Open Access and Free Collections in OutLook OnLine: A Demonstration BC Grasslands Magazine example Heather Morrison, BC ELN

About this demonstration This demo illustrates how the Open Access and Free Journals collection in OutLook OnLine works, using BC Grasslands Magazine as an example. Viewing the whole demonstration should take 3 minutes or less.

OutLook OnLine is a gateway to British Columbia’s public and post-secondary libraries; 92 libraries in all. This is the view of OutLook OnLine from BC Public Library Services Branch.

Let’s enter “bc grasslands magazine” in the Search For box…

And click “Search”

There is one result, BC Grasslands Magazine [free electronic resource]. After the title, there is a URL.

Let’s click on the URL…

…and BC Grasslands Magazine appears in a pop-up window.

Let’s click to open the window…

The home page of BC Grasslands Magazine appears.

Let’s click on the picture of the journal…

and a PDF of the journal downloads and opens. We can browse through the journal, or…

…select a particular article. The “Feature: Economics 101” looks interesting, let’s click…

Now we can read Barbara Heidenreich’s Economics 101 & the Environment online!

There are more than 5,000 open access and free journals in the BC ELN collection, including more than 3,000 scholarly, peer- reviewed journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals. Descriptions of the collections can be found here: BC ELN Open Access and Free Journals

To browse the full collection, go to the A to Z Open Access and Free Journals list, at:

Questions? Contact: Heather Morrison BC Electronic Library Network This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. To view a copy of this license, visit or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.