Free Access Scientific Journals and Data

[Links checked/updated on 28-02-2011. Two links removed (broken), one added.]

• TWAS-OWSDW Thesis Repository. Open-access resource of theses produced by awardees of TWAS and OWSDW (formerly TWOWS) postgraduate fellowship awardees. See http://twas.assaf.org.za:8080/jspui.
• APS announces Physical Review X (PRX), an online, open access, primary research journal for authors in all fields of physics. See prx.aps.org.
  
• The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) facilitates free access to current mathematics and physics literature. The programme – which is run by ICTP in Trieste, Italy – distributes scientific articles via e-mail to scientists in institutions in least developed or low income countries without sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet.
• OpenThesis. Upload your thesis, or search for other people's theses and download them. See http://www.openthesis.org.
  
• Biodiversity Heritage Library. Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions are digitizing the published literature on biodiversity held in their respective collections and making it available through a global 'biodiversity commons'. See http://www.archive.org/details/biodiversity.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and open access to biodiversity data. See http://www.gbif.org.
• The US National Academies Press is making all its publications available for free download, including the 40,000 books in the back catalogue. See http://www.nap.edu.
• NERC Open Research Archive. This archive is a central repository for published material such as academic papers or reports that have resulted from research funded by the British Natural Environment Research Council. See http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/.
  
• Zookeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly produced journal launched to support free exchange of ideas and information in systematic zoology. See http://www.zookeys.org.
  
• European Journal of Entomology. See http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7531/?tag=content;col1.
• Experimental and Applied Acarology. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/100158/.
  
• Sciyo.com provides barrier-free access to books and journals covering the latest research developments, knowledge and ideas in science and technology, e.g. electrical engineering and robotics. See http://sciyo.com.
  
• WikiPremed is a comprehensive open access course in college physics, chemistry, organic chemistry and biology. See http://www.wikipremed.com.
• The Library of Alexandria Supercourse is a collection of over 4,700,000 academic PowerPoint lectures categorized into various disciplines. Educators are encouraged to borrow slides to improve their teaching.

• The African Virtual University (AVU) operates an interactive Open Education Resources (OER) portal 'OER@AVU' containing resources developed together with 12 universities in 10 African countries.

• Virology Journal - covers all aspects of virology research. See http://www.virologyj.com.
  
• International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology - GST focuses on gender issues in and of science and technology, including engineering, construction and the built environment, and aims to explore the intersections of policy, practice and research. See genderandset.open.ac.uk.
• Mother Pelican is a monthly, free subscription, open-access journal covering sustainable development issues. See http://pelicanweb.org.
  
• TropIKA.net - Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation & Knowledge Application -  provides a wealth of information, including open access papers, on research into tropical diseases. See www.tropIKA.net.
  
• EUROGENE, a project sponsored by the European Commission, is a multilingual reference portal for genetics training. It brings together top quality digital educational content, which allows educators to search for and assemble multilingual pedagogic and scientific peer-reviewed materials into customizable lecture support materials. See www.eurogene.eu.

• ChEMBL - Neglected Tropical Disease archive - an open-access repository of primary screening and medicinal chemistry data. See http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd.

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and consists of an abstract database and an electronic paper collection. See http://www.ssrn.com.
  
• The Water Information Center, a Web site created by the US National Academies, provides free access to more than 100 peer-reviewed reports on water-related issues and support to all who are working to create a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable world. See: http://nationalacademies.org/headlines/20061127.html.

• Nano Archive - http://www.nanoarchive.org -an online open-access repository for nanoscience and nanotechnology.
• Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology - http://www.intechweb.org/nanomaterials-nanotechnology-journal.html.
  

• The Online Journal of Nanotechnology -www.azonano.com/nanotechnology.asp -publishes high quality articles and papers on all aspects of nanotechnology and related scientific, social and ethical issues.
• Mathematics: Dr. William Trench's Introduction to Real Analysis, originally published by Pearson Education, can be downloaded here.
  

• ResearchSEA -- www.researchsea.com -- is a specialised research news dissemination service for Asia. It aims to get good research into mainstream media for better public understanding of research. Registration is free.
• Open Door - multinational science teaching site: www.saburchill.com
• BMC Veterinary Research covers all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health. See: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcvetres.
• Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health. See http://www.academicjournals.org/JVMAH/.
• Veterinary World. See http://www.veterinaryworld.org.
  
• Journal of Parasitology and Vector Biology. See http://www.academicjournals.org/JPVB/.
• Psyche: A Journal of Entomology in the Hindawi stable. See www.hindawi.com/journals/PSYCHE/.

• The Open Entomology Journal is an open access online journal, which publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of experimental and applied entomology including pest management science. See www.bentham.org/open/toentoj/.

• Invertebrate Rearing - a journal for amateurs and professionals covering all aspects of the rearing and breeding in captivity of marine, freshwater and terrestrial invertebrates: http://inverts.info.
  
• Journal of Land and Water, an open access eJournal, has recently been launched with the aim of publishing scientific papers of international significance covering basic, applied, and strategic land and water research. The peer-reviewed journal will focus on the integration of the various aspects of land and water management and conservation. Submissions of manuscripts should be sent through the on-line submission section of the journal at http://ejlw.sakia.org/. For more information, contact Thomas M. Stein at thomas-manuel.stein [at] sakia.org.
• Innovation Strategy Today is a new eJournal that is available to download for free. It is in pdf format. Free registration is required to receive further issues of this publication. The publishers hope that the new journal 'will contribute to new insights, knowledge and tools as authors share their creativity and original perspectives'. More here: www.biodevelopments.org/innovation/.
• ARKIVOC: "Archive for Organic Chemistry", a free global online journal for organic chemistry by arkat-usa.org.
• www.doaj.org: Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
• www.plos.org/: The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
• Online publishing by SISSA/ISAS: JCAP, JCOM, Jekyll, JHEP, JSTAT, POC, SISSA News.
• US National Academies: NAS/NRC/PNAS reports and other resources are given to many developing nations free of charge. Check out this link: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/04052004?OpenDocument.
• On 18 November 2004 Google has released a new search tool for academic content called Google Scholar. It's in beta, it's got its own syntax, and it is available at http://scholar.google.com/. One can search for key words and phrases in peer-reviewed journal articles, theses, books, technical papers, as well as preprints (articles available on the Internet prior to publication). It does not return any non-academic websites that contain the selected key words.
• The NATO Research Technology Agency finished the initial development of its "science, technology and research network" (STARNET; http://starnet.rta.nato.int) -- a collection of scientific data sources freely available on the Internet. The purpose of this network is to facilitate access to the non-classified scientific information already existing in many different countries. The STARNET virtual library focuses on seven different topic areas or "nodes": Aerospace and Aerospace-Related Research Information Node (ARIN); Defense Against Terrorism Node (DTIN); Environmental and Biological Sciences Node (EBSIN); Information Science Node (INSCIN); Land-Based Operations Node (LBON); Naval, Marine and Sea-based Operations Node (NAVMAS) and Research Planning Node (RESPLAN). NATO is currently seeking feedback on STARNET as well as suggestions for additional resources to include in the network. [Source: Internet Resources Newsletter].
• OpenAccessJournals (2004) -- List of URLs of freely accessible electronic publications, provided by the Zoological Society of London (May 2004).
• International E-Publishing Resources Online The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) facilitates open access to the world's scholarly literature and supports the electronic publication of reviewed bioscience journals from countries experiencing difficulties with traditional publication.
• Hindawi publish more than 200 open acess journals.
• Bentham Open publish over 250 peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, and medicine. See http://www.bentham.org/open/JrnlsBySub.htm.
  
• A selection of links to international e-publishing resources is available from the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development here.