journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions). While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. Some open access journals are subsidized and are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center. Others are financed by payment of article processing charges by submitting authors, money typically made available to researchers by their institution or funding agency. Below are the links of some of the open accsess which available free.

International African Institute(IAI):African Digital Research Repositories | Open Access publication | Maktaba Tetea | Research 4 Life | Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) | British Library Document Delivery Service | Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) | Save the Children Resource Center | World Bank: African Development Indicators | Social Science Research Network | Google Scholar | Google Books | Free Documents| Emeraldinsight for different subject journals| Free Presentations | Free Full PDF| Edward Elgar | Asia Journals Online| Bioline International| Research gate Publications| Information R.net | Nepal Journals Online | HireWire Press | Open Book Publisher | Bookszz | Download free eBooks at bookboon.com | Free e- books | Text books Revolution | Free Text books | Download Free Ebooks in PDF, ePub & Kindle from Obooko | National Academies Press | Read any book. ( site for literature books) | Book Rix| Page by Page (site for Fictions)| Bangladesh Journals online | Academic Journals | African Journals Archive | African Journal Online (AJOL) | Oxford University Press| Directory of Open Access Repository | Tanzania online: A Gateway to Information on Development Issues in Tanzania | Scientific directory | Open Science Directory | International Records Management Trust