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The PAARL Research Journal (PRJ) is published and managed by the Philippine Association of Academic/Research Librarians, Inc. PRJ is an annual publication for library research in the field of Philippine academic and research librarianship. PRJ serves as an online repository for the creative works and research outputs of academic and research librarians, and as documentation on the activities, growth and milestones of the Philippine Association of Academic/Research Librarians (PAARL).
College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 225 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60601. C&RL is a bimonthly, online-only publication.
C&RL is an open access journal. All contents are freely available immediately to the public without charge. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of all contents. Authors retain their copyright and articles are published under a CC-BY-NC license.
The Philippine E-Journals is an expanding collection of academic journals that are made accessible globally through a single Web-based platform. It is hosted by C&E Publishing, Inc., a premier educational publisher in the Philippines and a leader in the distribution of integrated information-based solutions.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. DOAJ is committed to keeping its services free of charge, including being indexed, and its data freely available.
Global Scientific Journals (GSJ) is a peer-reviewed open access journal organization & research platform that meets high quality standards by exercising peer review and editorial quality control. GSJ encourages open access and universally accessible online journal. GSJ covers the publication of research articles from all areas of science, art, management and technology.
All original research papers published by GSJ are made freely accessible online with full text immediately upon publication. Authors publishing with GSJ retain the copyright to their work but only transferring the publication rights to GSJ which allows article to be published and cited without any restriction. All published research papers are indexed and archived in different open and paid platforms.
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PLEASE READ: The National Library of the Philippines offers a range of free electronic resources. To access these resources, please register your account at the NLP eResources Portal (click the logo). After registration, kindly wait one (1) working day for your account to be reviewed and approved. Once approved, you will receive another email from the NLP with instructions to set your password.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
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Library Genesis (shortened to LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. LibGen describes itself as a "links aggregator", providing a searchable database of items "collected from publicly available public Internet resources" as well as files uploaded "from users". The URL libgen.is was down in January and February of 2025, but is up again.
LibGen provides access to copyrighted works, such as PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal. Publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of internet piracy. Others assert that academic publishers unfairly benefit from government-funded research, written by researchers, many of whom are employed by public universities, and that LibGen is helping to disseminate research that should be freely available in the first place.
This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections. Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials in the WDL collection are presented in their original languages; more than 100 languages are represented, including many lesser known and endangered languages.
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