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African Journals Online
AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. Journals included in AJOL are peer reviewed and scholarly in content. AJOL provides a range of online full text, from complete open access to only subscribed access, with hybrid models of restricted access.

ASSR: Arab Social Science Research Virtual Library
Provides links to journals, especially focusing on the Middle East and the Arab world. Journals listed either provide complete access, or provide access to abstracts and selected articles.

BioMed Central
Open access to peer-reviewed open access journals focusing on biomedical research

BMJ Publishing Group
Provides free access to the electronic version of its 23 specialist medical journals to developing countries.

British Library for Development Studies E-Journals
Lists free internet editions of journals relevant to international development studies; maintained by the British Library of Development Studies, University of Essex.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers full-text, quality controlled open source scientific and scholarly journals.

E-journals.org
A searchable and browsable list of full-text electronic journals. The site is collected and maintained by the producers of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

INASP Health Links
Internet gateway to recommended websites for health professionals librarians and publishers in developing and emerging countries.

HighWire
HighWire partners with scholarly societies, university presses, and publisher to create an online collection of fully searchable research and clinical literature, free for developing economies.

Highwire Archive
Free access to extensive archive of full-text science articles

Oxford Online Journals

POPLINE: POPulation information onLINE
A bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues. Provides citations with abstracts for 300,000 records. Document delivery services for the full text of most documents are free for individuals or institutions in developing countries.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a digital archive of free-access life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Database of free-access working papers and journal articles on economics.

RFBR: Russian Federation for Basic Research
The RFBR e-Library enables over 350 scientific institutions and libraries across Russia to access journal materials online.

UNDP Human Development Reports 1990-2010
 

Specialized Databases
Online Ready Reference

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Almanacs & Maps

NewsPapers

Radio and Television
 

 

   
 
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