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- Academic Journals
Academic Journals currently publishes 108 peer-reviewed open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
- ACBF The African Capacity Building Foundation
Welcome to ACBF's Knowledge Resource Corner (KRC), a virtual library on capacity development. The Knowledge Resource Corner is a one stop shop digital library that offers fast, well-structured and unified interface to access free full-text copies on capacity development produced and published by ACBF, its networks and partners. KRC's collections comprise books, occasional papers, working papers, reports, development memoirs, lesson notes, conference papers etc. Other online reference sources accessible via the Knowledge Resource Corner include several databases, gateways, portals, e-journals, e-books and e-news.
- AGRICOLA
A comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences information, Agricola contains Over 3,500,000 citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to all aspects of agriculture.
- AJOL
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.
- American Institute of Physics
American Institute of Physics publishes journals, 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.
- 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.
- Annual Reviews
The database covers Biochemistry, Microbiology, Physical Sciences and social sciences.
- BIOONE
BioOne Complete is BioOne's full-text database of more than 200 leading journals in the world.
- BookBoon
Bookbon is a free to use website that lets you download eBooks. The eBooks are categorized either as textbooks or books for business or travel.
- BioMed Central
Pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.
Expanding beyond biomedicine into the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering disciplines, BMC now offers a wider portfolio of subject fields on a single open access platform. At BMC, research is always in progress. We are committed to continual innovation to better support the needs of our communities, ensuring the integrity of the research we publish, and championing the benefits of open research. BMC is part of Springer Nature.
- Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press currently publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas.
- CERNCOURIER
CERN Courier is essential reading for the global high-energy physics community.
- Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books provides freely accessible books and therefore free to read. All books listed in DOAB are free to read and share for non-commercial use.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals. Currently 719 journals are searchable at article level.
- E-Book Central
Ebrary offers authoritative e-books in a wide range of subject areas: Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Engineering & Technology, History & Political Science, Humanities, Interdisciplinary & Area Studies, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Law, International Relations & Public Policy, Life Sciences, Medical, Nursing & Allied Health, Physical Sciences, Psychology & Social Work, Religion, Philosophy & Classics, and Sociology & Anthropology.
- EBSCO OPEN DISSERTATIONS
Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, _EBSCO Open Dissertations™_ is a new, free electronic theses and dissertations database offering access to more than 800,000 ETDs. It is available to all and searchable.
- ELDIS
Eldis is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies based in the UK but our services profile work by a growing global network of research organisations and knowledge brokers.
- Emerald insight
Emerald is a leading English language publisher of academic and professional literature covering wide range of subjects and full text articles.
- EThOS
Search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.
- FAO
FAO creates and shares critical information about food, agriculture and natural resources in the form of global public goods. FAO serves as a knowledge network.
- Google Books
Google Books provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many discipline, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Books helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
- Google scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
- Henry Stewart Talks (agriculture)
Specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on biomedical and life sciences for researchers and university faculty members. This database mainly covers Bio-medicine and life sciences.
- Hindawi
Hindawi is one of the world�s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals. Built on an ethos of openness, we are passionate about working with the global academic community to promote open scholarly research to the world. With the help of our academic Editors, based in institutions around the globe, we are able to focus on serving our authors while preserving robust publishing standards and editorial integrity.
- INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO)
ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations.
It covers a number of subjects in social sciences such as Child Labour, Collective bargaining and labour relations, Disability and work Domestic workers, Economic and social development, Globalization , Multinational enterprises ,Small and Medium Enterprises , Sustainable enterprises, Work, peace and resilience, Employment security, Equality and discrimination, Gender equality, Forced labour, human trafficking and slavery, Labour law , Labour administration, Labour inspection and administration, Labour migration, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty, Rural economy, Social protection and Youth employment.
- IMF eLibray
IMF eLibrary provides comprehensive data and original analysis, with coverage of Monetary policy, Financial stability, Economic development, Forecasts and outlooks, Poverty reduction.
- JSTOR
JSTOR publishes academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published. The content on JSTOR comes from a broad range of disciplines, predominantly in the humanities, social sciences, and field sciences.
- Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data:
• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research software
• Find relevant papers based on what you're reading
• Access your papers from anywhere online
- Oxford Journals Collection
Publishes over 300 journals in the humanities, social sciences, law, science, and medicine, two-thirds of which are published in partnership with learned and professional societies.
- Project Muse
Project Muse provides Peer-reviewed journals and books from non-profit scholarly publishers, with wide variety of subjects in humanities and social science subjects.
- PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Research4lfe
Research4Life provides institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. We aim to improve teaching, research and policymaking in health, agriculture, the environment and other life, physical and social sciences.
- Sage
Sage full-text collections are available in the following disciplines: Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organizations Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning.
- Science Direct
A collection of over 1000 journal title citations with links to the full text by subscription only. Science Direct focuses predominantly on science, technology, and medicine, but mathematics, economics and other disciplines are represented.
- Science Publications
Science Publications offers peer-reviewed, open access academic journals. They aim to provide researchers, writers, academic professors and students with up-to-date research in a broad range of areas.
- Springer Open
The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work.
- Taylor & Francis (journals)
Provides access to multidisciplinary databases that covers subject areas like Area Studies, Arts, Behavioural Sciences, Biosciences, Built Environment Communication Studies, Computer Science, Development Studies,Earth Sciences, Economics, Finance, Bussiness and Industry, Education Engineering and Technology, Environment and Agriculture, Environment and sustainability, Food Science and Technology, Geography ,Healthy and social care, Humanities, Information Science, language & Literature.
- The Lyell Collection Complete
The Lyell Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality. 26 000 peer-reviewed articles.
- Wiley Online Library
Wiley-Blackwell covers the full spectrum of science, nursing, medicine, humanities and social sciences, technology, geography studies, earth and environmental sciences.
- World Bank.
Documents in both text and downloadable pdf format can be accessed by browsing or searching. Most documents are also available in depository libraries around the world. You can use the options under the search box to browse through the documents by country, type, or sector, or search via the Advanced Search page. The types of documents you will find include: Board Documents, Country Focus Documents, Economic & Sector Work and Project Documents.
- World Digital Library
The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and among countries.
- Zotero
Zotero is a free, open-source research tool that helps you collect, organize, and analyze research and share it in a variety of ways. Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references.
