Free Journals and Databases


Agriculture

  • Agrigate is a subject information gateway for resources, both online and offline, identified as valuable to those participating in agricultural research. Agrigate is a project of the libraries of the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia; it is one of a number of Australian subject information gateways coordinated by the National Library of Australia.

  • 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. It is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate from all over the world.

  • AROW: Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web contains a worldwide directory of over 1000 organisations and universities working in agricultural research that have a home page on the web. It is updated on a regular basis. It is a browsable site that can be searched by web address, organisation title and acronym, or country. The AROW directory is maintained in association with Wisard, the Web-based Information System for Agricultural Research for Development. Wisard also includes research organisations without websites.

  • InfoAgrar is the agricultural information and documentation service of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The focus is on information related to agriculture in Africa, Latin and Central America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. It is a unique service for those seeking practical information and support in agricultural development cooperation as well as issues related to information management.

  • The Info Finder is a global link to research on agriculture, hunger, poverty and the environment which allows users to search for digital information on Future Harvest Center, CGIAR and FAO websites.

  • World Environment Library - New Zealand Digital Library Project provides full text access to publications in the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, environmental impact assessment, energy, health, natural resources, policy, sustainable development, waste management and water.

  • Journal of Dairy Science: (Free Full text) The official journal of the American Dairy Science Association, JDS publishes results of original research in dairy foods, physiology and management; nutrition, feeding, and calves; and genetics and breeding. For the past four years, JDS has ranked first or second in the category of Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Sciences titles by impact factor for the ISI rankings and is in the top 1% of STM publishing (50,000+ titles) by total ISI citations.

  • Find Articles: Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here.

  • US Patent Full Text Database a free full-text database of all US patents issued from January 1, 1976 to the most recent. Also on this site are the AIDS Patents Database and the US Patent Bibliographic Database. Several search options are available, but images and diagrams are not included from the Patent database.

  • The University Law Review Project - A reminder of this resource. Links to full text journals are expanding rapidly with an effective full text search facility for on line law journals. This is a free service provided by the Coalition of Online Law Journals and FindLaw [http://www.FindLaw.com/) with support of Stanford University and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

  • Theses Canada Portal: this site represents the largest free, full-text database of electronic theses available anywhere in the world.

  • International Immunology: (Free Full text) publishes a broad range of experimental and theoretical studies in molecular and cellular immunology conducted in laboratories throughout the world.

  • The Journal of Experimental Botany (Free Full text) publishes high-quality primary research papers in the plant sciences. These papers cover a range of disciplines from molecular and cellular physiology and biochemistry through whole plant physiology to community physiology.

  • Molecular Biology and Evolution (Free Full text) (MBE) publishes research at the interface between molecular and evolutionary biology. The journal publishes investigations of molecular evolutionary patterns and processes, tests of evolutionary hypotheses that use molecular data, and studies that use molecular evolutionary information to address questions about biological function at all levels of organization.

  • Nucleic Acids Research (Free Full text) (NAR) is a fully Open Access journal, providing rapid publication of leading edge research into the nucleic acids under the following categories: chemistry, computational biology, genomics, molecular biology, nucleic acid enzymes, RNA and structural biology.

  • Toxicological Sciences, (Free Full text) the official journal of the Society of Toxicology, is to publish premier peer-reviewed, hypothesis-driven, original research articles in all areas of toxicology.

  • Age and Ageing: (Free Full text) is an international journal publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology. Its range includes research on ageing and clinical, epidemiological and psychological aspects of later life.

  • Physics and Geophysics (2,834,698 records), including 386,817 abstracts from APS journals and 226,676 abstracts from SPIE conference proceedings

  • ArXiv Preprints (350,371 records), consisting of all the papers published in the ArXiv e-print archive

  • ERIC Database: The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.

Environment

  • Conservation and Society  is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that aims to promote work on the theory and practice of conservation. The journal is dedicated to publishing work from both natural and social sciences and covers basic and applied research. The journal is committed to disseminating information in the developing world. Free online access is available for all articles and hard copy subscriptions are highly subsidised for Asia, Africa and Latin America.

  • 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.

HUMANITIES

  • HUMBUL-Humanities Bulletin Board : The Humbul Humanities Hub provides a searchable catalogue of online Humanities resources as part of the Resource Discovery Network. The Humbul Humanities Hub discovers, evaluates and catalogues online resources in the humanities of use to students, teachers and researchers in UK higher and further education. Currently Humbul has 29 top-level subjects, including African and Latin American Studies, History, Philosophy, Archaeology and Religion & Theology

MATHEMATICS

  • Acta Mathematica: (Free Full text) contains original research papers in all fields of mathematics. Two volumes, consisting of two issues each - in all about 600pp - are published annually. Papers in English, French and German are accepted.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Medicine & Health Science

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • HighWire Press: Sources of free On-Line full text articles and journals : ighWire 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).

  • INDMED : One point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals. It has been designed to provide quick and easy access through searching or browsing.

  • 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 Includes EGYPT (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.
  • 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. To access the full text available, please make sure that the box "Free full-text only" is ticked when you perform your search.

  • 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.

 

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