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PROQUEST EBOOK CENTRAL

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

e-library is an online digital library with over 100,000 scholarly e-books. Provides a set of online database collections that combined scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers.

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PROQUEST
CENTRAL

https://search.proquest.com

A massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for beginning and intermediate researchers.

3

EBSCOHOST

https://search.ebscohost.com

EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all
kinds find the information needed.

4

SCIENCEDIRECT

https://www.sciencedirect.com

A subscription-based database with a large access to scientific and medical research. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic journals and 34,000 e-books.

5

AGORA

Enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences

6

OARE

https://www.unep.org/oare

(Online Access to Research in the Environment) is managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

7

HINARI

https://www.who.int/hinari

Provides access to Research for Health Programme and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature.

8

ARDI

https://www.wipo.int/ardi

The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program, coordinated by WIPO together with its partners in the publishing industry

9

GOALI

https://www.ilo.org/goali

Global Online Access to Legal Information is a new programme providing free or low-cost online access to legal research and training in the developing world.

10

WIKIPEDIA LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/the_Wikipedia_Library/Collections

The Wikipedia Library allows access to a wide range of collections of paywalled reliable sources.

11

MIT OPEN
COURSEWARE

https://ocw.mit.edu

OCW is a free and open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.

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NOUN eCOURSEWARE

https://nou.edu.ng/e-courseware

The e-Courseware is a repository of available digital course material of the National Open University of Nigeria

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OPEN EDUCATION
CONSORTIUM

https://www.oeglobal.org

OER is an openly licensed online educational materials that allow teachers and students to freely use, share, and modify contents

14

TU DELF
OPEN
COURSEWARE

https://ocw.tudelft.nl

Materials here are free to everyone with online access. Educators from around the world may upgrade their classes; students may enhance their coursework or pursue self study; the general public may glimpse the depth and breadth of what leading universities are offering and benefit from reading lists and lectures.

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Free Full PDF

https://freefullpdf.com

Contains free scientific publications in Life sciences - Health sciences - Physics sciences - Mathematics - Social sciences & Humanities

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BOOKBOON

https://bookboon.com

Provide access to free e-books in various subject areas.

17

SCOPUS

https://www.scopus.com

SCOPUS is an Elsevier's abstract and citation database. It covers over 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers

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ELSEVIER

https://www.elsevier.com

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity

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AJOL (African Journals Online)

https://www.ajol.info

AJOL, the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals, is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of Africanpublished, peer-reviewed research

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PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF SCIENCE (PLOS)

https://www.plos.org

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

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COURSERA

https://www.coursera.org

A platform where anyone, anywhere can learn and earn credentials from the  world’s top universities and education providers.

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DIRECTORY OF
OPEN ACCESS
JOURNALS (DOAJ)

https://www.doaj.org

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone

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OPEN
LIBRARY

https://openlibrary.org

Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org and archive-it.org

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RESEARCH GATE

https://www.researchgate.net

Hindawi Hindawi is a commercial publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature. It currently publishes more than 230 peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as a number of scholarly monographs, with an annual output of roughly 20,000 articles each year

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SCI-HUB

https://sci-hub.se

Sci-Hub is the most controversial project in today science. The goal of Sci-Hub is to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge ever published in journal or book form.

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ACADEMIC
JOURNALS

https://academicjournals.org

This database accelerates the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of high quality research articles using the open access model

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THE ROYAL
SOCIETY

https://royalsociety.org/journals

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Registered charity number 207043

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BJR OPEN

https://www.birpublications.org/journal/bjro

BJRBJR Publications is the publishing arm of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), publishing books & journals covering all aspects of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Medical Physics & the underpinning Sciences

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TAYLOR &
FRANCIS

https://www.tandfonline.com

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of open access research.

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WILEY ONLINE
LIBRARY

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Accelerating research discovery to shape a better future

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THE AMERICAN
JOURNAL OF
CLINICAL
NUTRITION

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn

A highly rated peer-reviewed, primary research journal in nutrition and dietetics, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) publishes the latest research on topics in nutrition, such as obesity, vitamins and minerals, nutrition and disease, and energy metabolism.

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JSTOR -
JOURNAL
STORAGE

https://www.jstor.org

Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals.

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ACS - CHEMISTRY
FOR LIFE

https://pubs.acs.org

As a non-profit scientific organization with more than 140 years’ experience, ACS is a champion for chemistry, its practitioners and other global community of members.

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F1000 RESEARCH

https://f1000research.com

An innovative open access publishing platform offering rapid publication and open peer review, whilst supporting data deposition and sharing.

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BRILL

https://brill.com

Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.

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IOPscience

https://iopscience.iop.org

Welcome to IOPscience, the home of scientific content from IOP Publishing and our partners.

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IMF eLIBRARY

https://www.elibrary.imf.org

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.

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COCHRANE
LIBRARY

https://www.cochranelibrary.com

The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare
decision-making. The Cochrane Library is owned by Cochrane and published by Wiley

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SAGE JOURNALS

https://journals.sagepub.com

For over a decade, SAGE have played an active role in Open Access, seeking to build bridges to knowledge in the research community.

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OXFORD
ACADEMIC

https://academic.oup.com

Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 40,000 books and 500 journals.

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PALGRAVE
MACMILLAN

https://www.palgrave.com

Publishes research across the humanities, social sciences and business for academics, professionals and librarians.