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    Open Access is part of a wider ‘open’ movement to encourage free exchange of knowledge to anyone. Some of the benefits are that it improves the quality of research through open, transparent access. It increases the reputation of researchers and their host institution through citations and provide evidence for impact. The greatest benefit of open access is that it enables the results of scholarly research to be disseminated more rapidly and widely.

    Open Access Resources are available in various forms and types such as e- journals, e-books, electronic theses & dissertations, directories, e-print archives, digital repositories, open education resources, search engines and blogs, etc. The list below includes some Open Access databases and repositories. Providers and publishers sometimes change site or resource URLs which lead to dead links.

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    RESOURCEURL
    Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)https://www.assaf.org.za/index.php/publications
    Africa Portalhttps://www.africaportal.org/
    African Journal Archivehttps://journals.co.za/action/showPublications?pubType=journal&ConceptID=500452
    African Journals Online Open Accesshttp://www.ajol.info
    AfricanLIIhttps://africanlii.org/
    AgEcon Searchhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/?ln=en
    American Anthropological Association Open Accesshttps://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?AllField=open+access
    American Museum of Natural History Digital Collectionshttps://digitalcollections.amnh.org/
    AOSIS Open Journalshttps://aosis.co.za/about-journals/
    Australian National University Presshttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications
    Biodiversity Heritage Libraryhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
    BioMedCentral Open Accesshttps://link.springer.com/brands/bmc
    BioOne Open Accesshttps://bioone.org/search/advanced
    Bloomsbury Academic Open Accesshttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord&browse&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess
    Books at JSTOR: Open Accesshttp://about.jstor.org/open-access?cid=eml_jb_OA_10_2016
    Botanicus Digital Libraryhttp://www.botanicus.org/browse
    Cambridge Books  and Journals – Open Accesshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/open-access
    CCAMLRhttp://www.ccamlr.org/en/publications/ccamlr-science-table-contents
    Centre for Development and Enterprisehttp://www.cde.org.za
    ChemSpiderhttp://www.chemspider.com/
    CLOCKSShttps://clockss.org/triggered-content/
    Constitutional Law of South Africahttps://constitutionallawofsouthafrica.co.za/
    COREhttps://core.ac.uk/
    Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africahttps://codesria.org/
    CSVR – Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliationhttps://www.csvr.org.za
    De Gruyter Open Access Covid-19https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/coronavirus
    De Gruyter Open Bookshttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/
    De Gruyter Open Journalshttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/search?query=open+access+journals
    Directory of Open Access Bookshttp://www.doabooks.org/doab
    Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org
    DSAEhttp://dsae.co.za/
    FAO Evaluation Databasehttps://www.fao.org/publications/en/
    Forward to Freedomhttps://www.aamarchives.org/
    Free Medical Journalshttp://freemedicaljournals.com/
    FreeBooks4Doctorshttp://freebooks4doctors.com/
    Gutenberg-ehttp://www.gutenberg-e.org/
    HEDBIB International Bibliographic Database on Higher Educationhttp://hedbib.iau-aiu.net/
    HighWire Press (Free Journals)http://portal.highwire.org/lists/allsites.dtl
    HSRC Presshttps://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/open-access
    InTech Open Access eBookshttp://www.intechopen.com/books
    International Collective in Support of Fishworkershttps://www.icsf.net/
    Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/
    IOPscience Journals Listhttp://iopscience.iop.org/journals
    Nature Journals (including Open Access)https://www.nature.com/siteindex
    Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds
    OA.mghttps://oa.mg/
    Oceanographic Research Institutehttps://www.saambr.org.za/
    Open Access Theses and Dissertationshttps://oatd.org/oatd-repositories.html
    OpenAlexhttps://openalex.org/
    Open Book Publishershttp://www.openbookpublishers.com/
    Gazettes.Africahttps://gazettes.africa/
    Open Knowledge Repositoryhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org
    Open Textbook Libraryhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
    OpenStax Textbookshttps://openstax.org
    Oxford Academic – Open Accesshttps://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/open-access
    PLoS – Public Library of Science – Bibliosanhttp://www.plos.org/
    Project Euclid Open Accesshttp://projecteuclid.org/
    PubMedhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    PubMed Central® https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
    Research4Lifehttps://www.research4life.org/
    SAFLIIhttp://www.saflii.org/
    SAGE Journals (including Open Access)https://journals.sagepub.com/
    SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systemhttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
    SciELO South Africahttp://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_alphabetic&lng=en&nrm=iso
    ScienceDirect Open Access Titleshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books?accessType=openAccess
    SCOAP3 Journalshttps://scoap3.org/
    Semantic Scholarhttps://www.semanticscholar.org/
    SORA Journalshttps://sora.unm.edu/
    South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (Open Access)http://www.saiia.org.za
    South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Researchhttps://sancor.nrf.ac.za/
    South African Water Research Commissionhttp://www.wrc.org.za
    Southern African Research and Documentation Centrehttps://www.sardc.net/en/
    Springer Journals (including Open Access)https://link.springer.com/brands/springer/journals
    Taylor & Francis Open Access Bookshttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?openAccess=true
    Taylor & Francis Open Access Journalshttps://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals
    Thieme Journals (including Open Access Journals)https://lp.thieme.de/journals/
    University of California Press E-Books, 1982-2004https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/
    UNESCOhttps://www.unesco.org/en
    Unpaywallhttps://unpaywall.org/
    Water Research Commissionhttps://saeis.saeon.ac.za/

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