These open access databases allow users to search freely. The articles found in these databases may be a mix of open access and paywalled content.
PubMed now has an updated user interface.
PubMed is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free, web searchable database which includes the online version of Index Medicus. It is an international index to biomedical research covering medicine, bio-medical sciences, and psychiatry and contains indexing and citation from 1946 to present, and provides access to open access articles.Some journals are fully open access, meaning anyone can read the articles in them for free. A few good quality open access journals in the field of Kinesiology & Applied Health are:
Some journals are partially open access. Some of the articles in them are free for anyone to access, while other articles are not. In this case, free articles are identified by an open lock symbol near their title or description. Finding articles like this via databases can be challenging, however. One thing that can help is a web-browser extension that locates open access copies of materials. Here are a few that the library recommends: