Open Access
This section consists of Open Access literature. Open-access literature is digital literature that is available on the web, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Committing to open access requires dispensing with the financial, technical and legal barriers that are designed to limit access to scientific research articles to paying customers. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Listed below you will find a directory of some of the major Open Access collections available on the web.
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Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes its
current journals freely available to researchers in the developing world
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The Electronic Journals Library is a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the Internet. At 1 January 2004 it contained 12,979 titles, among them 1319 online-only journals, covering all subjects, of which 3358 journals can be read full-text free-of-charge. |
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Sources of free On-Line full text articles and journals HighWire Press work with scholarly societies and responsible publishers to host their content online. They do not own the material, nor do they set the journals' policies. HighWire contains over 439,456 free full-text articles as of January 2003. HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines The link http://www.highwire.org/lists/devecon.dtllists the journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press which offer free online access to current content (not just back issues) to all countries that appear in the World Bank's list of "low income economies". |
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This project digitises books which are in the public domain and puts them online free of charge. It was founded in 1971 and has so far published 7,500 e-books. |
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The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides access to the full text. |
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World Development Sources (World Bank) World Development Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval system which contains a collection of over 6,000 World Bank reports most of which are scanned and are available in imaged format, which you can access via a web browser and search through a multi-field search engine. These include Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports, studies and working papers. |