Open Access
Open-access literature is digital
literature that is available on the web,
free of charge, and free of most copyright
and licensing restrictions. Committing to
open access requires dispensing with the
financial, technical and legal barriers
that are designed to limit access to
scientific research articles to paying
customers. The only constraint on
reproduction and distribution, and the
only role for copyright in this domain,
should be to give authors control over the
integrity of their work and the right to
be properly acknowledged and cited.
I.
Free Online Journals/Databases
II.
Online publications Directory
III.
Freely accessible archives of
serials
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MIT Open courseware now available on GCU
Library Network
Mathematical Journals: The 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).
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.
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.
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 site
brings 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.
AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGY
Provides
access to 11 high-quality on-line
journals on Microbiology, molecular and
cellular biology, biomedical research
and technology.
(Please
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complete list of
accessible journals of ASM on GCU LAN.) |
Symposium Journals
Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the
publication of online-only academic
journals, i.e. journals that have no
printed editions but otherwise have the
same aims, traditions, standards, and
presentation as conventional journals.
SUBJECT SPECIFIC
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
II
Online
publications directory
Journals,
newspapers, magazines,
newsletters.
III
Freely
accessible archives of serials
Magazines,
journals, newspapers, and periodicals.
IV MIT Open courseware now available on GCU
Library Network
The Higher Education
Commission Pakistan has placed a mirror site of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open
Courseware (MIT OCW). This is a large scale web
based publication of MIT Faculty's Course
Material. MIT OCW connects visitors with the
syllabi, Lecture, Notes, & Calendars of 914
courses. In addition, most course site includes
a subset of other materials such as multimedia
simulations, problems sets and solutions,
reading lists, etc & a selected video
lectures. Please click here for full
details
Note:
Please report any broken links to
chieflibrarian@gcu.edu.pk
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