Biology: Open Access: Databases, Journals, Images, Videos

In 50 episodes, Dr. Sammy Ramsey will teach you biology, the science of life. This course is based on an introductory-level college and AP Biology curriculum.

"We are two sisters on a mission to demystify science with humor and relevance by creating videos, GIFs, comics, and resources. Our content is focused on high school biology (Pinky is a former high school biology teacher), though we do receive comments that some of our content is useful for intro biology courses at the college level as well. We're for anyone wanting to learn biology!" 210 videos, each under 10 minutes.

Free videos let you meet the leading scientists and to find out how they think about scientific questions and conduct their research. You'll also experience the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made. Biology lecture videos, free educator resources, and more.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

The best open access journals across a portfolio of over 250 titles in biology, health sciences and medicine. Use the Search function, or click on "Explore Journals" to find individual titles.

Journals cover all scientific disciplines across life, health, and sustainability sciences.

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Open Access publishing for journals, books, conference proceedings and more. Use the Search box to search over 500,000 items (articles, books, theses).

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes high quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles' metadata. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access academic journals that use an appropriate quality control system and is not limited to particular languages, geographical region, or subject areas.

A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. bioRxiv is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research institution. Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online. However, all articles undergo a basic screening process for offensive and/or non-scientific content and are checked for plagiarism.

BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available as open access. Search across books, journals, authors, and subjects.

"A one-stop access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines."

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology since 1869.
Type your keywords in the search box and add "OPEN ACCESS" in the search string to retrieve only open access results.

Open access journal from the Science family of publications. In the Search box choose "Searching Science Advances".

This journal is not open access. Use your SCC credentials to access the content of this journal.

Type your keywords in the search box and add "OPEN ACCESS" in the search string to retrieve only open access results. Add "Sort by DATE" to get the most recent articles first. REFINE your search by adding the journal title, if you know it.

"A fast, open access Royal Society journal publishing high impact biology at the molecular and cellular level."

Search by text or by dropping an image.

A public archive of cell images, videos, and animations in life sciences.

"This site offers an enormous collection of photographs of wild species and natural history objects. It covers most groups of organisms with the exception of birds and other vertebrates."