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icon The ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
icon ASTM International
ASTM International is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of voluntary consensus standards. Today, over 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.
icon Afreximbank Publications
Afreximbank offers a range of financing programmes, solutions and advisory services to support the expansion, diversification, promotion and development of intra- and extra-African trade and trade development projects.
icon African Journals Online
Open Access to tables of contents, abstracts and full text content from over 160 journals published in Africa is provided.
icon African Portal
The online knowledge resource for African policy issues.
icon Biology Letters
A fast, high-quality journal, publishing short research articles, reviews and opinion pieces across the biological sciences.
icon The Company of Biologists
The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organization dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community. It exists to profit science, not shareholders. Inspired by new thinking and support the community of biologists.
icon Development
Development is a leading primary research journal covering the field of developmental biology. With its long and prestigious history and its team of expert academic editors, Development is committed to publishing cutting-edge research across the spectrum of animal and plant developmental biology.
icon DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
A directory containing more than 5,000 full-text open access scientific and scholarly journals.
icon EconPapers
EconPapers provides access to the largest collection of online Economics working papers.
icon Edward Elgar Publishing
Edward Elgar Publishing is a renowned independent academic and professional publisher specializing in the social sciences and law. It publishes over 400 book and magazine titles per year and has accumulated a notable list with over 7,000 titles.
icon Electronic Journals Library
Access to online articles and scholarly journals.
icon EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex provides free access to European Union law and other documents considered to be public. The website is available in 24 official languages of the European Union.
icon Eurostat
Eurostat provides access to a range of statistical information (data and publications) you can consult online or download for free.
icon Gale eBooks
The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in e-book format include multi-volume encyclopedias, business plan handbooks, company history compilations and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include business and industries.
icon Gale Research Complete
Gale Research Complete (formerly Gale Reference Complete - Academic) provides subscription access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources available to libraries today. Empowering users at all academic levels, from the undergraduate student to the experienced researcher, and covering nearly every research area and discipline, Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative and unique content at an affordable price to suit the needs of the academic library budget.
icon Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine. It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
icon The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences- (INFORMS)
INFORMS publishes 13 scholarly journals, including the flagship journals Management Science and Operations Research, a journal for the practice of OR/MS (Interfaces), the new online-only journal Service Science, as well as an open access journal (INFORMS Transactions on Education).
icon Interface Focus
Cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. This is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.
icon Institute of Development Studies
These are full-text copies of developing country research made available online to a global audience through partnership agreements between BLDS and research institutes in Africa and Asia.
icon Journal of Cell Science
Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science, encompassing all aspects of cell biology.
icon Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP)
The KPP envisages production and dissemination of high quality research and analysis products, sharing Indian and global evidence on policies that impact development outcomes.
icon Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 14 million documents (80+ million pages).
icon Library of Congress Online Catalogue (LOC)
The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library’s collections.
icon Notes & Records
The Royal Society journal of the history of science
icon OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.
icon Open Biology
A fast, open access journal publishing high impact biology at the molecular and cellular level
icon Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Offers a fully searchable, completely comprehensive multilingual set of dictionaries. It covers nine modern languages including: French, German, Italian and Spanish.
icon Project MUSE Journals
Project MUSE Journals provides online access to 500 full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.
icon Project MUSE Books
Project MUSE provides online access to book packages published during 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 copyright years.
icon Journal of Experimental
Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading primary research journal in comparative physiology and publishes papers on the form and function of living organisms at all levels of biological organisation, from the molecular and subcellular to the integrated whole animal.
icon Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series A
Influential themed journal issues across the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences
icon Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences
icon Proceedings of the Royal Society series B
The Royal Societys flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide dissemination of high-quality research.
icon ProQuest eBook Central
ProQuest eBook Central delivers, with breadth and depth of eBooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
icon Research Papers in Economics (RePecs)
The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
icon Royal Society Open Science
A fast, open journal publishing high-quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics
icon Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
This site provides access to electronic versions of Working Papers in Economics produced at Nordic academic departments and research organizations.
icon scite
scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence.
icon SSRN - Social Science Research Network
This is a website devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities.
icon Taylor & Francis Online Journals
Online access incorporates Routledge and Psychology publishers. Subject strengths include arts and humanities, business management and economics, library and information science, mathematics and statistics, media, politics and international relations among others.
icon United Nations Treaty Collection
UN databases with texts of treaties and treaty-related data.
icon World dataBank
World dataBank offers access to variables from the World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance, Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, Africa Development Indicators and the Global Economic Monitor (GEM)s.
icon World Wide Web Resources in Economics (WebEc)
WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the World Wide Web.
icon WorldCat
WorldCat is a huge master catalogue containing citations for library materials held by more than 10,000 libraries, including the UM Catalogue.
icon WTO Resources Gateway
Provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organisation including legal texts and agreements, statistics, research and publications.
icon WWW Virtual Library for international Affairs
This is an Internet directory with over 2000 annotated links to high-quality sources of information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.
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