Databases/E- Journals

(Open Access)

 

  Digital Library

Open-access literature is digital literature that is available on the web, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Committing to open access requires dispensing with the financial, technical and legal barriers that are designed to limit access to scientific research articles to paying customers. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

I.    Free Online Journals/Databases

II.  Online publications Directory

III. Freely accessible archives of serials

IV   MIT Open courseware now available on COMSATS Library Network

Open to every one Mathematical Journals: The Electronic Library of Mathematics

The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources in the field of mathematics. All material is in electronic form and access is generally free, except for some periodicals with a "moving wall", i.e., a certain delay period after which resources become freely available. The Electronic Library of Mathematics is supervised by the Electronic Publishing Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EPC-EMS).
 

Open to every one COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMMES TO PERI

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) 
AGORA is an initiative to provide free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to the students and researchers of qualifying not-for-profit public institutions in developing countries. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security.  Currently AGORA provides access to over 500 journals from the world's leading academic publishers.

EIFL
eIFL.net is an independent foundation that strives to lead, negotiate, support and advocate for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transition and developing countries. Its main focus is on negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, while supporting the enhancement of emerging national library consortia in member countries.

HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative)  
HINARI provides free or very low cost online access to 2300 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit and academic institutions in the health sector in 113 developing countries.

Open to every one MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

African Journals OnLine (AJOL)  
A programme of INASP - the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications - AJOL promotes the awareness and use of African-published journals in the sciences, medicine, agriculture, humanities and social sciences by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs) and abstracts on the Internet, links to full text (if available) plus document delivery of paper articles, subsidised (to less developed countries). AJOL already includes 200 journals published in Africa. Journals are accepted on the basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication.

Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) 
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes its current journals freely available to researchers in the developing world. Interested parties should send a request on institutional letterhead. Details of titles can be found at

Bioline International 
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Explicit goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap. Publishes in the following areas: health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. Features 30 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Many journals are available free of charge.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  
Developed by Lund University Libraries and supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/ ) along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, ( http://www.arl.org/sparc ), the directory contains information on open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. There are now 1148 journals in the directory of which 310 journals are searchable on article level with 54661articles are included in the DOAJ service. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.

Electronic Journal Miner 
Search for e-journals at this site using keywords, or browse e-journals by title or by LC subject headings; you can limit searches to (i) free publications, (2) peer-reviewed publications. Hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. The database currently contains 6,960 titles. An excellent resource.

Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library is a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the Internet. At the moment, it contains 19540 titles, among them 2195 online-only journals, covering all subjects. 7414 journals can be read free-of-charge. Currently 264 libraries and research institutions make use of this service

Electronic Supply of Academic Publications to and from universities in developing regions' (ESAP) 
A project of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) in cooperation with the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), SAP aims to set up a sustainable electronic document delivery systems for scholarly publications between universities in the North and the South as well as on a South-South basis, and thus assist in the supply of academic publications to as well as from the developing world.

INASP Links & Resources Access to information 
The INASP Links & Resources section provides a quick-access guide to selected Web sites and Internet resources that will be of special interest to the library and information science communities, and to scientists and publishers in developing countries. In particular it was designed to assist organisations involved in electronic networks for development, and those who are thinking of moving to an electronic environment for scholarly communication. However, each section contains links to a large number of additional free resources. http://www.inasp.info/links/contents.html

InformationR.net
The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed.

Online Books 
Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, Online Books is a website that facilitates access to 20,000 books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Users can search and browse by New Listings, Author, Title and Subject.

Project Gutenberg
This project digitises books which are in the public domain and puts them online free of charge. It was founded in 1971 and has so far published 7,500 e-books. Gutenburg is aiming for 10,000 by the end of this year and a million by the end of 2016. Please visit this website to view the e-books

Survey of Scientific and Technological Information Needs in Less-Developed and Developing Countries
This International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Section of Science and Technology Libraries Web site brings together journal articles, publications, reports, conference proceedings, research, and Web sites on the needs of scientific and technological libraries in less-developed and developing countries. The literature survey includes both the activities of scientific and technological libraries as well as the needs of scientists and technologists and the implication on libraries. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature and the number of publications, this survey cannot include all relevant literature; its aim is to include representative literature covering all pertinent aspects and disciplines. Geographic coverage includes Africa, Asia, and South America. Languages concentrate on the five official IFLA languages: English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. The literature search focuses on the fields of library and information science, and the subject disciplines of computer science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, and geology

UNESCO 
The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides access to the full text of many of these.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGY

 

 

Provides access to 11 high-quality on-line journals on Microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, biomedical research and technology.

Symposium Journals

Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals.

Open to every one SUBJECT SPECIFIC

INASP Rural Development Directory  
This Directory provides access to a wide range of information on rural development. It contains profiles of more than 450 international, regional and national networks and organisations around the globe, and is particularly concerned to promote South-South information dissemination and interchange. Each entry provides contact details and a brief description of the organisation, highlighting its objectives, activities, subject areas of interest and geographical coverage. In addition there are details of the information provided by the organisations, including newsletters, journals or online documents. It also includes a separate section, which lists relevant directories, gateway sites and portals.

Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
The FFTC is an international information centre serving small-scale farmers in the Asian and Pacific region. Its website and database provides several hundred technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on low-cost technology for small farms. Materials include books, extension bulletins and extension leaflets, and articles on major problems facing farmers in the region. The full text of all publications (in a choice of either HTML or PDF format) is available free of charge.

Open to every one BIOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE

American Society for Microbiology (ASM)  
The eleven journals of the American Society for Microbiology are now available full-text online without cost through PubMedCentral. Embargo periods range from 6-12 months.

Biogate
Compiled by staff at the Library of Ecology, the National Resource Library of Biological Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, this is a portal to "our 1,000 best links in the biological sciences." Search, or browse by 11 broad subject categories in the biological sciences, which are divided into sub-groups showing the number of links for each.

BioOne 
BioOne is the product of collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector and brings to the Web an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

E-BioSci 
E-BioSci is EMBO's initiative to set up a platform providing services relating to access and retrieval of digital information in the life sciences, ranging from bibliographic or factual data to published full text.

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology 
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is an international scientific electronic journal which publishes papers from all areas related to Biotechnology. Coverage ranges from molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational applications, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. EJB operates a policy that permits the widest possible distribution of information and use, without profit and free of charge by the scientific and academic community.

GenBank
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analysing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Journal of Biology
The Journals of Biology is a new international journal, published by BioMed Central, which provides immediate open access to research articles of the highest standard, similar to those published by Nature, Science or Cell. Unlike the latter, all research articles published in Journal of Biology will be permanently available free of charge and without restrictions, ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the work.

Journal of Insect Science 
Publishes papers in all aspects of the biology of insects and other arthropods from the molecular to the ecological, and their agricultural and medical impact. An international journal published by the University of Arizona Library. Freely available to individuals and institutions via the Web. No cost inclusion of colour figures, videos, sound and large data sets.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central is an open access web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences. It is being developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Open to every one CHEMISTRY

Analytical Chemistry Web Resources 
A compilation of resources (by Ghirma Moges) useful to support teaching and research in the field of analytical chemistry, including technical and specialised databases, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, journals, university departments, organisations, societies, chemical companies and manufacturers, news sources, and much more. There is also a special section devoted to 'Chemistry in Africa' with links to educational and research materials, online textbooks, and other tools and resources for students.
 
Chemistry Preprint Server 
ChemWeb's chemistry preprint server is a freely available and permanent Web archive and distribution medium for scientific research articles in the field of chemistry. It allows users to submit their articles to the server where they become accessible to all the members of ChemWeb.com. Membership is free.

Crystallography Online  
The datasets associated with journals published by the Union of Crystallography (IUCr) can be accessed free of charge from its website. Through Crystallography Online IUCr aims to provide extensive coverage of current and internet-based information concerning crystallography and of interest to crystallographers. This includes access to over 50 wide ranging specialist subject databases.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 
Provides an advanced forum for chemistry, molecular physics (chemical physics and physical chemistry) and molecular biology. Publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Encourages scientists to publish their theoretical and experimental details in as much detail as possible - there is no restriction on the length of the papers. Free to access to all users in its electronic format.
 
Molecules 
An internet journal of synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry. Reviews, regular research papers and notes are considered. Our aim is to encourage chemists to publish as much as possible their experimental detail, particularly synthetic procedures and characterisation information. There is no restriction on the length of the experimental section. Free access to all articles to all users, online.

TOXNET 
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas with free to access abstracts plus links to a range of related NLM sites.

Open to every one ENVIRONMENT

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.

Namibian Government Department of Environmental Affairs 
Range of publications concerning a range of topics in Namibia including Desertification, Economics, Impact Assessment, Pollution & Waste, Legislation etc.

Water Resources Abstracts
Compiled from several sources for USGS abstracts on the subject of water resources since 1977, plus some earlier abstracts. The method of submitting and collecting abstracts was not foolproof and, therefore, this is not a complete set. The information you find here should be augmented with other methods of search such as Water Research Abstracts (below).

Water Research Abstracts 
Collection of international water research compiled by the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the USGS. The research abstracted in this database covers a wide variety of topics; time period from 1967 to October, 1993. This database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations. Enough information is given in each citation so that the user can locate titles of interest.

Open to every one INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs)

Association for Information Systems  
All university libraries in countries not listed in the World Bank's list of high income economies http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/class.htm#High_income can be granted free subscriptions to the high-quality electronic journals Communications of AIS (http://cais.aisnet.org/) and the Journal of AIS.

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 
Provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. Free access to all articles to all users, online.
 
TerraLib 
TerraLib is a GIS classes and functions library, available from the Internet as open source, allowing a collaborative environment and its use for the development of multiple GIS tools. Its main aim is to enable the development of a new generation of GIS applications, based on the technological advances on spatial databases. TerraLib is free software available to any users wishing to download it.

Open to every one MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 
AGT is a fully refereed journal covering all of topology, understood broadly. AGT is published in free electronic format by Geometry and Topology Publications, with papers appearing a few days after acceptance. AGT is freely available online to all users.

Documenta Mathematica 
SPARC partner mathematics journal co-hosted between the University of Beielefeld in Germany and The University of Urbana in the US. (for more details about SPARC, please see below). All articles are free to access for all users.

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..

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.

Mathematics Preprint Server 
Permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of mathematics. The preprint server is open to all users and will include final-version articles as well as reports on work in progress. Additionally, articles can be ranked and commented on in discussion threads. Authors are free to update or withdraw their preprints from the server, as well as to submit their articles for publication to their preferred journal. Users can freely browse and search the website but will be asked to login upon submitting preprints. Since 24 May 2004 MPS has stopped accepting new submissions but will remain a freely available and permanent web archive for those mathematics research articles already submitted.

Project Euclid 
Joint project between Cornell University and SPARC, Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid hopes to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project.

World Digital Mathematics Library 
The Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) of the International Mathematical Union has made a commitment to coordinate efforts to achieve a world-wide digital library. The aim of this ongoing project is to digitize the past mathematical literature in order to make it available online whilst at the same time linking it to current literature in suitable ways.

Open to every one PHYSICS

ArXiv 
Ground-breaking pre-print server in selected physics, computer science, maths and neuroscience disciplines. Contains 100,000's articles submitted by members of the user community. Free access to all papers to all users.

CERN 
Over 650,000 bibliographic records, including 320,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.

Living Reviews in Relativity
A refereed solely electronic journal offering reviews in all areas of relativity, including an extensive reference database. Published by the Albert Einstein Institute Max-Planck-Institute for gravitational physics in Germany. Free access to all articles to all users, online.
 
NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project that provides free access to over 300,000 free full-text articles in astronomy and astrophysics. Most of the major astronomical journals are included. In many cases articles published in the current year are not available through ADS. Articles are available in PDF, GIF, or other electronic formats.

New Journal of Physics 
New Journal of Physics is co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, and is supported by a growing number of physical societies around the world. NJP is available without charge to readers and is funded by article charges from authors of published papers.

Open to every one SCIENCE GENERAL

Best of Science
The Best of Science is a free-access scientific publication of preprints and peer-reviewed articles. It is publishing in five major fields split in thousands of special areas: Exact Sciences, Technologies, Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences and Human Sciences. Best of Science authors pay for the publishing process of papers and preprints. Fees are low and especially adapted to respond to the geographical origins of the authors. Papers can be published 1 week after reception. Access to the journal is wholly free.

BIOME 
Consortium-based hub providing access to quality resources on the Internet in the fields of agriculture, food, forestry, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry, biological research, veterinary sciences, the natural world, botany, zoology, and more. It consists of five subject gateways, which are cross-searchable and cross-browsable. The service is coordinated by the University of Nottingham, who are joined by a formidable range of high profile partners and content providers from the UK health and life science sectors.

ContentsDirect 
A free e-mail service which delivers Elsevier Science book and journal tables of contents directly to your PC, providing you with the very latest information on soon-to-be published research. Imprints covered by this service are Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland and Excerpta Medica. Registration to ContentsDirect also entitles you to unlimited free access to Sample Copies Online using the same username and password.

eJDS - eJournals Delivery Service
The Abdus Salam ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme, in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called eJDS: eJournals Delivery Service. This is geared to facilitate the access to current scientific literature for scientists in institutions in Third World Countries who have low bandwidth internet facilities. Titles are included from Academic Press, the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics Publishing and World Scientific.

Entropy 
An open access international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information sciences, publishes peer-refereed reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Entropy's aim is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and experimental details. Entropy follows the guidelines of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Google Directory
Comprehensive trawl of web sites offering free science publications

Indian Academy of Sciences 
The prestigious peer-reviewed journals of the Indian Academy of Sciences are available online free to all users. The first issue of the Academy Proceedings appeared in July 1934. Publications cover the physical sciences, life sciences, physics, mathematics, chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, plant sciences, animal sciences, and modern biology, materials science, astrophysics and astronomy, genetics plus the journal Resonance, aimed at improving the quality of science education and teaching. Access to all of these journals is free and open to all users.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
A non-governmental research organisation conducting inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change, IIASA's charter stipulates that all its research findings should be freely disseminated worldwide. The full-text of the institute's publications can be downloaded from its website at: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/IIASA_Publications.html  at no charge. The contents of this catalogue can be browsed by author, date, project, subject or type, or the required publication can be located using a simple keyword search. A free quarterly newsletter, Options, is also available from: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Options/  IIASA is a member of ICSU.

Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 
The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science was started in 1914 with the objective of publishing quality research papers in science and engineering. Research papers and review articles are selected through a stringent peer review process overseen by the editorial board. The Journal is a multi-faceted publication with content likely to be of interest to research students as well as academic and R & D professionals. Free and open access to all articles for all users.
 
National Academy Press
Over 2,800 reports, e-newsletters and journals from US National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)  
A non-profit organisation of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS currently plans to begin publishing two new journals - working titles PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine - publishing the best peer-reviewed original research articles, timely reviews and commentary. PLoS Biology launched its first issue on October 13, 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine will follow in autumn 2004. The PLoS journals will retain all of the important features of scientific journals, including rigorous peer-review and high editorial and production standards, but will use a new publishing model that will allow PLoS to make all published works immediately available online, with no charges for access or restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use.

SciDevNet  
SciDevNet provides a variety of topical news, views and information about science, technology and development, including coverage of developments in Latin America, the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, for which it offers a series of regional gateways. There are also book reviews, notices about meetings, grants and jobs, together with links to scientific organisations, news sources, journals, and aid/funding agencies.

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online 
The objective of the site is to implement an electronic virtual library, providing full access to a collection of serial titles (from Brazil, Cuba and Chile in a broad range of subjects languages ie Portuguese, Spanish and English), a collection of issues from individual serial titles, as well as to the full text of articles. The access to both serial titles and articles is available via indexes and search forms. No charge is made.

Science and Technology Sources on the Internet. There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public (by Sandy Lewis)
A good descriptive inventory of databases that produce lists of citations to scientific literature, and which are freely accessible. In addition to the major free databases such as UnCover, Agricola, Medline, etc. it also includes searchable databases from learned societies, government agencies, electronic journal publishers, and various discussion groups-all freely accessible.

SCIRUS 
A specialist search engine for scientific, technical and medial information sources. It offers two types of services: Web sources provide information for which no subscription or online registration is required. Scirus searches the entire Web and excludes sites with no scientific content. Examples of Web sources are university Web sites, learned society pages, scientists home pages, preprint servers, commercial companies, etc. Membership sources are information sources for which either a paid subscription or online registration is required, and often including peer-reviewed scientific information not directly accessible by standard search engines.

Open to every one 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.

Cogprints 
Leading electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

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.
 
Development Gateway  
Development Gateway describes itself as "the world's most extensive source of project descriptions, funding, and contact details, with over 300,000 records drawn from multiple databases." Includes details on projects of the World Bank and other multilateral development agencies for businesses interested in offering products and services, together with major development indicators, from literacy rates to telephone connections, organised by country and region, and there are also country gateways providing perspectives within developing countries on economic and social issues.

Electronic Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS) (hosted with Devline) 
The British Library of Development Studies's electronic information service for development professionals, including resources directory, Email discussions, links to databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, etc

ELSSS - the Electronic Society for Social Scientists 
A not-for-profit organisation aimed "at solving the ever deepening crisis in scholarly and scientific communication created by the pricing policies of some commercial publishers that have forced libraries in the developed world to cut their journal portfolios and to slash their book collection and that have priced developing and transition economies out of the knowledge loop altogether." The first ELSSS journal - due Spring 2003 - will be available at no cost to all University Libraries and non-profit research centres in developing and transition countries.

Gateway  
A sustainable development primer and resources.

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Access to the collection of online reports and magazines from the IDRC, Canada.

Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications 
Multilingual Matters is one of the world leaders in research on multilingualism and minority language rights. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications are offering free electronic access to journals for institutional subscribers in countries of "low human development" as defined by the Human Development Index.

Psycoloquy
A refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) and indexed by APA's PsycINFO and the Institute for Scientific Information. Psycoloquy publishes articles and peer commentary in all areas of psychology as well as cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioural biology, artificial intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy.
 
World Development Sources (World Bank) 
World Development Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval system which contains a collection of over 14,000 World Bank reports most of which are scanned and are available in imaged format, which you can access via a web browser and search through a multi-field search engine. These include Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports, studies and working papers.

II Online publications directory

Journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters.
 

III Freely accessible archives of serials

Magazines, journals, newspapers, and periodicals.

IV   MIT Open courseware now available on COMSATS Library Network

The Higher Education Commission Pakistan has placed a mirror site of Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Open Courseware (MIT OCW). This is a large scale web based publication of MIT Faculty's Course Material. MIT OCW connects visitors with the syllabi, Lecture, Notes, & Calendars of 914 courses. In addition, most course site includes a subset of other materials such as multimedia simulations, problems sets and solutions, reading lists, etc & a selected video lectures. Please click here for full details

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