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A Guide to free access Electronic Health Care/Medical Libraries on the Internet This guide provides information on how to obtain access to a variety of full-text health and medical journals, books, and other resources. The following on-line resources are included:
PubMed - US National Library of Medicine National
Institutes of Health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Resources: PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.. Terms and Conditions of Access Free access PubMed Bookshelf U.S. National Medical Library (NML) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
Resources: A collection of more than 3270 biomedical books that can be searched directly or from linked data in other NCBI databases. The collection includes biomedical textbooks, reports , and other scientific titles, genetic resources such as GeneReviews, and NCBI help manuals. Terms and Conditions of Access: Free access. You may browse and search across all content, or one book at a time. PubMed Central U.S. National Medical Library (NML) http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Resources: An electronic archive of journal articles on life sciences established and supported by the National Biotechnology Information Center (NBIC) under the NML. Currently includes about 5000 journals with 3,3 million articles. When searching in the PubMed Medline search engine, you will get a link to full texts of those articles available in the archive. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age. Participation by publishers in PubMed Central (PMC) is voluntary, although participating journals must meet certain editorial standards. Journals are encouraged to deposit all their content (and not just research papers or other selected material) in PMC so that the archive becomes a true digital counterpart to NLM's extensive collection of print journals. PMC also has the author manuscripts of articles published by NIH-funded researchers in various non-PMC journals The value of PubMed Central, in addition to its role as an archive, lies in what can be done when data from diverse sources is stored in a common format in a single repository. With PubMed Central, one can quickly search the entire body of full-text articles and locate relevant material regardless of its source. It also makes it possible to integrate the literature with a variety of other information resources such as sequence databases and other factual databases that are available to scientists, clinicians and everyone else interested in the life sciences. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to the resources is free and unlimited. BioMed Central Publishing House
Resources: BioMed Central is a publishing house that grants access to peer-reviewed publications on biomedical studies. BioMed Central publishes on-line journals covering all fields of biology and medicine. Terms and Conditions of Access: Free access to 277 open access peer-reviewed journals. The registered users can personalize the contents of the Web site to focus on those articles in the fields of particular interest to them and receive e-mail updates. Registration: Registration is free. BLDS Digital Library BLDS - the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/3
Resources: 150 free online journals and newsletters from development organisations and research institutes Full-text copies of developing country research from the shelves of the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS). These publications have been made available online to a global audience through partnership agreements between BLDS and research institutes in Africa and Asia. Includes publications on health and social care issues. Terms and Conditions of Access
Free access. BLDS Document Delivery service can also supply
you with copies of journal The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository.
Resources: 2780 academic peer-reviewed books from 99 publishers Terms and Conditions of Access: Free access Directory of Open Access Journals Directory of Open Access Journals is hosted by Lund University Libraries Head Office . The project is funded by Open Society Institute - Budapest and also supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals. Its aim Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. F1000Posters
F1000Posters is published by F1000 Research Ltd, which is a
member of the Science
Resources: F1000Posters is a unique open access repository for more than 7790 posters and slide presentations across biology and medicine. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. FreeBookCentre.net Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of free online technical books. http://www.freebookcentre.net/medical_text_books_journals/medical_text_books_online.html
Resources: The web-site includes links to free e-books and guides on Medical Sciences, some of the resources in this section can be viewed online and some of them can be downloaded. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. Free Medical Journals A project of Bernd Sebastian Kamps http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
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The database contains information on 4549 medical journals
in various languages (with free Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. Free Medical Books A project of Bernd Sebastian Kamps. http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/
Resources: The database contains information on 364 medical textbooks, monographs and reference books available on the Internet in various languages. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research - Free Medical Journals The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organization established in 2002. It is supported by the Department of Health of the Canton of Geneva, the Department of Social Affairs of the City of Geneva, the Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, and the Geneva Medical Association, and works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). GFMER is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction. http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_journals/Free_medical.php
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The database contains information on medical journals in
various languages (with free access Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. Hesperian Health Guides Hesperian produces and shares easy-to-understand health information for people worldwide in 10 languages
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Hesperian health guides are developed for communities with
limited access to health care. By Terms and Conditions of Access: 8 guides are available for free to download and use for creating your own materials HighWire Press Free Online Full-text Articles A project of the Stanford University libraries
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl Resources: This List is limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press. The participating journals focus on science, technology and medicine and are among the most influential publications. The approach to the on-line publication of journals taken by HighWire Press is not limited to the simple creation of electronic images of printed pages. The electronic versions complement the information in printed journals by links to Internet resources, extensive search capabilities, high-resolution images, multimedia and interactive tools. The freely accessible database contains more than 2,4300,000 free full-text articles. There are 33 sites with free trial periods, and 122 completely free sites. 287 sites have free back issues. HighWire Press is, therefore, the world's largest archive of articles on life sciences. You can search across all the journals in the database, choose topics of interest or browse the resources by topic. You can also find the journals that provide RSS feeds. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. HighWire Press Free Access to Developing Economies A project of the Stanford University libraries http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dt
Resources: Journals and books on life and social sciences, including 350 leading medical journals (published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free for low-income countries, plus Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Djibouti, Georgia, Indonesia, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. Individual publishers use the list from the World Bank as a guideline for determining their policies, so some variation in access per publisher does occur. Registration: Not needed as the software will automatically identify the country from which the Web site is accessed. LSHTM Research Online The institutional repository for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It is a freely accessible online database of the research outputs produced by the school. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/
Resources It currently has over 19,000 bibliographic records and 2,000 full text articles Terms and Conditions of Access
Where possible it provides access to the full text of
research articles, where they are unable to MEDBOX MEDBOX is an innovative online library aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in humanitarian action, worldwide. It is an independent internet platform that is supported by international agencies and scientific institutions active in humanitarian assistance and development.
Resources: MEDBOX collates the increasing number of professional guidelines, videos, textbooks and practical documents on health action for humanitarian aid workers Terms and Conditions of Access: Free access for personal and non-commercial use. Multiple search options Medknow Publications (India) Medknow Publications is a publisher for peer-reviewed, online/print+online journals in the area of STM. Medknow is the largest open access publisher publishing on behalf of learned societies and associations.
Resources: Medknow pioneers in 'fee-less-free' model of open access publishing and provides immediate free access to the electronic editions of the journals majority of which do not charge the author or author's institution for submission, processing or publication of the articles. Now the collection includes 185 peer-reviewed scholarly medical journals. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to HTML version is free, PDF access is also free for most of the journals in the developing world. Medscape Medscape is built around practice-oriented content.
Resources: Each of 36 Specialty Sites pools, filters, and delivers pertinent, continually updated content from more than 125 medical journals and textbooks, and expert-authored state-of-the-art surveys in disease management, next-day summaries from major medical meetings, and more. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free, but requires a one-time membership registration. The National Academies Press The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. http://www.nap.edu/topic/288/health-and-medicine/
Resources: The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. Health and Medicine research at the National Academies focuses on issues affecting the health of the public, including population-based public health measures and the public health infrastructure. It also ensures that there is adequate attention to the science base underlying health and health care, as national and international needs evolve and change. The public and private policies and institutional relations that shape health sciences research and policy or facilitate application of new knowledge are of particular concern. There are now about 1340 books on health and medicine. Terms and Conditions of Access: All PDF books are now free to download The Public Library of Science 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.
Resources: PLoS Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical mega-journal published weekly, online. PLoS ONE is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal publishing reports on primary research from any scientific discipline. PLoS Genetics is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published weekly PLoS Pathogens publishes important new ideas on bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions, and viruses that contribute to our understanding of the biology of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases is an open access journal devoted to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research on all scientific, medical, and public health aspects of these forgotten diseases affecting the world's forgotten people. Terms and Conditions of Access: PLoS users are free to read, copy, and distribute the content without limits and at no charge. Crediting the author and original source is all that is required in return. POPLINE POPLINE is a free resource, maintained by the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Resources: POPLINE contains the world's most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps program managers, policy makers, and service providers in lowand middle-income countries and in development-supportive agencies and organizations gain access to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished documents. POPLINE contains more than 345,000 records, and consists of bibliographic citations and abstracts to a variety of materials including journal articles and other scientific, technical, and programmatic publications as well as unpublished documents and project reports (gray literature). Most documents published after 2000 contain links to full-text. A variety of materials including journal articles and other scientific, technical, and programmatic publications as well as unpublished documents and project reports (gray literature). Terms and Conditions of Access: POPLINE provides links to the free full text of documents. For low- and middle-income country users who have little or no Internet access, POPLINE delivers the full text directly (by e-mail or regular mail). SciELO Public Health Scientific Electronic Library Online http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php?lang=en
Resources: This electronic online library covers articles published by 1230 scientific journals. It provides universal and integrated access to 392 scientific journals in the health science area within Ibero-american countries. SciELO interface provides access to its serials collection via an alphabetic list of titles or a subject index or a search by word of serial titles, publisher names, city of publication and subject. The interface also provides access to the full text of articles via author index or subject index or a search form on article elements such as author names, words from title, subject and words from the full text. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to this resource is free EBM resources The Cochrane Library http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/
Resources: The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials - all the current evidence in one single environment. The Cochrane Library iPad Edition presents the latest up-to-date evidence from the Cochrane Library in a convenient, easy to navigate format. Monthly issues feature Cochrane Systematic Reviews selected by the Editor in Chief and specifically abridged to provide the best possible iPad reading experience. The reviews are enriched with the addition of multimedia content, including podcasts, videos and slide decks. Terms and Conditions of Access: Residents in a number of countries or regions can access The Cochrane Library online for free through a 'provision' or a special scheme. The Cochrane Library is available with free one-click access to all residents of countries in the World Bank's list of low-income economies (countries with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of less that $1000). Access to The Cochrane Library for low-income countries is via Wiley IP recognition, a system which recognizes the country a user is in. Access to The Cochrane Library is also available via the HINARI and INASP programs, which provide additional support to low-income countries. Residents from other countries have access to abstracts of systematic reviews and to other resources. All Cochrane Reviews and Protocols published since 1 February 2013 have green open access rights. These mean that the reviews and protocols become free to view for all readers globally 12 months after publication. The WHO Reproductive Health Library The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is a curated collection of high-quality evidence in reproductive health, published by the World Health Organization. RHL takes the best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing countries.
Resources: Full text of selected Cochrane systematic reviews; independent expert commentaries on single or a collection of related Cochrane reviews - RHL commentaries; practical advice on implementation of findings of each Cochrane review - RHL practical aspects; a complete list of interventions evaluated in RHL, classified by the degree of their effectiveness - Effectiveness summaries; a set of training videos to help clinicians master details of manual and surgical procedures - RHL videos; a set of published journal articles and other materials to help understand and practice evidence-based sexual and reproductive health care - Evidence-based medicine resources. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to full-text of systematic reviews is free of charge for low-income countries. Other resources (including abstracts of systematic reviews and evidence summaries) are free for all. Available for iPad, the RHL app allows you to access the entire library offline. Full-text Internet Resources Search Tools (FreeFullPDF.com) The aim of FreeFullPDF.com is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific journals, theses, posters and patents. FreeFullPDF.com was developed by KnowMade SARL - a Technology Intelligence company specialized in the research and analysis of scientific and technical information.
Resources: Many scientific subjects, including medicine are covered. All content is freely available in PDF format. About 25.000 sources of free articles (open access journals, open archives) are indexed in FreeFullPDF database. Multiple search options Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to this resource is free Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Resources: Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1000 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 2,462,848 theses and dissertations. The index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online. Search could be performed by keywords, title, author, publisher, and limited by language and publication date Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to this resource is free Open Science Directory The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library to create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
Resources: About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the 'Open Science Directory'. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles. You can search by words in the title, author and publisher, or browse by subject. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to this resource is free ROAR is promoting open access to the research pre- and post-peer-review literature through author self-archiving in institutional e-print archives
Resources: This registry has two functions: (1) to monitor overall growth in the number of e-print archives and (2) to maintain a list of GNU EPrints sites (the software Southampton University has designed to facilitate self-archiving). It includes now information about more than 3900 open access repositories. You can search/browse by country, archive type (e-journals, e-thesis, data bases, etc.) or by archive software. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access to this resource is free
This guide provides information on how to obtain access to a variety of full-text health and medical journals, books, and other resources. The following on-line resources are included: Journal Articles and Book Collections: Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program provides free online access to major scientific and technical journals to local, not-for-profit institutions in least-developed countries.
Resources: 17 publishers provide access to around 20,000 journals, books, and reference works for 117 developing countries and territories through ARDI. The ARDI program was launched in 2009 by the World Intellectual Property Organization in cooperation with such publishers as Elsevier; John Wiley & Sons; Oxford University Press; National Academy of Sciences; Nature Publishing Group; Sage Publications; Springer Science+Business Media; Taylor & Francis. Among others, includes science and technology journals in biotechnology, medical technology and computing. Terms and Conditions of Access: Scientific Electronic Library (Russia) A project of the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Studies
Resources: Full-text electronic versions of 3200 Russian scientific journals (including 2800 open access titles). Terms and Conditions of Access: Though most journals and databases are available to all registered organizations, some publishers only grant access to a limited number of organizations or charge fees. Any organization irrespective of its status, business area, ownership pattern or geographical location can register itself with the eLibrary.ru server. Individuals can also register and get free access to many journal articles. Registration: Simple one time registration for individuals. African Index Medicus The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), produces an international index to African health literature and information sources. http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/
Resources: The data base includes journal articles from more than 130 African medical journals, also monographs, technical reports and other types of documents. Records include abstracts and links to full text (if available). Articles on or related to Africa and published in other regional or international journals are also indexed. Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. BIOLINE - International
Bioline International is managed by scientists and
librarians. It is a collaborative initiative between Bioline Toronto (management
office) and the Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil (host
computer and software development). The project is supported by the Digital
Scholarship Unit at the University of Toronto Scarborough and by the support of
sponsoring libraries and members
Resources: Open access to quality research journals published in developing countries on health care (including tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. Peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and other countries (about 35 journals). Terms and Conditions of Access: Access is free. |
