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Proquest Ebook Central

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    Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ

    The Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to journals in the following subject categories: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy and Social Sciences.

    AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)

    The American Chemical Society provides Chemical and Engineering news ACS Legacy Archives, the ACS Symposium Series and over 40 journal titles in Environment, Food and Agriculture, Health, Medicine and Technology.

    American Society of Agricultural and biological Engineers

    This database provides access to journals covering such fields as Agricultural Engineering, Biology and Life Science.

    Annual Reviews

    Annual Reviews provides access to journals covering three broad disciplines. In Biomedical and Life Sciences, it provides access journals covering the following subjects: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Chemical and Bio molecular Engineering, Clinical Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Entomology, Food Science and Technology, Genetics, Genomics and Human Genetics, Immunology, Marine Science, Medicine, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Pathology, Mechanisms of Disease, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Phytopathology, Plant Biology, Psychology and Public Health. It also provides access to the following Physical Science subjects: Analytical Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Chemical and bio molecular Engineering, Computer Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environment and Resources, Fluid Mechanics, Marine Science, Materials Research, Nuclear and Particle Science and Physical Chemistry. In Social Sciences it provides access to journals covering the following subjects: Anthropology, Clinical Psychology, Economics, Environment and Resources, Financial Economics, Law and Social Science, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Resource Economics and Sociology.

    Bentham Science

    Bentham Science publishes more than 230 peer-reviewed open access journals, under the banner of "BENTHAM OPEN". These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, and medicine.

    Bioone

    BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the Biological, Ecological, and Environmental Sciences.

    EBSCOHOST

    EBSCOHOST has the following databases : General/News; Arts/Architecture; Business/Economics; Computer Science/Engineering; Earth/Environment; Education; Health Sciences; History; Law/Political Science ; Life Sciences ;Literature ;Philosophy/Religion and Psychology/Sociology

    Emerald Insight

    Emerald is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. Emeraldinsight has two main collections mainly the Emerald Management e-Journals, covering major areas within business and management, these journals provide access to high quality, peer reviewed articles and the Emerald Business, Management and Economics e-Book Series Collection covering such areas as Strategy, Economics, Accounting and Finance and Human Resource Management.

    Global Development Finance Online

    This database provides access to documents and journals covering areas such as International finance and Country statistics.

    IEEE EXPLORE DIGITAL LIBRARY

    The IEEE/IET Electronic Library is brought to you via the IEEE Xplore digital library. Featuring content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), IEL contains almost one-third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science.

    Institute of Physics

    This is one of the leading database in the world providing access to journals covering various areas of Physics.

    IOP From eIFL

    This is one of the world's premier databases that specifically publishes journals in Physics.

    Issues on Democracy

    Political Science

    JSTOR Journal Storage

    JSTOR is used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content covering all areas of Humanities, Science and Technology, Arts and Social Sciences.

    Liebert

    Biomedical Research/Life Sciences :- Advances in Tissue Engineering, Volume 1: Angiogenesis Advances in Wound Care: Volume 1 AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses Antioxidants & Redox Signaling Antisense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies Astrobiology Biopreservation and Biobanking Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science Botanical Medicine

    Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland - MinAbs Online

    Geology , Environmental Science

    Online Access to Research in The Environment (OARE

    Environmental Sciences

    OSA - Optical Society of America

    This database contains journals specifically dealing with Optics and photonics.

    Oxford Journals

    This is one of the world's leading University Presses and it publishes journals in the following areas: Economics, Humanities, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Physical sciences and Medicine.

    Royal College of Physicians

    The Royal College of Physicians in one of the world's leading publishers in the area of medicine and health. It publishes journals covering a wide range of articles including original papers, professional issues, clinical guidance, medical humanities, ethics and clinical governance.

    Royal Society of Chemistry - RSC Journals Online

    Published by one one the leading publishers in the world, RSC Journals cover many areas of Chemistry and related fields.

    Royal Society of London - Royal Society Journals Online

    The Royal Society of London Journals are accessed through the Meta Press portal and they cover subjects such as Philosophy, Education, Sociology, Psychology, Science and Technology as well as Commerce subjects.

    Sage Journals Online

    SAGE Publications is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media. Known for their commitment to quality and innovation, they are a world leader in scholarly publications. Sage publishes peer reviewed journals in various disciplines such as Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering and Social Sciences & Humanities.

    SourceOECD

    International finance , Country statistics

    SpringerLink

    Springerlink is a leading publisher of journals in many academic disciplines such as Food Science & Nutrition, Law, Life Sciences, Materials, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Popular Science, Psychology, Social Sciences.

    Symposium Journals

    Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions. Disciplines covered include Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

    Cochrane Library

    This database is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organisations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.

    Public Library of Science (PloS)

    The Public Library of Science (PLOS) publishes journals and other documents in the field of medicine. All materials are completely open access.

    PNAS

    Coverage in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) spans the Biological, Physical, and Social Sciences.

    Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal

    This database provides access to journals in the Sciences.

    Psycoloquy

    This database provides access to articles covering the field of Psychology. Areas covered include Cognitive Psychology, Behaviourism, Psychoanalysis, Biopsychology, Comparative Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Experimental Psychology.

    Open Research Society

    A multidisciplinary database with journals covering Accounting, Banking and Finance Management, Business and Industry, Global Business and Economy, Computer Science, Information Systems and Information Technology Management, Management of Natural Resources, and Global Issues Life Sciences Society Themes.

    Medical Journals Online

    This database hosts e-journals in the various medical fields such as Medical Biology,Cardiology,Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Microbiology,Neurology,Oncology and Physiology.

    Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)

    SciELO publishes open access journals in the following subject fields: Agricultural Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Exact and Earth Sciences, Geosciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Linguistics, Letters and Arts, Mathematics and Social Sciences.

    SAFLII Law Reports

    This database contains Law reports and Acts of Parliament from the SADC countries.

    BioMed Central Journals

    Biology and medicine.

    ArXiv

    This databse contains e-prints in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Qualitative Finance and Statistics

    Cooperative African Newspapers Project

    Media Studies

    Eldis

    The Eldis database provides access to journals in the following areas: Ageing populations, Agriculture,Aid,Children and young people,Climate change,Conflict and security,Corporate responsibility,Education,Environment Finance policy,Food security,Gender,Globalisation,Governance,Governance assessments,HIV and AIDS.

    IMARK

    This resource has materials that cover disciplines such as Distance Learning, Information Technology and Information Management.

    Portal LivRe

    Information Systems

    Cogprints

    Cogprints is a database which provides access to papers in Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine and Anthropology.

    Electronic Development and Environment Information System

    Information Systems and Computer Science

    GDNet's Free Journals Access Portal For Social Sciences

    Socila Sciences

    Intute: Social Sciences

    This open access database provides journals that cover the following areas: Anthropology, Politics and Administration, Sociology, Women Studies, Hotel and Catering and Hospitality.

    Social Sciences Virtual Library

    This resource contains documents and articles covering the following disciplines Economics, History, Psychology and Women's Studies.

    World Development Sources

    Produced by The World Bank Institute (WBI), this database is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction, development studies, higher education and health related information. It is part of the World Bank Group. It connects practitioners, networks and institutions to help them find solutions to their development challenges.

    WWW Library: Women's History

    The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women's history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's studies in general.

    National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

    This database provides access to journals covering fields such as Biotechnology, Biology, Biochemistry and Genetics.

    PubMed Central

    PMC is a free full-text archive of Biomedical and Life Sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

    Chemistry Preprint Server

    This database hosted by Elsevier/Science Direct provides access to digital pre-prints in Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science.

    ChemSpider

    ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

    ChemSynthesis

    ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. The website contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density. There are currently more than 40,000 compounds and more than 45,000 synthesis references in the database.

    TOXNET

    Toxnet is a database that publishes articles and documents on Toxicology, Hazardous Chemicals, Environmental health, and Toxic releases.

    WWW Chemistry Guide

    Contains documents and articles in most chemistry branches such as Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Biochemistry.

    ABC Chemistry

    This is a directory of free full text journals in Chemistry.

    Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC)

    ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information.It provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

    DML: Digital Mathematics Library

    The Digital Mathematics Library (DML) provides access to books and journals in Mathematics.

    eJournals Delivery Service

    The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) is a tool that allows scientists who live and work in least developed or low-income countries to access current scientific literature, mainly in the fields of physics and mathematics.

    e-Math for Africa

    Provides access to journals covering different areas of mathematics from Africa and the world.

    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.

    PhysMath Central

    This is an open access database that provides access to journals and articles specializing specifically in Mathematics and Physics.

    Project Euclid

    This database specializes in Mathematics and Statistics. Some publications and articles are open access.

    Wiley Online Library

    Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering Life, Health and Physical Sciences, Social Science, and the Humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

    Taylor and Francis Online

    This is a database of journals covering many academic disciplines such as the Arts, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Medicine and Law.

    Nature

    Biological Sciences, Life Sciences, Genetics

    Sabinet - African Online Journals

    SABINET (Southern African Bibliographical and Information Network) provides access to journal articles covering the following disciplines: Business, Finance , Law , Religion, Science, Technology , Agriculture , Social Sciences and Humanities.

    Sabinet Open Acess Journals

    This collection currently comprises 46 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles. Of the journals in the collection, 15 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Some journals also contain metadata records (including abstracts) for older articles where full text is not available.

    IMF e-library

    This Electronic Library contains journals covering Economics, Country Statistics and Economic Indicators.

    Law and Justice in Zimbabwe

    The aim of the Law and Justice Zimbabwe website is to make legal information easily available to students, lawyers, researchers, human rights activists and members of the public.

    World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)

    This database contains legal resources from around the world. It has over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries containing Case-law, Legislation, Treaties, Law Reform Reports, Law journals and other materials.

    IET Digital Library

    IET Digital Library provides access to journals covering Electronics, Software Development,Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Computer Programming.

    Google Scholar

    Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

    Project Muse

    Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading University Presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

    OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health

    This database contains documents and research work dealing with animal health. The major areas covered in this database are Avian Influenza, Classical Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth disease, Traceability and Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy.

    Economic Perspectives

    The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) attempts to fill a gap between the general interest press and most other academic economics journals. The journal aims to publish articles that will serve several goals: to synthesize and integrate lessons learned from active lines of economic research; to provide economic analysis of public policy issues; to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the fields of thinking; to offer readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art economic thinking; to suggest directions for future research; to provide insights and readings for classroom use; and to address issues relating to the economics profession.

    Cambridge University Press Journals

    Cambridge University Press Journals publishes many journal titles in the Agriculture, Commerce, Arts and Life Sciences fields.

    Lexis-Nexis

    This database provides various legal information resources such as Judgements and Law reports from United Kingdom and The European Union. Please use the AGORA log in username and password to access this resource.

    Open Access Journals

    This is as search engine that searches for open access journals. It covers all the major areas of academic research in the Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Business Studies.

    JURN

    A curated academic search-engine, indexing over 4.000 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.

    African Journals OnLine

    AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of AJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey by providing access to tables of contents and abstracts on the Internet, links to full text (if available) plus document delivery of paper articles, which is subsidised to developing countries. Journals are included on the basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication.

    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

    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.

    E-LIS

    E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related disciplines. It offers free access to "e-prints in library and information science" research papers.

    Nepal Journals OnLine (NepJOL)

    NepJOL is a database of journals covering many academic fields of research in the Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology and Business.

    OECD iLibrary

    OECD iLibrary is a major database containing journals spanning a wide range of disciplines. It provides access to fields such as Agriculture, Science, Law, Economics,Finance, Development Studies and Health.

    Open Science Directory

    The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the IOCs (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO) IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) programme. The goal is to create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. About 13000 journals are now available in the Open Science Directory.

    Portal LivRe!

    This portal provides access to over 4000 journal titles covering several subject fields such as Biological Science, Health, Medicine, Social Sciences and the Arts. All journals are open access.

    UNESCO

    The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides access to the full text of many of these. It covers areas such as Education, Development Studies and Social Sciences.

    Virginia Tech Electronic Library

    Digital Library and Archives provides access to scholarly electronic journals that are peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. Journal range from topics in Education, Engineering, Literature to Technology, Philosophy and Libraries Science.

    Palgrave Open

    Provides access to several peer reviewed open access journals. Subjects covered include BioSocieties, British Politics, Comparative European Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Politics, International Politics, Asset Management, Brand Management, Banking Regulation and Public Health and policy.

    Parliament of Zimbabwe Publications

    Contains publications from the Parliament of Zimbabwe such as Bills, Acts of Parliament and the Hansard.

    Digital Commons

    Digital Commons is an open access portal that provides access to journals in Science and Technology, as well as Arts and Humanities.

    The Lyell Collection

    The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth Sciences literature available. Subjects covered include Geology, Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geography.

    Edinburgh University Press

    This database provides access to journals in the following areas: Archaeology, Botany, Film & Media Studies,History,Islamic Studies,Language & Linguistics,Law, Literary Studies,Philosophy,Politics,Religious Studies,Science & Social Science and Scottish Studies

    LEXIS Library

    This collection contains journals, reports bulletins, commentaries on law. In order to access this collection please use username and password for AGORA.

    BMJ Journals

    BMJ (British Medical Journals) publishes over 30 journals covering major medical specialties for the healthcare professionals and students.

    University of California Press

    University of California Press is one of the most distinguished University Presses in the world and it enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.

    E-Scholarship

    e-Scholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services and delivers a dynamic research platform to researchers worldwide.

    Accredited Open Access Journals - South Africa (AOAJSA)

    AOAJSA is a list of open access journals acknowledged by the South African Department of Education and which qualify for university subsidy.

    Bioline International

    A pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food & nutritional security & biodiversity that would not otherwise be readily available to researchers in the developed world, or even in the country of publication. Bioline is an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement

    BioMed Central

    BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

    Opentuition

    This is a resource containing professional Accounting Lecture notes such as ACCA, AAT, Accounting for Non- Accountants. Please note you need to register in order to download full text.

    ALUKA

    Aluka provides e-journals in History, Art, African Studies, Geography, Labour Studies and Archaeology.

    Free Digital Library

    The Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users electronic access free-of-charge to thousands of full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines. Participants also have the possibility to submit their own documents to the libraries.

    Intech Open Access Journals

    Intech Open Access publishes high quality peer reviewed journal in the fields of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

    HeinOnline

    This database provides access to the following content :

    • Law Journal Library.
    • American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
    • Association of American Law Schools (AALS).
    • American Association of Law Libraries Executive Board Meetings.
    • American Law Institute Library.
    • Appellate Advocate.
    • Australian and Canadian Acts of Parliament.
    • Bar Journal.

    Medical Case Studies

    Medical Case Studies (MCS) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as epidemiological methods, study of salivary gland cystadenocarcinoma of the tongue, Chronic viral hepatitis and their relation to ABO blood groups and rhesus (Rh) factor, treatment studies etc.

    ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

    ERIC indexes education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature. Some full-text is openly available to the public.

    Educational Research and Reviews

    Educational Research and Reviews (ERR) is an open access journal that publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of education including education policies and management such as Educational experiences and mental health, Visualization skills and school curriculum, Gender, special education, education and child labour etc. All articles published in ERR are peer-reviewed.

    EBSCOHOST Discovery Service

    EBSCO Discovery Service provides a powerful, customizable single search experience.To access this service click here

    London School of Economics and Political Science

    LSE Research Online contains research produced by LSE staff, including journal articles, book chapters, books, working papers, conference papers and more.

    Acoustical Society of America

    Subject Strengths Acoustics General Linear Acoustics Nonlinear Acoustics Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics Underwater Sound Ultrasonics and Physical Acoustics Transduction, Acoustical Measurements, Instrumentation, Applied Acoustics Structural Acoustics and Vibration Noise: Effects and Control Architectural Acoustics Acoustic Signal Processing Physiological Acoustics Psychological Acoustics Speech Production Speech Perception

    American Institute of Physics (AIP)

    AIP publishes 12 journals, 2 magazines, and a conference proceedings series. AIP's Scitation platform hosts over 2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 earned society publishers. Highly cited, highly respected, and highly relevant, AIP's archival journals are the cornerstone of many physics collections.

    Copernicus Publications

    This is an open access portal for publications in Geosciences, Civil Engineering, Radio Sciences and Humanities.

    CABI - Abstracts

    CABI is a not-for-profit science-based development and information organization. They improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. CABI helps address the challenges of food security by helping farmers grow more and lose less. They do this by improving crop yields, safeguarding the environment and improving access to agricultural and environmental scientific knowledge.

    Chemistry Central

    Chemistry Central is an open access chemistry publisher, operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science+Business Media, committed to the free and widespread dissemination of chemical research. All original research articles published by, or in co-operation with, Chemistry Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.

    Sage Open

    SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

    Hindawi Publishing

    Publishes open access journals spanning most fields in Science and Technology such as Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

    Wiley Open

    Contains several journals covering the Science and Technology field. Areas covered include Chemistry, Ecology, Microbiology and Food Science.

    Academic Journals

    International in scope - covering the sciences (biological, social, medical), art, education and legal journals.

    AgEcon

    Full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including: Working papers, Conference papers, Journal articles.

    University of Warwick Electronic Law Journals

    The Electronic Law Journals (ELJ) project was established by the CTI Law Technology Centre at the University of Warwick, in 1995 to promote the development of an electronic legal culture in academic journal reading, writing and publishing.

    University of Chicago Press

    The University of Chicago Press publishes nearly fifty scholarly journals, many on behalf of some of the world's most prestigious societies, and several that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields. The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences.

    Henry Stewart Talks - The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection

    Specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on biomedical and life sciences for researchers and university faculty members.

    IMF eLibrary

    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. Subject strengths include Economic data, monetary policy, financial stability, economic development, forecasts and outlooks and poverty reduction

    Duke Journals

    Contains disciplines within the humanities and sciences: from East Asian cultural studies to French history, from lesbian and gay studies to mathematics and the history of economic thought, from feminism, culture and media studies to medieval and early modern studies.

    Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

    INFORMS publishes 13 scholarly journals, including the flagship journals Management Science and Operations Research, a journal for the practice of OR/MS (Interfaces), the new online-only journal Service Science, as well as an open access journal (INFORMS Transactions on Education).

    PROQUEST ARTS AND HUMANITIES DATABASE

    This database features hundreds of e-Journal titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. Trial ends on 29/03/2013

    OpenDoar

    OpenDOAR is a project to list and categorise academic open access research repositories from around the world. It contains a wide variety of materials such as books, articles, dissertations, conferences and multimedia. As a world wide directory of repositories, its contents cuts across all disciplines.

    DSpace@MIT

    DSpace@MIT contains conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers from across several Science and Technology disciplines.

    NISCAIR Online Periodicals Portal

    This is a repository of periodicals covering several Science and Technology subjects such as chemical technology, physics, biology and computer science.

    Open Knowledge Society (World Bank)

    The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

    ETHOS

    This is an online database of Electronic Theses and Dissertations from several UK based Universities.

    DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

    A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community.

    OMICS Group

    This database hosts open access journals covering various disciplines such as Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Medicine, Arts and Humanities.

    Libertas Academica

    Libertas Academica is the publisher of 87 international, peer reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals. 81 of these journals operate under the open access business model using a CC-BY-NC license for published articles and the others are pay-per-view or subscription access only.

    Dove Medical Press

    Dove Medical Press publishes Open Access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and medicine.

    Zimbabwe Legal Information Institute

    The decisions for the Supreme Courts as well as those from the Bulawayo and Harare High Courts can be accessed from this database. Decisions beginning with: A to Z for the years: 2000 to 2012 are available from this site

    GeologyNet database

    Provides access to 5 free online databases in mining and related fields. The databases include Rock Forming Database, Minerals Database, Economic Minerals Database, Petrographic Database and the XRD Database

    BENTHAM OPEN ACCESS

    Bentham Open publishes over 230 plus peer-reviewed open access journals. These e-journals cover all major disciplines of Science, Technology, Medicine and Social Sciences.

    Cell Reports

    Cell Reports is a new open-access, online-only journal from Cell Press.Cell Reports offers the quality, rigor, and visibility you would expect from Cell Press, combined with the convenience of open access.

    Climate Risk Management

    Climate Risk Management publishes original scientific contributions, state-of-the-art reviews and reports of practical experience on all aspects of the production and use of climate and climate-related information in decision and policy making from the near- to long-term.

    EuPA Open Proteomics

    EuPA Open Proteomics is published by Elsevier on behalf of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA) and is aimed at both European and international protein scientists.

    Genomics Data

    Genomics Data is an open access journal that considers articles on all aspects of genome-scale analysis: Limited only to nucleic acids analysis Microarray and Next-Gen Sequencing data All organisms Genomics Data publishes high quality and standardized reports summarizing results of microarray or sequencing studies in all types of organisms. The genomic and functional genomic data/results are intended to serve as points of record that are enriched with data generation strategies and methods, data QC metrics, data analysis process and algorithms, biological interpretation and conclusions. All articles will be peer-reviewed and verified by the editorial team.

    Leukemia Research Reports

    Click here to submit your article User Rights for Articles published in Leukemia Research Reports Leukemia Research Reports is a new open access, international journal which will deliver timely information online to all health care professionals involved in basic and/or applied clinical research in leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. Launched in late 2012, this is an online-only journal, specializing in rapid publication of peer-reviewed clinical research and short form papers, including brief communications, letters to the Editors, images,debate articles and most importantly case reports.

    American Association for Artificial Intelligence publications

    The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and The MIT Press established the AAAI Press in 1989 as a publishing imprint founded to serve the information needs of the international AI community as well as to stay abreast of significant new research and literature across the entire field of artificial intelligence.

    American Digital Archive of the Jewish Experience.

    ADAJE: American Digital Archive of the Jewish Experience is an electronic repository of digitized American Jewish periodicals. Founded in 1892, The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) is the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the nation.

    African e-Journals Project

    The African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of 13 social science and humanities journals published in Africa.

    Physics of the Dark Universe

    Physics of the Dark Universe is a new and innovative online-only, fully open access journal. The journal offers rapid publication of peer-reviewed, original research articles considered of high scientific impact. The journal is focused on the understanding of the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy and covers all theoretical, experimental and phenomenological aspects of both Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

    Redox Biology

    Redox Biology is a forum for novel research, methods and review articles in redox biology in the areas of both health and disease. Acceptable paper types are research articles (short or full communications), methods, mini-reviews, and commentaries in the following areas: Nutrition Polyphenolics Cancer Metabolism Cardiovascular Diabetes Inflammation Aging Neuroscience Cell and Molecular Biology Cell Signaling Bioenergetics

    Mary Ann Liebert

    Mary Ann Liebert publishes integrated media content in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research, clinical medicine and surgery, engineering and technology, environmental studies and policy, law and economics, and public health.

    Library and Information Research

    Library and Information Research is published by the Library and Information Research Group. It publishes both refereed and non-refereed submissions. Before 2003 the journal was published under the title Library and Information Research News.

    ACS Digital Library

    The ACS Digital Library provides international quality magazines, journal articles and conference papers, covering innovative research and practice in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This service is provided free to the ICT profession by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as part of its commitment to ensure the beneficial use of technology for the community.

    COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease

    The latest international multilingual scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19 compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO). Literature is updated daily (Monday through Friday) from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and the addition of other expert-referred scientific articles. Beginning with year 2009, the journal publishes papers exclusively in English language.

    Africa Spectrum

    Africa Spectrum was first published in 1966 by the GIGA Institute of African Affairs (IAA) in Hamburg. It is an inter-disciplinary journal dedicated to scientific exchange between the continents. The journal focuses on socially relevant issues related to political, economic and socio-cultural problems and events in Africa as well as on Africa's role within the international system.

    Applied Medical Informatics

    Applied Medical Informatics (Appl Med Inform) publishes high quality original articles and reviews in English language in the field of medical informatics and applications of information technology in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy; medical, dentistry and pharmacology statistics; clinical and preclinical research that use statistics and informatics approaches; medical, dentistry and pharmacology research methodology. The interdisciplinary areas of the journals are as: Probabilities and statistics, Modelling and Calculus Theory, Software Systems, Organization of calculus systems, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Mathematical Physics, Computer Science and Information Technology, Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy.

    Archives of Biomedical Sciences

    The aim of Archives of Biomedical Sciences (ABMS) is to provide the platform for exchange of scientific progress in the field of Medicine and Medical Biology, and to do so at the highest possible level. The ABMS also aims to facilitate the application of new scientific knowledge to the daily practice of the concerned disciplines and addresses both researchers and academics.Its scope encompasses: physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, cell biology, histology, genetics, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, and other aspects of medical biology.

    Business, Management and Education

    The Journal is designed for publishing articles in the following fields of research: - Sustainable return strategies; - Regional competitiveness through investment efficiency; - Production economics and management; - Innovation management; - Financial engineering; - Investment decisions; - Financial institution management in times of economic turbulence; - International marketing; - Social and economical environment of business development; - Information and telecommunication technologies in business; - EU economic growth drivers; - E-governance; - Entrepreneurship; - General management; - Sustainable enterprise; - Globalization processes; - High Education Management; - Case studies.

    CCSE Journals Online

    The Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) publishes scholarly journals in a wide range of academic fields, including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, biological and medical sciences, education, economics, and management. These journals deliver original, peer-reviewed research from international scholars to a worldwide audience. All our journals are available in electronic form in conjunction with their print editions. All journals are available for free download online.

    Chemistry and Materials Research

    An open access journal in Chemistry and Materials research

    PROQUEST CENTRAL

    This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical and book content. This online resource features a highly respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Subjects covered in this resource include Business and economics, Health and medical, News and world affairs, Science, Education, Technology, Humanities, Social Sciences, Psychology, Literature, Law and Women's studies.

    Taylor and Francis Open

    This is a collection of Open Access journals from Taylor and Francis covering various disciplines such as Finance,Economics, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences.

    Bentham Science

    Publishes high impact factor journals in the fields of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences.

    Intellect Journals

    Intellect provides access to high quality journal titles covering Communication & Media, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Performing Arts.

    Peace and conflict studies

    Peace and Conflict Studies(PCS--ISSN1082-7307) is committed to interdisciplinary explorations on conflict resolution, peace building, humanitarian assistance, and other alternative mechanisms that seek to prevent and control violence. PCS is also interested in articles focusing on social change and nonviolence: sustainable development, ecological balance, community revitalization, reflective practice, action research, social justice, human rights, gender equality, intercultural relations, grassroots movements and organizational transformations.

    Lexis Nexis

    Lexis Nexis provides access to e-Journals and e-Books used by legal, government and business information professionals and researchers needing quick access to current, comprehensive, authoritative legal, news and business information. The Academic service provides access to Law, Accounting, Economics, Business, Management, Journalism and Geography resources.

    Elgaronline

    Elgaronline includes Journals, Scholarly research monographs, Research Handbooks that offer authoritative, peer-reviewed and original works thus providing in-depth surveys across Economics, Law, Business, Management and Social Science and Political Science. It also provides reference works such as companions, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

    UptoDate

    UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It is used by physicians at major academic medical centers worldwide for complete and current medical information to answer their clinical questions.

    South African Law Reports

    The South African law reports are an all-in-one and the primary source of legal precedent in South Africa. Included is the full text of judgments from 1947 to date and The Index and Annotations to the South African Law Reports (consolidated from 1947 to date). Contents include decisions of the following Courts; Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, High Courts, Labour and Labour Appeal Courts, Land Claims Court, Competition Appeal Court, Namibian Supreme and High Courts, Zimbabwe Supreme and High Courts.

    InfoSci Journals

    InfoSci Journals from IGI Global provides access to e-Book titles covering over 200 subject areas that include Business Studies, Electronic Commerce, Communications, Computer Science, Medicine, Education, Engineering, Social Sciences, and more.

    World Bank eLibrary

    The World Bank e-Library covers more than 20 disciplines related to poverty, development, and social science including economic and human development, agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, climate change, natural resources, and regional integration. You can browse content by subject, region, country, and type of publication.

    Bioinfo Publishing Group

    Open Access journals that are multi-disciplinary in nature.

    ORIC Publications

    ORIC Publications, a broad-based open access e-publisher, publishes in all fields of Science in both book and journal format. It was founded on two key tenets: In addition to publishing the qualified researches, provide a rapid turn-around time possible for reviewing and publishing. It is the vision of ORIC Publications to publish without financial restriction to readers using the open access model of publication. We strongly believe that the open access model will spur research across the world especially as researchers gain unrestricted access to high quality research articles. Our goal at ORIC Publications is to provide an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Sciences.

    Elsevier – Open Access Journals

    All articles published in Elsevier open access journals are peer reviewed and upon acceptance will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download

    Bentham Open

    BENTHAM OPEN publishes over 100 plus peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

    Bentham Science

    Publishing over 100 Print and Online STM Journals

    Brill Online Journals

    Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.

    World Scientific

    World Scientific is a database platform that provides access to peer reviewed e-Journals in Business Management, Economics, Social Sciences, Medicine, Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.

    Europa World

    Europa World delivers fast, impartial economic, political and geographic background information and comparative statistical data by country, and includes thousands of directory contact details with click-through web links and a comprehensive listing of more than 2,000 international organizations.

    EMERALDINSIGHT ENGINEERING COLLECTION

    The Emerald Engineering Collection provides access to a number of high impact factor journals covering various aspects of the Engineering field. Subjects covered include Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and design, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

    British Institute of Radiology Journals

    The British Institute of Radiology publishes journals in the fields covering all aspects of radiology, radiation oncology, medical physics and the underpinning sciences. Titles include BJR, BJR Case Reports and the DMFR.

    Open Data Resources of the World Bank

    The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The Data Catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources Access to Information. The World Bank Policy on Access to Information sets forth a groundbreaking change on how the World Bank provides information to the public. Now the public can obtain additional information than ever before—information about projects under preparation, projects under implementation, analytic and advisory activities, and Board proceedings. Underlying the new policy is the principle that the World Bank will disclose any information in its possession that is not on a list of exceptions

    Liverpool University Press

    Liverpool University Press (LUP) is the UK’s third oldest university press with a history dating back to 1899. LUP has rapidly expanded in recent years to become an award-winning academic publisher that publishes books and journals, specialising in literature, modern languages, history and visual culture. Their journal collection highlights the breadth and scope of journals that complement each other in history, literature, language, culture studies, religious studies and planning.

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

    OECD is the world's largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues

    PressReader

    We're your home for all-you-can-read news with full access to more than 5,000 newspapers and magazines. PressReader partners with thousands of publishers in over 100 countries to help them distribute their content globally

    SABINET REFERENCE

    This platform will provide you with a single entry point to seamlessly search Sabinet's reference products, including OAIster, OCLC's FirstSearch Service, SA Media, SA ePublications, foreign and local dissertations- and theses databases, to name but a handful.

    NRC Research Press Journals

    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. Subject coverage include:

    1. botan
    2. cell biology
    3. chemistry
    4. civil engineering
    5. earth science
    6. fisheries and aquatic sciences
    7. forestry
    8. microbiology
    9. physics
    10. sport science
    11. zoology

    Policy Press

    Policy Press publishes nine highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy. Policy Press is a leading specialist social science publisher committed to journals that will have an impact on research, learning, policy and practice at an international level. Subject coverage include:

    1. Social policy
    2. Social welfare
    3. Family policy
    4. Social work
    5. Public policy
    6. Criminal justice
    7. Housing
    8. Urban policy

    OVID ONLINE BOOKS

    Ovid helps researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information so that they can make critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries. Subject coverage include:

    1. Medicine
    2. Behavioural Sciences
    3. Nursing and Health Professions
    4. Humanities and Technologies

    Juta Law Online Publications- SA & Zimbabwe law reports

    Contains Zimbabwe Law Reports from the High Court and Supreme Court from 1980. It also contains the South African Law reports from 1947 to date. The platform also provides access to Government Gazettes of South Africa, Judges of Southern African Courts and Juta's Review of South African Law.

    MLA International Bibliography with Full Text

    Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s. The database contains millions of citations as well as full text for thousands of journals, books and dissertations covering all aspects of language, literature and linguistics. The platform is available through the EBSCOHOST platform.

    SAGE Knowledge

    SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video, containing over 5,100 titles. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more. This cross-media platform allows users to search and browse over 10,000 items, video, book and reference titles within the Social Sciences.

    OPEN ACCESS MUSIC JOURNALS

    Hosted by the University of Michigan, this platform provides a number of Open Access journals covering various aspects of Music and Musicology such as performance, composition, dance studies and Music Education.

    Open Music Library

    Provides access to several journal titles covering facets of such as dance, performance, music technology and much more.

    Ingenta Connect

    Ingenta Connect provides access to journal content from many publishers using one platform. By using this platform you are assured of discovering journal articles from different publishers making it one of the best resource discovery platforms in the world.

    Cambridge University Press (Free Resources for Covid 19)

    Provides free access to latest articles on Covid 19 pandemic.

    EDP Sciences (Free Resource during Covid 19)

    EDP Sciences have given us free access to their journal content from 2018-2020 until 30 June 2020. Access the collection on the Databases A-Z on the website.

    The Elsevier Coronavirus Research Hub

    The Elsevier Coronavirus Research Hub is a free service from Elsevier that includes access to a biomedical database, scientific and clinical content, COVID-19-specific datasets, a biomedically-focused text mining solution and several research collaboration tools, with more tools coming soon. Other important resources include Clinicalkey, Embase, Pathway Studio, Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry and Veridata EDC (Electronic Data Capture).

    NOTE: After logging into the above link, please click on “Get Access” to register. Interested users need to register with an institutional email account (Midlands State University email) for faster verification.

    CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

    CORE is the world’s largest freely accessible aggregator of open access content with millions of full texts, derived from thousands of repositories, journals and other web resources.

    Paperity

    Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, "gold" and "hybrid". Paperity is the way towards more efficient scholarly communication in all research fields, from Sciences, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.

    AGRICOLA

    AGRICOLA provides access to publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.

    HighWire Free

    Contains peer reviewed journal articles from some of the best publishers in the world. This resource covers many scientific subjects such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

    Open Edition Journals

    OpenEdition Journals is a web platform for e-Journals in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access. Additional services are available through subscribing libraries and institutions.

    PubAg

    Contain journal articles from all areas of Agricultural Sciences such as Crops Science, Animal husbandry, Agricultural Economics and many more.

    National Academies Press

    The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which produce more than 200 reports and proceedings each year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine providing authoritative, independent advice on important matters in science and health policy.

    Research4Life Portal

    The Research for Life Portal brings to you journals and e-books published by some of the world's reputable publishers. The portal provides access to all subjects and disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Arts and Humanities, Medicine, Commerce and Physical Sciences. Some of the publishers who can be accessed through this portal include

    • Elsevier
    • Edward Elgar
    • Taylor and Francis
    • Wiley
    • Sage
    • (Contact the Library Information Desk for username and password using WhatsApp – 0786 755 935 or Ext 2182)

      Optima Legal Online

      Optima Legal database provides online access to the following legal resources from Zimbabwe:

      • Statute Law of Zimbabwe
      • Zimbabwean Regulations
      • Selected Court Judgements
      • Court Rules & ZIMRA Rulings
      • Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Listing Requirements
      • Foreign Exchange Guidelines to Authorised Dealers
      • Commentary on the Criminal Code by Professor G. Feltoe
      Look at a PDF view of the Index Pages for the above listed libraries in Optima to see what content subscribers can access within.

      Artstor

      Artstor provides faculty and students with a complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context beyond the confines of your discipline. Artstor also supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and modern history from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for your whole institution.

      MSD Manuals

      The Manuals, first published as the Merck Manuals in 1899, now known as MSD Manuals outside the United States and Canada, are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Manuals are committed to making the best current medical information accessible to health care professionals and patients on every continent. Topic covered include Cardiovascular Disorders, Clinical Pharmacology, Critical Care Medicine, Dental Disorders, Dermatologic Disorders, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hematology and Oncology, Hepatic and Biliary Disorders, Immunology and many others.

      Zimbabwe Law Reports

      Contains Law Reports from the High Court and Supreme Court covering 1980. Reports are updated regularly. The Law Reports are available through the Juta platform and for ease of navigation, there is a chronological listing of cases and a Subject Index from 1980

      Sage Business Cases

      SAGE Business Cases is a robust digital collection of business cases tailored to library needs – providing faculty, students and researchers with unlimited access to more than 4,200 authoritative cases from over 100 countries. SAGE curates interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more.

      Sage Management & Organization Studies Collection

      SAGE Management & Organization Studies Collection covers such subjects as Action Research, Business and Government Relations, Business Ethics, Compensation and Benefits, Corporate Social Responsibility, Critical Theory, E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Management, Group Processes, Hospitality, Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, Industrial Relations, International and Cooperative Management, Labor Economics, Leadership, Macromarketing, Management Education, Management Learning, Marketing, Marketing Education, Marketing Theory, Non-profit Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development, Organizational Theory, Organizational Communication, Research Design, Research Methodologies, Service Marketing, Service Organizations, Simulation, Small Business Management, Social Marketing, Sociology of Work, Strategic Management, Tourism, Training, and Travel.

      Nexis UNI

      Nexis Uni features more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources from some of the best publishers from around the world. LexisNexis supports all subjects covered in the Faculties of Law, Business Sciences and Social Sciences. Nexis Uni® (LexisNexis Academic) is specifically designed to meet the needs of the academic community, so students and lecturers can always conduct their research quickly and easily.

      F1000Research

      F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.

      De Gruyter e-Journals

      De Gruyter is an international publisher headquartered in Berlin, publishes first-class scholarship in various disciplines such as the Arts, Engineering, Science and Technology, Law, Medicine, Social Sciences, Geosciences , Business Studies and Environmental Sciences.

      ACM Digital Library

      The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. The database focused exclusively on the field of computing.

      OER RESEARCH IN AFRICA

      OER Africa and other organisations and higher education institutions have been conducting research in the take up by academics and students, pedagogical value, issues with licensing course materials and financial sustainability of OER. In this section we will try to harness and share as much of this research as possible.

      CAIRN Free Access Journals

      CAIRN Free Access Journals is a database of journals in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects covered include Economics, Education, Geography, History, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy and other related subjects.

      UJ Press

      UJ Press publish titles in all disciplines related to Pan-African Decolonisation and issues surrounding 4IR. The Press also publish co-publications with international publishers, translated titles, digital scholarship including video and audio scholarly outputs and textbooks. Lastly, it will also publish data sets, 3D assets and other digital formats.

      Google Patents

      Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, and World Intellectual Property Organization. It draws on patents from more than 100 of the biggest patent offices from around the world, enabling you to search across more than 120 million documents.

      Canadian Patents Database

      Produced by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), this database contains more than 2 million Canadian patents from 1869 to the present.

      OPENAIRE EXPLORE

      A comprehensive and open dataset of research information covering 165M publications, 58M research data, 330K research software items, from 126K data sources, linked to 3M grants and 198K organizations. It is a research information system, which provides services to find, store, link and analyse research output from all disciplines.

      CiteSeerX

      CiteSeerX is a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

      Essentials Database

      EBSCO Essentials is a package of core databases provided by EBSCO Information Services, which includes a variety of subject-specific databases covering various fields such as business, health, education, and more.

      Digital Commons Network

      The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

      PLOS ONE

      An inclusive journal community working together to advance science by making all rigorous research accessible without barriers Subject coverage include Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens, Tropical Diseases, Climate, Digital Health, Global Public Health and Sustainability and Transformation.

      Europe PMC

      Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 43.1 million publications, preprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources.

      Cambridge Open Access Journals

      A collection of high-quality journals covering diverse subjects such as Arts, Business Sciences, Education, Health and Medicine and Science and Technology.

      Thieme Open Access Journals

      This is a collection of Open Access journals covering many subjects in the Medicine discipline.

      MIT Open Course Ware

      MIT Open Course Ware provides more than 2500 courses (teaching content) sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Learning material resources include lectures, schedules, references, homework, testbank for users who can refer to their teaching, learning and research.

      Open Yale Courses

      Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

      MDPI Journals

      A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. The collection hosts journals covering diverse scientific disciplines such as Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Biology to name a few.

      JOVE - Journal of Visualised Experiments

      The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that focuses on publishing video-based scientific research articles. JoVE uses video to capture experimental techniques, methods, and procedures, making it a valuable resource for scientists, researchers, educators, and students. Subject coverage include Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience and many more.

      Company of Biologists

      The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organization dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community worldwide. The Company of Biologists publishes three hybrid journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology) , and two fully Open Access Journals (Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open).

      Africa Portal

      Africa Portal curates a comprehensive collection of research material. The entire repository is open access, equipped with a sophisticated search function and available for free, full-text download. The material covers Mining, Management, Mechanics, and Information Technology. Related Subjects: Climate change, Economics, Energy and Environment, Mining, Management, Mechanics, Information Technology.

      AGRIS

      Promoting accessibility of scientific information and digital data in food & agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided support to its member countries to make their research outputs visible and accessible through the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS); one of the most comprehensive search engines in food and agricultural scientific literature providing free access to millions of bibliographic records. AGRIS indexes bibliographic references but does not store the full text articles. However, AGRIS includes available links via a clickable icon next to ‘Access the full text’; displayed on the right side of the screen on the description of the resource page. Resources submitted before 2010 might not have the link. Related subjects: Agriculture, Food Science, Agriculture science and technology

      American Physical Society

      The American Physical Society is one of nine publishers participating in a CrossRef pilot project that uses Google to provide full-text searching of scholarly research. This database contains physical science documents only. Related Subjects: Electrical Principles, Physics, Mechanics, Physical Review, PRX Quantum, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review Research, Accelerators and Beams, Applied Physics, Fluids, Materials, Physics Education Research.

      Archives of metallurgy

      Archives of Metallurgy and Materials is a quarterly magazine of Polish Academy of Sciences, that has published scientific papers in English for over fifty-five years. Related Subjects: Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy, Metallurgical Assay.

      Archives of Mining Sciences

      Archives of Mining Sciences (AMS) publish research results of wide interest in all fields of mining sciences which include: rock mechanics, mining engineering, mineral processing, geotechnical engineering and tunnelling, mining and engineering geology, mining geodesy and geophysics, ventilation systems, environmental protection in mining and economical aspects in mining. Related Subjects: Mining, Mining Geology, Mine Ventilation & Environmental Engineering, Mine Survey, Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy, Metallurgical Assay.

      BASE

      BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). Related subjects: Geomatics and Surveying, Mining, Metallurgy, Agriculture, Crop science, Animal science, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics.

      bioRxiv

      bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Related Subjects: Animal Behavior and Cognition, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Plant Biology, Scientific Communication and Education.

      Econbiz

      Find ej-ournals, Working Papers & Conferences in Business Studies and Economics.

      EconPapers

      EconPapers provides access to the world's largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

      Emerald Open Access

      Emerald is a leading English language publisher of academic and professional literature covering wide range of subjects and full text articles. Related Subjects: Accounting, Finance and Economics, Business, Management and Strategy, Marketing, Climate Change and the Environment, Education and Research Methods, Engineering, Mathematics, Agriculture, Engineering.

      EMI Rock Mechanics Database

      Provided by Colorado School of Mines database provides platform to provide information on various rock types. Related Subjects: Mining, Geology, Rock Mechanics.

      European Geosciences Union

      EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. Related subjects: Earth sciences, Hydrology, Natural hazards and Earth system sciences, Geoscience, Weather and Climate.

      The Dyke

      The Dyke is an open-access refereed journal that publishes original articles from the fields of Social Sciences, Business Sciences, Arts & Humanities, and Education.

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