Free Newspapers and Journals

On this page we link to open access and other free online sources of newspapers and journals in loose order.

We consider these sites to be particularly valuable for our academic community.

Journals

• • 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 Akademik

    Platform for academic journals published in Turkey – peer-reviewed and in open access

  • Digitization Project “Translatio” at the University Bonn

    The digitization project “Translatio” at the Department of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Languages at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn focuses on Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals published during the Middle Eastern and Asian “saddle period” between 1860 and 1945 and making them digitally accessible.

  Newspapers

  • Jrayed

    Arabic newspaper archive of Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine published by the National Library of Israel

  More 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 republishes Turkish publications in its archive in Open Access.