OPEN ACCESS DATABASES AND LINKS
| E-RESOURCE | DISCIPLINE | SUBJECT STRENGTH | LINK |
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African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health
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Health Sciences | It is a quarterly peer-reviewed and evidence-based journal for all midwives and nurses who wish to keep up-to-date with developments in Africa, in matters relating to midwifery and women’s health. The journal provides clinical and professional articles and aims to advance skills, knowledge transfer and academic discussions in all aspects relating to midwifery practice and women’s health matters in Africa. | https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajmw |
| AGRIS: Agricultural database | Agriculture | Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 countries. Indexes unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications. | https://agris.fao.org/ |
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Astrophysics Data System
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Astrophysics, Geophysics, Physics | Publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. This is a digital library portal for researchers on astronomy and physics | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ |
| BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | Multidisciplinary | Metadata for 260 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers | https://www.base-search.net/ |
| BioMedCentral Journals | Multidisciplinary | Open Access Publisher of High Impact peer-review journals in all subjects and BioMedicine | https://www.biomedcentral.com/journals |
| BioOne Complete | Biological, Ecological, And Environmental Sciences. | BioOne provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals featuring topics on global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation. Subject Strengths biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. | https://bioone.org/ |
| Cambridge University Press – Cambridge Journals Online |
Political Science, Linguistics, Social Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Science, Medicine | They have full text of over 380 Cambridge University Press Online Journals in Political Science, Linguistics, Social Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Science, Medicine | https://www.cambridge.org/core |
| Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) |
Botany, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Earth Science, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Forestry, Microbiology, Physics, Sport Science, and Zoology | Full text of 20 online peer-reviewed journals in a broad range of scientific disciplines with back files dating back to 1996 in most cases. Subjects covered are: botany, cell biology, Chemistry, civil engineering, earth science, fisheries and aquatic sciences, forestry, microbiology, physics, sport science, and zoology | https://cdnsciencepub.com/ |
| CiteSeerX | Multidisciplinary | This is a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science. | https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ |
| Cochrane Library | The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials all the current evidence in one single environment. | https://www.cochranelibrary.com/advanced-search?cookiesEnabled | |
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CORE
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Multidisciplinary | A full text aggregator of all open access papers from repositories (institutional, subject, preprints, etc.) and journals. Around 20 million monthly active users. | https://core.ac.uk/ |
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Directory of Open Access Books
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Multidisciplinary | DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. | https://www.doabooks.org/ |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Multidisciplinary | 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. It has access to articles from 18,652 open access journals | https://doaj.org/ |
| EconBiz | Economics | EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics. It is provided by the ZBW – German National Library of Economics, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. It Covers journals, working papers & conferences in business studies and economics |
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| ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center | Education | Is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. | https://eric.ed.gov/ |
| Euclid Prime Collection |
Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
Project Euclid hosts over 1.8 million pages of open-access content. Subject covered: Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
https://projecteuclid.org/ |
| Europe PMC | Biomedical | It’s an open-access repository that contains millions of biomedical research works that includes Abstracts & full text ( 7.5 million) biomedical and life sciences articles, together with text mining tools and links to external molecular and medical data sets. | https://europepmc.org/ |
| European Respiratory Journals |
Medical Sciences | Adult and paediatric respiratory medicine, including cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, pathophysiology, imaging, occupational medicine, intensive care, sleep medicine, and thoracic surgery. | https://erj.ersjournals.com/ |
| Free Book Center |
Medical Sciences | This portal focuses primarily on academic material. It has a keyword search tool and also a list of broad subject categories. One of the principal categories is Medicine which is divided into a lengthy list of sub-categories. Each entry notes the title, language format and many contain a one sentence summary plus the link to the PDF. | https://www.freebookcentre.net/ |
| Geological Society – The Lyell Collection Complete | Multidisciplinary | Launched in 2007 to celebrate 200 years of the Geological Society of London, the Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society’s journal titles, Special Publications and key book series – plus journals published on behalf of other societies. Cutting edge science sits alongside important historical material, all captured and presented to the highest electronic standards and benefiting from the extensive functionality of HighWire Press’ platform | https://www.lyellcollection.org/ |
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Google Scholar
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Multidisciplinary | The biggest academic database & search engine (over 390 million records, unofficial estimate) | https://scholar.google.com/ |
| HAL | Multidisciplinary | An open-access database for French researchers. Organized into institution and domain portals. | https://hal.science/ |
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iDAI.objects / Arachne
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Archaeology, Art history | 2.4 million digital images from archive material, 1 million of books, 40,000 high quality scans of ancient sculptures, 300 volumes of ancient books with more than 60,000 pages | https://arachne.dainst.org/ |
| IMF eLibrary |
Economics | The IMF is viewed as one of the world’s most authoritative sources for economic information, analysis and harmonized statistics. IMF eLibrary provides comprehensive data and original analysis, with coverage of almost every economy in the world and a special focus on developing and emerging economies. They have more than 15,000 titles and one million data series; archival material to 1948. | https://www.elibrary.imf.org/ |
| Internet Archive Scholar | Multidisciplinary | This fulltext search index includes over 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and preprints crawled from the World Wide Web. | https://scholar.archive.org/ |
| IWA(The international Water Association) Publishing |
Agriculture, Land, and water management, Water Science and Technology, Hydrology Research | IWA Publishing publishes 17 peer-reviewed journals, plus supporting 4 more in association with Elsevier. Subjects covered: Agriculture, Land, and water management, Water Science and Technology, Hydrology Research |
https://www.iwapublishing.com/ |
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Lingbuzz The Buzz
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Linguistics | A free archive of linguistics articles, with a focus on syntax, semantics, phonology and morphology | https://lingbuzz.net/ |
| Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) |
Mathematics, Mechanics & engineering | They publish more than 17,000 high-quality pages per year. Subject coverage: Mathematics, Mechanics & engineering |
https://msp.org/publications/journals/ |
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
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Multidisciplinary | MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an academic open-access publisher which publishes 150 diverse peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, electronic journals is all subjects. MDPI publishing activities are supported by more than 9,900 active scientists and academic editors on their journals’ international editorial boards, including several Nobelists. More than 187,500 individual authors have already published with MDPI. MDPI.com receives more than 4.2 million monthly web page views. | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) |
Multidisciplinary | MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an academic open-access publisher which publishes 150 diverse peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, electronic journals is all subjects. MDPI publishing activities are supported by more than 9,900 active scientists and academic editors on their journals’ international editorial boards, including several Nobelists. More than 187,500 individual authors have already published with MDPI. MDPI.com receives more than 4.2 million monthly web page views. | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| MEDLINE | Medicine, Healthcare | MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
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| MyScienceWork | Multidisciplinary | Database includes more than 90 million scientific publications and 12 million patents. | https://www.mysciencework.com/ |
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Medical Sciences | Open access for Africa is a search engine that filters your search to prioritize results from open access journals and databases in Nursing and Medicine. It offers an orientation on how to optimize online searching and provides links to free access journals and databases. Resources featured in this guide include journals with full-text access, free medical textbooks, free databases, best search strategies and information about partnering institutions in Africa. | https://umb.libguides.com/OAA |
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Open Book Publishers
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Humanities and Social Sciences |
Is a bundle of 175 journals published by university presses and small academic publishers.
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/ |
| OpenAlex | Multidisciplinary | OpenAlex is a bibliographic catalogue of scientific papers, authors and institutions accessible in open access mode, named after the Library of Alexandria. | https://openalex.org |
| Paperity | Multidisciplinary | The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers. Full-text aggregator of open access journals and papers (>17,000 journals) from all academic disciplines. | https://paperity.org/ |
| PhilPapers | Philosophy | Index journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. It is an interactive academic database of journal articles in philosophy | https://philpapers.org/ |
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Project Gutenberg
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It is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. | https://www.gutenberg.org/ | |
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PubMed Central
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Biomedical, life sciences | Is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ |
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PubPsych
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Multidisciplinary | its a vertical open access information retrieval system for psychological resources, coordinated by the research support organization Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID). The search interface is available in English, Spanish, French, and German. PubPsych includes over 800.000 datasets | https://pubpsych.zpid.de/pubpsych/ |
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refseek
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Multidisciplinary | is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. | https://www.refseek.com/ |
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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Economics | Working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components (including 1.2 million full-text articles) | http://repec.org/ |
| Royal Society of Chemistry – RSC Journals Archive | Multidisciplinary | The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, a not-for-profit organization with 170 years of history and a scientific publisher of high-impact journals and books. Subject Strengths Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science, Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery, and Physics | https://pubs.rsc.org/ |
| ScienceOpen | Multidisciplinary | Natural and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Incorporates arXiv, PubMed, and SciELO. Integrated with ORCID Altmetric uids. Articles from >25,000 journals. | https://www.scienceopen.com/ |
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Scientific Research
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Multidisciplinary | Access to Open Access E-Resources, E-books in Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science & Communications | https://www.scirp.org/ |
| Semantic Scholar | Multidisciplinary | Is a free, AI-powered search and discovery tool that helps researchers discover and understand multidisciplinary scientific literature that’s most relevant to their work. | https://www.semanticscholar.org/ |
| SSRN: Social Science Research Network | Social Sciences | Is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.Research papers from more than 55 disciplines | https://www.scirp.org/journal/ |
| Swahili Forum | Language | Swahili Forum provides a unique platform for research articles on Swahili language, literature as well as on Swahili-speaking cultures and societies in Eastern Africa and the diaspora. As a peer-reviewed open-access journal, Swahili Forum has an unequalled status in international Swahili Studies. Reviews of current research literature and occasional interviews with outstanding Swahili-speaking authors and intellectuals add to the articles on offer. | https://doaj.org/toc/1614-2373 |
| Synthical | Multidisciplinary | Pre-prints, mainly computer science, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, and biology. | https://synthical.com/ |
| World Bank e-library | Business and Economics | The World Bank e-library is a value-added, subscription-based portal dedicated to all World Bank publications, research, and knowledge since the 1990s. It is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of researchers and librarians. It is used by the world’s top academic institutions, government agencies, central banks, national libraries, think tanks, NGOs, and IGOs. contains approximately 15,000 books, chapters, reports, journals, working papers, and case studies. Content in the e-library is carefully curated to meet the highest academic and editorial standards. Users of e-library are assured full and immediate access to all academic research and scholarship published by the World Bank – the majority made available through Creative Commons Attribution | |
| World Bank Open Knowledge Repository | Business and Economics | Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form with the aim of encouraging innovation and allow anyone in the world to use Bank knowledge to help improve the lives of those living in poverty. | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/home |
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zbMATH Open
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Mathematics | ZbMATH is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH. | https://zbmath.org/ |
| Zendy | Multidisciplinary | Focus on scholarly content including full-text papers, conference proceedings, indexed journals, books, and book chapters from open access sources. Content is available in 38 languages, covering various subjects and disciplines. Zendy provides you with easy access to over 39 million scientific journals, e-books, and magazines with no download limits. | https://zendy.io/ |