 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle DX	Any Free Academic Journals Out There? Hey, I'm looking for Academic Journals that I can write a recipe to periodically download to my ebook reader. The main obstacle seems to be that 99% of Academic Journals cost money, and I'm broke, so I'm trying to find out if there are any free ones out there.

08-08-2010, 07:59 PM	#8
MartinParish Author of 2184 Posts: 61 Karma: 810 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle	And while we're on the subject of scientific journals, here's a PLoS Pathogens study I liked so much I thought I ought to share it. (Yeah, I'm a nerd, I know, but hey, biology is cool) Just to summarize briefly: It's about an ongoing evolutionary arms race involving a species of maternally-inherited bacteria that selectively kills males. Male insects, that is. The victim is actually a species of ladybird, to be precise. I've read elsewhere about another genus of bacteria that exhibits comparable behavior (Wolbachia), but this one is especially cool because a gene sequence comparison suggests it's most closely related to similar bacteria in aphids, suggesting some unfortunate ladybird ingested this vile bacterium together with their dinner. Bacteria that selectively kill males, are passed from mother to child and between predator and prey? The sci-fi fan in me loves this kind of stuff. Way too cool

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DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Hello Try the world’s movement to make the science production of Academic and Research Institutions available for free via Institutional Repositories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository). You can get a very complete list of available ones via OpenDoar (http://www.opendoar.org). In Portugal we have several of them who can be accessed by the RCAAP portal (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal - http://www.rcaap.pt/index.jsp?locale=en), who by today aggregates information from 28 Portuguese Repositories and has 44.442 documents (most in Portuguese but also lots in English too). Best regards,

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08-04-2010, 10:48 PM	#7
MartinParish Author of 2184 Posts: 61 Karma: 810 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle	Excellent question!! Permit me to recommend PLoS - great collection of journals, publishes a lot of neat research in biology & genetics. If you follow the link, you'll see a list of their journals on the right hand side of the page - PLoS Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens (my personal favorite) and so on. Also check out BioMedCentral, another publisher with some free journals. If you're looking for research on a particular topic, there's no better place to start than PubMed. If you do a search for a particular subject, PubMed is the best place to start; once you do a search, you can filter your results so that only free-access articles show up (it's cheap, I know, but I do that all the time)