ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SOURCES
Collected – Dr. Lalchatuana, Librarian GHBC
- Delphion
- It provides access to Patent Information System and the tools to use them (It is subscription based).
- www.delphion.com/
- Project Gutenberg
- www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
- There are over 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
- A grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg
- books.google.com/ (Book Search works just like web search.)
- Book Depository www.bookdepository.co.uk/
- www.doabooks.org/ Open access Book
- www.rarebookroom.org Rarebook collection.
- open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- www.collegeopentextbooks.org
- www. flatworldknowledge.com
- Flat World provides high-quality, affordable college textbooks and an online platform
- opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbook
- ocwconsortium.org/
- OpenCourseWare Consortium- An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials,
- nroer.in/home/
- Digital Repository for Open Educational Resources (India)
- National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) portal.
- www.archive.org
- -Internet archives: Digital Library of Free books, movies, music etc
- openlibrary.org/Open Library
- Free Download eBooks Search Engine www.ebookee.com/
- Free-eBooks.net www.free-ebooks.net/
- www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=e
- Free e-books www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
- Free Book Spot is a free e-books links library where you can find and download free books in almost any category. www.freebookspot.com/
- eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory e-library.net/
- Free Books, MP3 Audio Books www.free-books.org/
- Dictionaries: www.truly-free.org/
- Free Ebooks » Ebook Library www.getfreeebooks.com/?cat=26
- EPUB eBooks a FREE service www.web-books.com/
- eBook Libraries drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/libraries/ebook_libraries.htm
- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ebook9999.blogspot.com/2007/06/organic-chemistry.html www.mic.ki.se/Chemistry.html
www.lib.utexas.edu/chem/internet.html
Chemistry Teaching Resources
www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Curriculum www.geocities.com/peterroberts.geo/chem.htm
congloi.info/feed.php?go=category_71
Library and Learning Centre E-books
www.bath.ac.uk/library/info/e-books.html
Engineering Books: www.freetechbooks.com/
www.artikel-software.com/blog/2006/10/08/heat-transfer-text-book/
Free Science, Engineering and Medical Books Online www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/4/13941/21673 - Free Online Textbooks, Lecture Notes, Tutorials, and Videos on Mathematics
- homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html 2020ok.com/books/17/applied-math-textbook-34817.htm www.esnips.com/web/wong-ebooks www.topblogarea.com/sitedetails_9937.html
www.ebookee.com/Engineering-Mathematics-5-ED-_134654.html techathand.net/2007/12/management-engineeringplanning-architectural-and-construction-related-site/ - Online Medical Textbooks
- welovelmc.com/books.htm www.acrobatfiles.com/chemistry/156-10038-pdf.html
- Chemistry of Health - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- www.freebookcentre.com/medical_books_download/Chemistry-of-Health-National-Institute-of-General-Medical-Sciences-.html
- OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS-Directories
At this site you will get free medical subject journals. All Indian medical journals are freely accessible
you find about article index from 3000 free journals through this website
For journals and databases for the medical subject articles and reports.
www.imsc.res.in/library/library/OpenAccess.php
MIT Open courseware site
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/
Directory of Open Access Journals Directory of Open Access Journals service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. They aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4159 journals in the directory. Currently 1499 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 277020 articles are included in the DOAJ service
Medknow Publications --is a publisher for academic and scientific, peer-reviewed, online+print open access journals. 80 print + online journals, is probably the largest open access publisher of print journals in the world which does not charge author or author institution for submission, processing or publication of articles. Each journal published by Medknow has its independent website.
The Free Medical Journals Site
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.
www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Free full text journals in all subjects
This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content.
Free peer reviewed journals
Bentham Publishers have launched more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals during this year, under the banner of "Bentham OPEN".
The journals will cover all major disciplines and are exclusively open access publications.
www.bentham.org/open/index.htm
LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals
Open Access, Free Access, E-Journals, e-journal, Periodical, Periodicals, Magazine, Magazines, Journal, Abstract, Articles, Quarterly, Research
Search and Browse the Open Access (OA) English Language Journals in All Branch of Knowledge
Google Scholar
It consists of older journal articles
Free open access repositories - Directory
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. .
www.opendoar.org
LAU | Libraries: Free Online Journals
Many new electronic journals, and some electronic versions of existing print journals are available free of charge on the Internet.
www.lau.edu.lb/libraries/free-journals.html
Open Directory - Science: Publications: Journals: Free Online Journals
Bepress - A publisher of free online scholarly journals. ... Free Medical Journals - Lists a large number of medical journals that currently provide free ...
dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Journals/Free_Online_Journals/
ABC Chemistry :: Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry - A
Directory of free full-text journals in chemistry, biochemistry, and related subjects.-www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm
Full Text Electronic Journals in Education
The "Communications Among Researchers" Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association has compiled this list of electronic journals .
aera-cr.asu.edu/links.html
Strategian: Free Full Text Journal Articles in Biology, Chemistry ...
free full text articles in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics, and psychology.
www.strategian.com/free_full_text_articles.html
List of journals available free online
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journals_available_free_online
List of academic journals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals
Open access journal
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal
List of scientific journals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals
FreePatentsOnline
the best online site for free patent searching, has had a makeover. In addition tothe graphical differences, the site has been completely rewritten to allow more users.
ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
Journal on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/>
International Breastfeeding Journal (is the 87th independent, Open Access journal)< hosted by BioMedCentral <biomedcentral.com/>
www.implementationscience.com/
On Implementation Science an independent, Open Access journal hosted by BioMed Central <biomedcentral.com/>.
Avian Conservation and Ecology-fully electronic scientific journal sponsored by the
Society of Canadian Ornithologists and Bird Studies Canada.
Biomicrofluidics is an online open-access journal published by theAmerican Institute of Physics to rapidly disseminate novelmicrofluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological,pharmaceutical,environmental, and chemical applications
Biology Direct Fulltext v1+ (2006+) ISSN: 1745-6150
www.geochemicaltransactions.com/
Geochemical Transactions Fulltext v1+ (2000+) ISSN: 1467-4866
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy Fulltext v1+ (2006+) ISSN : 1747-597X
Trials Fulltext v7+ (2006+). Continues Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine ISSN: 1745-6215
Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine Fulltext v1-6 (2000-2005). Continued by Trials ISSN: 1468-6708
ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow). This project was started on 1 April 2007 for a period of two years. Now the project is over but voluntarily this program is still being continued.
Presently many publishers are providing regularly at free of cost the title pages of their journals (well in advance), if registered with them (on their site).
It is a paid service and is an e-gateway to global e-journal literature and offered in 7 different subject groups and was launched by Informatics (India) Ltd. This is compilation of articles to provide seamless access to millions of journal articles offered by 5464 publishers available online by linking to full text at publisher sites. . It was launched in 2001 and presently has a massive database of journal literature, indexed from 19250 e-journals. Currently, J-Gate offers two types of products/services:
Table of Contents for 19250 e-journals (TOC)
Database A comprehensive searchable database with 14405606 articles, with 4,000+ articles added every day.
Under the Infonet Consortia the academic libraries get customized service (JCCC). the contents / full text of journals subscribed under consortia as well as individual libraries are merged, which enables access to all journals through one source.
This is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. It is free for access. Launched in 2006 to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles (now around 30 millions) with an approximate addition of 300,000 articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 5325 open access journals (including 2998 peer-reviewed), with links to full text at Publisher sites. It is updated constantly and provides the users to browse Table of Contents (TOC) of latest issues. Most important is it is searchable by Title, Author, Abstract
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 65 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available. Any one can add their materials to RePEc through a department or institutional archive -- all institutions are welcome to join and contribute their materials by establishing and maintaining their own RePEc archive
Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
There are amazing number of economics institutions on the WWW. Christian Zimmermann (Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut) indexed by countries and tfields. By Feb 2009, 11098 institutions in 229 countries and territories are listed.
Access to Research: Discover a word of published research at your local library.
Knimbus; Knowledge Discovery & Sharing made simple.
It is a collaborative platform that helps to discover and share the knowledge globally.
Speedy single point discovery of knowledge combined with social tagging and clusters help find the 'right' content.
Free Management Library
The Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are in large or small for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Over the past 10 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world's largest well-organized collections of these types of resources.
SOURCES FOR STATUTORY INFORMATION such as Acts/Rules/Statutory Notifications, Gazettes etc
State Legislations/Gazettes -- www.india.gov.in/
Lok Sabha--loksabha.nic.in
Rajya Sabha --rajyasabha.nic.in
GlobaLex
National Digital Library : ndl.gov.in; https://www.ndl.gov.in
Electronic Mailing Lists- Subject
Different subjects
web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/lists.html
www.bentley.com/en-GB/Community/Discussion+Groups/Directory/
Information on Conferences
www.netlib.org/confdb/conf_list.html
Thesis and Dissertations
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
Australian Digital Theses Programme
MI (University Microfilms International)
TUG Electronic Theses Project
www.lib.lutwaterloo.ca/TUG/ETD
JETD Project
Digitale Dissertationen of Humboldt University at Berlin
University Lumiere Lyon 2 Digital Theses Project
www.univ-lycon2.fr/search.html
National Library of Canada
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. The collection include from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. It currently indexes over 1.6 million theses and dissertations.
Proquest Dissertation
wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations
Theses Canada Portal
www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
www.tren.com/
Diplomarbeiten Agentur diplom.de
www.diplomica.com/welcome.html
Dissertations & Abstract Database
www.dissertation.com/
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
www.ndltd.org/
Database of African Theses and Dissertations
www.aau.org/datad/
American Political Science Association Graduate Student Connection
www.apsanet.org/opps/grad/
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Portal
www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/handbook/search_index.asp
Action Research Resources
www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
Guide To Electronic Theses and Dissertations
etdguide.org/default.htm
American Historical Association Directory of Dissertations in Progress
www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/
Digital Library of ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations
www.theses.org/
BASES DE DATOS DE TESIS DOCTORALES (TESEO)
www.mcu.es/TESEO/index.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
www.lib.ncsu.edu/etd/
Concordia University Theses
library.concordia.ca/help/howto/theses.php#theses
Australian Digital Theses Program
adt.caul.edu.au/
UNT Electronic Theses & Dissertations
www.library.unt.edu/theses/
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/
Repositories
BioMed Central biomedcentral.com
A commercial, for-profit Open Access publisher and journal hosting service ensures permanent Open Access for the journals by depositing them in independent archives, theLOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) concept <lockss.stanford.edu>.
The primary depository in the United States is PubMed Central pubmedcentral.gov
AuseSearch - Searches open access research repositories in Australia
www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012189697858739272261:yyyqychcumo
The University of Potsdam <www.uni-potsdam.de/over/homegd.htm> in Germany, at INIST
www.inist.fr/index_en.php in France and in e-Depot <www.kb.nl/>
The National Library of the Netherlands' digital Archive.
IMF (International Monetary Fund) LIBRARY www.elibrary.imf.org/
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository www.openknowledge.worldbank.org
INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS www.mediaworld.info
INDIAN RESOURCES- eGyanKosh :- www.egyankosh.ac.in/
National Repository of Open Educational Resources by Ministry of Human Resource Development
www.nroer.in/
Vidyanidhi - Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal
