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Hinari was launched in 2002, and provides access to key databases such as PubMed (full text), Cochrane, CINAHL, and Scopus. It is now one of the primary portals accessed by researchers and clinicians in developing countries.
AGORA provides a collection of up to 15,500 key journals and up to 48,000 books in more than 115 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.
OARE
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) provides over 2,990 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies.
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program provides free online access to major scientific and technical journals to local and not-for-profit institution.
GOALI
Academic and peer-reviewed journals, publications and databases on law and social sciences. Incorporating disciplines such as politics, economics, philosophy, history and many more from the most prestigious academic publishers, GOALI offers access to up to 16,000 resources, including books and peer-reviewed journals from 70 publishers.
The IGI Global book collection contains more than 6,600 book titles across 350+ different topic areas in 11 subjects including business and management, computer science and information technology, education, science and engineering, social sciences, and more.
online.sagepub.com
Sage Publications – SAGE Journals are online publication in business, humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. Also peer-reviewed articles crucial to your research.
srmo.sagepub.com
Sage Research Methods – SAGE Journals are online publication in business, humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. Also peer-reviewed articles crucial to your research.
emeraldinsight.com
Emerald – Emerald is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. Its strength is in Business, Management and Economics, Library and Information Studies, Social Sciences, Engineering, Language and Linguistics, Transport and Applied Sciences
euppublishing.com
Edinburg University Press – Edinburg University Press is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. Its strength is in Business, Management and Economics, Library and Information Studies, Social Sciences, Engineering, Language and Linguistics, Transport and Applied Sciences
search.ebscohost.com
Ebscohost – EBSCO is publishing database that cuts across the field of business, social sciences, information studies, health, philosophy and religion, education, engineering, mathematics, applied sciences.
dukejournals.org
Duke University Press Journals ONLINE. – Duke University Press is publishing database that cuts across the field of physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
Royal society of chemistry – RSC is a platform that provides access to journals, books and databases from RSC Publishing, linking over 1,146,032 chemical science articles and chapters. It includes all branches of chemistry including traditional fields (organic, inorganic, analytical chemistry) plus databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and catalyzed reactions, organic synthesis and natural products.
ajol.info
African Journals Online – African Journals Online (AJOL) is one of the world's largest and pre-eminent collections of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. AJOL-funded document delivery (free) to low income countries. It cuts across various disciplines such as social science, business, science, etc. AJOL is available.
JSTOR – Provides access to electronic archive of important scholarly literature. The database contains over 1,000 journal titles and over 176,000 individual journal issues.
thecochranelibrary.com
Cochrane Library – Provides access to electronic archive of important scholarly literature. The database contains over 1,000 journal titles and over 176,000 individual journal issues
search.credoreference.com
Credo Reference Library – It is an online reference library that provides reference services and includes Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,Biographies, Quotations, Bilingual Dictionaries,Crossword Solver, Measurement Conversions.
muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE – Project MUSE provides full text, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in science and technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
nrcresearchpress.com
Canadian Science Publishing (Publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) – Canadian Science Publishing provides full text, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in botany, cell biology, chemistry, civil engineering, earth science, fisheries and aquatic sciences, forestry, microbiology, physics, sport science, zoology.
doaj.org
DOAJ – It is a directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It covers all subjects and languages and provides full text access to 470 journals
ocw.mit.edu
MIT Open Courseware – Searchable access to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners. This database allows access to syllabi, course materials, and reading lists for over 1800 MIT courses.
doabooks.org
Doab – Doab is a directory of open access books and contains resources in Chemistry, Biology & Life, Business & Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics & Astronomy, General Science, Social Sciences, Science & Technology
journals.cambridge.org
Cambridge University Press – Cambridge University Press is a directory of open access books and contains resources in Chemistry, Biology & Life, Business & Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics & Astronomy, General Science, Social Sciences, Science & Technology.
omicsgroup.org
JHBM – Hotel and Business Management deals with the study of the professional management techniques used in the hospitality sector which includes hotel administration, accounts, marketing, housekeeping, front office or front of house, food and beverage management, catering and maintenance. The Journal provides an Open Access platform to illustrate the diverse topics including business ethics, hotel administration, financial and strategic management.
who.int
HINARI – HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
ardi.wipo.int
Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) – ARDI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
aginternetwork.org
Agora – Agora Programme set up to enable low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
oed.com
Oxford English Dictionary – The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words past and present from across the English-speaking world.As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words, and of the languages traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.The Access to Research
oxfordreference.com
Oxford Reference – Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopaedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas. A core foundation of 135+ academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content.
link.springer.com
Springer Books – Springer books provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works. It is a multi disciplinary resource that provides information from majority of the subject areas. These include engineering, business, applied science etc
googlescholar.com
Google scholar – Google scholar provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works. It is a multi disciplinary resource that provides information from majority of the subject areas. These include engineering, business, applied science etc.
Taylor and Francis – As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, reference works, and databases, our content spans all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
royalsocietypublishing.org
Royal Society publishing – This site provides a range of services and facilities including access to the Society's journals, news of recently published science and the opportunity to purchase our publications online. Some of its resources include open biology, biology letters, journal of the society interface etc.
ucpress.edu
University of California Press – University of California Press is one of the largest and most adventurous scholarly publishers in the nation. Each year they publish approximately 200 new books and 40 multi-issue journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and keep about 4,000 book titles in print.
press.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago journals – 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. Its subject strengths includes Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, Life and Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.
nejm.org
The New England Journal of Medicine- The New England Journal of Medicine publishes content with an emphasis on internal medicine and sub-specialty areas, including cardiology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, immunology/allergy, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology/neurosurgery, pulmonary, and rheumatology.
biomedcentral.org
Biomed central – Medical Sciences, biological sciences.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Wiley-Blackwell.
bioone.org
BioOne.
elgaronline.com
Elgaronline.
elibrary.imf.org
IMF E-Library
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE).
bookfi.net
OPEN SOURCE – Bookfi
pdfdrive.net
OPEN SOURCE – E-booksdirectory.
e-booksdirectory.com
OPEN SOURCE – E-booksdirectory
bookboon.com
OPEN SOURCE – Bookboon
catalog.flatworldknowledge.com
OPEN SOURCE – Catalog.flatworldknowledge
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