Free Biomedical Literature Resources

Free Articles via PubMed

Search citations to biomedical and life sciences articles dating from the 1950s to the present at http://pubmed.gov.

• Free full-text articles are available for selected PubMed citations.  See a description of PubMed icons that indicate free text is available.
  
• See these instructions to restrict your PubMed search results to free articles.
  
• To search for free articles in PubMed by journal title, see this list of journals that provide some freely available full text via PubMed. Click on the links for a journal by year to search PubMed for free full text articles for the year and journal selected. For more information about the LinkOut program, see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc/linkout.html 
  

PubMed Central (PMC)

PubMed Central is a growing digital archive of free biomedical and life sciences journal literature developed by NLM.  To access free full-text articles, go to http://pubmedcentral.gov.

NCBI Bookshelf

The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched and read online.

Other Resources

• Open access journals are available from the following sources:
  
  
  • Public Library of Science 
  • BioMed Central
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (See "Health Sciences")
  
  See more information on Open Access.
  
• Highwire Press has an archive of free full-text science articles.
  
• Your local medical library can also provide assistance with identifying and locating useful information free of charge.