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Religious Studies Web Guide

Open Access Journals - Alphabetical List

Portals to Free Online Journal Articles

SEE ALSO lists of journals by specific religion for more specialized portals

 

General:

Focused:

  • African Journal Archive (Sabinet)  -  full-text African electronic journals - can browse Religion journals by title in Advanced Search - can limit search to open access articles
  • Canadiana Serials -  searches across full text of over 1700 historical Canadian journals (up to 1920) and 300 newspapers(up to 1930)
  • CEJSH: The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities - "open-access database publishing English abstracts of articles and reviews that appear mostly in national languages in scientific journals devoted to social sciences and humanities in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine" - many of the articles are open access
  • Dialnet - index to Spanish journals (over 240 Religious Studies titles) - many are available open access
  • MOA: Making of America Journals -  can search for journal articles published  from 1850-1877 - significant content for religion
  • Nepal Journals Online - 152 journals with over 16,000 articles available in full text
  • 19th Century Canadian religious journals - free access to selected issues - titles include: The Methodist Magazine, Church Guardian, Canadian Church Magazine, True Witness, Catholic Shield, Revue Ecclesiastique, The Young Churchman, British American Presbyterian.
  • Open Access Digital Theological Library  -  over 190,000 open access ebooks and 10,000,000 journal  articles  in religious studies 
  • RACO - Index to over 500 Catalan journals available open access - provides links to fulltext of articles
  • Redalyc - index to over 1,000 open access journals from Latin and America, Caribbean, Spain and Portugal

 

See also:

 A-B Open Access Journals

  C-D Open Access Journals

 E-F Open Access Journals

 

 G-H Open Access Journals

 I-J  Open Access Journals

K-L Open Access Journals

 

M-N Open Access Journals

O-P Open Access Journals

Q-R Open Access Journals

S-T Open Access Journals

 U-Z Open Access Journals

Union Lists

  • ABTAPL ( Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries) Union List of philosophy, religious studies and theology periodicals held by 53 member libraries. Can browse by journal title or keyword search journal titles.
  • AULOTS - union list of religious studies and theology journals held by libraries in Australia and New Zealand - produced by the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association
  • Electronic Journals Library/Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (Electronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) - produced by German Institute of Global and Area Studies Information Centre - Extensive listing of over 1600 Theology and Religious Studies journals - notes which titles are freely available
  • EIRH Plus  (formerly The European Reference Index  for the Humanities and Social Sciences) - is a listing of academic journals  - in advanced search can limit discipline to  Religious Studies and Theology journals as well as to open access journals

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