| | DATABASE | DESCRIPTION | |
| A | African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health | It is a quarterly peer-reviewed and evidence-based journal for all midwives and nurses who wish to keep up-to-date with developments in Africa, in matters relating to midwifery and women’s health. The journal provides clinical and professional articles and aims to advance skills, knowledge transfer and academic discussions in all aspects relating to midwifery practice and women’s health matters in Africa. | |
| | African Journals Online (AJOL) | AJOL is the world’s largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals. It provides free online hosting for over 500 peer-reviewed journals from 31 African countries, using open-source software. Subjects covered: health, agriculture, education, climate change, and African studies. | |
| | BioMedCentral Journals | Open Access Publisher of High Impact peer-review journals in all subjects and BioMedicine | |
| | British Institute of Radiology Journals | BIR Publications is the publishing arm of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), publishing books and journals covering all aspects of radiology, radiation oncology, medical physics and the underpinning sciences. | |
| | Cambridge University Press – Cambridge Journals Online | They have full text of over 380 Cambridge University Press Online Journals in Political Science, Linguistics, Social Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Science, Medicine | |
| | Cochrane Library | The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing 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 reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials all the current evidence in one single environment. | |
| | Core | CORE aggregates all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and makes them available to the public. Thus, facilitating free unrestricted access to research for all. | |
| | Directory of Open Access Books | DOAB has more than 750 free full-text e-books, all of which are in Open Access and meet academic standards covering all subjects and many languages. | |
| | Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | It is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities | |
| E | Ebrary Pro Quest | Ebook central provides over 120,000 ebooks in all subject areas for academic pursuits. The database provides tools to enhance discovery, sharing and management. | |
| | EBSCO Host Research Databases | This collection provides access to eight comprehensive EBSCOhost databases covering a variety of disciplines: ● Academic Search Premier ● Business Source Premier ● ERIC ● MasterFILE Premier ● Newspaper Source ● Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition ● Health Source: Consumer Edition ● MEDLINE | |
| | Elsevier Open access journals | List of all A-Z articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review that is permanently free for everyone to read and download in different subjects | |
| | European Respiratory Journals | Adult and paediatric respiratory medicine, including cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, pathophysiology, imaging, occupational medicine, intensive care, sleep medicine, and thoracic surgery. | |
| F | Free Book Center | This portal focuses primarily on academic material. It has a keyword search tool and also a list of broad subject categories. One of the principal categories is Medicine which is divided into a lengthy list of sub-categories. Each entry notes the title, language format and many contain a one sentence summary plus the link to the PDF. | |
| | Free Books 4 Doctors | Free full-text textbooks on medical literature. Have unrestricted access to scientific knowledge. | |
| Google Books | Read Full text books online free. You can also save links/ Citation of books in your personal google account. | ||
| Hindawi | Hindawi publishes peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science. Hindawi’s journals are indexed in the leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and Chemical Abstracts. | ||
| HST – The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC) | Subject Strength: agriculture & environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, reproduction & development | ||
| IOPscience | IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content. IOP publishes more than 70 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences | ||
| Memorial University Libraries – Free | Free E-journals on all research subject areas from different databases | ||
| Open Access for Africa | Open access for Africa is a search engine that filters your search to prioritize results from open access journals and databases in Nursing and Medicine. It offers an orientation on how to optimize online searching and provides links to free access journals and databases. Resources featured in this guide include journals with full-text access, free medical textbooks, free databases, best search strategies and information about partnering institutions in Africa. | ||
| Project Muse Books | Subject strength: area & ethics studies, art & pacific studies, art & architecture, creative writing, education, film theater & performance arts, history, language & linguistics, library science & publishing, literature, medicine & health, music, philosophy, religion, science technology & mathematics, social sciences, studies by time period and women’s studies gender & sexuality. | ||
| Public Library of Science (PLOS) | Is a non-profit offering public access to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety of journals, including PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature. | ||
| Wiley Online Library Full | Wiley Online Library is a leading international resource for scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. This package provides access to over 1,370 journals across all major academic disciplines i.e. Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Engineering, Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine & Nursing, Polymers and Materials Science, Business, Humanities, Social sciences |