Virtual Library
 
  1. AGRIS

    AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture.
     
  2. AGRICOLA
     
    AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its co-operators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. Coverage: 1978-present. 
     
  3. American Medical Association (AMA)

     The American Medical Association provides ten scientific journals without charge to developing nations. The titles include The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); Archives of Dermatology; Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery; Archives of General Psychiatry; Archives of Internal Medicine; Archives of Neurology; Archives of Ophthalmology; Archives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery; Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Archives of Surgery.
     
  4. Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)

    The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes its current journals freely available to researchers in the developing world
     
  5.  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.
     
  6. CODA - CalTech Collection of Open Digital Archives

    Open access to reports, books, papers, these and dissertations and symposium proceedings.
     
  7. Directory of Open Access Journals

    Developed by Lund University Libraries and supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. The directory contains information about 350 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.
     
  8. http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/
    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 1 January 2004 it contained 12,979 titles, among them 1319 online-only journals, covering all subjects, of which 3358 journals can be read full-text free-of-charge.
     
  9. ELSSS - the Electronic Society for Social Scientists

     A not-for-profit organization 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."
     
  10. ERA - Electronic Research Archive

    An international health and e-print server organized by The Lancet. Through ERA, The Lancet is committed to making educational resources accessible to clinicians in resource-poor countries. This electronic research archive in international health enables authors to self-archive research relevant to medicine in the developing world, with subsequent comments on the research posted alongside.
     
  11. ExtraMed

     Taking its name from the fact that it comprises journals that are 'extra' to MEDLINE, ExtraMED focuses on journals that are largely excluded from the international indexes. The ExtraMED Consortium of Journals was originally selected through WHO's various Index Medicus projects. It is thus by far the largest source of full text biomedical literature from developing countries. Provides the database to developing country users for free.
     
  12. Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)

    The FFTC is an international information center 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.
     
  13. Free Books 4 Doctors

    The AMEDEOGroup are now making many important medical textbooks available online, free and in full-text. At 1 August 2003 650 titles were included in the service, sorted by specialty and title. FreeBooks4Doctors! also provides a free alert service as new titles are added.
     
  14. Free Medical Journals

    The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. At 1 April 2004 it included over 1370 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.
     
  15. 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 analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
     
  16.  Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research

    Collection of open access and free journals in a wide range of medical disciplines.
     
  17.  Google Directory

    Comprehensive trawl of web sites offering free science publications.
     
  18. HighWire Press

    Sources of free On-Line full text articles and journals HighWire Press work with scholarly societies and responsible publishers to host their content online. They do not own the material, nor do they set the journals' policies. HighWire contains over 439,456 free full-text articles as of January 2003. HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines.
     
  19.  INASP Health Links

    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).
     
  20. 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, chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, plant sciences, animal sciences, and modern biology, materials science 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.
     
  21. INDMED

    India’s 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.
    See also http://medind.nic.in/ for a one point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals.
     
  22. 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.
     
  23. 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.
     
  24. 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.
     
  25. 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.
     
  26. 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.
     
  27. Journal of Medical Internet Research

    Founded in 1999, is the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Intranet-related technologies. Free access to all articles to all users, online. Full text content of the journal is also available from Bioline International.
     
  28. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

    A multidisciplinary quarterly biomedical journal, is one of the oldest medical journals from India. The journal is official publication of the Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India. The website of the journal provides free access to full text of articles from 1990. Free access to all articles to all users, online.
     
  29. New England Journal of Medicine

    The New England Journal of Medicine is available to over 60 countries (listed on their web site) under its "Access for Low-Income Countries" program. Users from these countries will be recognized automatically by their IP addresses and allowed access to full text without charge.
     
  30. Public Library of Science (PLOS)

    A non-profit organization 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. 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.
     
  31. PubMed

    PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
     
  32. PubMedCentral

    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.
     
  33. Project Gutenberg

    This project digitizes 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.
     
  34. 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).
     
  35. SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting

    A special email service designed to deliver tables of contents for any Taylor & Francis, Carfax, Routledge, Spon Press, Martin Dunitz or Psychology Press journal. This service is completely free of charge, all you need to do is register.
     
  36. Science and Technology Sources on the Internet

    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.
     
  37. 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, 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.
     
  38. TOXNET

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

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