22 ديسمبر 2014

Open Access Databases

Open Access Databases

These databases are freely accessible on the internet. Some databases require that you register but access is then free of charge.
  • Amedeo
    Bibliographic monitoring of medical scientific journals. Reference database.
  • arXiv.org
    Open access archive to electronic preprints of scientific articles in mathematics, statistics, computer science and physics.
  • BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
    Interdisciplinary search engine. Find free academic web resources with scientific content.
  • Bibliotek.dk Joint library catalogue for Danish public and academic libraries.
  • BioMed Central 
    Medical, nursing and biomedical research. Independent publisher. Open access to all source articles published by BioMed in full-text after publication.
  • CiteSeerX
    Digital library and search engine for scientific literature, primarily on computer and information science, featuring autonomous citation indexing.
  • Cochrane Library
    Clinical medicine: A collection of databases featuring overviews of the effect of prevention, measures, treatment, surgery etc. Subject gateway, full-text, references.
  • Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive
    Electronic repository of articles and papers on psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer technology, biology and more submitted by the authors.
  • DiVA: Academic Archive On-line
    An open access institutional research archive for Nordic universities (Swedish dominance). DiVA was developed at the Unit for Digital Publishing at the Uppsala University Library.  
  • DML: Digital Mathematics Library
    "Retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs". Mathematical full-text articles.
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
    Free access to full-text articles from quality assured scientific journals.
  • EconPapers
    "The world's largest" collection of on-line working papers, journal articles and more on economics, most of which is freely available.
  • eMedicine
    "The original open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields".
    On-line knowledge bank for clinical medicine. Knowledge-based content with up-to-date peer-reviewed guidelines and medical articles.
  • ERIC
  • Free Medical Journals.com
    Free access to 430 medical journals with various embargoes for articles in full-text
  • Google Scholar
    Scholarly search engine
  • GoPubMed
    Specialist search engine for PubMed.
  • High North Research Documents
    Freely available research documents thematically relevant to the high north
  • HighWire Press, Stanford University
    Freely available full-text articles on medicine and health science (varying embargoes apply)
  • Intute
    Subject gateway with quality assessed Internet resources for education and research.
  • NORA: Nowegian Open Research Archives
    National search service for scientific information in open institutional repositories.
  • Norwegian and Nordic index to periodical articles (Norart)
    Interdisciplinary reference database with focus on social and health science. Published by the National Library of Norway.
  • Open-JGate
    Comprehensive portal to open access full-text journals from around the world.
  • OTseeker
    An Australian database containing abstracts of systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
  • PEDro
    Reference database. Knowledge-based physiotherapy, treatment and preventative measures.
  • PubMed
    Free version of Medline. References to articles in medicine, nursing, odontology, healthcare, biology and related subjects.
  • PubMed Central
    Free archive containing biomedical and scientific journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  • Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
    Comprehensive scientific search engine. Peer-reviewed articles in full-text from all the large databases and scientific digital archives.  
  • Statistics Norway
    Statistical tables and statistical analyses by Statistics Norway. Publications from Statistics Norway in full-text
  • SveMed+
    Reference database. Nordic health science journals in Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish. Patient information from 2001.
  • WHO Library Database (WHOLIS)
    Reference database, full-text database. All WHO publications and more, often with links to full-text documents.
  • World Bank Group Documents and Reports
    Gives access to more than 14,000 free World Bank documents.