Open Access

Free E-journals

• Academic Journals: the site provides free access to research content in all subject areas (journals, conference proceedings, other materials)
• Annals of the National Institute of Health (ISS)
• BioMed Central: digital archive that publishes more than 300 journals for free; free admission is subject to any restrictions imposed by the publisher
• Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ): is an online resource that indexes and makes accessible peer-reviewed, open access, high quality journals
• Free Medical Journals: the site allows consultation of open access medical journals, in whole or in part. The journals are divided according to the specialty and the language of publication
• PLoS – Public Library of Science: digital archive; free admission is subject to any restrictions imposed by the publisher
• PubMedCentral: digital archive of the National Library of Medicine showing the free content of more than 300 journal titles; free admission is subject to any restrictions imposed by the publisher.

Free E-books

• Bookshelf:  Product of the National Library of Medicine; free access to 700 medical and social science books, documents and reports
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• FreeBooks4Doctors: texts available for free online, divided according to the specialty and the language of publication (Amedeo project)
• Freebookcentre.net: contains links to thousands of technical-scientific books that can be downloaded or consulted online; the collection includes books on computer science, electronics, science, medicine and much more
• InTech Open Access Books - Medicine
• Medical student.com: aimed specifically at students, the resource provides links to atlases and open access books.

OER (Open Educational Resources)

Teaching, learning and research resources in the public domain or licensed under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and reuse by others. Unlike copyrighted material these resources are available for "open" use which means that you can correct, modify, customize, and share them.

• https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=nursing
• https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• https://it.khanacademy.org/
• http://www.federica.unina.it/
• https://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/
• http://www.e-meducation.org/