E-resources

Open-Access Journals and Repositories

Africa Health [http://www.africa-health.com/]

BioMed Central [ http://www.biomedcentral.com] – Excellent series of peer-reviewed health and medical journals available free online. Papers by authors from developing world are published free.

Cochrane Library[ http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html]

Directory of Open Access Journals [ http://www.doaj.org ]

Global Health Library http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php

Free Medical Journals.com [ http://www.freemedicaljournals.com ] – 2000 titles included.

Eldis [ http://www.eldis.org/]

PubMed Central [ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov] – Large number of full-text biomedical journals available at publication  date or after 6 months or 1 year.

OAIster [https://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html] The largest search engine for library-based resources

OPENDOAR  [http://www.opendoar.org/index.html ] – Directory of academic open access repositories. Useful for grey literature, such as theses and dissertations, departmental reports.

UK PubmedCentral [http://europepmc.org/ ] - 1.8 million+ full text, peer-reviewed published journal articles covering all fields of biomedical and health research (the UK PubMed Central repository). 

Online Medical Books

Emergency Medicine [ http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/index.shtml ]

FreeBooks4Doctors [ http://freebooks4doctors.com/index.htm ]

MedicalStudent.com [ http://www.medicalstudent.com ] – Useful for medical textbooks