Budget declines getting you down?  Worried you can't keep up professionally with subscription library journals?  If you have Internet access, you can still accces many periodicals of interest to librarians.  Somemake articles available a month after publication.  In contrast, other periodicals show a couple of feature articles when the print version is just being mailed.  Increasingly, open source initiatives are supporting free access to information in order to keep citizens informed.  While no substitute for print, these web-based texts can provide you with information.

• <http://www.libdex.com/journals.html>  Briefly annotated links to many publications for and about libraries and librarians; many of those linked sites include full-text articles.

• <http://eprints.rclis.org>  E-prints in library and information science.

• <http://www.iasl-slo.org>  School Libraries Online: International Association of School Librarianship (IASL).  Their resource page links to many different kinds of school librarian information, including online periodicals.

• <http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists>  Library-oriented lists and electronic serials.

• <http://www.sol-plus.net/sol.htm>  SOL: Spanish in our Libraries: an electronic newsletter connecting librarians who serve Spanish speakers.

• <http://www.epnet.com/freeres.asp>  Bibliographic & Full Text Databases: Free Resources.  The Library Reference Center database linked from this site contains over five years of indexing and abstracts from over 30 of the most popular library titles.

• <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/index.html>  Index Morganagus: provides links to indexable articles in more than 80 online titles.

The following access tools link to information on open access journals and repositories in general, most of which are scholarly.

• <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/peer_review_list.html>  eScholarship Repository (California Digital Library)

• <http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl>  High Wire: free line full-text articles

• <http://gort.ucsd.edu/ejourn/jdir.html>  Directories of electronic journals

• <http://ejournal.coalliance.org>  Electronic Journal Miner

• <http://www.plos.org>  PLOS: Public Library of Science