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Agriculture
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AGRIS is
the international information system for the
agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information
exchange and to bring together world literature dealing
with all aspects of agriculture. It is a cooperative
system in which participating countries input references
to the literature produced within their boundaries and,
in return, draw on the information provided by the other
participants. To date, 240 national, international and
intergovernmental centres participate from all over the
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AROW: Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web
contains a
worldwide directory of over 1000 organisations and
universities working in agricultural research that have
a home page on the web. It is updated on a regular
basis. It is a browsable site that can be searched by
web address, organisation title and acronym, or country.
The AROW directory is maintained in association with
Wisard, the Web-based Information System for
Agricultural Research for Development. Wisard also
includes research organisations without websites.
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InfoAgrar
is the agricultural
information and documentation service of the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The focus
is on information related to agriculture in
Africa, Latin and
Central America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. It is a
unique service for those seeking practical information
and support in agricultural development cooperation as
well as issues related to information management.
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The
Info Finder
is a global link to
research on agriculture, hunger, poverty and the
environment which allows users to search for digital
information on Future Harvest Center, CGIAR and FAO
websites. |
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World Environment Library
- New Zealand Digital Library Project provides full text
access to publications in the fields of agriculture,
biodiversity, climate change, environmental impact
assessment, energy, health, natural resources, policy,
sustainable development, waste management and water.
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Journal of Dairy Science:
(Free Full text)
The official journal of the
American Dairy Science Association, JDS publishes
results of original research in dairy foods, physiology
and management; nutrition, feeding, and calves; and
genetics and breeding. For the past four years, JDS has
ranked first or second in the category of Agriculture,
Dairy, and Animal Sciences titles by impact factor for
the ISI rankings and is in the top 1% of STM publishing
(50,000+ titles) by total ISI citations.
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Physics free-access Journals:
This site lists Physics-related Journals, which are
freely available (= free fulltext) on the net.
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Directory of free and open access journals in psychiatry
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DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals:
This directory covers free, full text, quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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Electronic Journals and Periodicals:
complete index of psychologically related electronic
journals, conference proceedings, and other periodicals
in this document |
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Find Articles:
Search millions
of articles from leading academic,
industry and general interest publications. We give you
free access to information you can trust,
from a collection
you'll only find here.
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US
Patent Full Text Database
a free full-text database of all
US patents issued from January
1, 1976 to the most recent. Also on this site are the
AIDS Patents Database and the US Patent Bibliographic
Database. Several search options are available, but
images and diagrams are not included from the Patent
database. |
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The University Law Review Project
- A reminder of this resource.
Links to full text journals are expanding rapidly with
an effective full text search facility for on line law
journals. This is a free service provided by the
Coalition of Online Law Journals and FindLaw
[http://www.FindLaw.com/) with support of
Stanford University and the
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
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Theses Canada Portal:
this site represents the largest free, full-text
database of electronic theses available anywhere in the
world. |
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International Immunology:
(Free Full text)
publishes a broad range of experimental and theoretical
studies in molecular and cellular immunology conducted
in laboratories throughout the world. |
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The
Journal of Experimental Botany
(Free Full text)
publishes high-quality primary
research papers in the plant sciences. These papers
cover a range of disciplines from molecular and cellular
physiology and biochemistry through whole plant
physiology to community physiology. |
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
(Free Full text)
(MBE) publishes research at
the interface between molecular and evolutionary
biology. The journal publishes investigations of
molecular evolutionary patterns and processes, tests of
evolutionary hypotheses that use molecular data, and
studies that use molecular evolutionary information to
address questions about biological function at all
levels of organization. |
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Nucleic Acids Research
(Free Full text)
(NAR) is a fully Open Access
journal, providing rapid publication of leading edge
research into the nucleic acids under the following
categories: chemistry, computational biology, genomics,
molecular biology, nucleic acid enzymes, RNA and
structural biology. |
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Toxicological Sciences,
(Free Full text)
the official journal of the
Society of Toxicology, is to publish premier
peer-reviewed, hypothesis-driven, original research
articles in all areas of toxicology. |
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Age and Ageing:
(Free Full text)
is an international journal publishing refereed original
articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine
and gerontology. Its range includes research on ageing
and clinical, epidemiological and psychological aspects
of later life. |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
(1,149,442 records), including 108,060 abstracts from
Planetary Sciences and Solar Physics journals
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Physics and Geophysics
(2,834,698 records), including 386,817 abstracts from
APS journals and 226,676 abstracts from SPIE conference
proceedings |
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ArXiv Preprints
(350,371 records), consisting of all the papers
published in the ArXiv e-print archive
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ERIC Database:
The ERIC online system provides the public with a
centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC
bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million
citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000
full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004),
previously available through fee-based services only,
are now available for free.
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Environment |
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Conservation and Society
is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that aims
to promote work on the theory and practice of
conservation. The journal is dedicated to publishing
work from both natural and social sciences and covers
basic and applied research. The journal is committed to
disseminating information in the developing world. Free
online access is available for all articles and hard
copy subscriptions are highly subsidised for
Asia, Africa and Latin
America. |
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EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
: Access to
scientific information that may be useful in
understanding and protecting the environment including
access to research publications and technical documents,
test methods, data, software, models, and other
scientific tools plus access to laboratories, research
centres, and other EPA scientific organisations.
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Humanities |
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HUMBUL-Humanities Bulletin Board
: The Humbul Humanities Hub provides a searchable
catalogue of online Humanities resources as part of the
Resource Discovery Network. The Humbul Humanities Hub
discovers, evaluates and catalogues online resources in
the humanities of use to students, teachers and
researchers in
UK higher and further education. Currently Humbul has 29
top-level subjects, including African and Latin American
Studies, History, Philosophy, Archaeology and Religion &
Theology |
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Acta Mathematica:
(Free Full text)
contains original research papers in all fields of
mathematics. Two volumes, consisting of two issues each
- in all about 600pp - are published annually. Papers in
English, French and German are accepted.
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DML: Digital Mathematics Library
This site, prepared and maintained by Ulf Rehmann,
contains links to 1822 digitized maths books (361524
pages) and 126 digitized maths journals (2609672 pages)
searchable by author or title. |
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Geometry and Topology
: Fully refereed
international journal dealing with all aspects of
geometry and topology and their applications. Geometry
and Topology is free to access to all users in its
electronic format. |
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Bentham Science
: All of Bentham
Science's journals published in the year 2000, 2001 and
6 months of 2002 are now available FREE on-line in full
text PDF form in collaboration with INGENTA. This unique
offer is ONLY available in the year 2004.
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Medicine &
Health Science |
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BioMed Central:
BioMed Central
offers online publishing of articles in all areas of
original biomedical research with full peer review and
open access. Submission is online and authors retain
copyright. All original articles are published in one of
the BioMed Central journals (over 100 Open Access
journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine), as
well as being posted without delay on PubMed Central and
indexed in PubMed. |
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BMJ Journals:
Free access
to the electronic version of the British Medical
Journal Publishing Group's 25 specialist
journals now including Evidence-based journals.
These are freely accessible to anybody in the
100 poorest countries in the world. Users should
follow the standard subscription procedures as
the BMJ subscription system will automatically
recognise the origin of access.
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FreeBooks4Doctors:
The AMEDEO
Group are now making many important medical
textbooks available online, free and in
full-text. 1 Currently 600 titles are included
in the service, sorted by speciality and title.
FreeBooks4Doctors! also provides a free alert
service as new titles are added.
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Free Medical Journals
: The Free
Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the
promotion of free access to medical journals
over the Internet. Currently1380 full-text
journals sorted by subject, language, and title,
as well as highlight free journals with high
impact factors. There is also a mailing list to
alert you as new free journals are added to
their list. |
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Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and
Research
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Collection of open access and free journals in a
wide range of medical disciplines.
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HighWire Press: Sources of free On-Line full
text articles and journals
: ighWire
Press work with scholarly societies and
responsible publishers to host their content
online. They do not own the material, nor do
they set the journals' policies. HighWire
contains 742,863 free full-text
articles as of July 2004. HighWire Press at
Stanford
University develops and maintains the Web
versions of important journals in biomedicine
and other disciplines. A list of journals with
free full-text articles online is available. See
also
http://www.highwire.org/lists/devecon.dtl
lists the journals published online with the
assistance of HighWire Press which offer free
online access to current content (not just back
issues) to all countries that appear in the
World Bank's list of "low income economies"
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INDMED :
One point resource
of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering
full text of IndMED journals. It has been designed to
provide quick and easy access through searching or
browsing. |
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
: Founded in 1999,
is the first international scientific peer-reviewed
journal on all aspects of research, information and
communication in the healthcare field using Internet and
Intranet-related technologies. Free access to all
articles to all users, online. Full text content of the
journal is also available from Bioline International.
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Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
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multidisciplinary quarterly biomedical journal, is one
of the oldest medical journals from
India. The journal is official
publication of the Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical
College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India. The
website of the journal provides free access to full text
of articles from 1990. Free access to all articles to
all users, online. |
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Landes BioScience:
Medical
handbooks(55)available in pdf to medical libraries in
the developing world at no charge. |
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MedicalStudent.com:
MedicalStudent.com is described as a digital library of
authoritative medical information for all students of
medicine. It is meant to serve as a "pico portal" for
users interested in quality medical resources on the
Internet. Contains over 250 medical textbooks arranged
alphabetically in topics from Anatomy to Urology. Each
textbook included is free to use, in part or in whole
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New England Journal of Medicine
: The New England
Journal of Medicine is available to over 60 countries
(listed on their web site) under its "Access for
Low-Income Countries" program. Users from these
countries will be recognised automatically by their IP
addresses and allowed access to full text without
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POPLINE Database : POPLINE,
the world's largest bibliographic database on
population, family planning, and related issues, is
now available free of charge on the Internet. All
280,000 citations, representing published and
unpublished literature, can be accessed for no
charge.
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PubMed :
PubMed, a service
of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14
million citations for biomedical articles back to the
1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional
life science journals. PubMed includes links to many
sites providing full text articles and other related
resources. To access the full text available, please
make sure that the box "Free full-text only" is ticked
when you perform your search. |
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PubMedCentral:
The U.S. National
Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences
journal literature claims to offer open access to over
80,000 articles from over 100 journals. Access to much
of the full text on PMC is free and unrestricted. A
journal may make its content available in PMC as soon as
it is published, or it may delay its release in PMC for
a specified period after initial publication. Current
PMC journals have delays ranging up to two years, with
most releasing their material six months or less after
publication. |
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
(UK)
: The Royal College of Psychiatrists allows free
access to the online full-text version of its three
journals ('British Journal of Psychiatry', 'Psychiatric
Bulletin' and 'Advances in Psychiatric Treatment') to 75
different developing countries. |
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SciELO Public Health
: Public Health is
an electronic library online covering health science
articles published by scientific journals. Its primary
goal is to provide universal and integrated access to
scientific journals in the health science area within
Ibero-American countries. |
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Washington DC Principles
: Forty-eight non-profit publishers of 380 journals each
year, representing more than 600,000 members of medical
and scientific societies, and posting 800,000 articles
on line each year, of which more than 440,000 are free,
have signed the "Washington DC Principles for Free
Access to Science," whose gist is: Selected important
articles of interest are free online from the time of
publication; The full text of our journals is freely
available to everyone worldwide either immediately or
within months of publication, depending on each
publisher's business and publishing requirements; The
content of our journals is available free to scientists
working in many low-income nations.
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