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Nowadays, there ia a large number of Scientific Databases and Electronic Journals which are available on-line to help students and researchers to locate the latest publications in every field. Therefore, in order to help you to find them easily on the web, we've put together a collection of the most reliable and comprehensive ones here.
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Categorised Databases
[1] ACM Digital Library
[2] ALTIS
[3] BLPC (The British Library Public Catalogue)
[4] BUBL Information Service
[5] British Standards (Maintained Set)
[6] ClinicalTrials.gov
[7] Computer and Information Sciences Papers (CiteSeer)
[8] Edina
[9] IEEE Xplore
[10] IRANDOC
[11] ISI Journal Citation Reports® (JCR)
[12] MIMAS
[13] NICHSR
[14] OFIS
[15] PARSMEDLINE
[16] PubMed
[17] Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
[18] ScienceDirect
[19] The Free Medical Journals Site
[20] World Bank Online Library
[21] ZETOC
[1] ACM Digital Library
"The ACM DIgital Library has got full text of many Association for Computing Machinery publications. Non-members and the general public can access ONLY the search/browse options on the main DL page. For Basic Search: On the Digital Library main page, type your word or phrase into the text box. The search engine will search on each word individually as well as on the whole phrase. Put quotations (" ") around the phrase to search the exact phrase. For Browse the DL: by type of ACM publication: journals, magazines, transactions, special interest group (SIG) newsletters, proceedings, and publications by affiliated organizations."
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[2] ALTIS
"This service aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the areas of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism. Altis is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Birmingham, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK. Altis is part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)."
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[3] BLPC (The British Library Public Catalogue)
"The British Library Public Catalogue provides access to the main British Library catalogues, describing over ten million items available either in our Reading Rooms or for remote supply as photocopies or loans. BLPC is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BLPC is available through a browser, using either a frames-based graphical interface or a simple text-based interface. The graphical interface also offers an order facility for ordering loans and photocopies of material held by the British Library Document Supply Centre. The catalogues included in BLPC are: Reference Humanities (1975 - ) Science, Technology and Business (1974 - ) Retrospective (Pre 1975) Music (1980 - ) Music (Pre 1981 - )"
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[4] BUBL Information Service
"Free User-Friendly Access to Selected Internet Resources Covering all Subject Areas, with a Special Focus on Library and Information Science"
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[5] British Standards (Maintained Set)
"Updated daily, the site includes over 39,000 current, draft and historic British Standards, more than 16,000 of which are BSI adopted European and International Standards (ISO). The search function allows a combination of search options. An email alert service is available to track any changes in selected current Standards."
Access: Freely available search for Standard Number and Title. Registration required for summaries and ordering hardcopy documents online. Institutional subscription required for unlimited online access to standards in PDF format - there are 55 optional modules to subscribe to in the British Standards so access will depend on your institution.
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[6] ClinicalTrials.gov
"ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. A clinical trial (also clinical research) is a research study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Interventional trials determine whether experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled environments. Observational trials address health issues in large groups of people of populations in natural settings. ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains approximately 9,300 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry. Studies listed in the database are conducted primarily in the United States and Canada, but include locations in about 90 countries. ClinicalTrials.gov receives over 2.5 million page views per month and hosts approximately 13,000 visitors daily."
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[7] Computer and Information Sciences Papers (CiteSeer)
"CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features."
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[8] Edina
"Edina provides national (UK) online services for education and research."
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[9] IEEE Xplore
"IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards."
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[10] IRANDOC
"Iranian Information and Documentation Center main works are research, training and information service and one of its main services is establishing and maintenance of Persian scientific."
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[11] ISI Journal Citation Reports® (JCR)
"A resource for journal evaluation, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals. JCR Web, Science Edition, contains data from roughly 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology, and can show you the highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, “hottest” journals and largest journals, and is available annually."
Access: Institutional subscription
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[12] MIMAS
"MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data centre providing the UK higher education, further education and research community with networked access to key data and information resources to support teaching, learning and research across a wide range of disciplines. MIMAS services are available free of charge to users at eligible institutions - site licence and/or user registration may be required."
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[13] NICHSR
"National Information Center on Health Service Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) coordinates the development of new information products and services related to health services research."
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[14] OFIS
"Online Faculty Information System (OFIS) is a web site designed to collect informaton related to academic activities of university faculties."
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[15] PARSMEDLINE
"This is the first "Iranian Medical and Health Research Database" with a huge and fast growing number of publications, including the recent papers, theses, books and abstracts in the related fields."
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[16] PubMed
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 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."
Access: Freely Available
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[17] Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
"The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is a collaboration of over seventy educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library. In contrast to search engines, the RDN gathers resources which are carefully selected, indexed and described by specialists in the partner institutions. One can be confident that her/his search results and browsing will be connected to Web sites relevant to learning, teaching and research. The RDN builds upon the foundations of the subject gateway activity carried out under the JISC's (Joint Information Systems Committee in UK) eLibProgramme. The RDN is a co-operative network consisting of a central organisation, the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC) and a number of independent service providers called hubs. The RDN is freely accessible to all via the Internet. See the Working with the RDN document for technical details of how to interact with RDN services. Some services may have restricted access; please consult the relevant hub for more details."
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[18] ScienceDirect
"With ScienceDirect you can: Access over 1800 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals, Search over 60 million abstracts from scientific articles, Link out to articles from over 170 other publishers, Born out of an Elsevier tradition in scholarly communication, ScienceDirect has always followed a vision of the digital library of the future. Today they offer one of the world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information."
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[19] The Free Medical Journals Site
"Access many medical journals for free."
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[20] World Bank Online Library
"Documents, previously known as World Development Sources (WDS) contains more than 14,000 World Bank documents which are made available to the public in order to better share the institution's knowledge base and to implement the disclosure policy. The types of documents you will find include: Country Economic and Sector Work (in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities); Project Documents (loan documents released to the public according to the (project cycle); and Research and Working Papers (working papers and informal series from departments around the Bank)."
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[21] ZETOC
"zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, so that users can receive notification of relevant new data. zetoc is free to use for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher and further education institutions. It is also available to English NHS Regions and NHS Scotland. A small number of other institutions are eligible to subscribe to zetoc."
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The repository was updated on: 12 February 2006