Free newspapers and journals
On this page, we refer in loose order to open access and other free online sources of newspapers and journals. These are offers that we consider to be particularly valuable for our specialised community.
Magazines
Open Access journals in the MENA region
The range of open access journals is also growing steadily in the MENA region. Numerous journals that were previously printed are now available as open access editions, and current journals are often only published in open access. Here you will find an overview of journals from the MENA region listed in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB).
Al Sharekh Archives
Initiative for the digitisation of Arabic journals from the 19th century to the present day
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Blog on Open Access publications (by country in alphabetical order)
Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ)
More than 300 peer-reviewed Open Access journals from Iraq
DergiPark Academic
Platform for scientific journals published in Turkey - peer-reviewed and open access
Translatio" digitisation project at the University of Bonn
The digitisation project "Translatio" at the Department of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Languages at the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn digitises and publishes Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish journals published in the Middle Eastern and Asian "saddle period" between 1860 and 1945.
Newspapers
Jrayed
Arabic newspaper archive of Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine published by the National Library of Israel
Further databases
Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
The Arabic Collections Online is a publicly accessible digital library with public domain content in Arabic. ACO currently offers digital access to over 17,000 volumes on 10,473 topics from the extensive Arabic collections of renowned research libraries.
Qatar Digital Library
This growing archive of the National Library of Qatar covers the modern history and culture of the Gulf region and is now available online for the first time.
Türkiye Sosyal Tarih Araştirma Vakfi (TÜSTAV)
The Foundation for social history research in Turkey publishes Turkish publications in its archive in open access.