Open Access
TSAM Library does not subscribe to all available online resources. However, we have listed down many Open Access (OA) e-resources for you to choose from according to your respective Faculty.

OA is the practice of providing unrestricted access to scholarly output via the internet. Simply click on the link provided by faculty to explore the range of OA resources available.

OA content is:

  1. 1. Easily accessible online.
  2. 2. Available free of charge.
  3. 3. Available for re-use as long as credit is given.


Faculty of Business and Communication (FBC)

  1. 1. Open Access Library
  2. 2. Google Scholar
  3. 3. Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals
  4. 4. EconBiz
  5. 5. EconLit
  6. 6. EconStor
  7. 7. EDGAR Search
  8. 8. IDEAS
  9. 9. Inomics
  10. 10. National Bureau of Economic Research
  11. 11. Encyclopedia of Psychology
  12. 12. National Criminal Justice Reference Service
  13. 13. Social Science Research Network
  14. 14. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods(EJBRM)
  15. 15. EScientific Research (SCIRP)


Faculty of Engineering and Quantity Surveying (FEQS)

  1. 1. Open Access Library
  2. 2. Google Scholar
  3. 3. Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals
  4. 4. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods(EJBRM)
  5. 5. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management(EJKM)
  6. 6. Electronic Journal of e-Government (EJEG))
  7. 7. Electronic Journal of e-Learning (EJEL)
  8. 8. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management(EJKM)
  9. 9. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation (EJISE)
  10. 10. Elsevier Open Access Journals
  11. 11. Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE)
  12. 12. Open Access in 2019 - A Year in Brill Books
  13. 13. Journal of Open Hardware
  14. 14. Communications Materials
  15. 15. Functional Composite Materials
  16. 16. Acta Acustica
  17. 17. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE)


Faculty of Data Science and Information Technology (FDSIT)

  1. 1. Open Access Library
  2. 2. Google Scholar
  3. 3. Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals
  4. 4. dblp computer science bibliography
  5. 5. arXiv
  6. 6. CiteSeerX
  7. 7. Computer Science @ Virginia Tech
  8. 8. The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  9. 9. zbMATH
  10. 10. Journals for Free
  11. 11. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods(EJBRM)
  12. 12. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management(EJKM)
  13. 13. Electronic Journal of e-Government (EJEG))
  14. 14. Electronic Journal of e-Learning (EJEL)
  15. 15. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management(EJKM)
  16. 16. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation (EJISE)
  17. 17. Elsevier Open Access Journals
  18. 18. Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE)
  19. 19. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  20. 20. Journal of Machine Learning Research
  21. 21. Journal of Universal Computer Science
  22. 22. Logical Methods in Computer Science
  23. 23. PeerJ
  24. 24. Theory of Computing
  25. 25. Computer Science Journal
  26. 26. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
  27. 27. Advances in Artificial Intelligence


Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS)

    Traditional Chinese Medicine
  1. 1. The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
  2. 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. 3. Chinese Medical Journal
  4. 4. Clinical Plasma Medicine
  5. 5. Digital Chinese Medicine
  6. 6. Integrative Cancer Therapies
  7. 7. International Journal of Chinese Medicine
  8. 8. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
  9. 9. Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
  10. 10.Journal of Ginseng Research
  11. 11.Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
  12. 12.Longhua Chinese Medicine
  13. 13.Wiley - Clinical Case Report
  14. 14.World Journal of Traditional Medicine

  15. General
  16. 1. Bioline International
  17. 2. BioMed Central
  18. 3. CERN Document Server
  19. 4. ChemBioFinder
  20. 5. CHBD: Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database
  21. 6. ClinicalTrials.gov
  22. 7. Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals
  23. 8. Dryad
  24. 9. Elsevier Open Access Journals
  25. 10.Europe PMC
  26. 11.GlobinMed
  27. 12.Google Scholar
  28. 13.HubMed
  29. 14.IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia (IMJM)
  30. 15.Journal of Chemistry
  31. 16.The Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  32. 17.The Malaysian Journal of Microbiology
  33. 18.Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine
  34. 19.Medical Journal of Malaysia
  35. 20.MedlinePlus
  36. 21.Open Access Library
  37. 22.PhilSci Archive (An Archive for Preprints in Philosophy of Science)
  38. 23.Public Library of Science(PLOS)
  39. 24.PubMed
  40. 25.Scientific Research (SCIRP)
  41. 26.Springer Open
  42. 27.SSRN's Public Health Research Network)
  43. 28.UN iLibrary
  44. 29.Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM)


Faculty of Education and Liberal Arts (FELA)

  1. 1. Open Access Library
  2. 2. Google Scholar
  3. 3. Journals for Free
  4. 4. Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals (DOAJ)
  5. 5. Electric Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
  6. 6. International Journal of English Linguistics (IJEL)
  7. 7. International Journal of English Studies
  8. 8. Computational Linguistics
  9. 9. Issues in Applied linguistics
  10. 10.Open Access in 2019 - A Year in Brill Books
  11. 11.Journal of Communication Pedagogy
  12. 12.Journal of the European Second Language Association (JESLA)
  13. 13.Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education


General (Multidisciplinary)

  1. 1. BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  2. 2. JURN
  3. 3. Paperity
  4. 4. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management(EJKM)
  5. 5. Elsevier Open Access Journals
  6. 6. Elsevier Open Archives
  7. 7. Education Sciences
  8. 8. Open Access in 2019 - A Year in Brill Books


E-Books

  1. 1. Bookboon
  2. 2. getfreeebooks.com
  3. 3. freecomputerbooks.com
  4. 4. freetechbooks.com
  5. 5. IMF eLibrary
  6. 6. O'Reilly Openbook
  7. 7. Open Textbook
  8. 8. Open Library
  9. 9. PDFBooks World
  10. 10. Google Books
  11. 11. Free eBooks




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3. Understanding Open Access


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