Online Journal Databases

• Sida/SAREC, under the INASP/PERii programme.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• WHO and FAO.
• Organizations providing Free Access Resources.

E-books

• The Net Library Database:
  http://www.netLibrary.com
  This database provides access to about 271 e-books covering various subjects.

Full-Text Journal Databases

• AGORA:
  http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
  The AGORA site (courtesy of FAO), provides free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture, and related biological, environmental and social sciences for public academic institutions in developing countries.
   
• American Chemical Society:
   http://pubs.acs.org/about.html 
  ACS provides more than 30 high quality, high impact journals and magazines countrywide for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries, in chemistry and related fields.
   
• American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE):
  http://asae.frymulti.com/
  Journals on agriculture and biological engineering.
   
• American Society of Civil Engineers:
   http://ascelibrary.aip.org/journals/doc/ASCERL-home/jrnls/top.jsp
  ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 30 journals encompassing more than 18,500 full-text papers published since 1995 - that's over 175,000 pages! Approximately 1500 new papers will be added each year.
   
• Blackwell-Synergy/Wiley InterScience:
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
  Blackwell-Synergy (now merged with Wiley InterScience) provides access to over 750 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines, namely: Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Details of individual subject coverage are clearly outlined when searching by subject.
   
• Cambridge Journals Online:
  http://journals.cambridge.org
  This database provides access to over 190 journal titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science, and Humanities.
   
• The Cochrane Library:
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME
  The Cochrane Library is a medical/health resource database comprised of critical reviews, abstracts and trails in all branches of medicine and health care. It is also available on CD-ROMs in the Albert-Cook Medical Library.
   
• EBSCO:
  http://search.epnet.com
  The EBSCO Host Site is a collection of online databases of journals and other learned content. Under the PERI programme, access is provided to 8 databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, Masterfile Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source Nursing Academic, Health Source Customer Edition, and MEDLINE), which can be searched individually or in groups by selection. The EBSCO Host collection is also available on CD-ROMs in the Main Library.
   
• Emerald Group Publishing Limited:
  http://www.emeraldinsight.com/login
  The Emerald database offers the worlds widest range of over 100 journal titles in management, librarianship, information communication and technology, most of them in full text.
   
• GALE (THOMAS LEARING):
  http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/makuni
  The GALE database has two collections:
  • Academic ASP provides access to full-text periodical articles on Current events, Economics, Education, History, Humanities, Literature and Art, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center provides access to journals, magazines, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on health-related issues.
     
• HINARI:
  http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/journals.php
  The HINARI site (courtesy of WHO), provides free or low-cost access to 2300 biomedical and related social sciences journals and other resources for the health sector and academic institutions in developing countries.
   
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/periodicals.jsp
  IEEE provides full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE also contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
   
• Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP):
  http://www.iop.org/EJ
  IOPP offers access to journals in Physics and other related disciplines available in full text.
   
• International Forestry Review:
  http://www.inasp.info/file/380/international-forestry-review.html
  International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes, and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research.
   
• NISC:
  http://www.nisc.co.za/
  Provides access to 4 databases on Africa covering a wide range of information about Africa. These databases include African HealthLine, Africa-Wide: NiPAD (NISC information, Publications and African Databases), Fish & Fisheries Worldwide and Water Resources Worldwide.  
   
• NRC Research Press (Canada):
  http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/journalsearch.html
   
• OARE
  http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
  Online Access to Research in the Environment is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature.
   
• Oxford University Press (OUP) Oxford Scholarship Online
  http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/index.html
  Provides access to articles on religion, political science, economics and finance modules.
   
• Palgrave Macmillan Journals (access not activated):
  http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/jnlsubject.html
  The site provides access to journals mainly in the social sciences and the humanities.
   
• The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC):
  http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/consortia/periproducts.asp
  Under the PERI programme, this site provides access to a collection of journals in the field of chemistry.
   
• The Royal Society of London:
  http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/
  This database provides access to articles in the fields of science and technology.
   
• Sage Publications
  http://online.sagepub.com
  Over 490 journals in the humanities, social sciences and STM.
   
• SpringerLink (only 50 titles):
  To search the whole database, click this link: http://www.SpringerLink.com
  SpringerLink provides access to journals mainly in the fields of science, engineering, technology and other related disciplines.

Resources Declared for Free Access