free and open access resources
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Free and Open Access Resources. Objectives. To gain a n overview of the broad range of free resources available in various subject areas To identify resources which may be useful to us in the future. Resources available at no cost. Many high-quality, free resources available online - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Free and Open Access Resources
Objectives
• To gain an overview of the broad range of free resources available in various subject areas
• To identify resources which may be useful to us in the future
Resources available at no cost • Many high-quality, free resources
available online
• List of some open access resources at http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/Open.php
• List of some free resources athttp://www.inasp.info/peri/free.html
(at least some content available at no cost)
Types of resource available
• Current awareness services– abstracts – bibliographic databases – tables of contents (ToCs) – current awareness gateways
• Full-text online journals and databases
• Information gateways/portals/lists of links
Free biomedical resources• American Medical Association:10 journals• Bentham Science: all 25 journals from Jan
2000–June 2002 (offer only for 2003)• BMJ Publishing: 23 journals• ExtraMed: over 300 journals from
developing countries • FreeBooks4Doctors!: 550+ medical text
books• BioMed Central: 18 biology, 52 medicine
Links to help and information about the resource can be
found here
You can register (for free) and sign up for regular updates
from these links
Journals available are listed in A-Z listing or by subject
You can input simple searches here
Biomedical resources continued…
• Free Medical Journals Site: nearly 1000 journals + alerting service
• HighWire: ~500 thousand full-text articles
• INASP Health Links: gateway to selected Web sites
• HINARI: 2000+ biomedical and related social science publications
You can choose English, French or Spanish language
Information about HINARI is given here
Information about the resources within HINARI is
given here
Information about registering and eligibility is found here
Resources in chemistry
• Chemistry Preprint Server: Web archive of research articles
• Molecules: free journal on synthetic and natural product chemistry
• Analytical Chemistry Web Resources: databases, encyclopaedias, journals, etc
Information about new links is found here
Links to Science Search Engines
Links to the different resources which are available
Resources in maths
• Mathematics Preprint server: Web archive for research articles in mathematics
• Project Euclid: 19 journals covering theoretical and applied maths and statistics
Login, help, etc also available here
List of journals on Euclid
Link to information about Euclid
Link to ‘Help’ information
Resources in agriculture
• Food and Fertilizer Technology Centre: 100s of technical publications on tropical agriculture (focus on low-cost technology
• AGRIS: portal to 3 million bibliographic references, some full text
• AGRICOLA: bibliographic database for agriculture and allied disciplines
Link to ‘Frequently Asked Questions’
Information about AGRICOLA
Browsing, keyword searches and advanced searches
available
List of journals indexed on the AGRICOLA citation database
Resources in biosciences• Biogate: portal linking to 1000 resources• American Society for Microbiology: 11 journals
• PubMedCentral: archive of journal literature for all life sciences
• Environmental Protection Agency: research publications, technical docs, models, data, software
• Journal of Insect Science: papers in all aspects of the biology of insects
Links to resources on specific subjects
‘Advanced searching’ and ‘Help’ can be found here
Simple searches can be entered here
Resources in physics • ePrint archive: world-reknown electronic
archive and distribution server for research papers
• eJournals Delivery Service: will email articles from 197 journals from Academic Press, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, World Scientific
• CERN: over 500 thousand bibliographic records, including over 200 thousand full text documents
Simple searches can be entered here
‘Search Tips’ are accessible from this link
You can personalise the resource through these links
Resources in social sciences + humanities
• Electronic Society for Social Scientists: publishes journals including the Review of Economic Theory
• Multilingual Matters: covers tourism, transport, etc
• Berkeley Electronic Press: 10 journals including economics and politics
Information about ELSSS and what it is trying to achieve is available
This links to there journal ‘The Review of Economic
Theory’
Resources in IT, library and information sciences• Association for Information Systems: 2
journals• INASP Links and Resources—access
to information: guide to selected Web sites for library and information science communities
• InformationRnet: journals on information management, information science, and information systems
Information about the site is provided here
Links to the resources are organised by topic
Simple searches can be performed
Multidisciplinary resources• Berkeley Electronic Press: 10 journals in
economics, politics, engineering, law, biology• Best of Science: pre-prints and peer-reviewed
articles in exact sciences, technologies, biological sciences, medical sciences, and human sciences
• ContentsDirect: ToC email alerts for material from Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland, Excerpta Medica
Multidisciplinary resources 2• EEVL: information gateway to
engineering, mathematics and computing information sources
• Electronic Journals Library: nearly 13 thousand journals of which ~ 3.5 thousand are full-text
• Electronic Journals Miner: journals, magazines, e'zines, webzines, newsletters etc
An outline of the information you can have emailed to you is given
here
Help and information for different user groups is
given
So we can see there are many, many free resources
available
-this has shown just a small proportion of them
Thank you…
Any questions?