Open Access e-Library

Welcome to our Open Access e-Library, a vast collection of resources that support both student learning and staff research. Our Open Access Library content is open to the general university.

Health Electronic Resources

1 | Bioline International

Bioline International is a good site for articles on public health and international development.

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BioMed Central is an STM publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine…All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.

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3 | BookCentre.Net

Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of online books. Which Include core

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4 | DOAJ Sciences

Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

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5 | Free Medical Journals

Promotes and links to free full-text medical journals and resources.

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6 | Highwire Press

Hosted by Stanford University, contains articles from a vast range of journals.

Many recent articles are free while others are available after 12 months.

Journals on epidemiology, health education, health policy and planning, health promotion, physiology, research, computer science, medicine, agriculture, ecology, political science, and economics.

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7 | Ministry of Health E-Library

The Knowledge Management Portal is an online resource that integrates health and health related information resources from the Ministry of Health and beyond, to provide a single point of access to valuable information that facilitates evidence based decision making. It is a pool of knowledge resource that is used by researchers, managers, planners and anybody whose aim is to accumulate more knowledge and use it to create a gratifying healthy environment.

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8 | NCBI Bookshelf

Free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.

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9 | Oxford Medical Education (OME)

Provides free, online, open-access medical education for doctors and medical students.

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10 | PubMed

PubMed® comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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11 | Research for Life

You will access publications from AGORA (Enabling the developing world to access agriculture research), ARDI (Research for Innovation), GOALI (Enabling the developing world to access legal research), HINARI (Enabling the developing world to access health research, and OARE (Enabling the developing world to access environment research )

Research4life access : (Username :UGA217 Password:38201)

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12 | SAGE Open Medical Case Reports

A publication home for short case reports which often do not find a place in traditional primary research journals, but provide key insights into real medical cases that are essential for physicians, and may ultimately help to improve patient outcomes.

Resource ID #6086c4508c5c7 Health Science

General E-books

1 | United Nations Digital Library

The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format free of charge. At the same time it is a major service for the long-term preservation of the Organization’s collective memory incorporating the latest relevant international standards. It is built on open source technology developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

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2 | African Journals OnLine (AJOL)

African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Millions of monthly downloads by site users from nearly every country in the world are an indication of the need and widespread use of the AJOL initiative. More than half of the repeat users are from Africa.

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3 | BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, and it offers more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 sources. Sixty percent of its content is OA, and you can filter your search accordingly.

BASE has rigorous inclusion requirements for content providers regarding quality and relevance, and they maintain a list of content providers for the sake of transparency, which can be easily found on their website. BASE has a fairly elegant interface. Search results can be organized by author, title, or date.

From the search results, items can be selected and exported, added to favorites, emailed, and searched in Google Scholar. There are basic and advanced search features, with the advanced search offering numerous options for refining search criteria. There is also a feature on the website that saves recent searches without additional steps from the user.

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4 | Bloomsbury Open Access Ebooks

Hundreds of Open Access Ebooks covering a variety of subject areas.

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5 | CORE

CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA research. CORE has the largest collection of OA articles available. It allows users to search more than 219 million OA articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher’s site, or to a PDF available for download, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.

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6 | De Gruyter

De Gruyter is home to around 100 fully open access journals across STEM and HSS disciplines. Leading publisher of open access scientific content with nearly 400 scholarly journals across all major disciplines. Discover our open access portfolio. De Gruyter is home to around 100 fully open access journals across STEM and HSS disciplines.

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7 | Digital Library Of The Commons Repository

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. The DLC provides free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. This site contains an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

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8 | Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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9 | E-Book Library

PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 78,250,984 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don’t forget to bookmark and share the love!

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10 | ERIC – Education Resources Information Center

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

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11 | EThOS

Run by the British Library, the E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) allows you to search over 500,000 doctoral theses in a variety of disciplines. All of the doctoral theses available on EThOS have been awarded by higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.

Although some full texts are behind paywalls, you can limit your search to items available for immediate download, either directly through EThOS or through an institution’s website. More than half of the records in the database provide access to full-text theses.

EThOS notes that they do not hold all records for all institutions, but they strive to index as many doctoral theses as possible, and the database is constantly expanding, with approximately 3,000 new records added and 2,000 new full-text theses available every month. The availability of full-text theses is dependent on multiple factors, including their availability in the institutional repository and the level of repository development.

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12 | Library Genesis

Library Genesis is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise digitized elsewhere

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13 | MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

MDPI is a publisher of open access scientific journals. Founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive, it now publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals. MDPI is the largest open access publisher in the world and the fifth largest publisher overall in terms of journal paper output

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14 | OER Commons

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

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15 | Open Knowledge Repository

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Since its launch in 2012, millions of publications have been downloaded from the OKR, and nearly half of its users are in developing countries. The OKR was named one of ALA RUSA’s “Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2013” The World Bank also received the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) “Open Access Innovator” award in 2012 for the OKR.

Content

The OKR contains thousands of research works including:

World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies
Books published by the World Bank Group including flagship publications, academic books and practitioner volumes;
All World Development Reports (WDRs) plus recent WDR background papers;
Journal articles published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), two journals published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank;
Accepted manuscripts of Bank-authored journal articles from selected external publishers (after an embargo period if applicable);
Metadata and links to Bank-authored external journal articles;
Serial publications (typically data-intensive outlook reports);
Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)—a series of papers that disseminate findings of work in progress in order to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues;
Selected other papers of high research quality;
Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies—a series of analytical reports prepared by Bank staff. ESWs gather and evaluate information about a country’s economy and/or a specific sector;
Knowledge Notes, providing short briefs that capture lessons of experience from Bank operations and research;
The latest Country Opinion Surveys done in client countries for feedback on World Bank Group activities.
Selected translated titles.

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16 | OpenDOAR

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held. Try it out for yourself:

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17 | Paperity

Paperity boasts its status as the “first multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.” Their focus is on helping you avoid paywalls while connecting you to authoritative research. In addition to providing readers with easy access to thousands of journals, Paperity seeks to help authors reach their audiences and help journals increase their exposure to boost readership.

Paperity has journal articles for every discipline, and the database offers more than a dozen advanced search options, including the length of the paper and the number of authors. There is even an option to include, exclude, or exclusively search gray papers.

Paperity is available for mobile, with both a mobile site and the Paperity Reader, an app that is available for both Android and Apple users. The database is also available on social media. You can interact with Paperity via Twitter and Facebook, and links to their social media are available on their homepage, including their Twitter feed.

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18 | Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a big player in the world of OA science. Publishing 12 OA journals, the nonprofit organization is committed to facilitating openness in academic research. According to the site, “all PLOS content is at the highest possible level of OA, meaning that scientific articles are immediately and freely available to anyone, anywhere.”

PLOS outlines four fundamental goals that guide the organization: break boundaries, empower researchers, redefine quality, and open science. All PLOS journals are peer-reviewed, and all 12 journals uphold rigorous ethical standards for research, publication, and scientific reporting.

PLOS does not offer advanced search options. Content is organized by topic into research communities that users can browse through, in addition to options to search for both articles and journals. The PLOS website also has resources for peer reviewers, including guidance on becoming a reviewer and on how to best participate in the peer review process.

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19 | ScienceGate

The ScienceGate goal is to support all scientific and educational communities to facilitate achieving their goals through the best path. The ScienceGate team tries to make this possible by providing and developing several unique services gathered in a web platform.

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20 | ScienceOpen

Functioning as a research and publishing network, ScienceOpen offers OA to more than 74 million articles in all areas of science. Although you do need to register to view the full text of articles, registration is free. The advanced search function is highly detailed, allowing you to find exactly the research you’re looking for.

The Berlin- and Boston-based company was founded in 2013 to “facilitate open and public communications between academics and to allow ideas to be judged on their merit, regardless of where they come from.” Search results can be exported for easy integration with reference management systems.

You can also bookmark articles for later research. There are extensive networking options, including your Science Open profile, a forum for interacting with other researchers, the ability to track your usage and citations, and an interactive bibliography. Users have the ability to review articles and provide their knowledge and insight within the community.

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21 | SCIRP: Open Science Journal

Royal Society Open Science is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society since September 2014. Its launch was announced in February 2014. It covers all scientific fields and publishes all articles which are scientifically sound, leaving any judgement of impact to the reader

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22 | Zenodo

Zenodo, powered by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), was launched in 2013. Taking its name from Zenodotus, the first librarian of the ancient library of Alexandria, Zenodo is a tool “built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in open science.” Zenodo accepts all research from every discipline in any file format.

However, Zenodo also curates uploads and promotes peer-reviewed material that is available through OA. A DOI is assigned to everything that is uploaded to Zenodo, making research easily findable and citable. You can sort by keyword, title, journal, and more and download OA documents directly from the site.

While there are closed access and restricted access items in the database, the vast majority of research is OA material. Search results can be filtered by access type, making it easy to view the free articles available in the database.

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Nursing Videos

1 | Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Our interactive practice problems, articles, and videos help students succeed in math, biology, chemistry, physics, history, economics, finance, grammar, and many other topics.
Khan Academy provides teachers with data on how their students are doing so they can identify gaps in learning and provide tailored instruction. We also offer free personalized SAT and LSAT practice in partnership with the College Board and the Law School Admission Council. Want to extend your learning beyond YouTube? Practice what you’ve just discovered for free: www.khanacademy.org

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2 | Ninja Nerd

Our mission statement at Ninja Nerd is to deliver high quality science and medicine lectures on YouTube for FREE. We are here to provide a platform that can supplement to a more rounded learning experience, and have you walk away understanding the big picture. Join our Ninja Nerd Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/Jzd3fYbAa4 Discord is our community where Ninja Nerds from all over the world can share knowledge and learn together with others Ninja Nerds. Our Discord offers resources and tools, a safe place to have discussions, ask questions, and learn answers. Above all, Discord is our place for the entire Ninja Nerd family to come together and help fulfill the Ninja Nerd core value: to elevate each other.

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3 | Nursing Videos

Here are a collection of nursing “how to” and educational videos on nursing skills, NCLEX, HESI, nursing school tips, and so much more. If you are a nursing student, new nurse graduate, or a seasoned nursing needing to brush up on your skills, these video can help you.

This resource provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform many basic nursing skills and gives insight, tips, and tricks. In addition, the presenter gives nursing students new nurse tips on how to excel in the profession. The Presenter is the author of the books “How to Pass Nursing School” and “Nursing Resume: A Job Guide for Nurses“.

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4 | Osmosis from Elsevier

With Osmosis, learning health and medicine is fun. Our visual style helps communicate difficult concepts by grounding them with visual memory anchors, memorable characters, and engaging animations that foster the joy of learning. To celebrate our five-year anniversary, we made this video explaining a little bit of Osmosis history and showing why you should start learning by Osmosis today.

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5 | Zero to Finals

DescriptionThe Zero to Finals channel was created specifically to help students of medicine and other health professions to learn difficult concepts and conditions in preparation for their exams. Medicine book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1091859892 Paediatrics book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1080142827 Obstetrics and Gynaecology book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08K4K2WQB Website: https://www.zerotofinals.com Notes: https://www.zerotofinals.com/learn Multiple Choice Questions: https://www.zerotofinals.com/test Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zerotofinals/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zerotofinals Twitter: https://twitter.com/zerotofinals

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