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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access licence. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages
Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR)
The Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR) aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users who wish to find particular archives or who wish to break down repositories by locale, content or other measures. Users can search for repositories by the following regions: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America
http://www.opendoar.org
WorldWideScience.org​ is a global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information. Resources available via WorldWideScience include DOAJ and all the Journals Online projects (JOLs).
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of AJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey by providing access to tables of contents and abstracts on the Internet, links to full text (if available) plus document delivery of paper articles, which is subsidised to developing countries. Journals are included on the basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication
Bookboon's free online textbooks for students are focused and to the point. They are all written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
Cooperative African Newspapers Project
A new project to create an electronic database of holdings information for newspapers (all formats and all languages) published in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially it will consolidate holdings information for collections in North America, but will later expand to include holdings of libraries in Africa, Europe, and elsewhere. The project is sponsored by the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the [US] African Studies Association, and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
Leading electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD)
ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register. This subset comprises bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access which have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network : journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories.
The Electronic Journals Library is a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the Internet. At the moment, it contains 19540 titles, among them 2195 online-only journals, covering all subjects. 7414 journals can be read free-of-charge.
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related disciplines. It offers free access to "e-prints in library and information science" research papers.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines. A list of journals with free full-text articles online is available.
Information Research is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is hosted, and given technical support, by Lund University Libraries, Sweden and editorial support by the University of BorĂĄs , Sweden.
Journals Online
The journals online provide access to online journals published in-country and covering a wide range of academic displines. The objective of the Journals Online is to give greater visibility to the participating journals and the research they convey. They provide information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available.
· Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL)
· Latin American Journals Online (LAMJOL)
· Mongolia Journals Online (MongoliaJOL)
· Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)
· Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL)
· Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)
· Vietnam Journals Online (VJOL)
JournalTOCs is a free current awareness service aimed at researchers worldwide. You can use JournalTOCs to keep up-to-date with the latest Tables of Contents from over 22,000 journals, including over 5,700 Open Access journals.
The National Academies Press (NAP) allows readers in most developing countries to obtain Academies reports free from the NAP Web site in portable document format (PDF). Access is also available to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a multidisciplinary journal that spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. It is published weekly in print and daily online in PNAS Early Edition.
OATs: Open Access Textbooks LibGuide
The OATs Libguide provides access to descriptions and links to known initiatives and organizations that support the development and promotion of Open Access textbooks, and to OA and low-cost e-books and textbook catalogs and databases.
OECD Working Papers are prepared by the OECD Secretariat, consultants, or delegates as input into various OECD committee and working group processes. They are organised around a number of series based on programmes within the OECD including Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Science, Technology and Industry, and Health. Some papers are available in French.
The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the IOCs (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO) IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) programme. The goal is to create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. About 13,000 journals are now available in the Open Science Directory.
ScienceOpen, is a next generation Open Access platform that builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a dialogue to move research forward. It combines over 1 million articles from all areas of modern science, the humanities and social sciences with collaborative pre-publication workspaces, immediate publication and post-publication peer-review.
Social Sciences Directory is a multi-disciplinary open access journal that was set up to provide low-cost publishing opportunities and respond to changing user behaviour.
SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. SpringerOpen views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.
Taylor&Francis Open and Routledge Open
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals, with no subscription content. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication. Authors have the option of publishing their open access article under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, as mandated by some research funders.
The UNESCO database contains over 130 000 free downloadable documents in six official languages covering all UNESCO fields of competence since 1945 and publications edited by the Organization.
Virginia Tech Electronic Library
Digital Library and Archives provides access to scholarly electronic journals that are peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. Journal range from topics in education, engineering, literature to technology, philosphy and libraries science. Most journals are available in both PDF and HTML.
World Development Report Online, Complete
The Complete World Development Report Online allows users to access reports covering topics ranging from agriculture, the role of the state and labour to infrastructure, health, the environment and poverty free of charge. Search options include title and/or topic across all WDRs since 1978 plus related material and also access to the critical WDR background papers since 2005.
Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals and societies as well as supported by internationally renowned editorial board members
Multi-disciplinary Science
The following is a list of links to and information about about multi-disciplinary Science e-resources. These resources are open access and freely available to all.
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue (determined by the publisher). The website comprises over 700 issues and 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa. Online access to the archive is free of charge to Africa and the world.
De Gruyter Open (formerly Versita) is one of the world’s leading publishers of open access scientific content. Today De Gruyter Open (DGO) publishes about 400 own and third-party scholarly journals across all major disciplines.
The prestigious peer-reviewed journals of the Indian Academy of Sciences are available online free to all users. Publications cover the physical sciences, life sciences, physics, mathematics, chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, plant sciences, animal sciences, and modern biology, materials science, astrophysics and astronomy, genetics plus the journal Resonance, aimed at improving the quality of science education and teaching.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A non-governmental research organisation conducting inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis' (IIASA) charter stipulates that all its research findings should be freely disseminated worldwide. The full-text of the iIIASA's publications can be downloaded from its website at no charge. The contents of this catalogue can be browsed by author, date, project, subject or type, or the required publication can be located using a simple keyword search. A free quarterly newsletter, Options, is also available. IIASA is a member of ICSU.
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher that makes access to research free to all and affordable to publish for researchers & their institutions.
PeerJ provides academics with two Open Access publication venues: PeerJ (a peer-reviewed academic journal) and PeerJPrePrints (a 'pre-print server'). Both are focused on the Biological and Medical Sciences.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
PLOS is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization founded to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. PLOS engages in Open Access advocacy, innovation, and publication of scientific research, making articles immediately available for everyone online, free of restrictions. The organization launched its first journal in 2003 and now publishes PLOS ONE, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. PLOS is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with additional offices in Cambridge, UK
PubMed Central is an open access web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences. It is being developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online
The objective of the site is to implement an electronic virtual library, providing full access to a collection of serial titles (from Brazil, Cuba and Chile in a broad range of subjects languages ie Portuguese, Spanish and English), a collection of issues from individual serial titles, as well as to the full text of articles. The access to both serial titles and articles is available via indexes and search forms. There are separate portals in Portuguese and Spanish
African Studies
Information about African Studies specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and agriculture specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research.
The site consists of two bibliographic databases and three bibliographies:
Africana Periodical Literature: Journal articles from journals covering or orginating from Africa. All subjects. Includes links to full text. 170,000 records​
African Women: Database on women in Africa. Includes links to full text. (37,000 records)​
Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: Books & articles on explorers, missionaries & women travellers in Africa. Includes links to full text. (1,800 records)​
Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa: Database of journal articles and books on Islam in Africa. Includes links to full text. (5,000 records)​
Kenya Coast: Database of articles and books on the coastal region of Kenya & Zanzibar. Includes links to full text. (1,800 records)​
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, providing access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature.
Agriculture
Information about agriculture specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and agriculture specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. There are separate portals in French and Spanish.
The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, covering topics including agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry management, and sustainable natural resources management . It enables users to easily access the accumulated knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet. There are separate portals for French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD)
The work of the LEAD initiative, located within the FAO, focuses on the close and complex interactions between government policies and the environmental impact of livestock production. Resources available include documents related to livestock, the environment and development and the Livestock and Environment Toolbox, an electronic decision support tool for policy makers, planers and project leaders, to enable them to assess interactions between livestock and the environment. The toolbox helps the decision makers to identify appropriate technology and policy interventions within the domain of animal production-environment interactions. LEAD also provides separate portals in French and Spanish.
Biology and Life Science
Information about Biology and Life science specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and biology and life science specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
American Society for Microbiology
Back issues of the eleven journals of the American Society for Microbiology are now available full-text online without cost through the link above and PubMed Central. Embargo periods range from 6-12 months.
BioOne is the product of collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector and brings to the Web an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. Open Access articles are flagged up with the OA logo.
BMC Biology is the flagship biology journal of the BMC series, publishing peer-reviewed research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest in any area of biology, as well as commissioned reviews, opinion pieces, comment and Q&As on topics of special or topical interest.
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analysing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
Chemistry
Information about Chemistry specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and subject chemistry online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
This is a directory of permanently available journals covering chemistry or chemistry-related subjects. The directory only includes content where there is at least one-year of free full-text article access, or extensive free supplements to printed versions of papers. Whilst most material is available in English-language only, some material is available in Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
Chemistry Central,operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science+Business Media, publishes high-quality peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry.All original research articles published by, or in co-operation with, Chemistry Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
ChemSpider is a chemical structures database, aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository (whether from open access or commercial databases). It allows users to either access the data immediately via open access links or have the information necessary to continue their searches into commercially available systems.
ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. This website contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density. There are currently more than 40,000 compounds and more than 45,000 synthesis references in the database and the database is updated periodically
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas with free to access abstracts plus links to a range of related NLM sites.
Comprehensive and evaluated guide to web sites related to chemistry and the chemical industry. Its mission consists in collecting and independently annotating all useful chemistry sites.
Library and Information Science
Information about Library and Information Science specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and library and information science specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Library of Congress- Library and Information Science Resources
This resources compiles free, full-text resources available on the Web for use by librarians, library technicians, and students in the field. Topics include: Online Subject Guides, Full-text Resources and Inter library Loan and Document Delivery. In addition, the Frequently Asked Questions page provides answers to a number of the most common library and information science questions received by the Library of Congress.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Information about ICT specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and ICT specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Association for Information Systems
Full access to the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. The Association for Information Systems (AIS) founded in 1994, is a professional organization whose purpose is to serve as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems.
Ebrary's Library Center currently includes more than 120 full-text books spanning topics such as digital library development, general collection development, and the history of libraries and librarianship, as well as illustrated guides from the Library of Congress.
E-Resources Management Handbook
The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise.
TerraLib is a GIS classes and functions library, available from the Internet as open source, allowing a collaborative environment and its use for the development of multiple GIS tools. Its main aim is to enable the development of a new generation of GIS applications, based on the technological advances on spatial databases. TerraLib is free software available to any users wishing to download it.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information about Humanities and Social Sciences specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and Humanities and Social Sciences specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Biblioteca Virtual de CienciasSociales de América Latina y el Caribe
An initiative of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (ConsejoLatinoamericano de CienciasSociales, CLACSO) providing free access to 1,800 full-text books, periodical articles, conference proceeding and also to databases with information about publications, research projects and researchers working in its network of 130 social science research institutions in 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main portal is in Spanish and there are separate portals available inEnglish, French and Portuguese.
Educause (formerly Cause/Effect) is a freely accessible practitioner's journal containing articles that relate to planning, developing, using, and evaluating information resources in higher education, covering aspects such as information systems development, user services, telecommunications and networking, database administration, and instructional technology development and co-ordination.
Globethics.net Library - A Global Digital Library on Ethics
The Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users electronic access free-of-charge to thousands of full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines. Participants also have the possibility to submit their own documents to the libraries.
A curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,580 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.
Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
This fully-searchable collection of documents pertaining to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is offered as a reference tool for legal professionals, law students, historians, and the general public. The Database is bilingual and fully searchable.
Open Book Publishers is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. All books are published in hardback, paperback, pdf and ebook editions (subject to fee), but they also include a free online edition that can be read via the website, or embedded anywhere.
Social Sciences Virtual Library
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this is a major gateway for social science resources on the Internet, covering directories and databases, electronic journals, societies and professional associations, and an extensive section of social science resources grouped by over a hundred subjects, including regional studies.
Maintained by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, this is an extensive links collection of Web resources on women's history, including women's history institutions and organizations, libraries and archives, journals for women's studies, upcoming conferences, discussion lists, together with subject or region specific listings (e.g. African History, Asian History, Women Artists, Women in Media, Women in Medicine and Nursing, Women in Music, Women in Science and Engineering, Women Writers).
Education
Information about Education specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and education specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC)
ERIC provides access to more than 1.3 million education-related bibliographic records. Within the ERIC collection are bibliographic records for: journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers and other education-related materials. You can choose to search the whole database to find bibliographic details and abstracts, or choose to limit the search for full-text access only. For material where full-text is not available in ERIC, links to the publishers' websites (where subscriptions may be required) are included.
Educause (formerly Cause/Effect) is a freely accessible practitioner's journal containing articles that relate to planning, developing, using, and evaluating information resources in higher education, covering aspects such as information systems development, user services, telecommunications and networking, database administration, and instructional technology development and co-ordination.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Information about Earth and Environmental Sciences specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and earth science specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences. It specialists in online data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment.
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
Access to scientific information that may be useful in understanding and protecting the environment including access to research publications and technical documents, test methods, data, software, models, and other scientific tools plus access to laboratories, research centres, and other EPA scientific organizations.
Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD)
The work of the LEAD initiative, located within the FAO, focuses on the close and complex interactions between government policies and the environmental impact of livestock production. Resources available include documents related to livestock, the environment and development and the Livestock and Environment Toolbox, an electronic decision support tool for policy makers, planers and project leaders, to enable them to assess interactions between livestock and the environment. The toolbox helps the decision makers to identify appropriate technology and policy interventions within the domain of animal production-environment interactions. LEAD also provides separate portals in French and Spanish.
Development Resources
Information about Development Resources specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and agriculture specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Development Leadership Program (DLProg)
DLProg, an Australian based globally-operated NGO partnered with the Australian Government and AusAID: Resources include policy briefs, concept papers, research papers, and background papers, as well as publications from earlier programs. It also includes a selection of relevant external publications. DLProg addresses the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development.
Eldis is an online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues. Eldis includes over 30,000 summaries and links to free full-text research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers. Each document is editorially selected by members of our team.
International Development Research Center
Access to the collection of online reports and magazines from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The resource is also available in French.
World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.
Library and Information Science
Information about Library and Information Science specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and library and information science specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Library of Congress- Library and Information Science Resources
This resources compiles free, full-text resources available on the Web for use by librarians, library technicians, and students in the field. Topics include: Online Subject Guides, Full-text Resources and Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. In addition, the Frequently Asked Questions page provides answers to a number of the most common library and information science questions received by the Library of Congress.
Mathematics and Statistics
Information about Mathematics and Statistics specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and mathematics and statistics specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
The American Mathematical Society
Over 34,000 articles are available from over 100 years of high-quality mathematical research in 'Journal of the AMS,' 'Mathematics of Computation,' 'Proceedings of the AMS,' 'Transactions of the AMS,' and 'Bulletin of the AMS.
The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) offers access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. Articles can be sent by email to scientists in institutions in the least developed or low income countries, who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet. An institution needs to apply by sending an application form and when approved, the institutional contact will be informed by e-mail how to proceed.
The new “e-Math for Africa” will give more news relevant to African and Low-Income Country mathematicians regarding journals, books and databases as well as potential funding opportunities.
Electronic Library of Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources in the field of mathematics. All material is in electronic form and access is generally free, except for some periodicals with a "moving wall", i.e., a certain delay period after which resources become freely available. The Electronic Library of Mathematics is supervised by the Electronic Publishing Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EPC-EMS).
International Mathematics Union
Free access to Bulletins and Newsletters from the International Mathematics Union (IMU) and its members. The newsletter aims to improve communication between IMU and the worldwide mathematical community, by reporting decisions and recommendations of IMU, and highlighting issues that are under discussion. In addition, IMU-Net will report on major international mathematical events and developments, and on other topics of general mathematical interest.
PhysMath Central is an independent publishing platform operated by BioMed Central committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed physics and mathematics research. All original research articles published by, or in cooperation with, PhysMath Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
Joint project between Cornell University and SPARC, Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid hopes to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals.
Health Sciences (including Medicine and Public Health)
Information about Medicine and Health Sciences specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and medicine and health science specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
The scientific publications of the American Medical Association (AMA), through HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) http://www.healthinternetwork.net/, are made available to the poorer countries of the world at very low rates. Scientific journal titles include: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); Archives of Dermatology; Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery; Archives of General Psychiatry; Archives of Internal Medicine; Archives of Neurology; Archives of Ophthalmology; Archives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery; Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Archives of Surgery.
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirology and BMC Genomics. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication.
Free access to the electronic version of the British Medical Journal Publishing Group's 25 specialist journals now including Evidence-based journals. These are freely accessible to anybody in the 100 poorest countries in the world. Users should follow the standard subscription procedures as the BMJ subscription system will automatically recognize the origin of access.
Free to search abstract database from the US National Cancer Institute.
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way.
A Gateway to selected Web sites of special interest to health professionals, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs in developing and transitional countries. It covers General Resources (search engines, gateways, bibliographic databases, abstracts, clinical trials databases, research networks, dictionaries, glossaries, disease classifications, evidence based medicine, full-text E-books, image collections, journals, newsletters, medical education resources, news, useful email lists, and WHO sites); plus Subject Index (e.g. Anaesthesiology, Basic Sciences, Dermatology, HIV/AIDS etc.); plus Library and Publishing Support and Use of ICTs (Information for Development, Internet Skills, Medical Informatics/E-Health, Publishing Tools).
The AMEDEO Group are now making many important medical textbooks available online, free and in full-text. 1 Currently 600 titles are included in the service, sorted by speciality and title. FreeBooks4Doctors! also provides a free alert service as new titles are added.
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Currently1380 full-text journals sorted by subject, language, and title, as well as highlight free journals with high impact factors. There is also a mailing list to alert you as new free journals are added to their list. Some journals are available in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Collection of open access and free journals in a wide range of medical disciplines.
Global Library of Women's Medicine
The Global Library of Women's Medicine (GLOWM) is designed to be a constantly evolving resource reflecting the very best of current medical opinion. Resources available include 442 specialist chapters on women's medicine, plus 53 supplementary chapters, authored by over 650 expert contributors citing more than 40,000 references.
Indias contribution in the areas of biomedical research and health care has been significant and conforming to international standards. However, only a small fraction of it is available for reference through international bibliographic databases. In an effort to redress this imbalance, the National Informatics Centre of India has developed INDMED. Initially this site offers access to the tables of contents and abstracts of 75 leading Indian journals. More journals would be added to the list as their quality improves in coming years. Access to this database is free and open to all users. See alsohttp://medind.nic.in/ for a one point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals.
The Lancet publishes a weekly journal and six monthly specialty journals in the fields of global health, diabetes and endocrinology, oncology, neurology, respiratory medicine, and infectious diseases. All content published in The Lancet publications is freely available to readers residing in developing countries, as defined by the UNDP Human Development Index, via the recognition of geographical-based IP addresses (Geo-IP).
MedicalStudent.com is described as a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine. It is meant to serve as a "pico portal" for users interested in quality medical resources on the Internet. Contains over 250 medical textbooks arranged alphabetically in topics from Anatomy to Urology. Each textbook included is free to use, in part or in whole.
Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition & Malnutrition
With new technologies, increased resources and greater understanding now more available than ever for tackling malnutrition, practice on the ground is still struggling to show results as it attempts to keep up with the pace. This website and the links contained therein aim to address these shortfalls by offering online access to the latest worldwide developments in the fields of preventive and curative nutrition. A section of the resource is devoted to addressing mother and child nutrition and malnutrition in India.
POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge. Individuals from developing countries can request up to 15 fulltext documents per day through the document delivery service.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 22 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. To access the full text available, please make sure that the box "Free full-text only" is ticked when you perform your search.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature claims to offer open access to over 80,000 articles from over 100 journals. Access to much of the full text on PMC is free and unrestricted. A journal may make its content available in PMC as soon as it is published, or it may delay its release in PMC for a specified period after initial publication. Current PMC journals have delays ranging up to two years, with most releasing their material six months or less after publication.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists allows free access to the online full-text version of its three journals ('British Journal of Psychiatry', 'Psychiatric Bulletin' and 'Advances in Psychiatric Treatment') to 75 different developing countries.
Source is a key point of access to up-to-date, relevant information on international health and disability. Over 25,000 abstracts and resources with many links to full text online are available, with many materials coming from developing countries, and including both published and unpublished literature. Source is updated bi-monthly and covers topics including: disability, development and inclusion, HIV and AIDS, participatory communication, mother and child health, early childhood development, ICT and health.
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database containing WHO publications and journal article since 1948. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents. It contains bibliographic information with subject headings and, for some records, abstracts and full text links are available. Searches can also be undertaken in Spanish and French.
WHO regional health and medical databases
This links to a collection of health and biomedical databases covering the following regions: Africa,Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Carribean (languages: Portuguese,Spanish and English), and Western Pacific. Each regional database includes resources that are not easily found elsewhere, as well as international journals.
WHO Reproductive Health Library
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is an electronic review journal published by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. RHL takes the best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing countries. There are separate portals available in French and Spanish.
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)
The WFSA publishes its own journal Update in Anaesthesia, as well as Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week, an online training tool. Designed with the continuing education and training of anaesthesia providers in low and middle income countries in mind, these publications are relevant to all settings and are widely consulted. Use the resources tab on their website http://www.wfsahq.org to see their full collection of Open Access resources, including the "Virtual Library" which allows teachers and providers of anaesthesia to search WFSA and other publications more specifically.
Physics
Information about Physics specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and physics specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Over 650,000 bibliographic records, including 320,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more. There are separate portals available in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) offers access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. Articles can be sent by email to scientists in institutions in the least developed or low income countries, who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet. An institution needs to apply by sending an application form and when approved, the institutional contact will be informed by e-mail how to proceed.
PhysMath Central is an independent publishing platform operated by BioMed Central committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed physics and mathematics research. All original research articles published by, or in cooperation with, PhysMath Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
Technology and Engineering
Information about Technology and Engineering specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and Technology and Engineering specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
Based at UC Berkeley, National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) is an online collection of abstracts, reports, books, slides and images free to access. Large selection of software programmes available for free download.
Quarterly journal of research on the platinum metals and of developments in their application in industry.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Information about ICT specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and ICT specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Association for Information Systems
Full access to the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. The Association for Information Systems (AIS) founded in 1994, is a professional organization whose purpose is to serve as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems.
Ebrary's Library Center currently includes more than 120 full-text books spanning topics such as digital library development, general collection development, and the history of libraries and librarianship, as well as illustrated guides from the Library of Congress.
E-Resources Management Handbook
The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise.
TerraLib is a GIS classes and functions library, available from the Internet as open source, allowing a collaborative environment and its use for the development of multiple GIS tools. Its main aim is to enable the development of a new generation of GIS applications, based on the technological advances on spatial databases. TerraLib is free software available to any users wishing to download it.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information about Humanities and Social Sciences specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and Humanities and Social Sciences specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Biblioteca Virtual de CienciasSociales de América Latina y el Caribe
An initiative of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (ConsejoLatinoamericano de CienciasSociales, CLACSO) providing free access to 1,800 full-text books, periodical articles, conference proceeding and also to databases with information about publications, research projects and researchers working in its network of 130 social science research institutions in 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main portal is in Spanish and there are separate portals available inEnglish, French and Portuguese.
Educause (formerly Cause/Effect) is a freely accessible practitioner's journal containing articles that relate to planning, developing, using, and evaluating information resources in higher education, covering aspects such as information systems development, user services, telecommunications and networking, database administration, and instructional technology development and co-ordination.
Globethics.net Library - A Global Digital Library on Ethics
The Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users electronic access free-of-charge to thousands of full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines. Participants also have the possibility to submit their own documents to the libraries.
A curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,580 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.
Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
This fully-searchable collection of documents pertaining to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is offered as a reference tool for legal professionals, law students, historians, and the general public. The Database is bilingual and fully searchable.
Open Book Publishers is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. All books are published in hardback, paperback, pdf and ebook editions (subject to fee), but they also include a free online edition that can be read via the website, or embedded anywhere.
Social Sciences Virtual Library
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this is a major gateway for social science resources on the Internet, covering directories and databases, electronic journals, societies and professional associations, and an extensive section of social science resources grouped by over a hundred subjects, including regional studies.
Maintained by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, this is an extensive links collection of Web resources on women's history, including women's history institutions and organizations, libraries and archives, journals for women's studies, upcoming conferences, discussion lists, together with subject or region specific listings (e.g. African History, Asian History, Women Artists, Women in Media, Women in Medicine and Nursing, Women in Music, Women in Science and Engineering, Women Writers).
Institutional repositories
An institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution. We maintain a list of resources which allow for cross-searching collections and information on registering.
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
There is an increasing push for institutions to establish their own digital repositories, to capture both the grey literature (theses, working papers, etc.) and the published articles authored within their institution. There has also, in some disciplines, been a long history of archiving papers for peer attention prior to publication. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) includes a list of Projects and Websites for some of these initiatives.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is the multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University. It includes more than 25 million records from more than 1.720 repositories worldwide. 3 million records were added in 2010, approx 14.200 records per day.
Directory of Open Access Resources
The Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR) aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users who wish to find particular archives or who wish to break down repositories by locale, content or other measures. Users can search for repositories by the following regions: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America.
Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This site is a resource for graduate students who are writing theses or dissertations, for graduate faculty who want to mentor Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) authors, for graduate deans who want to initiate ETD programs, and for IT administrators at universities. The Guide is designed specifically for academic researchers and their mentors, yet anyone interested in research and e-publishing will enjoy this resource. Published by UNESCO, The Guide is an international, "living" document, written by ETD (electronic thesis and dissertation) scholars throughout the world (see About the Authors). The Guide will be updated regularly based on submissions by ETD authors and NDLTD members.
The IFLA Library pulls together IFLA's digital resources in a convenient single online location for ease of accessibility, search and browsing. It has been launched in summer 2013 with the IFLA World Library and Information Congress papers, and will continue to grow with the addition of existing and new resources.
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Access to these digital resources is provided by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). It includes the Institutional Repositories of many universities. Where an Institutional Repository is included in OAIster, it is not listed elsewhere in this directory, so we recommend starting your search with OAIster.
Registry of Open Access Repositories
The aim of the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and eff
Also part of ROAR is the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). The site lists over 450 policies.
A map displaying the locations of institutional repositories, which can be filtered by country, platform and date of registration. Each entry links to the url of the repository.
A collection of resources may be helpful for those interested in establishing, accessing, or just learning about online repositories, both institutional and disciplinary. SPARCs membership and mandate encourages a focus on developing institutional repositories, so many resources listed here support this direction. Resources supplied here include guides, presentation materials, and handbooks produced by SPARC and other organizations. These provide definitions and developments in the field, and point those interested to the growing number of repositories. There is also a link to Collected Repositories.
