Open access publications are journals & other online content that use a funding model that doesn't charge readers or their institutions for access. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full-text of articles in open access journals. The only role for copyright is to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. The rights to prevent plagiarism and the publication of corrupted versions of articles do not interfere with the primary goal of open access which is to promote and accelerate research and education.
Individual accounts enable independent researchers to access free JSTOR articles. Although they are intended for individuals who are unaffiliated with a school or library, these accounts also provide tools for all kinds of researchers, from students to scholars to independent historians, to save their work (and organize citations for projects, articles, and papers) directly on the JSTOR site.
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It also includes the Wayback Machine, an archive of current and defunct websites, usable just like they were the day they were captured.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Try out Google Scholar below: