Here we provide a list of online resource portals for open access journals, free and downloadable full-text articles and portals to library resources to which developing country researchers have privileged access.

• ADL: African Digital Library
  A free public library that provides access to anyone living in Africa. To apply for free registration with ADL, click here.

• Africa Portal Library
  This open access repository holds publications related to African policy issues and they are available for free full-text download.

• AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
  The AGORA site provides free access to almost 1900 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science, and related social sciences. Agora makes available agricultural information from the best of the academic journals to not-for-profit national academic, research or government institutions in low-income countries. Click here for registration, or contact email hidden; JavaScript is required.

• AJOL: African Journals Online
  AJOL is a partnership between hundreds of African-published journals. It makes available the African-origin research output to Africans and to the rest of the world. Full text articles for Open Access journals on AJOL are free to download. Select the option of “List Open Access Only”. Free full-text articles for PERI Programme-eligible countries.

• Bioversity Library
  Full-text contents of many journals are available for viewing.

• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
  This service covers free, full text, scholarly journals. It aims to cover all open access scientific journals in all subjects and languages.

• eJDS: eJournals Delivery Service
  The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) distributes individual scientific articles, free of charge, via email to scientists in developing country institutions where low bandwidth or complete lack of internet connection makes access to current scientific literature difficult or impossible. The goal is to provide current literature to support the ongoing research of scientists. In order to be able to use the free eJournals Delivery Service, it is necessary to register by email or fax. The eJDS system will reply by email on how to proceed.

• INASP/PERI: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications/Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information
  This network was designed to support research in developing and transitional countries by providing access to scientific and scholarly information through electronic means. Institutions in a range of developing countries are eligible for free access to a very large number of scientific journals on the Internet – the normally high subscription costs have been waivered through PERI (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information). For more information contact email hidden; JavaScript is required.

• JSTOR
  JSTOR maintains an archive of scholarly journals in many disciplines and makes the full text of the articles widely available. Because JSTOR is an archive, current issues (usually the most recent 5 years) are not available, while its backfiles of journals may begin as early as the 1800s. Under the Open Africa initiative, JSTOR has waived all fees for higher education and not-for-profit research institutions in Africa.
  Information on how to apply for the fee waiver.

• OpenDOAR – The Directory of Open Access Repositories
  OpenDOAR provides a listing of worldwide academic open access repositories.

• PLoS Biology
  A peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science.

• SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
  Through SciELO, researchers can find scientific journals published on the Internet, which particular focus on the literature of Latin American and Caribbean countries. There are 279 searchable serials, from collections of journals published in Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Spain, Venezuela and etc. More countries and more subject areas are being added.