This is a new trend which is being practised and used in many areas in the world. This trend is called “Open Access Journals and Databases”. This is the simplest way where the public may access the journals or databases in full content freely and in most cases downloadable or for which otherwise specified.

Annals Academic of Medicine Singapore
The Annals is the official medical journal of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. It is a refereed monthly journal appearing in the Index Medicus and has been accepted in the Science Citation Index-Expanded, ISI Alerting Services, and Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine.
Subject: medicine

BASE
BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

Bioline International
Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer-reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity. Bioline increases the visibility of this research by making it readily available to researchers across the world.
Subject: bioscience
 
Cambridge Digital Library’s Islamic Manuscript  
The Cambridge Digital Library will draw together books, manuscripts and other items from across our collections that are especially significant. Many of them have been displayed in Library exhibitions in the past – now they can be accessed at any time, from anywhere in the world, and browsed cover to cover exhibitions in the past.
Subject: manuscript

City Journal (Magazine)
City Journal offers a stimulating mix of hard-headed practicality and cutting-edge theory, with articles on everything from school financing, policing strategy, and welfare policy to urban architecture, family policy, and the latest theorizing emanating from the law schools, charitable foundations, even the schools of public health.
Subject: urban affairs

CORE: Connecting Repositories
CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

Dart Europe E-Theses Portal
The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).
Subject: multi-disciplinary

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer-reviewed open access material. The database contains 12000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. The ERIC website is offered free for public use by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
Subject: education

E-LIS: E-Prints in Library and Information Science
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science & Technology, and related areas. E-LIS is based on the voluntary work of an international team of librarians.
Subject: library science

Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet
Subject: medicine

Harvard Design Magazine
Harvard Design Magazine aims to provide a forum for practitioners, journalists and academics primarily architecture, landscape architecture and urban and design planning.
Subject: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and design planning

Hindawi Journals  
Hindawi publishes a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences. All articles published in Hindawi journals are open access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. The following pages provide a listing of all journals currently published, newly launched, or currently under development.
Subject: biological sciences, medicines, case reports, physical sciences, social sciences and education, mathematics, engineering and computer science

IIUM Journals
IIUM Journal Publication is the publishing arm of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). IIUM promotes research and education by efficiently coordinating the publication of research projects; maintaining strategic alliances with distributors and other publishers, and regularly participating in book exhibitions and sales.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

Indian Journal of Urology
Indian Journal of Urology-IJU (ISSN 0970-1591) is the official publication of the Urological Society of India. The journal is published quarterly.
Subject: medicine – urology

Information Research
Information Research, is open access, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.
Subject: information science, information management, information systems, information policy, archives and records management and librarianship

International Food Research Journal
International Food Research Journal (IFRJ), published six (6) times a year, is an open-access, double-blinded peer-reviewed online journal under the category of food science and technology.
Subject: food science and technology

International Young Scholar Journal of Language (IYSJL)
International Young Scholar Journal of Language (IYSJL) is an online, peer-reviewed biannual journal. The journal aims to provide an avenue for young scholars to publish their research work and to share their findings or insights with other young scholars, academicians and practitioners.
Subject: languages- Bahasa Malaysia, English, Arabic

J-STAGE
J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
Subject: science and technology

Malaysian Citation Index
Delivering access to bibliographic and citation information from scholarly literature published in Malaysian journals, conference proceedings, chapters in books and theses in the sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

MyJurnal
MyJurnal contains bibliographic data and full-text contents of articles published in refereed scholarly journals in Malaysia, in various disciplines such as Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Medical & Health Sciences.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

Medical Journal of Malaysia
Published in 1890 this journal originated as the Journal of the Straits Medical Association. With the formation of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), the Journal became the official organ, supervised by an editorial board. Some of the early Hon. Editors were Mr. H.M. McGladdery (1960 – 1964), Dr. A.A. Sandosham (1965 – 1977), and Prof. Paul C.Y. Chen (1977 – 1987).
Subject: medicine

National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
Subject: biomedical and genomic

Open Access Theses and Dissertation
OATD is a resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

PATENTSCOPE® Search Service
The PATENTSCOPE database provides access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in full-text format on the day of publication, as well as to patent documents of participating national and regional patent offices.
Subject: patent

Royal Society Open Science
A fast, open journal publishing high-quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics.
Subject:  science, engineering and mathematics

Singapore Medical Journal
The Singapore Medical Journal (SMJ) is the monthly publication of the Singapore Medical Association (SMA). The Journal aims to advance medical practice and clinical research by publishing high-quality articles that add to the clinical knowledge of physicians in Singapore and worldwide.
Subject: medicine

The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health is published by the SEAMEO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network (SEAMEO TROPMED Network).
Subject: tropical medicine and public health

UM e-journals
UM e-Journals is provided by the University of Malaya (UM).
Subject: multi-disciplinary

UTM ejournals
e-Journals published by UTM.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

UPM e-journals
Pertanika publishes the official journals of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), under UPM Press. The international peer-reviewed journals are devoted to the publication of original papers and serve as fora for practical approaches to improving quality in issues pertaining to tropical agriculture; science and technology; social sciences and humanities; and related fields. The goal is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience.
Subject: multi-disciplinary

UTS ePress Journals
UTS ePRESS is the open access publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). UTS ePRESS aim is to remove barriers to knowledge by freely disseminating high quality scholarly works. Through this commitment to open knowledge, UTS ePRESS contribute to scholarship that seeks to solve global challenges.
Subject: governance, international studies, history, law, society, social justice