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.