| S/N | Database | Disciplines | Description/Specialization | Username/Password |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMJ Publishing Group | Contained peer-reviewed journals focusing on biomedical research | Ask the librarian for username and password | |
| 2 | Hathtrust Digital Library | Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives | Ask the Librarian for help | |
| 3 | MIT Open Courseware: Unlocking Knowledge | MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. | Ask the Librarian for more information. | |
| 4 | Analytical sciences digital library | Analytical Chemistry | Journal Articles on analytical chemistry | Open source |
| 5 | Archaeology, Art history Journal Articles | Arachne | Acheology, Art History | Open Access |
| 6 | arXiv | Achaeology, Art History | Repository of electronic pre-prints of papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance | Open Access |
| 7 | Astrophysics Data System | Astrophysics, Geophysics, Physics | Journal article | Open Access |
| 8 | BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | Multidisciplinary | Journal article | Open Access |
| 9 | BIO-ONE | Biology, Bioinformatics | Biological science and related disciplines | Open source |
| 10 | BIO Med Central | Biomedical Research | Contained peer-reviewed journals focusing on biomedical research | Open Access |
| 11 | ChemXSeer | Chemistry | Journal article | Open Access |
| 12 | Citebase Search | Mathematics, Computer science, Physics | Semi-autonomous citation index of free online research | Open Access |
| 13 | DOAJ | Multidisciplinary | Multidisciplinary | Open Access |
| 14 | EconBiz | Economics | EconBiz supports research in and teaching of economics with a central entry Cpoint for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts | Open Access |
| 15 | Law Library Online | Law Library of Congress | he Law Library of Congress contains the world's largest collection of law books and legal resources, with strong foreign law and comprehensive United States | Open Access |
| 16 | British Library for Development Studies E-journals | Project Gutenberg began in 1971 by Michael Hart as a community project to make plain text versions of books available freely to all. | Project Gutenberg began in 1971 by Michael Hart as a community project to make plain text versions of books available freely to all. | Open Access |
| 17 | HubMed | Medicine | An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database | Open Access |
| 18 | Information Bridge: Department of Energy Scientific and Technical Information | Multidisciplinary science | The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 266,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format. | Open Access |
| 19 | MEDLINE | Life Sciences Biomedical Information | This is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. MEDLINE also covers much of the literature in biology and biochemistry, as well as fields such as molecular evolution. Compiled by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE is freely available on the Internet and searchable via PubMed and NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez system. | Open Access |
| 20 | National Criminal Justice Reference Service[98] | Criminology, Sociology | Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, agency and NGO reports, and conference proceedings | Open Access |
| 21 | NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research | Economics | Economics | Open Access |
| 22 | POPLINE | Population, Family Planning Reproductive Health Development Literature | Contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps program managers, policy makers, and service providers in low- and middle-income countries and in development-supportive agencies and organizations gain access to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished documents. | Open Access |
| 23 | REPEc: Research Papers in Economics | Economics | This is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 89 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences freely available. | Open Access |
| 24 | World Wide Science | Multidisciplinary | This is a global science gateway composed of national and international scientific databases and portals. World Wide Science accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world. Multilingual World Wide Science provides real-time searching and translation of globally dispersed multilingual scientific literature. | Open Access |
| 25 | IEEEE Advanced Technology | Engineering and related areas | Engineering and related areas | Open Access |
| 26 | Lippincott Home: Int'l Anaesthesia Research Society | Health Related | International Anaesthesia Research Society: Lippincott is a leading global publisher of current and influential medical, nursing and allied health research. | Open Access |
| 27 | Merck Manual for the Professional | Health Related | First published in 1899 as a small reference book for physicians and pharmacists, The Manual grew in size and scope to become one of the most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As the Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information of the day to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers. | Open Access |
| 28 | MSD Manuals: The Trusted Provider of Medical Information since 1899 | Health / Medical Information | The MSD Manuals are a comprehensive medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals and the general public. | Open Access |
| 29 | DART-Europe - Access to 1,376,186 open access research theses from 584 Universities in 29 European countries | Global access to European research theses | DART-Europe was founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe E-theses Portal is managed by UCL Library Services. DART-Europe provides access to 1,376,186 open access research theses from 584 Universities in 29 European countries. | Open Access |
| 30 | CORE - The world's largest collection of open access research papers | General / Open Access Research Papers | CORE provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures POSI. | Open Access |
| 31 | DiVA Portal - Research publications * Student theses | General / Research and Academic Repository | DiVA portal is a finding tool and an institutional repository for research publications and student theses written at 50 universities and research institutions. | Open Access |
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