These databases provide access to a wide range of scholarly journals published under open access models. They primarily host peer-reviewed articles in various disciplines, including social sciences, enabling researchers to browse and download full-text journals free of cost.

DATABASE	INTRODUCTION	TYPE OF DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE
Directory of Open Access Journals	DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. It is committed to ensuring quality content is openly available online for everyone.	Journal Articles
Open Humanities Press	OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. They have been operated as an independent volunteer initiative since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication. Publishes peer-reviewed open-access books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.	Journal
ERIC	ERIC indexes a wide variety of journal sources. The decision to comprehensively or selectively cover an approved journal source is determined by an examination of three to five current issues during the source review process but may be updated at any time.	Journal
Project MUSE	Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers. Through their open access hosting programs, they are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.	Journal
JURN	JURN is a free database that provides access to research in arts and humanities. With JURN, users can download the full text of many articles and research journals. Since its debut in 2009, JURN now helps scholars access data in biomedicine, business and economics.	research journals full text articles
Paperity	Paperity was launched in 2014 as the first aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, gold and hybrid, that covers all academic disciplines and actively indexes dispersed journal websites. The purpose of Paperity is to give readers easy and unconstrained access to thousands of journals from hundreds of disciplines in one central location.	Journal
BrowZine	BrowZine is an app (and website) enabling users to browse, read and monitor e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface. A bit like a bookcase of favourite journals, you can set up your personal profile and be alerted to new releases to keep you up to date with your reading.	Journal
MDPI	A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Our 484 diverse and open access journals, including 475 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, are supported by more than 295,000 academic experts who share our mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors.	Journal
SAGE JOURNALS	The mission of Sage journals program is to build bridges to knowledge. Our portfolio of more than 1,100 journals, including over 200 gold open access journals, and 400 society partners, allows us to help researchers, educators, institutions, and our society partners, shape the future. As an independent organization, we are free to think long-term, free to do more, and free to work together to create lasting relationships that transform and advance knowledge.	Journal
COGENT OA	Cogent OA is a multidisciplinary series of broad-scope open access journals, helping researchers share their ideas and discoveries as widely and effectively as possible.	Journal
Taylor & Francis	Taylor & Francis’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon your work. Use the subject area filter below to explore our portfolio of fully open journals and find the best home for your research.	Journal
University of California Press Open Access	University of California Press has served as a bridge connecting the academic world and curious readers worldwide for over 125 years. They publish books and journals that shift paradigms in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, with a focus on social justice. With a global circulation, UC Press journals span the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with key subject areas that include history, the environment, public health, literature, criticism, film, media, music, religion, and sociology.	Journal
UCL Press Open Access Journals	They publish a range of open access journals for the academic community, covering a broad range of topics across the humanities, social sciences and STEM subjects.	Journal
Cambridge University Press	Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content across Cambridge Core, including leading journals, research monographs, reference works and textbooks. In line with the commitment of Cambridge University Press to advance learning, knowledge and research around the world, they currently publish more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals and more than 49,000 ebooks for the global market.	Journal
Digital Commons Network	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.	Journal and full text article
J-STAGE	J-STAGE is a platform for scholarly publications in Japan. It hosts academic journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, etc., spanning fields like basic sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities & social sciences.	Journals and Articles