There are many ways to access content that has been made available either through the Green or Gold open access routes.
For content published in open access, you can go directly to the journal or publisher鈥檚 website, for example for all its published content.
The provides article level search for over 6700 open access journals in all fields.
Aggregators like and provide access to a mix of green and gold OA content from publishers, repositories, and websites.
You can often find the latest research in different fields by searching a subject repository like , , , and , where researchers will post their pre-prints and finished articles.
Tools like , and the are designed to help you find a free version of paywalled articles. These work by using the DOI, a unique identifier for the article, or the URL of the article, to locate a version posted in subject or institutional repositories.