3. Subject
Specific
1. COMPLEMENTARY
PROGRAMMES TO PERI
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)
AGORA is an initiative to provide free or low-cost access to
major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental
and social sciences to the students and researchers of qualifying
not-for-profit public institutions in developing countries. Led by the Food and
Agriculture Organization, the goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and
effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries,
and in turn, to improve food security.
Currently AGORA provides access to over 500 journals from the world's
leading academic publishers.
EIFL
eIFL.net is an independent foundation that strives to lead,
negotiate, support and advocate for the wide availability of electronic
resources by library users in transition and developing countries. Its main
focus is on negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial
basis, while supporting the enhancement of emerging national library consortia
in member countries.
HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research
Initiative)
HINARI provides free or very low cost online access to 2300 major journals in
biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit and academic
institutions in the health sector in 113 developing countries.
2. GENERAL
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
A programme of INASP - the International Network for the Availability of
Scientific Publications - AJOL promotes the awareness and use of
African-published journals in the sciences, medicine, agriculture, humanities
and social sciences by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs) and
abstracts on the Internet, links to full text (if available) plus document
delivery of paper articles, subsidised (to less developed countries). AJOL
already includes 200 journals published in Africa. Journals are accepted on the
basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication.
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes its current journals freely
available to researchers in the developing world. Interested parties should
send a request on institutional letterhead. Details of titles can be found at
Bioline International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service
committed to providing access to quality research journals published in
developing countries. Explicit goal of reducing the South to North knowledge
gap. Publishes in the following areas: health (tropical medicine, infectious
diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment,
conservation and international development. Features 30 peer-reviewed journals
from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
Many journals are available free of charge.
Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
Developed by Lund University Libraries and supported by the Information
Program of the Open Society Institute( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/ ) along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition, ( http://www.arl.org/sparc ), the directory
contains information on open access journals, i.e. quality controlled
scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the
web. There are now 1148 journals in the directory of which 310 journals
are searchable on article level with 54661articles are included in the DOAJ
service. The service will continue to grow as new
journals are identified.
ELDIS: the Electronic Development and Environment Information System
A gateway to information sources on development and environmental issues. ELDIS is a fully searchable directory and gateway to electronic information resources (14,850 online documents from 4,500 organisations) and is available free via the internet. Sources can be searched by keyword or by subject.
Electronic Journal Miner
Search for e-journals at this site using keywords, or browse e-journals by
title or by LC subject headings; you can limit searches to (i) free
publications, (2) peer-reviewed publications. Hosted by the Colorado Alliance
of Research Libraries. The database currently contains 6,960 titles. An
excellent resource.
Electronic Journals Library
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. Currently 264 libraries and research institutions make use of
this service
Electronic Supply of Academic Publications to and from
universities in developing regions' (ESAP)
A project of the International Association of University
Presidents (IAUP) in cooperation with the International Federation of Catholic
Universities (IFCU), SAP aims to set up a sustainable electronic document
delivery systems for scholarly publications between universities in the North
and the South as well as on a South-South basis, and thus assist in the supply
of academic publications to as well as from the developing world.
INASP Links & Resources
Access to information
The INASP Links & Resources section provides a quick-access guide to selected
Web sites and Internet resources that will be of special interest to the
library and information science communities, and to scientists and publishers
in developing countries. In particular it was designed to assist organisations
involved in electronic networks for development, and those who are thinking of
moving to an electronic environment for scholarly communication. However, each
section contains links to a large number of additional free resources. http://www.inasp.info/links/contents.html
InformationR.net
The journals and newsletters listed
here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely
accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are
not freely accessible are not listed.
Online Books
Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and hosted by the
University of Pennsylvania Library, Online Books is a website that
facilitates access to 20,000 books that are freely readable over the Internet.
It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit
and edification of all. Users can search and browse by New Listings, Author,
Title and Subject.
Project Gutenberg
This project digitises books which are in the public domain and puts them
online free of charge. It was founded in 1971 and has so far published 7,500
e-books. Gutenburg is aiming for 10,000 by the end of this year and a million
by the end of 2016. Please visit this website to view the e-books
Survey of Scientific and Technological Information Needs
in Less-Developed and Developing Countries
This International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions, Section of Science and Technology Libraries Web sitebrings
together journal articles, publications, reports, conference proceedings,
research, and Web sites on the needs of scientific and technological libraries
in less-developed and developing countries. The literature survey includes both
the activities of scientific and technological libraries as well as the needs
of scientists and technologists and the implication on libraries. Due to its
multi-disciplinary nature and the number of publications, this survey cannot
include all relevant literature; its aim is to include representative
literature covering all pertinent aspects and disciplines. Geographic coverage
includes Africa, Asia, and South America. Languages concentrate on the five
official IFLA languages: English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The
literature search focuses on the fields of library and information science, and
the subject disciplines of computer science, physics, chemistry, mathematics,
astronomy, and geology
UNESCO
The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides access
to the full text of many of these.
3. SUBJECT SPECIFIC
AGRICULTURE
AGRIS
AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and
technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring
together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture.
AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations
to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and
its co-operators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970,
but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from
the 15th century. Coverage: 1978-present.
Access to Global Online
Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
Free or low-cost access to major
scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and
social sciences for public academic institutions in developing countries.
INASP Rural Development Directory
This Directory provides access to
a wide range of information on rural development. It contains profiles of more
than 450 international, regional and national networks and organisations around
the globe, and is particularly concerned to promote South-South information
dissemination and interchange. Each entry provides contact details and a brief
description of the organisation, highlighting its objectives, activities, subject
areas of interest and geographical coverage. In addition there are details of
the information provided by the organisations, including newsletters, journals
or online documents. It also includes a separate section, which lists relevant directories, gateway sites and
portals.
Food and Fertilizer Technology
Center (FFTC)
The FFTC is an international information centre serving small-scale farmers in
the Asian and Pacific region. Its website and database provides several hundred
technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on low-cost
technology for small farms. Materials include books, extension bulletins and
extension leaflets, and articles on major problems facing farmers in the
region. The full text of all publications (in a choice of either HTML or PDF
format) is available free of charge.
Info Finder
In collaboration with Future
Harvest Centers, CGIAR and FAO/WAICENT, the Info Finder allows you to search
for digital information on the Future Harvest Centers', CGIAR and FAO web
sites. Contains full text documents and links to websites.
TEEAL
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library is a comprehensive full-text
collection of core journals in the field of over 140 agricultural and related
sciences. TEEAL is incorporated in AGORA
BIOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE
American Society for
Microbiology (ASM)
The eleven journals of the American Society for Microbiology are now available
full-text online without cost through PubMedCentral. Embargo periods range from
6-12 months.
Biogate
Compiled by staff at the Library of Ecology, the National Resource Library of
Biological Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, this is a portal to "our
1,000 best links in the biological sciences." Search, or browse by 11
broad subject categories in the biological sciences, which are divided into
sub-groups showing the number of links for each.
BioOne
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. BioOne provides
integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource
of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and
environmental sciences.
E-BioSci
E-BioSci is EMBO's initiative to
set up a platform providing services relating to access and retrieval of
digital information in the life sciences, ranging from bibliographic or factual
data to published full text.
Electronic Journal of
Biotechnology
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is an international scientific electronic
journal which publishes papers from all areas related to Biotechnology.
Coverage ranges from molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process
to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational
applications, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. EJB
operates a policy that permits the widest possible distribution of information
and use, without profit and free of charge by the scientific and academic
community.
GenBank
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.
Journal of Biology
The Journals of Biology is a new
international journal, published by BioMed Central, which provides immediate
open access to research articles of the highest standard, similar to those
published by Nature, Science or Cell. Unlike the latter, all research articles
published in Journal of Biology will be permanently available free of charge
and without restrictions, ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the
work.
Journal of Insect Science
Publishes papers in all aspects of the biology of insects and other arthropods
from the molecular to the ecological, and their agricultural and medical
impact. An international journal published by the University of Arizona
Library. Freely available to individuals and institutions via the Web. No cost
inclusion of colour figures, videos, sound and large data sets.
PubMed Central
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).
CHEMISTRY
Analytical Chemistry Web
Resources
A compilation of resources (by Ghirma Moges) useful to support teaching and
research in the field of analytical chemistry, including technical and
specialised databases, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, journals, university
departments, organisations, societies, chemical companies and manufacturers,
news sources, and much more. There is also a special section devoted to
'Chemistry in Africa' with links to educational and research materials, online
textbooks, and other tools and resources for students.
Chemistry Preprint Server
ChemWeb's chemistry preprint server is a freely available and permanent Web
archive and distribution medium for scientific research articles in the field
of chemistry. It allows users to submit their articles to the server where they
become accessible to all the members of ChemWeb.com. Membership is free.
Crystallography Online
The datasets associated with journals published by the Union of Crystallography
(IUCr) can be accessed free of charge from its website. Through Crystallography
Online IUCr aims to provide extensive coverage of current and internet-based
information concerning crystallography and of interest to crystallographers.
This includes access to over 50 wide ranging specialist subject databases.
International Journal of
Molecular Sciences
Provides an advanced forum for chemistry, molecular physics (chemical physics
and physical chemistry) and molecular biology. Publishes reviews, regular
research papers and short notes. Encourages scientists to publish their
theoretical and experimental details in as much detail as possible - there is
no restriction on the length of the papers. Free to access to all users in its
electronic format.
Molecules
An internet journal of synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry.
Reviews, regular research papers and notes are considered. Our aim is to
encourage chemists to publish as much as possible their experimental detail,
particularly synthetic procedures and characterisation information. There is no
restriction on the length of the experimental section. Free access to all
articles to all users, online.
TOXNET
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.
ENGINEERING &
TECHNOLOGY
CoRR
The Online Computing Research Repository (CoRR) serves as a single repository
to which researchers from the whole field of computing can submit papers and
reports to increase visibility and access. Available to all members of the
community at no charge.
EEVL: The Internet Guide to
Engineering, Mathematics and Computing
This portal provides quick access to the best engineering, mathematics, and
computing information sources available on the Internet. Resources were
selected, catalogued, classified and subject-indexed by a team of experts and
information specialists.
National Information Service
for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE)
Based at UC Berkeley, this is an online collection of abstracts, reports,
books, slides and images free to access. Large selection of software programmes
available for free download.
National Technical Information
Service (NTIS)
The US Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has begun electronic delivery of all its reports dating to 1997. Reports
numbering fewer than 20 pages are free; those over 20 pages are $8.95. The
scanned reports appear in Adobe PDF.
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Health Perspectives
EHP is an open access journal, supported by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, publishing peer-reviewed research and news on environmental factors which affect human health, environmental health science, toxicology, environmental health care and environmental/occupational medicine. EHP is freely available to everyone online immediately after publication.
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
organisations.
Namibian Government Department
of Environmental Affairs
Range of publications concerning a
range of topics in Namibia including Desertification, Economics, Impact
Assessment, Pollution & Waste, Legislation etc.
Water Resources Abstracts
Compiled from several sources for USGS
abstracts on the subject of water resources since 1977, plus some earlier
abstracts. The method of submitting and collecting abstracts was not foolproof
and, therefore, this is not a complete set. The information you find here
should be augmented with other methods of search such as Water Research
Abstracts (below).
Water Research Abstracts
Collection of international water research compiled by the Water Resources
Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the USGS. The research abstracted in
this database covers a wide variety of topics; time period from 1967 to
October, 1993. This database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations.
Enough information is given in each citation so that the user can locate titles
of interest.
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs)
Association for Information Systems
All university libraries in countries not listed in the World Bank's list of
high income economies http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/class.htm#High_income
can be granted free subscriptions to the high-quality electronic journals
Communications of AIS (http://cais.aisnet.org/) and the Journal of
AIS.
Journal of Machine Learning
Research (JMLR)
Provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of
high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. Free access
to all articles to all users, online.
TerraLib
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.
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Algebraic & Geometric
Topology
AGT is a fully refereed journal covering all of topology, understood broadly.
AGT is published in free electronic format by Geometry and Topology
Publications, with papers appearing a few days after acceptance. AGT is freely
available online to all users.
Documenta Mathematica
SPARC partner mathematics journal co-hosted between the University of
Beielefeld in Germany and The University of Urbana in the US. (for more details
about SPARC, please see below). All articles are free to access for all users.
DML: Digital Mathematics Library
This site, prepared and maintained by Ulf Rehmann, contains links to 1822 digitized maths books (361524 pages) and 126 digitized maths journals (2609672 pages) searchable by author or title..
Geometry and Topology
Fully refereed international journal dealing with all aspects of geometry and
topology and their applications. Geometry and Topology is free to access to all
users in its electronic format.
Mathematics Preprint Server
Permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in
the field of mathematics. The preprint server is open to all users and will
include final-version articles as well as reports on work in progress.
Additionally, articles can be ranked and commented on in discussion threads.
Authors are free to update or withdraw their preprints from the server, as well
as to submit their articles for publication to their preferred journal. Users
can freely browse and search the website but will be asked to login upon
submitting preprints. Since 24 May 2004 MPS has stopped accepting new
submissions but will remain a freely available and permanent web archive for
those mathematics research articles already submitted.
Project Euclid
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. Through a collaborative
partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an
online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their
intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices.
Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open
Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important
components of the project.
World Digital Mathematics Library
The Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) of the International Mathematical Union has made a commitment to coordinate efforts to achieve a world-wide digital library. The aim of this ongoing project is to digitize the past mathematical literature in order to make it available online whilst at the same time linking it to current literature in suitable ways.
MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
American Medical Association
(AMA)
The American Medical Association provides ten scientific journals without
charge to developing nations. The 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.
Bentham Science
All of Bentham Science's journals published in the year 2000, 2001 and 6
months of 2002 are now available FREE on-line in full text PDF form in
collaboration with INGENTA. This unique offer is ONLY available in the year
2004.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central offers online publishing of articles in all areas of original
biomedical research with full peer review and open access. Submission is online
and authors retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the
BioMed Central journals (over 100 Open Access journals covering all
areas of Biology and Medicine), as well as being
posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed.
BMJ Journals
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 recognise the origin of access. See also http://www.bmjpg.com/template.cfm?name=specjou&startrow=15
Cancer.gov
Free to search Abstract database from the US National Cancer Institute.
CHID - Combined Health Information Database
Bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the US
Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability
information for health information and health education resources. Coverage
includes AIDS, Cancer and Health Promotion & Education. CHID lists a wealth
of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are
not indexed elsewhere.
ERA - Electronic Research
Archive
An international health and e-print server organised by The Lancet. Through
ERA, The Lancet is committed to making educational resources accessible to
clinicians in resource-poor countries. This electronic research archive in
international health enables authors to self-archive research relevant to
medicine in the developing world, with subsequent comments on the research
posted alongside.
ExtraMed
Taking its name from the fact that it comprises journals that are 'extra' to
MEDLINE, ExtraMED focuses on over 300 journals that are largely excluded from
the international indexes. The ExtraMED Consortium of Journals was originally
selected through WHO's various Index Medicus projects. It is thus by far the
largest source of full text biomedical literature from developing countries.
Provides the database to developing country users for free or at very low cost.
ExtraMed through Informania
Informania Ltd, the world's largest electronic publisher of biomedical journals
from the Third World, has announced that it will provide the ExtraMED full-text
database to developing country users for free or at very low cost.
CONTACT: Chris Zielinski, Chief Executive, Informania Limited, P.O. Box 40,
Petersfield, Hants GU32 2YH, UK Tel: +44-(0)1730-301297 Fax: 0044-1730-265398
Email: [email protected]
FreeBooks4Doctors
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.
Free Medical Journals
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.
Geneva Foundation for Medical
Education and Research
Collection of open access and free journals in a wide range of medical
disciplines.
Health InterNetwork Access to
Research Initiative (HINARI)
HINARI provides a vast library of the
latest and best information on public health: more than 2,000 scientific
publications, one of the world's largest collections of biomedical literature.
HighWire Press: Sources of free On-Line full text articles and journals
HighWire Press work with scholarly societies and responsible publishers to host
their content online. They do not own the material, nor do they set the
journals' policies. HighWire contains 742,863 free full-text
articles as of July 2004. 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. See also http://www.highwire.org/lists/devecon.dtl lists
the journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press which offer
free online access to current content (not just back issues) to all countries
that appear in the World Bank's list of "low income economies" (plus
Djibouti).
INASP-Health
INASP-Health is a cooperative network of more than 1000 organisations and
individuals worldwide, working together to improve access to relevant, reliable
information for health professionals in developing and emerging countries.
Participation is free of charge and without obligation. INASP-Health provides
the following services for the international health information community:
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Health Information Forum
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INASP-Health Advisory and
Liaison Service
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HIF-net at WHO
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INASP-Health Directory
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INASP Health Links
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Capacity-building programme
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Publications
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Health Library Partnerships
Database
INASP Health Links
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).
INDMED
India’s 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 also http://medind.nic.in/
for a one point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering
full text of IndMED journals.
Journal of Medical Internet
Research
Founded in 1999, is the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on
all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field
using Internet and Intranet-related technologies. Free access to all articles
to all users, online. Full text content of the journal is also available from
Bioline International.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
A multidisciplinary quarterly biomedical journal, is one of the oldest medical
journals from India. The journal is official publication of the Staff Society
of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India. The website
of the journal provides free access to full text of articles from 1990. Free
access to all articles to all users, online.
Landes
BioScience
Medical handbooks(55)available in pdf to medical libraries in the developing
world at no charge.
MedicalStudent.com
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
New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is available to over 60 countries (listed
on their web site) under its "Access for Low-Income Countries"
program. Users from these countries will be recognised automatically by their
IP addresses and allowed access to full text without charge.
POPLINE Database
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.
Ptolemy Project
A research partnership between the
Office of International Surgery at the University of Toronto and members of the
Association of Surgeons of East Africa (ASEA), combines the provision of access
to high quality electronic health information with a process to evaluate its
impact for the participants. It aims to answer the question, does access to
full-text health information have a positive effect on surgical practice,
teaching and research in East Africa.
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over
14 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
PubMedCentral
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
(UK)
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.
SciELO Public Health
Public Health is an electronic
library online covering health science articles published by scientific
journals. Its primary goal is to provide universal and integrated access to
scientific journals in the health science area within Ibero-American countries.
Washington DC Principles
Forty-eight non-profit
publishers of 380 journals each year, representing more than 600,000 members of
medical and scientific societies, and posting 800,000 articles on line each
year, of which more than 440,000 are free, have signed the "Washington DC
Principles for Free Access to Science," whose gist is:
- Selected important
articles of interest are free online from the time of publication;
- The full
text of our journals is freely available to everyone worldwide either
immediately or within months of publication, depending on each publisher's
business and publishing requirements;
- The content of our journals is available free to scientists working in many
low-income nations;
A list of the journals can be found at http://www.dcprinciples.org/signatories.htm
WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM
This CD ROM contains over 350 medicines-related publications, in English, French and Spanish, taken primarily from materials published by the World Health Organisation's Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM). It covers:- access to essential medicines - rational use of medicines - national drug policy - quality and safety issues - traditional medicine. Core publications from other sources are also included. For those in areas where Internet access is particularly slow or is unavailable, the Bookshelf has been designed to serve as a self-contained medicines' information resource. The Library includes the WHO Model Formulary, and the Library interface serves as a seamless gateway to a wide range of useful web sites, such as WHO clinical guidelines and United Nations price information resources. The Bookshelf is available free of charge. For a copy, please write to: EDM Documentation Centre, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland E-mail:
[email protected]
WHO Reproductive Health Library
Now in its seventh edition, this electronic review journal
focuses on evidence-based solutions to reproductive health problems. RHL
includes the full text of systematic reviews produced by the Cochrane
Collaboration, with commentaries on implications for practice, as well as the
Lancet epidemiology series on randomised controlled trials, videos on
implementation, and other resources to help improve reproductive health. A subscription to the WHO Reproductive Health Library is
free to individuals in developing countries by sending the request to the
e-mail address: [email protected]
PHYSICS
ArXiv
Ground-breaking pre-print server
in selected physics, computer science, maths and neuroscience disciplines.
Contains 100,000's articles submitted by members of the user community. Free
access to all papers to all users.
CERN
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.
Living Reviews in Relativity
A refereed solely electronic journal offering reviews in all areas of
relativity, including an extensive reference database. Published by the Albert
Einstein Institute Max-Planck-Institute for gravitational physics in Germany.
Free access to all articles to all users, online.
NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project that provides free
access to over 300,000 free full-text articles in astronomy and astrophysics.
Most of the major astronomical journals are included. In many cases articles
published in the current year are not available through ADS. Articles are
available in PDF, GIF, or other electronic formats.
New Journal of Physics
New Journal of Physics is co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft, and is supported by a growing number of physical
societies around the world. NJP is available without charge to readers and is
funded by article charges from authors of published papers.
SCIENCE GENERAL
Best of Science
The Best of Science is a free-access scientific publication of preprints
and peer-reviewed articles. It is publishing in five major fields split in
thousands of special areas: Exact Sciences, Technologies, Biological Sciences,
Medical Sciences and Human Sciences. Best of Science authors pay for the
publishing process of papers and preprints. Fees are low and especially adapted
to respond to the geographical origins of the authors. Papers can be published
1 week after reception. Access to the journal is wholly free.
BIOME
Consortium-based hub providing access to quality resources on the Internet in
the fields of agriculture, food, forestry, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine,
nursing, dentistry, biological research, veterinary sciences, the natural
world, botany, zoology, and more. It consists of five subject gateways, which
are cross-searchable and cross-browsable. The service is coordinated by the
University of Nottingham, who are joined by a formidable range of high profile
partners and content providers from the UK health and life science sectors.
ContentsDirect
A free e-mail service which delivers Elsevier Science book and journal tables
of contents directly to your PC, providing you with the very latest information
on soon-to-be published research. Imprints covered by this service are Elsevier,
Pergamon, North Holland and Excerpta Medica. Registration to
ContentsDirect also entitles you to unlimited free access to Sample Copies
Online using the same username and password.
eJDS - eJournals Delivery
Service
The Abdus Salam ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme, in collaboration with the ICTP
Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype
information retrieval system called eJDS: eJournals Delivery Service. This is
geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for scientists
in institutions in Third World Countries who have low bandwidth internet
facilities. Titles are included from Academic Press, the American Physical
Society, Institute of Physics Publishing and World Scientific.
Entropy
An open access international and
interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information sciences, publishes
peer-refereed reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Entropy's aim
is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and
experimental details. Entropy follows the guidelines of the Budapest Open
Access Initiative.
Google Directory
Comprehensive trawl of web sites offering free science publications
Indian Academy of Sciences
The prestigious peer-reviewed journals of the Indian Academy of Sciences
are available online free to all users. The first issue of the Academy
Proceedings appeared in July 1934. 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. Access to all of these
journals is free and open to all users.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(IIASA)
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, IIASA's charter stipulates that all its research findings should be freely disseminated worldwide. The full-text of the institute's publications can be downloaded from its website at:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/IIASA_Publications.html
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 from:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Options/
IIASA is a member of ICSU.
Journal of the Indian Institute
of Science
The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science was started in 1914 with the
objective of publishing quality research papers in science and engineering.
Research papers and review articles are selected through a stringent peer
review process overseen by the editorial board. The Journal is a multi-faceted
publication with content likely to be of interest to research students as well
as academic and R & D professionals. Free and open access to all articles
for all users.
National Academy
Press
Over 2,800 reports, e-newsletters and journals from US National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and
the National Research Council.
Public Library of Science
(PLOS)
A non-profit organisation of scientists committed to making the world's
scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS currently plans to
begin publishing two new journals - working titles PLoS Biology and PLoS
Medicine - publishing the best peer-reviewed original research articles, timely
reviews and commentary. PLoS Biology launched its first issue on
October 13, 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine will follow in
autumn 2004. The PLoS journals will retain all of the
important features of scientific journals, including rigorous peer-review and
high editorial and production standards, but will use a new publishing model
that will allow PLoS to make all published works immediately available online,
with no charges for access or restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use.
SciDevNet
SciDevNet provides a variety of topical news, views and
information about science, technology and development, including coverage of
developments in Latin America, the Middle East, South and East Asia, and
Sub-Saharan Africa, for which it offers a series of regional gateways. There
are also book reviews, notices about meetings, grants and jobs, together with
links to scientific organisations, news sources, journals, and aid/funding
agencies.
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. No charge is made.
Science and Technology Sources on the Internet. There is Such a Thing as a
Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public (by Sandy Lewis)
A good descriptive inventory of databases that produce lists of citations to
scientific literature, and which are freely accessible. In addition to the
major free databases such as UnCover, Agricola, Medline, etc. it also includes
searchable databases from learned societies, government agencies, electronic
journal publishers, and various discussion groups-all freely accessible.
SCIRUS
A specialist search engine for
scientific, technical and medial information sources. It offers two types of
services: Web sources provide information for which no subscription or online
registration is required. Scirus searches the entire Web and excludes sites
with no scientific content. Examples of Web sources are university Web sites,
learned society pages, scientists home pages, preprint servers, commercial
companies, etc. Membership sources are information sources for which either a
paid subscription or online registration is required, and often including
peer-reviewed scientific information not directly accessible by standard search
engines.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Behavioural and Brain Sciences
Totally open archive journal where users can submit papers, commentaries,
responses and search the archive for papers in all fields of the Brain/Behavioural
Sciences. Access to all articles is free to all users.
Cogprints
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.
Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias
Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
An initiative of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo
Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 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.
Development Gateway
Development Gateway describes itself as "the world's most extensive
source of project descriptions, funding, and contact details, with over 300,000
records drawn from multiple databases." Includes details on projects of
the World Bank and other multilateral development agencies for businesses
interested in offering products and services, together with major development
indicators, from literacy rates to telephone connections, organised by country
and region, and there are also country gateways providing perspectives within
developing countries on economic and social issues.
Electronic Development and Environment Information System
(ELDIS) (hosted with Devline)
The British Library of Development Studies's electronic information service for
development professionals, including resources directory, Email discussions,
links to databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, etc
ELSSS - the Electronic Society
for Social Scientists
A not-for-profit organisation aimed "at solving the ever deepening crisis
in scholarly and scientific communication created by the pricing policies of
some commercial publishers that have forced libraries in the developed world to
cut their journal portfolios and to slash their book collection and that have
priced developing and transition economies out of the knowledge loop
altogether." The first ELSSS journal - due Spring 2003 - will be available
at no cost to all University Libraries and non-profit research centres in
developing and transition countries.
Gateway
A sustainable development primer and resources.
International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Access to the collection of online reports
and magazines from the IDRC, Canada.
Multilingual Matters/Channel
View Publications
Multilingual Matters is one of the world leaders in research on multilingualism
and minority language rights. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications
are offering free electronic access to journals for institutional subscribers
in countries of "low human development" as defined by the Human
Development Index.
Psycoloquy
A refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored by the
American Psychological Association (APA) and indexed by APA's PsycINFO and the
Institute for Scientific Information. Psycoloquy publishes articles and peer
commentary in all areas of psychology as well as cognitive science,
neuroscience, behavioural biology, artificial intelligence, robotics/vision,
linguistics and philosophy.
World Development Sources (World Bank)
World Development Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval
system which contains a collection of over 14,000 World Bank reports most of
which are scanned and are available in imaged format, which you can access via
a web browser and search through a multi-field search engine. These include
Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports,
studies and working papers.
