Sources of full text articles freely available online

Sources of full text articles freely available online:

If you have access to a local library, you may be able to access online journals through there.  If not, here are several ways to access full text articles for free (note this list is likely to increase as time goes on):

Global Index Medicus provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information. Searchable and should be very valuable.

HINARI http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ has a search facility and you can select various free sources at http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/journals.php. Note from HINARI: 'If you are not associated to any institution in your home countries, we strongly suggest you approach to registered institutions receiving walk-in users. You can check the list of Registered Universities and Professional Schools at:http://www.who.int/hinari/faq/registration_and_eligibility_registered_universities/en/index.html.

Please explore the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org). Also the platform for Open Access distribution of articles in journals published in low-income countries, Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br). 

Highwire has a large number of free articles at http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl. Free Medical Journals also has a large list http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/. A simple Google search (free full text articles online) will identify many other possible sources. Pubmed also has links to a number of free full text articles - see this link for more details http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/freehealthlit.html.

The Cochrane Library has also now moved to make much of its material open access - see https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ (access may depend on which country you are in and trying to access the material).

There is also has a directory of open access journals at http://www.inasp.info/en/training-resources/open-access-resources/

MedInd http://medind.nic.in/ has a search facilities (mainly Indian journals).

Some more useful tips http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/6173/how-to-access-subscription-journals-and-full-text-articles-for-free/.

Unpaywall is a free web-browser extension that hunts for papers in more than 5,300 repositories worldwide, including preprint servers and institutional databases. Check out: http://www.nature.com/news/unpaywall-finds-free-versions-of-paywalled-papers-1.21765

Dimensions also allows you to find possible open source versions of papers - you can search through here https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?and_facet_open_access=True