Friday 15 February 2013

AOCAY E-LIBRARY




The AGORA program, set up by the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers provides access to an outstanding digital library collections in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 918 journals to institutions in 107 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. [for more click here]

Bibliomania
This contains thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, study guides, dictionaries, biographies, religious texts, and popular non-fiction. [for more click here]

Bioline International
Features 30 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe etc. Subjects included are health, biodiversity, environment, conservation and international development. [for more click here]

BLDS: British Library for Development Studies at IDS – Institute of Development Studies
This is Europe’s largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries. [for more click here]

Bridge: Development and Gender
A searchable database of gender and development materials from across the wild. The collection includes tools, case studies, policy papers and research. [for more click here]

Chemistry Central
This collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in chemical sciences. [for more click here]

CommsDesign
Provides access to online resources for CommsDesign engineers. [for more click here]

Directory of Open Access Journals
This provides access to 2,565 quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. [for more click here]

EBSCO
Databases is one of the world’s most valuable, largest scholarly multidiscipline, full text database indispensable to academic institutions.
The Academic Search Premier is by far the world’s most valuable and most numerous collections of active full text peer-reviewed journals. Business source premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 2,300 journals. Education Research complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world largest and most complete collection of full text education journal.
The Health source: Nursing /Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. MEDLINE with full text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text medical journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. SOCINDEX with full text is the most comprehensive engine and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. [for more click here]

Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Middle East
Provides a list of journals related to the Middle East, some of which include access to full texts or abstracts of articles. [for more click here]

Electronic Journals Library
University Library of Regensburg offers the “Electronic Journals Library,” which provides access to over 10,500 journals. [for more click here]

Electronic Literature Directory
This is a database of listings that cover poetry, fiction, drama, and non fictions. The forms of writing represented include hypertexts, animated poems, multimedia works, etc. [for more click here]

Electronic Text Centre
10,000 publicly available e-books and journals including philosophy, religion, history, literature, history of science. [for more click here]

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. [for more click here]

Escholarship Editions
Access to electronic editions of academic books published by scholarship editions, mainly in the humanities, religion, history, literature, arts and social sciences. [for more click here]

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. [for more click here]

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. [for more click here]

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. [for more click here]

NATIONAL VIRTUAL LIBRARYhttp://www.nigerianvirtuallibrary.com/
This is a digital library where you can derive maximum benefit from available resources which includes electronic books, journals, films, videos and maps. It contains highest and latest publications in various fields to facilitate teaching, research and learning.

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. [for more click here]


EBRARY http://openuni.bravecontent.com
Ebrary employs powerful tools for information retrieval, discovery, and management.
These include content products, such as handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents
• Academic Complete (includes all other academic databases)
• Business & Economics
• Community & Career Colleges
• Education
• Engineering & Technology
• History & Political Science (also includes a bonus selection of historical maps)
• Humanities (includes Music, Theater, Dance, Film, Media, Communication, Art, and Architecture) Interdisciplinary & Area Studies (includes Asian, Ethnic, Native American, Gender, and Gay & Lesbian Studies)
• Language, Literature & Linguistics
• Law, International Relations & Public Policy
• Life Sciences (includes Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Environmental Studies)
• Medicine
• Nursing & Allied Health
• Physical Sciences
• Psychology & Social Work
• Religion, Philosophy & Classics
• Sociology & Anthropology
• Other Databases
• Canadian Electronic Library
• D&B International Business Reports™
• Datamonitor Industry Reports™
• Online Sheet Music
• Public Library Complete
• SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers)

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. [for more click here]

QUESTIA http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp
The world's largest online library of books (humanities & social sciences)
The first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
• You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection.
• You can read every title cover to cover.
• This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet.
• Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource.
• Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia.
• Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically.
• Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs.

LEXISNEXIS (Legal and related Studies) Local Content http://www.mylexisnexis.co.za

Lexis Academicshttp://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/?
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions and risk and compliance assessment

Multi-Science Journals http://multi-science.metapress.com/publications
Multi-Science Publishing Company prides itself on publishing journals that fill gaps in the scientific literature and are responses to technological developments that call new disciplines into existence. In that way, it achieves uniqueness for its journals, they are not ‘yet another’ journal on any given topic. Of course, all Multi-Sciences primary journals are fully refereed; the fact that distinguished editors and editorial boards lend their names and their time to the journal is one way of understanding the esteem in which they are held in certain quarters. As well as journals, Multi-Science publishes books in the same subject areas as its journals.

Social Science Online Periodicals
Database of articles from the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Documentation Centre. [for more click here]

World Bank E-Library http://elibrary.worldbank.org/
The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank’s subscription-based collection of nearly 6,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers including:
• Development Outreach, World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer journal articles published since 1996
• Development Economics (DEC) policy research working papers published since 1995
• e-books and reports dating as far as the 1970’s (in the case of the World Development Reports), plus
• all new formal publications upon release.

Armed Conflict Database http://acd.iiss.org/armedconflict
Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.

USAID Development Partner Resources
A searchable database listing USAID programme and technical documents, with many available to download. [for more click here]

World Bank Documents
Collection of World Bank reports, documents and working papers. [for more click here]

World Development Reports
This is an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world produced by the World Bank.
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Digital Or E-Library Guides


Digital Librarian
With over 50 subjects, Digital Librarian is a selection of web resources put together by a Librarian to aid anyone use the web to find information relevant to research in specific areas.

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."

Research Guides from Baker Library, Harvard Business School
These guides put together by the Baker Library, Harvard Business School contain resources in various subjects around business (local and global) in today's world including Agribusiness and World Statistics.

Wall Street Executive Library
Useful websites, magazines, journals, search engines on subjects covering both U.S. and Canadian magazines, journals, periodicals. Direct links to a long list of News Stand magazines, Business, as well as Computer & Technology magazines online.

 

Journals and Articles

AGORA (ACCESS TO GLOBAL ONLINE RESEARCH AGRICULTURE):
The AGORA initiative was set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in conjunction with other publishing bodies to put together a collection of journals in food and environmental science, agriculture and other related subjects. It is aimed at empowering students and academics via scholarly resources.

Armed Conflict Database
Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.

Bioline International
Bioline grants access to peer-reviewed journals in bioscience published in ‘developing’ nations ( Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe etc).

BLDS: British Library for Development Studies at IDS – Institute of Development Studies
For about forty (40) years, one million (1,000, 000) items (e-books and e-journals), BLDS has one of the largest research collections in Europe. It records that more than half of its collection resonate from developing countries, most of which are unavailable in other libraries in European libraries. Some of their resources can be accessed remotely for free.
Bridge: Development and Gender:
This database contains white papers, policy papers, case studies and scholarly articles on gender issues from a global perspective.

Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central offers open access to peer-reviewed journals in chemical sciences. It is operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science+Business Media, committed to the free and widespread dissemination of chemical research.

CIA Factbook
The CIA Factbook is an excellent resource for global statistics on economic issues.

CommsDesign
In a user-friendly manner, CommsDesign has a number of articles for communications design and engineering.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Recommended)
As at March 2012, DOAJ recorded 7588 journals and 777295 articles. All of these articles in various subjects are open access and can be obtained for free.

DIVA
This is a resource portal that offers, student theses, conference papers and journal articles in various subjects .

Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Middle East
This is a directory listing resources (articles and journals) in Middle East Studies from history and civilization to gender-related studies.

Electronic Journals Library
Provided by the University Library of Regensburg and University Library of the Technical University of Munich, EJL offers a central repository of journals and other scholarly material, a number of which are free accessible (marked )

Electronic Literature Directory
The Electronic Literature Directory (ELD) is a collection of literary works, descriptions, and keywords. It is aimed at bringing both author and reader to a common platform where both the work and consequently appreciation is encouraged through forums and discussions. Submissions of entries as well as reviews are free.

ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
Here, one can gain access to material (books, reports, articles, and papers) available on the net centred around education and learning theory.

FindArticles.com
All known as the Resource Library, this is an archive of published articles that can be searched for free. It also includes access to some journals which provide free full text access. It has to be noted that the articles here are more general than academic but contains a few journal titles.

GDNET
“GDNet has compiled a comprehensive listing of the different initiatives which provide researchers in low and middle income countries with free access to academic journals. It is a listing of collections of free online journals related to the social sciences. It also provides a list of websites which provide links to journals for which full text access is restricted to subscribers, but non-subscribers can access other journal information such as the table of contents or abstracts of articles.”

Harvard Business Review
Perfect for resources in business research including case studies, articles, and books.

Highwire (Stanford University)
This enables access to a huge database of scholarly articles in medicine and medical sciences.

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
“Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.”
Over 4,150 peer reviewed titles (as of 10/2011) owned and published by over 350 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines.

The Business Publications Search Engine
Directory of over 200 free subscriptions to Business & Trade Publications.

QUESTIA
Tagged as ‘Trusted Online Research’, Questia has one of the world’s largest repository of books and articles. This comes highly recommended because aside from having all of its content freely accessible, it claims that its title are exclusive and it has content suitable for research at all levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and professional).

RAND: Objective Analysis, Effective Solutions
A research site for students seeking reliable analysis on various subjects of interest. It focuses on a wide range of topics and is quite insightful.

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.

E-books and E-libraries
Bibliomania
Specifically rich in classic literature and verses, Bibliomania has free online literature with more than 2000 titles in classic texts, reviews including literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books, study guides, and reference material (Dictionaries, Quotations).

Book Boon
Bookboon.com originated in Denmark in 1988 and since its inception, has focused on publishing books for students and business professionals. In 2005, it shifted its focus to publishing only 100% free ebooks for its market. Since this leap, Bookboon has experienced huge rates of adoption with over 1500 book titles in its database and over 10 million downloads in a year.
In 2005 the company made a strategic leap and became the first book publishing company in the world to focus 100% on free eBooks. Ever since, the company has been aiming to set new standards in the world of modern publishing based on the readers’ needs. Its aim is to remain at the forefront of publishing while satisfying its target market.
Check this site for textbooks written by eligible professors used both as primary and secondary literature and is designed to usher in a group of well-informed professionals.

Education and Information Technology Digital Library
This e-solution is a digital library for resources in Education and Information Technology and is aimed at facilitating "learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities."

Escholarship Editions
The University of California e-Book collection contains more than two thousand (2000) book titles in a range of topics including ‘art, science, history, music, religion and fiction’. A number of titles are freely open to the public.

The Free Library
"Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily."

VIRGO
By the University of Virginia Library, VIRGO is a repository of resources (books, articles, digital material, digital images) made searchable and easy to access in various subjects.

World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."

Dissertation and Theses

Digital Library and Archives
Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.

Directory of History Dissertations
The Directory contains 27,640 dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S."

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
"NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide"

Open Theses
OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.

Proquest Open Dissertations and Theses
"PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access and make their research available for free on the open Web."