Ismael K. Isikel
Matheson Library
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
A short list of web addresses for Open Access and Free Academic Databases on a wide variety of subjects is provided here for staff and students to find information in relation to study, learning, teaching, research, and personal interests. It is simply helping to point you where to look, if you don’t know where to start looking. Please note I am not responsible for content and any changes in any of these databases. This is simply pointing out where to search. Any changes in location of databases on the Internet are usually posted on the previous site directing the users where to look next.
A search on the Internet showed the following open access databases, free academic databases and search engines available that users can easily follow and find journal articles and books. Nearly all of these are available free and in full text. The list is arranged in three sections: 1. Open Access Journals; 2. Free Academic Databases; and 3. Other Places to Look for Free Databases. The section's headings are highlighted in light blue.
Section 1: OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
www.doaj.org/
Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals
All articles published in Elsevier open access journals are peer reviewed and upon acceptance will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read ...
www.wileyopenaccess.com/
Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to ...
www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php
OMICS Group is currently managing more than 300 Open Access journals with quality peer review and copyediting process. Find the List of Open Access ...
www.oajse.com/
Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE). Open Access Journals in the World (excluding India). Search for Articles in Open Access Journals. Loading ...
www.egu.eu/publications/open-access-journals/
Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) is an open accessinterdisciplinary electronic journal for swift publication of original articles and ...
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www.royalsocietypublishing.org/
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Section 2: FREE ACADEMIC DATABASES
AGNIC- Agriculture Network Information Center and AgInfo
AGRICOLA- resources from the National Agricultural Library encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, plant sciences, forestry, etc.
AGRIS- Sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.1965 to present.
AIDSinfo- HIV/AIDS information from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
AMBDAS - Atomic Molecular Bibliographic Data System (AMBDAS) & numerical databases of recommended and evaluated atomic, molecular and plasma-surface interaction data for fusion research
Analysis Index - Index to analyses or program notes for musical compositions in books owned by the University of Tennessee
Animal Diversity Web - covers distribution, natural history, conservation, and economic importance; rich in images and audio (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
Biome - UK's gateway to the natural world, biology, botany, zoology, ecology, biodiversity
Book History Online: International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
BibliografiaMesoamericana- A database of nearly 60,000 volumes of the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica
BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) - some free government publications full text, and a much larger number of abstracts.
Cambodian Genocide Program Article Database; Atlases (Geographical)& Maps;Biographical Sources; Electronic Texts; Pictures& Images; Primary Sources
Chemdex - chemistry gateway with thousands of links maintained by the University of Sheffield
ChemFinder - Automatically cross-references a queried chemical substance to its name, molecular and CAS Registry Number. Some Physical property data and 2D chemical structure
Chemical Scorecard - searchable pollution locator, rankings, health effects, chemical characteristics, regulatory controls for 17,000 sites, 5,000 chemicals drawn from EPA Toxic Release Inventory by the Environmental Defense Fund
ChemistryIndex - gateway, but some of the text and links are in German (Freie Universitat Berlin)
ChemWeb - gateway for articles, database searching, supplies, including BeilsteinAbstracts, an article abstracts from over 140 journals in organic and related chemistry from 1980 to present. You must "join" but for free, also Analytical WebBase - Database of Royal Society of Chemistry, 300,000 Abstracts since 1980 (trial signup) and Thermodex Search Page from University of Texas - thermodynamic handbooks, chemical compounds and properties, compilation Bielstein etc. online databases and standard handbook, Atomic Spectra Databases, Organic Syntheses - organic chemistry database, and Solvent Database
CineFiles - Pacific Film Archive's film document image database
Citeseer.com.- Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
CompuScience- a bibliographic database covering literature in the field of Computer Science and Computer Technology with about 160 000 citations from 1972 to current drawn from more than 320 journals, books,conference proceedings, etc
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (University of Trier, Germany) which concentrates on database systems and logic programming, but covers other areas of computer science as well.
Corbis Image Collection - over 10,000 still images, searchable by keyword and category and Getty Images, a gateway to 12 collections of still images, covering art reproductions and advertising; most pictures have a fee to download
CountingCalifornia "enables users access to actual raw data compiled by federal, state, and local agencies, and also allows users to collate and integrate data by topic, geography, title, and provider."
DoctorDirectory (USA) or DocFinder- verify licenses for Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont). Also see AMA Physician Select, UPIN (Unique Physician Identifier Number database) and Certified Doctor Verification Service which is maintained by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for its members American Hospital Directory
Earthquake Search Earthquake Database. U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
East Timor Article Database; Biographical Sources; Electronic Texts; Government Resources
ECONbase-Abstracts free, articles cost $, access to Elsevier/North-Holland journals in economics, econometrics, and finance
Emerald Abstracts & Engineering Database-free abstracts from journals published by MCB University Press and includes over 100 key management, library science and engineering journals. Can purchase the full text of articles from 1994 to date and abstracts back to 1989.
Energy Portal Search. Provides access to government and research society databases and evaluated web sites.
ERIC/AE- Includes full text of ERIC Digests. Can search by keyword only or try ERIC Wizard - to help you search for a particular topic by descriptors. Also ERIC/AETest Locator describes over 9,500 achievement, aptitude, personality, attitude, & career/vocational tests
ERIC Search Engine and AskERIC- This version of the database provides access to ERIC Document citations only from 1966 through December 1999 and ERIC Journal citations from 1966 through December 1999. Updated monthly.
Federal Register via the GPOAccess full text of the U.S. Federal Register (1995+),Congressional Record(1995+), Congressional bills (1993+); Code of Federal Regulations (current and recent historical),U.S.Statutes (1995+), U.S. Code(1994), or at Cornell; FINDLAW Includes Supreme Court decisions, selected state codes, online law reviews and a search engine focused on legal informationEZLAW'S Municipal Law Locator and University Law Review Project Full-text access to online law reviews and journals, Legal Information Institute from Cornell Law School, LexisONE, Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources and many more Government links, also Google's UncleSam
Fedstats -provides easy access to full range of statistics and other information from over 70 federal agencies including data on labor, economy, justice, census, the IRS and more - National UK Statistics Database
FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends)
General Social Survey - a personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center - one of several sites with this data
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - lists all features, creeks, trails, mountains, lakes, etc and USGSMapFinder, U.S. Geological Survey -main entrance to the 150 servers of the USGS; access is also provided based on major themes: ,Environment, Geology, Hazards, Information Management, Mapping, Resources, Water and Publications of the U.S.Geological Survey - database of citations and abstracts; searchable by subject, author, keyword and journal, TerraServer - view USGS maps and aerial photos of the U.S.A. National Atlas of the United States of America , Zip Code Maps, CGRER NetSurfing: Maps and References, U.S, Census Gazatteer
GrayLITNetwork: A Science Portal of Technical Reports - "the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature." Also see Science.gov
Great American Speeches - PBS collection of important historical speeches in text, audio and video formats plus History and Politics Out Loud-includes Nixon Watergate tapes, as well as recordings and transcripts of Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the Warren Commission; search by title, speaker, date, keyword or subject
Index of ChristianArt -classified index to medieval art in books, manuscripts and photographs (Princeton University)
Indonesia-Article Database; Biographical Sources; Electronic Texts; Government Resources
jake - tells you what databases index a particular journal
Laos-Article Database; Biographical Sources; Electronic Texts; Government Resources
MathSciNet -a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940
MathSearch- searches a collection of over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across web (from the University of Sydney) and Euler for abstracts of mathematics journal articles in English and German, also On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - find the next integer of a sequence from a collection of over 80,000 cataloged sequences
Medline NLM Gateway -provides access to MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, AIDS Meetings (with MeSH), HealthServices Research Mtgs, and HSRProj. PubMed- medical bibliographic database and EntrezSearch and Retrieval System. National Library of Medicine sponsored databases including protein and nucleotide databases, also try the TRIP database, Also Alternative Medicine - portal for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative therapies, also NetWellness 2000 - medical gateway & NOAH:New York Online Access to Health - portal to health resources, Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - health worker portal, CHID Online(Combined Health Information Database) - an index to health information and health education resources produced by health-related agencies, HSTAT- Health Service/Technology Assessment Reports, Directory of Health Organizations Database by Keyword - National Health Information Center
NationalDigital Library (Korea) - Includes online catalogs, indexes to journal articles, and some full text databases of primary sources, established by national libraries in Korea, such as The National Library of Korea, The National Assembly Library of Korea, Supreme Court Library.
NCES- National Center for Educational Statistics site with statistics, studies, reports, and periodicals.
NWRC Publications The NWRC Publications database is a list of all publications of the United States Geological Survey National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Paperloop.com - provides search of over 5 years of back issues of Pulp and Paper Magazine, Pulp and Paper International Magazine, Pulp and Paper Europe Magazine, Pulp and Paper Asia Magazine. Full text is included.
PARLITDatabase- Database of bibliographic references on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments.
Perseus Project - a digital library of resources for studying ancient Greece and Rome; includes ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, an image database, and secondary essays (Tufts University)
Peterson's Guide - on-line version of a major print guide to colleges and universities in the U.S. Also see Find a School Searchable Database and COOL which covers basic info for over 9,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. from National Center for Educational Statistics
Philosophy on the Web - an exhaustive list of Internet philosophy resources; includes directories, e-texts, e-journals, and links to philosophy societies and academic departments
Physical Sciences Information Gateway resources such as PhysDoc - Physics Documents Worldwide - offers lists of links to document sources, such as preprints, research reports, annual reports, and list of publications Searchlight for Sciences & Engineering , from the University of California, PhiBot, CERN Document Server-Physics Article Databases; Bibliographies;Library Catalogs; Preprints& Working Papers SPIE & Optics.org- over 1,000,000 citations on Optics, Photonics, Astronomy, Astrophysics from SPIE Publications Fundamental Physical Constants SPIRES-HEP(HighEnergy Physics) Database,Measurement Converter and Megaconverer2 for unit conversion
PubList - a directory of publications and newspapers, both print and electronic.
Quotations Archive - search by keyword to find the perfect quote for any occasion or paper
RAND Publications-index of abstracts to RAND publications on a wide variety of topics published over the last 20-plus years
Report Gallery - Collection of annual reports from the majority of the Fortune 500 companies, also see EDGAR, Industry Research Desk, a gateway site for company and industry-wide data. alsoKompass.com lists 1.8 million companies, 52,000 product and service codes, 23 million product references, 790,000 trade and brand names, 3.4 million executives' names in over 70 countries with free signup and here for additional info
SalamIran- Electronic Journals; Government Resources
SciBASE - cites over 30,000,000 articles from 30,000+ journals
SIRIS Smithsonian Institution databases
SpectraOnline- database of over 6.000 IR, MS, NMR, UV/VIS und NIR spectra searchable by compound name, CAS number, molecular formula,molecular weight, or spectra matching
TRISOnline-Transportation Research Information Services(TRIS) Database contains approximately 1/2 million items
UNESBIB-Bibliography of over 100,000 UNESCO documents, publications and Library holdings.
USDA Plants Database , USDA Poisonous Plant Database & CalFlora - huge plant database on wild California plants, also Native American Ethnobotany database. Other high use sites are IOPI Database of Plant Databases (DPD) which is a global list of plant databases, to tell you who is putting together what data and where, also others. International Plant Names Index - (IPNI) is a botanic database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Plant Disease Database , TreeBASE - A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge is a relational database of phylogenetic information sponsored by Harvard University Herbaria, Leiden University EEW, and the University of California, Davis. Davd's Plants Database This unique and comprehensive database is the accumulation of gardening knowledge and expertise from hundreds of gardeners living around the world. The database currently contains 54,599 plants and 12,641 photos. eNature Online Field Guides
WoPEc - latest research in economics
Section 3: Other Places to Look for Free Databases
Supplementary Online Databases - nicely annotated from Chemeketa Library
Disclaimer
I am not responsible for content and the changes in any of these databases. This is simply pointing out where to search. Any updates and changes in location of databases on the Internet are usually posted on the web page or previous site directing the users where to look next.
Thank you
Ismael K. Isikel
