| Tool | Website | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) Guidelines | https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/search.html | Provides health care professionals with information on clinical practice guidelines. It produces technical reports on methodological topics and other types of evidence synthesis-related reports.
Availability:Full-text Date Coverage: 1983 - Current |
| AGRICOLA | https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/vwebv/selectDatabase.do?dbCode=AGRI2DB&dbCode=LOCAL | Produced by the United States Department of Agriculture, a database that provides citations to book chapters, dissertations, reports, proceedings, journal articles, and patents.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations Date Coverage: 1700 - Current |
| Arabic Collections Online (ACO) | http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/ | Digital library of public domain Arabic language content.
Availability: Full-text Content Coverage: Arabic content in the public domain. |
| arXiv.org | https://arxiv.org/ | Distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: 1991- Current |
| BioMed Central | https://www.biomedcentral.com/ | Database of free peer-reviewed biomedical research. It also includes publications on physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering disciplines.
Availability: Full-text Version Coverage: V.1- Current |
| BioRxiv | https://www.biorxiv.org/ | Distribution service and an open-access archive for unpublished preprints in biology and life sciences.
Availability:Full-text |
| Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education research bank (BOLDE) | http://opac.acer.edu.au:8080/drde/index.html | Research bank that Includes some free books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of distance and online education, from publishers in Australia and overseas. Material is drawn from the Australian Education Index, produced by Cunningham Library, with additional material sourced from a variety of international organizations and publishers.
Availability:Bibliographic Citations + Full-text |
| ChemIDplus | https://chem.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/ | Free, web search system that provides access to the structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus contains more than 400,000 chemical records, of which over 300,000 include chemical structures. It has two versions. ChemIDplus Lite and ChemIDplus Advanced. |
| ChemRxiv | https://chemrxiv.org/ | A free online submission, distribution, and archival service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related sciences, operated jointly by the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society of Japan, Chinese Chemical Society, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and the Royal Society of Chemistry. All articles may be freely downloaded |
| ChemSpider | http://www.chemspider.com/ | Owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry, ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 67 million structures, properties and associated information. ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ | Database of privately and publicly funded full-text clinical studies conducted around the world. It is maintained by the National Library of Medicine and contains clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. Most of the records describe clinical trials (also called interventional studies). |
| CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: International Food Standards | http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/en/ | Collection of internationally adopted food standards and related texts developed by FAO and WHO aims to protect consumers’ health and to ensure fair practices in the food trade. Includes provisions in respect of food hygiene, food additives, residues of pesticides, veterinary drugs, contaminants, labelling, methods of analysis, sampling, import and export inspection and certification.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: Current |
| Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) | https://dlmenetwork.org/library | A digital library that offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | https://www.doaj.org/ | An open-access service covering free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. It contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. |
| Drug Information Portal | https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp | Gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.
Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: Current |
| Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) | https://eric.ed.gov/ | Sponsored by the US Department of Education is the national bibliographic database of education literature. Consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Covers journals and unpublished documents. Contains citations to research reports, teaching guides, conference papers, books, and journal articles.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations + selected Full-text Date Coverage: 1966 - Current |
| Gallica Ebooks | https://gallica.bnf.fr/ | The digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; includes a multidisciplinary, full-text electronic collection of books, journals, Images, manuscripts, videos and more.
Availability:Full-text Date Coverage: 1500 - 1999 |
| Global Index Medicus | https://www.globalindexmedicus.net/ | International platform and virtual space for collection, organization, dissemination, and access of reliable health sciences information. It provides access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations Date Coverage: Updated regularly |
| HighWire Press | http://highwire.org/lists/allsites.dtl | Founded by Stanford University Libraries in 1995, HighWire Press was formed to help academic publishers host peer-reviewed content online. Backfiles are provided by many different publishers. Content is usually embargoed.
Availability: Full-text |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF): eLibrary | https://www.elibrary.imf.org/ | A comprehensive source of research and statistics with publications in multiple digital formats.
Since January 1, 2020, all IMF digital publications are FREE. All users can have access to more than 21,000 publications and an archive that dates back to 1946. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: 1946-Current |
| MedlinePlus | https://medlineplus.gov/ | Produced by the US National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's website. Offers health consumers reliable and up-to-date health information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: Current |
| National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health | https://www.nccih.nih.gov/ | Evidence-based reviews, clinical practice guidelines, fact sheets about specific herbs and botanicals, and a multimedia collection. NCCIH helps answer important scientific and public health questions about complementary health approaches, and works to determine what is promising, what helps and why, what doesn’t work, and what is safe.
Availability: Full-text and videos Date Coverage: Current |
| National Emergency Library Internet Archive | https://archive.org/ | Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library. The Archive provides free and public access to millions of free books and texts, audios, videos, software, music, websites and more.
Availability: Full-text |
| National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - NICE | https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/ | Access to wide variety of healthcare resources, guidance, pathways, research, medicines information, and clinical knowledge summaries. Evidence Search combines evidence on health, drugs and technologies, public health, social care, and healthcare management and commissioning in one place.
Availability:Full-text Date Coverage: 2002 - Current |
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) | http://search.ndltd.org/ | Provides access to thousands of citations from digital dissertations and theses. A significant number of these citations are available in full text. Citations are collected from hundreds of universities around the world.
Availability:Bibliographic Citations + Full-text. Date Coverage: 1900 - Current |
| Nursing+ | http://plus.mcmaster.ca/np/ | A bibliographic database of recent journal article citations from the health care literature. It is intended to support evidence-based clinical decision making, by providing links to published research reports about the diagnosis, treatment, prediction and prognosis, etiology, and economics in nursing. Free registration is required.
Availability:Bibliographic Citations Date Coverage: Current |
| OAIster | https://oaister.worldcat.org/ | A union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources. This catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations | https://oatd.org/ | A bibliographic database indexing over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations freely available online. Information about the theses come from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations linking to Full-text Date Coverage: 1966 - Current |
| OSTI.gov (formerly SciTech Connect) | http://www.osti.gov/scitech/ | A portal to free, publicly available R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, patents, multimedia, software, and data information on science, technology, and engineering from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Availability:Bibliographic Citations + Full-text |
| PLoS: Public Library of Science | https://plos.org/ | Includes open access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Rigorously reported, peer reviewed and immediately available without restrictions, promoting the widest readership and impact possible.
Availability:Full-text |
| Project Muse Open Access | https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=oa_browse | A collection of open access books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Books are available as html or PDF. The publishers of the books determine the licensing terms under which the books are made available.
Availability: Full-text |
| PubChem | https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ | Launched by the National Institutes of Health in 2004, PubChem is a key chemical information resource containing information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, etc. PubChem provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features. |
| PubMed | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ | A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: late 1700s - Current |
| PubMed Central | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ | A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: late 1700s - Current |
| RePEc | http://repec.org/ | RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a bibliographic database of research in economics and related sciences. The database indexes working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters, and software components. Availability: Bibliographic Citations + Full-text |
| SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ | The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. ADS maintains three bibliographic databases covering astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and geophysics, and the ArXiv e-prints.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations Date Coverage: 1975 - Current |
| SHERPA/RoMEO | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php | An online resource that aggregates and presents publisher and journal open access policies from around the world. Every registered publisher or journal held in Romeo is carefully reviewed and analyzed by specialists who provide summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis, where possible.
Availability: Full-text Date coverage: Current |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | http://ssrn.com/ | A searchable online library that enables authors to post their papers and abstracts free of charge. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge as well. The only exceptions are papers whose copyright is held by third parties that request a download fee. It provides a variety of content types including gray literature, book reviews, multimedia files, and datasets. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | https://plato.stanford.edu/ | A dynamic open access reference work containing articles on people, concepts, and other topics in philosophy. The encyclopedia is maintained by Stanford University. All entries, and updates to entries, are rigorously refereed prior to publication on the Web.
Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: Current |
| The Open Library Project | https://civilsociety-centre.org/olp | An online resource library with readily available reference books, reports, studies, guides and tools, and fact sheets relevant to civil society and civil society organizations’ work in Lebanon. |
| TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet/index.html | Maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Covers chemicals and drugs, environmental health, occupational safety and health, poisoning, risk assessment, regulations, and toxicology.
Availability: Bibliographic citations + Full-text |
| TRIP | https://www.tripdatabase.com/ | Trip (Turning Research into Practice) is an evidence-based medicine search engine that includes evidence-based synopses, guidelines, systematic reviews, journal articles, electronic textbooks, images, patient information and more. Updated monthly.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations + Full-text Coverage: 1997 - Current |
| UNcomtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database | https://comtrade.un.org/db/ | A comprehensive trade statistics database. It includes detailed export and import statistics reported by statistical authorities from around 200 countries or areas, as well as annual data, commodity by trader partner and more. Data may be visualized in graphs, tags, tables, and maps or downloaded directly in an Excel spreadsheet.
Availability: Statistical data Date Coverage: 1962 - Current |
| UNdata | http://data.un.org/ | Provides access to data produced or collected by major United Nations organizations such as FAO, UNDP, ILO, UNESCO, WHO as well as estimates and projections.
Availability: Statistical data |
| WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean | http://www.emro.who.int/e-library/index.html | E-library of health information related to the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The library covers a huge range of health activities, country health profiles and other publications. And includes atlases, dictionaries, handbooks, periodicals, videos, and more in both Arabic and English languages.
Availability: Full-text |
| World Almanac of Islamism | https://almanac.afpc.org/almanac | Comprehensive reference work focusing on the nature of the contemporary Islamist threat in individual countries and regions. Intended to provide a picture of the rise or decline of radical Islamism on a national, regional, and global level. The Almanac provides access to full text reports and may be browsed by movements, countries, and regions.
Availability: Full-text |
| zbMATH | https://zbmath.org/ | The world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. |
| (الكشاف: قاعدة تسجيل الرسائل الجامعية (دار المنظومة | http://thesis.mandumah.com/ | A set of Arabic databases providing Arabic scientific research and studies, articles, conference papers and data records in the Arab region. |
| Shamaa = شمعة | http://www.shamaa.org/ | An open access database of literature on education in Arab countries. It indexes books, peer reviewed articles, theses and dissertations, reports and conference proceedings in Arabic, English and French languages.
Availability: Bibliographic Citations + selected Full-text Date Coverage: 2007 - Current |
| المكتبة الإلكترونية للمرأة العربية | http://elibrary.arabwomenorg.org/ | An open access database of literature on women in the Arab world. It provides access to books, articles, theses and dissertations, reports and conference proceedings in Arabic and English languages.
Availability: Full-text |
