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Access scholarly journals, e-books, citation databases, research indexes, open-access repositories and government information resources from one place.
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ProQuest Books
Comprehensive access to scholarly journals and academic research across multiple disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, business, science and technology.
Research4Life
Global initiative providing eligible institutions with access to academic and professional peer-reviewed research resources across multiple subject areas.
HINARI Journals
Research4Life programme providing access to biomedical and health research literature and related scholarly resources.
AGORA Journals
Research4Life programme providing access to agricultural, food, fisheries and related research literature.
OARE Open Access
Research4Life programme providing access to environmental research literature and scientific information.
ARDI Research Tools
Research4Life programme providing access to scientific and technical research resources supporting development, innovation and research.
IEEE Xplore Journals
Digital library providing access to IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings, standards, books and other publications in engineering and technology.
ProQuest Journal Journals
ProQuest scholarly journal resource providing access to peer-reviewed academic publications across a wide range of disciplines.
ACM Digital Library Journals
Digital library providing access to computing and information technology research, including ACM journals, conference proceedings and technical literature.
Z-Library E-Books
Digital book resource providing access to electronic books and scholarly reading materials.
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61 resources available
ProQuest Books
Comprehensive access to scholarly journals and academic research across multiple disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, business, science and technology.
Research4Life
Global initiative providing eligible institutions with access to academic and professional peer-reviewed research resources across multiple subject areas.
HINARI Journals
Research4Life programme providing access to biomedical and health research literature and related scholarly resources.
AGORA Journals
Research4Life programme providing access to agricultural, food, fisheries and related research literature.
OARE Open Access
Research4Life programme providing access to environmental research literature and scientific information.
ARDI Research Tools
Research4Life programme providing access to scientific and technical research resources supporting development, innovation and research.
IEEE Xplore Journals
Digital library providing access to IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings, standards, books and other publications in engineering and technology.
ProQuest Journal Journals
ProQuest scholarly journal resource providing access to peer-reviewed academic publications across a wide range of disciplines.
ACM Digital Library Journals
Digital library providing access to computing and information technology research, including ACM journals, conference proceedings and technical literature.
Z-Library E-Books
Digital book resource providing access to electronic books and scholarly reading materials.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature, covering scientific, technical, medical and social-science fields.
ScienceDirect
Elsevier's full-text scientific database of journals and book series covering life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary citation index providing access to multiple databases across sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities.
Springer
Leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals, books and databases spanning physics, mathematics, engineering and medicine.
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books and primary sources across humanities, social sciences and sciences.
IEEE Xplore
Digital library providing access to IEEE and IET publications - journals, conference proceedings, standards and books in engineering and technology.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge's online journals platform offering peer-reviewed research across humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Oxford University Press
Oxford's online platform providing access to Oxford Academic journals, books and reference works across all disciplines.
Taylor & Francis Journals
Online library providing access to Taylor & Francis and Routledge peer-reviewed journals across humanities, science, technology and medicine.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Extensive digital collection of Taylor & Francis and Routledge e-books and reference works across major academic disciplines.
SAGE Open Journals
SAGE publications platform providing access to journals in social sciences, humanities, science, technology and medicine.
SAGE Research Methods
Tool to help researchers with research design, writing up results and using methods in the social and behavioral sciences.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - high-impact peer-reviewed research across biological, physical and social sciences.
South African Journal of Science
Premier multidisciplinary science journal of the Academy of Science of South Africa, publishing research of continental relevance.
OARE
Online Access to Research in the Environment - a UN initiative providing institutions in developing countries access to scientific literature.
SciVal
Research performance analytics tool powered by Scopus data, enabling benchmarking, collaboration analysis and research trend identification.
EBSCO
Leading database provider offering full-text journals, magazines and reports across academic, corporate, medical, library and government sectors.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest's largest multidisciplinary database, offering access to millions of full-text articles from thousands of journals.
ProQuest Ebook Central
Comprehensive e-book platform providing access to hundreds of thousands of titles in business, social sciences, humanities and STEM.
Alexander Street
Streaming video, audio, primary source documents and e-books covering the arts, humanities, social sciences and counselling.
DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals - community-curated list of open-access journals committed to quality, peer-reviewed research.
BASE
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine - one of the most voluminous search engines for open-access scholarly web resources.
CORE
Worlds largest aggregator of open-access research papers - millions of full-text articles from repositories worldwide.
OAIster
Union catalog of millions of records representing open-access resources compiled through the OAI-PMH harvesting protocol.
Europe PMC
Open science platform providing access to life-sciences literature from trusted sources including PubMed and author manuscripts.
PubMed Central
US National Library of Medicine free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
HathiTrust
Large-scale collaborative digital library offering millions of titles from partner libraries, including public-domain full-text access.
Google Scholar
Freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions across all disciplines.
SSRN
Social Science Research Network - premier platform for the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities.
Science.gov
US federal science information portal providing access to over 60 databases and 2,200 scientific websites from 15 federal agencies.
UN Data
Centralized access to statistical databases and publications from the United Nations and its agencies covering global development indicators.
IMF Data
International Monetary Fund data portal providing global economic and financial statistics, publications and country reports.
US Congress
Official website of the United States Congress providing legislative information, congressional records and government publications.
GTD
Global Terrorism Database - open-source repository of global terrorist events from 1970 onwards, maintained by START at University of Maryland.
The World Factbook
CIA publication providing country profiles with information on history, government, economy, geography and military for 266 world entities.
ERIC
Education Resources Information Center - US Department of Education online digital library of education research and information.
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - curated collection of free and open online teaching and learning materials.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free, open publication of course materials from over 2,400 MIT courses covering science, technology, engineering, arts and social sciences.
OER Commons
Public digital library of open educational resources - teaching and learning materials that are freely shared and openly licensed.
Research Grants Index
Comprehensive directory of research grants, funding opportunities and scholarship programs for academic researchers and students.
ORP Index
Open Research Publications index providing access to peer-reviewed publications and supporting open scholarly communication.
ECONBIZ
Economics and business studies research portal providing access to open-access documents and bibliographic data from ZBW - German National Library of Economics.
HEPSEU Database
Higher Education Portal for Sub-Equatorial Universities - aggregating research output and academic resources from African universities.
Open Culture
Open educational and cultural resource providing access to free books, courses, educational materials, films, audio and other learning resources.
AJOL Journals
African Journals Online platform providing access to scholarly journals and research publications from Africa.
World E-Book Library
Digital library resource providing access to electronic books and educational reading materials.
PDF Drive
Online resource providing access to a broad collection of PDF documents and electronic books.
Bookboon.com
Digital educational publishing platform providing access to e-books and learning materials across business, engineering and academic subjects.
eLibrary USA
Research resource providing access to electronic databases, journals, newspapers, books and other research materials.
Ocean of PDF
Online electronic book resource providing access to a collection of digital books in PDF format.
WeLib
Digital library resource providing access to electronic books and reading materials.
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