Free and Open Access Resources

Objectives

• To gain an overview of the broad range of free resources available in various subject areas

• To identify resources which may be useful to us in the future

Resources available at no cost • Many high-quality, free resources

available online

• List of some open access resources at http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/Open.php

• List of some free resources athttp://www.inasp.info/peri/free.html

(at least some content available at no cost)

Types of resource available

• Current awareness services– abstracts – bibliographic databases – tables of contents (ToCs) – current awareness gateways

• Full-text online journals and databases

• Information gateways/portals/lists of links

Free biomedical resources• American Medical Association:10 journals• Bentham Science: all 25 journals from Jan

2000–June 2002 (offer only for 2003)• BMJ Publishing: 23 journals• ExtraMed: over 300 journals from

developing countries • FreeBooks4Doctors!: 550+ medical text

books• BioMed Central: 18 biology, 52 medicine

Links to help and information about the resource can be

found here

You can register (for free) and sign up for regular updates

from these links

Journals available are listed in A-Z listing or by subject

You can input simple searches here

Biomedical resources continued…

• Free Medical Journals Site: nearly 1000 journals + alerting service

• HighWire: ~500 thousand full-text articles

• INASP Health Links: gateway to selected Web sites

• HINARI: 2000+ biomedical and related social science publications

You can choose English, French or Spanish language

Information about HINARI is given here

Information about the resources within HINARI is

given here

Information about registering and eligibility is found here

Resources in chemistry

• Chemistry Preprint Server: Web archive of research articles

• Molecules: free journal on synthetic and natural product chemistry

• Analytical Chemistry Web Resources: databases, encyclopaedias, journals, etc

Information about new links is found here

Links to Science Search Engines

Links to the different resources which are available

Resources in maths

• Mathematics Preprint server: Web archive for research articles in mathematics

• Project Euclid: 19 journals covering theoretical and applied maths and statistics

Login, help, etc also available here

List of journals on Euclid

Link to information about Euclid

Link to ‘Help’ information

Resources in agriculture

• Food and Fertilizer Technology Centre: 100s of technical publications on tropical agriculture (focus on low-cost technology

• AGRIS: portal to 3 million bibliographic references, some full text

• AGRICOLA: bibliographic database for agriculture and allied disciplines

Link to ‘Frequently Asked Questions’

Information about AGRICOLA

Browsing, keyword searches and advanced searches

available

List of journals indexed on the AGRICOLA citation database

Resources in biosciences• Biogate: portal linking to 1000 resources• American Society for Microbiology: 11 journals

• PubMedCentral: archive of journal literature for all life sciences

• Environmental Protection Agency: research publications, technical docs, models, data, software

• Journal of Insect Science: papers in all aspects of the biology of insects

Links to resources on specific subjects

‘Advanced searching’ and ‘Help’ can be found here

Simple searches can be entered here

Resources in physics • ePrint archive: world-reknown electronic

archive and distribution server for research papers

• eJournals Delivery Service: will email articles from 197 journals from Academic Press, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, World Scientific

• CERN: over 500 thousand bibliographic records, including over 200 thousand full text documents

Simple searches can be entered here

‘Search Tips’ are accessible from this link

You can personalise the resource through these links

Resources in social sciences + humanities

• Electronic Society for Social Scientists: publishes journals including the Review of Economic Theory

• Multilingual Matters: covers tourism, transport, etc

• Berkeley Electronic Press: 10 journals including economics and politics

Information about ELSSS and what it is trying to achieve is available

This links to there journal ‘The Review of Economic

Theory’

Resources in IT, library and information sciences• Association for Information Systems: 2

journals• INASP Links and Resources—access

to information: guide to selected Web sites for library and information science communities

• InformationRnet: journals on information management, information science, and information systems

Information about the site is provided here

Links to the resources are organised by topic

Simple searches can be performed

Multidisciplinary resources• Berkeley Electronic Press: 10 journals in

economics, politics, engineering, law, biology• Best of Science: pre-prints and peer-reviewed

articles in exact sciences, technologies, biological sciences, medical sciences, and human sciences

• ContentsDirect: ToC email alerts for material from Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland, Excerpta Medica

Multidisciplinary resources 2• EEVL: information gateway to

engineering, mathematics and computing information sources

• Electronic Journals Library: nearly 13 thousand journals of which ~ 3.5 thousand are full-text

• Electronic Journals Miner: journals, magazines, e'zines, webzines, newsletters etc

An outline of the information you can have emailed to you is given

here

Help and information for different user groups is

given

So we can see there are many, many free resources

available

-this has shown just a small proportion of them

Thank you…

Any questions?