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Many academic journals are only available through educational
institutions and by subscription, but there are also a number of journals that
are completely free to access online.
Chemistry Central
This collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in chemical sciences.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This provides access to 2,565 quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals.
Electronic Journals Library
University Library of Regensburg offers the “Electronic Journals
Library,” which provides access to over 10,500 journals.
Electronic Text Centre
10,000 publicly available e-books and journals including philosophy,
religion, history, literature, history of science.
ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
Links to full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory.
Escholarship Editions
Access to electronic editions of academic books published by scholarship
editions, mainly in the humanities, religion, history, literature, arts
and social sciences.
FindArticles.com
Archive of published articles that can be searched for free. Includes
access to some journals which provide free full text access. The service
covers more general than academic journals but includes a few journals on
management and education.
Highwire (Stanford University)
Highwire facilitates access to over 1.1 million full text scholarly
articles on medical/biomedical topics. Most journal titles covered
include back issues older than 12-24 months.
HINARI
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
HINARI was launched in January 2002, with some 1500 journals from 6 major publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley, following the principles in a Statement of Intent signed in July 2001. Twenty-two additional publishers joined in May 2002, bringing the total number of journals to over 2000. Since that time, the numbers of participating publishers and of journals and other full-text resources has grown continuously. Today more than 70 publishers are offering their content in HINARI and others will soon be joining the programme. An evaluation is in progress which will determine the long term future of HINARI.
Ingenta
This was established in 1998 and has served academic libraries since
inception. It provides free access to the most comprehensive collection
of academic and professional publications.
National Academies Press:
Provides access to thousands of entire books and reports on a wide range
of topics in science, engineering, and the health sciences.
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
Provides access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science literature an d database search tools
Popline
World's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for 300,000 records. Document delivery services for the full text of most documents is free for individuals or institutions in developing countries, if it is not available locally, not a commercially published book, and is less than 100 pages long
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
Database of working papers and journal articles on economics. The website
links to IDEAS, the largest bibliographic database on Economics available
on the internet.
Scholarly Journals Distributed via the World Wide Web (University of Houston Libraries)
Provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language articles.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online reference works, handbooks and book series, ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles. In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles directly from your desktop, back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.
Social Science Online Periodicals
Database of articles from the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences
Documentation Centre.
University of Houston Libraries: Scholarly Journals Distributed via the
World Wide Web
Lists and provides links to journals that offer free access to English language articles.
USAID Development Partner Resources
A searchable database listing USAID programme and technical documents, with many available to download.
World Bank Documents
Collection of World Bank reports, documents and working papers.
World Development Reports
This is an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world produced by the World Bank.
World eLibrary
Housed in World Public Library Multi-Terabyte server network is the world's largest digital archive of PDF eBooks and eDocuments. The collection hosts more than 500,000+ PDF eBooks and eDocuments. It provides members the complete access to the entire collection.
The World eLibrary is a valuable ebooks of:
Over 500,000+ complete, full length, unabridged PDF eBooks, eDocuments, and References.
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