In the last article ‘Open Access – Part I (Electronic Journals), we had discussed about the availability of scholarly journals via the Internet on public domain. In this chapter we‘ll discuss the other information databases (bibliographic as well as full text) accessible freely. All these databases work like portals and detail about the source of information can be retrieved. Following is the list of commonly used databases. This article includes Information Gateways, Portals and other important resources of information.
arXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From
Caltech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Searchable and browsable repository of theses and dissertations from Caltech.
1970-present; indexes all of the American Society of Civil Engineers journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Full text is available from 30 civil engineering journals.
BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources in a wide range of subject areas. Initially designed as a resource for librarians, it includes a directory of
An interface for submitting scientific papers to the article database of the French Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe. Papers in mathematics, physics, information science are instantly and automatically directed to "arXiv". The free online access to these documents provided by HAL is intended to promote the best possible dissemination of research work; the intellectual property remains that of thpee author(s). Contributors must abide by the rules of good usage prevailing in scientific publications - respect and citation of original work, no intellectual plunder, etc.
CCSD: Thèses-en-Ligne
Eprint repository of French theses in various scientific domains [French/English].
Articles and preprints collection aiming to cover the published and pre-published literature in particle physics and its related technologies. The collection includes about 400,000 documents, many of which in full-text access.
Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central - the leading biomedical open access publisher. This site features chemistry-related articles published in Chemistry Central Journal, BioMed Central and independent journals utilizing BioMed Central's open access publishing services. All original research articles published by, or in cooperation with, Chemistry Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
CiteSeer
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Autonomously creates citation indexes of scientific literature. Generates citation statistics and allows easy browsing of the context of citations. Texts freely available in PDF, PS, HTML format.
Cogprints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Makes preprints and reprints of papers in all areas of the cognitive sciences freely available on-line. Authors can deposit their work in the archive after a (free) registration.
Collection on Critical Global Issues
The Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0 was developed in 1999 by United Nations University Press. It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology. Full-text access to publications in the fields of agriculture and land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, science and technology.
Computer Science Teaching Center
A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.
Digital Library and Archives - Virginia Tech
Open Archive Initiative (OAI) compliant digital repository. E-journals, electronic theses and dissertations, faculty archives.
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology
in 2002, DLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The dLIST vision is to serve as a dynamic archive in the Information Sciences, broadly understood, and positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields.
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Documents in Information Science
(DoIS) - Database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the field of library and Information science. At the moment we hold about 15183 articles and 4500 conference proceedings, 14070 of them are downloable from our site.
Electronic Publications of the WU-Wien
Electronic archive providing full-text access to working papers and dissertations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
EPrints in Library and Information Science
E-LIS is an open access archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other documents in the field of library and information science in electronic format. E-LIS was formed in 2003 for the deposit of documents in the Library and Information Science (LIS) domain. It is the first international e-server in this subject area and resulted from the RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) project and the DoIS (Documents in Information Science). E-LIS aims to further the Open Access philosophy by making available papers in LIS and related fields. It is a free-access international archive, in line with the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) movement and the Eprints movement, based on the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) standards and protocols.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre)
ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.
Repository of the
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
History and Theory of Psychology Prints
(HTP) Gives access to full-text of refereed papers. Registered users may also deposit appropriate material. It is offered as a free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field.
HofPrints
An electronic archive for papers produced by members of the Hofstra University Community. It includes papers written by faculty and administrators, papers delivered at
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications, including 10,000 online. A comprehensive collection of citation data - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.
IOWA University - Computer Science Technical Reports
Digital repository of full-text technical reports downloadable in multiple formats.
The MathGuide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in mathematics, located at the
The Medical and Health Library 1.0 was built in December 1999. It is jointly initiated by the Humanity Libraries Project (now called Human Info NGO), and the
MIT Theses: Science, Technology, and Society
Searchable collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses available online.
Free online abstracts and full-text papers in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary sciences, and solar physics. The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 7.3 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
OAIster
Gives access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources and through the OAI harvesting protocol reveals digital resources previously "hidden" from users behind web scripts.OAIster currently provides access to 18,530,232 records from 1039 contributors. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Open Access Journal Collection (Beta)
The collection currently comprises 44 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, 14 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.
Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
The Social Sciences pages of Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
The Computation and Language Eprint Archive
An electronic repository of full-text papers in computational linguistics, natural language processing, speech processing.
The Digital Library of the Commons
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
University of Trento Eprints archive
A digital repository (OAI compliant) of full-text scientific publications produced by professors and researchers of the University of Trento, Italy.
Uppsala University Publications
Full-text working papers and research reports in PDF format.
Virginia Tech - Electronic Theses
Searchable and browsable digital archive of theses and dissertations.
The new VoS is built upon a database that holds information in individual, modular records and constructs the apparent relation of information items "on-the-fly" as the user requests it.
Catalog of Internet resources. Indexes cover a broad range of subject areas. Each entry within a subject area links to the appropriate Internet resource and is accompanied by a brief description and a relevancy ranking.
The Yenza! site was developed by the South African National Research Foundation in partnership with the Infolit Project of the Adamastor Trust. Materials on the site comprise a mixture of annotated links to resources in
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Search for statistics and full-text analytical publications from NCES, the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more). From
Resources for kids, parents, and teachers. Full text and abstracts/citations. Research reports and statistics. Science.gov searches over 36 databases and 1,850 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative
Science Accelerator can search by keyword, author, title, date the following: Electronic full-text research reports (including DOE scientific and technical information) Energy citations (millions of them, going back to the Manhattan Project era)Ongoing research project summaries (what's happening right now in DOE science research) ; E-prints (journal article pre-publication drafts, scholarly papers, and more)Proceedings and papers from science conferences, etc.
Chemicals: Electronic Orange Book
Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. Search by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder, application number, patent.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Report Collection : Energy
This full-text collection provides access to unclassified, unlimited documents. It is a growing subset of almost 42,000 reports referenced and available in STINET, which dates back to 1974. Subject areas include biological and medical sciences, environmental pollution and control, behavioral and social sciences, and patents and patent applications.
NTIS has over 700 publications in its collection on the emerging field of nanotechnology. This broad and interdisciplinary field has been growing explosively in the past few years. While understanding of nanotechnology is just beginning to unfold, its tremendous potential for revolutionizing the ways in which materials and products are created is just beginning to show significant commercial impact.
National Technical Information Service ((NTIS)
Comprehensive resource for federally funded scientific, engineering, and business-related information. The database provides some full-text access and indexes over two million publications back to 1990.
NTRS provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research and engineering results. NTRS integrates three separate information collections and enables search and retrieval of information through a common interface: NACA Collection: Citations and reports from the NACA Technical Report Server (TRS), http://naca.larc.nasa.gov, are now in NTRS. The NACA TRS site is retired and no longer in service following the consolidation of citations and reports into NTRS. The NACA collection is historical information from the NACA period lasting from 1915 to 1958. NASA Collection: Citations and documents created or sponsored by NASA. The NASA collection time period starts in 1958 and continues to the present. NIX Collection: Citations and images, photos, movies and videos downloaded from the NASA Image exchange and served out through NTRS. NIX is a separate system and users can go directly to the NIX to search imagery as well as through NTRS.
OSHA/EPA Occupational Chemical Database
OSHA and EPA jointly developed and maintain this database as a convenient reference for the occupational safety and health community. This database compiles information from several government agencies and organizations. Available database reports include: "Physical Properties," "Exposure Guidelines," "NIOSH Pocket Guide," and "Emergency Response Information," including the DOT Emergency Response Guide. In addition, an all-in-one report, "Full Report," is available.
Patents: U.S. Patent Database .
This site provides full image access to all U.S.-granted patents back to 1790, with full-text searching back to 1976 and the full-text of published applications. The database also enables searching for references, which can include articles, reports, and proceedings.
Physics: Spires High-Energy Physics (HEP) Database .
The SPIRES-HEP database has been run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC) since the late 1960's as a database of particle physics literature. This database comprehensively indexes over 500,000 articles, papers, preprints, and technical reports. Most of the materials are available in full text, with coverage extending back to 1974.
PhysNet - Physics related free-access Journals
PhysNet Journals lists Physics related Journals, which are freely available (= free fulltext) on the net.
Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
Online access to more than 350 databases, which were created by over 20 Federal agencies.
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E-Stats: Measuring the Electronic Economy
E-commerce data were collected in four separate Census Bureau surveys. These surveys used different measures of economic activity such as shipments for manufacturing, sales for wholesale and retail trade, and revenues for service industries. Consequently, measures of total economic and e-commerce activity vary by economic sector, are conceptually and definitionally different, and therefore, are not additive.
Global Legal Information Network
Public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
Key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. Information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. Information in O*NET is available for over 950 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the most current version of the Standard Occupational Classification system.
National Archeological Database
The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. this "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S. Search by keyword, state, county, author, title, publication date, worktype, cultural, material, and more.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Links to digital theses/dissertations available in
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 20,000 e-books.
The Online Book Page by
It is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics. It offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
Internet Public Library Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
