Thursday, February 20, 2014
Links to Health Sciences subject
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BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and
Medicine) publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio
of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine
and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC
Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals,
such as Retrovirology
and BMC Genomics. All original research articles
published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately
upon publication.
Free access to the electronic version of the
British Medical Journal Publishing Group's 25 specialist journals now
including Evidence-based journals.
Free to search abstract database from the US
National Cancer Institute.
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders
and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the
life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way.
A Gateway to selected Web sites of special
interest to health professionals, medical library communities, publishers,
and NGOs in developing and transitional countries. It covers General
Resources (search engines, gateways, bibliographic databases, abstracts,
clinical trials databases, research networks, dictionaries, glossaries,
disease classifications, evidence based medicine, full-text E-books, image
collections, journals, newsletters, medical education resources, news, useful
email lists, and WHO sites); plus Subject Index (e.g. Anaesthesiology, Basic
Sciences, Dermatology, HIV/AIDS etc.); plus Library and Publishing Support
and Use of ICTs (Information for Development, Internet Skills, Medical
Informatics/E-Health, Publishing Tools).
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.
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.
Collection of open access and free journals in a
wide range of medical disciplines.
The Global Library of Women's Medicine
(GLOWM) is designed to be a constantly evolving resource reflecting the
very best of current medical opinion. Resources available include 442
specialist chapters on women's medicine, plus 53 supplementary chapters,
authored by over 650 expert contributors citing more than 40,000 references.
Indias contribution in the areas of biomedical
research and health care has been significant and conforming to international
standards. However, only a small fraction of it is available for reference
through international bibliographic databases. In an effort to redress this
imbalance, the National Informatics Centre of India has developed INDMED.
Initially this site offers access to the tables of contents and abstracts of
75 leading Indian journals. More journals would be added to the list as their
quality improves in coming years. Access to this database is free and open to
all users. See also http://medind.nic.in/ for a one point resource
of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED
journals.
The Lancet publishes a weekly journal and six
monthly specialty journals in the fields of global health, diabetes and
endocrinology, oncology, neurology, respiratory medicine, and infectious
diseases. All content published in The Lancet publications is freely
available to readers residing in developing countries, as defined by the UNDP
Human Development Index, via the recognition of geographical-based IP
addresses (Geo-IP).
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.
With new technologies, increased resources and
greater understanding now more available than ever for tackling malnutrition,
practice on the ground is still struggling to show results as it attempts to
keep up with the pace. This website and the links contained therein aim to
address these shortfalls by offering online access to the latest worldwide
developments in the fields of preventive and curative nutrition. A section of
the resource is devoted to addressing mother and child nutrition and
malnutrition in India.
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. Individuals from
developing countries can request up to 15 fulltext documents per day through
the document delivery service.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of
Medicine, includes over 22 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.
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.
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.
Source is a key point of access to up-to-date, relevant
information on international health and disability. Over 25,000 abstracts and
resources with many links to full text online are available, with many
materials coming from developing countries, and including both published and
unpublished literature. Source is updated bi-monthly and covers topics
including: disability, development and inclusion, HIV and AIDS, participatory
communication, mother and child health, early childhood development, ICT and
health.
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library
database containing WHO publications and journal article since 1948. An
on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents.
It contains bibliographic information with subject headings and, for some
records, abstracts and full text links are available.
This links to a collection of health and
biomedical databases covering the following regions: Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Carribean
(languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English), and Western Pacific. Each
regional database includes resources that are not easily found elsewhere, as
well as international journals.
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is
an electronic review journal published by the Department of Reproductive
Health and Research at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. RHL takes the
best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane
systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and
policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing
countries.
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Links to Humanities and Social Sciences subjects
Humanities and Social Sciences |
Behavioural and Brain Sciences
Totally
open archive journal where users can submit papers, commentaries, responses
and search the archive for papers in all fields of the Brain/Behavioural
Sciences. Access to all articles is free to all users.
Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
An
initiative of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo
Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO) providing free access to 1,800
full-text books, periodical articles, conference proceeding and also to
databases with information about publications, research projects and
researchers working in its network of 130 social science research
institutions in 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main
portal is in Spanish
and there are separate portals available in English, French
and Portuguese.
Educause Quarterly
Educause
(formerly Cause/Effect) is a freely accessible practitioner's journal
containing articles that relate to planning, developing, using, and
evaluating information resources in higher education, covering aspects such
as information systems development, user services, telecommunications and
networking, database administration, and instructional technology development
and co-ordination.
GDNet's Free Journals Access Portal For Social Sciences
Global
Development Network-North America's new Free Journal Access Portal enables
social science researchers based in developing or transitional countries to
access a searchable, full-text, online database of more than 120 well-known
social-science journals, free of charge. It is made available to GDNet
Profile holders by the Center for Global Development and the Global
Development Network-North America (GDN-NA), in cooperation with Project MUSE
of the John Hopkins University Press.
Globethics.net Library - A Global Digital Library on Ethics
The
Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users
electronic access free-of-charge to thousands of full-text documents on
ethics and related disciplines. Participants also have the possibility to
submit their own documents to the libraries.
JURN
A curated
academic search-engine, indexing 4,580 free ejournals in the arts &
humanities.
Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
This
fully-searchable collection of documents pertaining to the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is offered as a reference tool for legal
professionals, law students, historians, and the general public. The
Database is bilingual and fully searchable.
Open Book Publishers
Open Book
Publishers is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are
committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the
world. All books are published in hardback, paperback, pdf and ebook
editions (subject to fee), but they also include a free online edition that
can be read via the website, or embedded anywhere.
Social Sciences Virtual Library
Part of
the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this is a major gateway for social
science resources on the Internet, covering directories and databases,
electronic journals, societies and professional associations, and an
extensive section of social science resources grouped by over a hundred
subjects, including regional studies.
WWW Library: Women's History
Maintained
by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, this is
an extensive links collection of Web resources on women's history, including
women's history institutions and organizations, libraries and archives,
journals for women's studies, upcoming conferences, discussion lists,
together with subject or region specific listings (e.g. African History,
Asian History, Women Artists, Women in Media, Women in Medicine and Nursing,
Women in Music, Women in Science and Engineering, Women Writers).
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Links to Technology and Engineering, Earth and Enviromental Sc. and Develop. Resources
Technology and Engineering |
Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Development Resources |
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Based at UC Berkeley, National Information Service
for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) is an online collection of abstracts,
reports, books, slides and images free to access. Large selection of software
programmes available for free download.
Quarterly journal of research on the platinum
metals and of developments in their application in industry.
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is within
the Earth Institute at Columbia University. CIESIN works at the intersection
of the social, natural, and information sciences.
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 organizations.
The
work of the LEAD initiative, located within the FAO, focuses on the close and
complex interactions between government policies and the environmental impact
of livestock production. Resources available include documents related to
livestock, the environment and development and the Livestock and Environment Toolbox,
an electronic decision support tool for policy makers, planers and project
leaders, to enable them to assess interactions between livestock and the
environment.
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Development Leadership Program (DLProg)
DLProg, an Australian based
globally-operated NGO partnered with the Australian Government and AusAID:
Resources include policy briefs, concept
papers, research
papers, and background
papers, as well as publications from earlier programs. It also
includes a selection of relevant
external publications.
Eldis
Eldis is an online information service providing
free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development
issues. Eldis includes over 30,000 summaries and links to free full-text
research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers.
International Development Research Centre
Access to the collection of online reports and
magazines from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
The resource is also available in French.
World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is
The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and
knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects,
disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital
form.
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