Databases
Databases
Bulacan State University is committed to supporting your research and learning needs. We provide access to a curated list of free, reliable academic resources from open access databases worldwide. These resources, though not owned by the university, are shared to help you easily discover scholarly articles, journals, and other digital content without the need for subscriptions or fees. Start exploring and enhance your academic journey today!
The OAPEN online library provides full-text searching to over 1500 academic open-access ebooks covering various disciplines. It promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational resources. It is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic and full-text education research and information database.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. It gives library users access to millions of open-access journal articles from nearly 2000 journals and thousands of open-access books from top scholarly publishers.
OHP is a global community of academics, editors, and readers specializing in critical and cultural theory. It is a volunteer-run, independent organization that promotes open access to books and journals while investigating novel avenues for scholarly communication.
Open Book Publishers is the leading independent open-access publisher of academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK. They are known for their high-quality research, which is freely available to readers worldwide.
Ubiquity Press is an open-access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and data. It operates a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open-access publishing affordable for everyone.
It offers 1401 open textbooks; the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
The Open Textbook Library provides free access to high-quality textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from various institutions.
These textbooks cover a wide range of subjects and are available for anyone to use and adapt to their courses.
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) database covers all scientific and scholarly subjects.
It has a unique and extensive index of diverse open-access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
The Core database provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals.
To our knowledge, it is also the world’s largest collection of full-text open-access research papers.
Digital Commons Network database includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
ProQuest Open Thesis (PQDT) is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. With over 4 million works from graduate schools and universities, PQDT provides researchers with unparalleled access to valuable scholarly resources. Users can search for specific topics, authors, or institutions to find relevant research for their academic pursuits.
This full text search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive Scholar. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
Philippine E-Book Hub database is designed to easily access Filipiñiana works that are printed in the Philippines, about the Philippines, and written by Filipinos. Users can search for a wide range of materials, including books, articles, and other publications that cover various topics related to Filipino culture, history, and society.
The database also provides information on where these works can be found in libraries or bookstores across the country.
The Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino, Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino is an online dictionary originally based on the database first published in 1989 and updated to its third edition in 2011.
The dictionary is continuously expanded with words coming from other Philippine languages, as well as foreign words that were assimilated into Filipino.
Scilit database is a free, unique, and fast-growing indexing database of scientific and scholarly literature.
It holds over 130 million works (journal papers, books, book chapters, conference papers, preprints, etc.) and more than 1.1 billion citations.
The Open Research Library is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly monographs that are hosted on the BiblioBoard platform.
It provides access to thousands of academic works across various disciplines, offering researchers and students a valuable resource for their studies.
Users can easily search, browse, and download content for free, making it a convenient and cost-effective tool for academic research.
Cambridge Open Access serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed open-access content.
By providing free access to scholarly articles and research findings, Cambridge Open Access helps promote knowledge sharing and collaboration among researchers worldwide.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open-access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
It contains thousands of research reports, policy papers, and other publications that are freely available to the public.
Users can easily search and download documents on a wide range of topics related to development economics and global issues.
Instructions:
1. In your web browser, types in this URL: https://eportal.nlp.gov.ph/
2. Create an account: Fill out the form and submit. You will receive an email confirmation to set your password.
3. Login to your account: Once your account has been approved and your password has been set, you may now access the e-resources portal.
4. Share the link: NLP’s online databases offer a vast range of peer-reviewed reliable sources of information.
5.Search and have fun: NLP’s online databases cover a broad range of topics you can choose from and aside from that you can also access digitized copies of selected Filipiñiana collections.