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HINARI
Hinari internetwork Access To Research Initiative; Hinari is collaboration between the world health organization, publishers and other health care content owners intended to provide biomedical and health care research.

OARESCIENCES
Online Access To Research in the Environment; oaresciences is a digital library of scholarly resources in medical sciences, general science arts and other miscellaneous subjects. Oaresciences is a collaboration of libraries, archives and individual scholars working together to build a high-quality, on-line resources for research and teaching.

JSTOR
JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in Arts & Sciences Collections, the Health & General Sciences Collection, and the Biological Sciences.
Please remember that your access to Jstor is only within Igbinedion University Okada Network.

Open Source Materials

British Library For Development Studies
This is Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries. The E-library contains full-text electronic resources. This includes journals, reports and working papers from NGOs and International Organisations.

Bibliomania
This contains thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, study guides, dictionaries, biographies, religious texts, and popular non-fiction.

Electronic Medical Resources
This provides Free Access to Medical Journals, Medical books, Medical information and lots more with full-text.

ABC Chemistry
ABC Chemistry - is a compilation of free full text peer reviewed journals in Chemistry in English language. The archive is divided into 2 sections, one with journals that are permanently available full text on the web, and another section with trials and journals that are temporarily for free. There is a separate list with journals in Russian.

African Index Medicus
African Index Medicus - attempts to make health literature produced in Africa more visible worldwide. The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has created an international index to Africa literature and information sources in Health disciplines. All medical journals in Africa are eligible to join the initiative in order to promote African publishing. An important number of journals articles are not only indexed but freely available in full text.

Bioline International
Features 30 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe etc. Subjects included are health, biodiversity, environment, conservation and international development.

British Library for Development Studies at IDS – Institute of Development Studies
This is Europe’s largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.

Chemistry Central
This collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in chemical sciences.

Digital Book Index
Digital Books Index is a fairly new site which offers simple, swift and direct access to online digitalbooks. Extensive subject headings used to classify more than 73,000 titles records.

Development and Gender
A searchable database of gender and development materials from across the wild. The collection includes tools, case studies, policy papers and research.

CommsDesign
Provides access to online resources for CommsDesign engineers.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This provides access to 2,565 quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Launched in 1998, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is an online international journal covering all areas of biotechnology research, including molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational applications, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. It is hosted by the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile. Publishing in EJB is free, as is access to all of its content. Articles are reviewed by a scientific committee. They may be reproduced, with the editor's permission.

Electronic Literature Directory
An e-resource for intensive search of literature works including books, poems e.t.c

Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Middle East
Provides a list of journals related to the Middle East, some of which include access to full texts or abstracts of articles.

Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health

Escholarship Editions
Access to electronic editions of academic books published by scholarship editions, mainly in the humanities, religion, history, literature, arts and social sciences.

FreeFullText.com
FreeFullText.com - provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists.

GDN Journal Services
This provides a comprehensive listing of the different initiatives which provide researchers with access to academic journals This list also provides links to databases that provide access to online journals or documents. Some databases link to both journals that provide full text access and those that provide access to abstracts or table of contents.

Highwire
The new HighWire Press - site contains more than 1000 peer reviewed, high impact journals and other scholarly content publicly available.

INASP
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Directory of Free and Open Access Online Resources.

Index Data
The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories.

INDIACLEN
INDIACLEN - is a directory of Health Sciences journals that are freely accessible on the web, either in full text or abstracts. The journals listed belong in different regions, and cover English, Spanish and Portuguese languages.

INFOMINE
INFOMINE is a large virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, preprints and working papers and many other types of information. Built by librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges, the site makes searches of scholarly e-resources in scientific and humanities/social sciences disciplines, in terms of record origin, resource access (free or fee based) and resource type. Much content displayed is for free.

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an "Internet library", with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Krugosvet
On-line Russian language Encyclopedia, Krugosvet.

Law Nigeria online
Is the first website in Nigeria, giving Nigerian Law students and Lawyers a platform to exhibit their services. It also gives them access to important links and events. Individual registration is necessary for full access.

Los Alamos ePrint Archive
Open access to more than 400,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.

National Academies Press
Provides access to thousands of entire books and reports on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and the health sciences.

Nigeria Medicinal Plants
A complete guide to research on plants, containing a Medicinal Plants Gallery of Nigerian Plants by Prof. Tolu Odugbemi, the current Vice Chancellor of University Of Lagos, Nigeria. First of its kind in Nigeria.

Open J-Gate

Highwire
The new HighWire Press - site contains more than 1000 peer reviewed, high impact journals and other scholarly content publicly available.

OpenLearn
Launched in late 2006 by the UK-based Open University, OpenLearn provides free open educational resources for learners and educators around the world under a Creative Commons licence (this means that users can download and reuse the materials, amending them to suit their purpose and context). The site can boast in excess of 2500 hours of free study materials across nine subject areas: Arts & History, Business & Management, Education, IT & Computing, Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Nature, Society and Study Skills & Language Learning.

Pandora, Australia's Web Archive
The PANDORA Project (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) was set up in June 1996 in an attempt to develop an archive with Australian Internet publications for preservation purposes by the National Library. The PANDORA Archive contains an ever growing number of selected Australian online publications such as electronic journals, organisational sites, government publications and ephemera in a broad range of topics from Agriculture to Sports.

Popline
This is World’s largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for 300,000 records.
N.B: You can request full-text copies of most documents cited in POPLINE. Requests are processed during business hours of 8:00 am-5:00 pm EST (0800-1700). POPLINE documents are free of charge by Sending your document request to: POPLINE® INFO Project Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs. Email: popline@jhuccp.org
Limit your request to 15 documents or fewer. Requests for more than 15 documents must be split into multiple requests. POPLINE will process one document request for a maximum of 15 documents per customer per day. POPLINE cannot provide rush service.

Wirless
An open access repository of educational materials: All available for any person to download. A tool for educators: Distribute your training materials to your students—just upload & share the link. All of your revisions and translations are tracked, making it easy to find, share, and collaborate. A community—WirelessU connects people. Whether you are interested in learning about wireless technology, teaching a wireless training session, or holding a training event at a local venue, WirelessU will help you connect to the people who make all of this possible.

Open Library
Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.