What is Open Access
Open Access is a movement in scholarly institutions, universities and libraries to provide free access for students, faculty, alumni and the community to scholarly publications. Open Access publications are research articles that are not hidden behind paywalls and can be accessed by everyone around the world.
To read more about Open Access visit Wikipedia for a good overview.
See our SJSU library's guide about predatory journals.
Open Access Databases
Allof the San Jose State University Library's databases are available in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library to students, faculty, staff and the community. However, off campus, these databases are limited to students, faculty and staff of San Jose State University. The database, ERIC from the US Department of Education is freely available to all and requires no password. And the database, Google Scholar, is also freely available and is rich in indexing education journals.
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ERIC via US Govt web site This link opens in a new window
Established in 1966, ERIC is the largest education database in the world-containing over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. It. is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is administered by the U.S. National Library of Education (NLE).
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Google ScholarFree index to scholarly articles.