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Bibliographic Databases

Bibliographical information on nuclear reaction data. Free bibliographic references to measurements, calculations, reviews and evaluations of neutron cross-section and other microscopic neutron data.
 
Leading reference database for scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. Over 3 million bibliographic citations and abstracts. Includes a unique collection of over 850 000 full-text documents.
 
Access to the leading citation databases: Science Citation Index - Social Sciences Citation Index - Art & Humanities Citation Index. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. Current and retrospective coverage to 1900.
Includes: Journal Citation Reports 1999 -
 
Web-based version of Mathematical Reviews (MR), containing all the reviews published in MR since its founding in 1940. There are presently nearly 1.85 million reviews. Offers a variety of search options and the ability to navigate the literature using an extensive network that contains over 304,000 links to original articles.
 
Most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It contains about 2.7 million entries drawn from about 3500 journals and 1100 serials from 1868 to present.
 
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Portals & Search Engines

 

Access to 37 leading titles published by the American Chemical Society starting from 1996.
 
Allows searching of bibliographic records and abstracts of the American Geophysical Union publications from 1896 to present. Authentication required to access full articles, except for Reviews of Geophysics, which is open to all readers from 1963 through 2002.
 
The online home of American Institute of Physics journals and proceedings, as well as more than 100 additional journals from 18 scholarly publishers.
 
Free access to all AMS journal articles published through 31 December 2007. Restricted access to 2008 onward contents.
 
Books published by the American Mathematical Society, available for free download.
 
Access to nine journals published or distributed by the American Mathematical Society. Open access to: Bulletin of the AMS and Notices of the AMS.
 
Consortium access to both Elsevier and Springer journals (alternative to direct access).
 
Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
 
Peer reviewed open access journals in geosciences and other related subjects.
 
A digital collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field.
 
The Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.
 
Access to both subscribed and free access journals.
 
About 1900 science, technology and medicine (STM) journals, full text from 1995 onwards. Complete backfiles available for titles in High Energy, Nuclear Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical and Analytical Chemistry.
 
Established in 1996 by the European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS), is the longest-running and largest open access repository in mathematics. Contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources.
 
Digital library of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
 
Digitized version of German books and journals. Huge collection of mathematical literature.
 
Searching across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
 
Publish more than 150 peer-reviewed open access journals in science, technology and medicine.
 
The IAEA is a leading publisher in the nuclear field. Its scientific and technical publications cover fifteen subject areas. They include proceedings of major international conferences, as well as international guides, codes, and standards.
 
Free online results of research supported by the International Development Research Centre (Canada) to help developing countries in using science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic and environmental.
 
Access to 27 Institute of Physics journals from the first volume and to the IOP Journal Archive: a comprehensive digital collection of all the work published by the Institute which is more than 10 years old, going back to 1874. Free access to papers published in IOP journals for 30 days from online publication, and to other selected contents.
 
Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator. Platform for journals currently published by academic societies in Japan. Includes an archive section for backfiles of selected titles.
 
General science, mathematics and statistics: full text of scholarly journals, beginning with the very first issue of each title.
 
Gateway to the online Astronomy and Physics literature, through 4 bibliographic databases: astronomy and astrophysics, physics and geophysics, arXiv preprints, science education, topic search.
 
Numerisation de Documents Anciens Mathematiques gives free access to digitized archives of French mathematical journals up to 2000 - 28 Journals and 28 Seminars.
 
An electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Includes about 3000 peer-reviewed journals.
 
Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.
 
Physics-related free access journals, which are freely available on the net.
 
Archive of journals in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics, partially open access.
 
Immediate access to all journals content published by the American Physical Society (APS).
 
Articles of the physical science journals are free to access 24 months after publication starting from 2001 (last two years are available upon authentication)
 
The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. It allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
 
The federated search portal to the digital libraries of 21 leading science and technology societies. More than three and a half million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 350 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.
 
About 1700 science, technology and medicine (STM) journals, full text from 1997 onwards.
 
Digitized books published in the 19th or early 20th century, selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection.
 
More than 100,000 UNESCO documents, many available online freely.
 
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Other Suggestions

 

African Journals OnLine is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
 
Over 250 peer-reviewed open access journals in science, technology, and medicine.
 
Publisher of 199 peer-reviewed open access journals.
 
Site promoting free access to medical journals and books over the internet.
 
Largest free full-text science archives in biomedicine.
 
The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. They publish seven open access journals.
 
A service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948.
 
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Over 1,500,000 articles from over 450 journals.
 
Research Papers in Economics: provides access to the largest collection of online economics working papers and journal articles.
 
Royal Society of Chemistry: free access to all contents from 1997 to 2006 of RSC high impact journals in chemical sciences.
 
Comprise 44 South African journals in various subjects.
 
List of peer reviewed open access scholarly journals from India and the subcontinent.
 
SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network – is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world.
 
Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries. It provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to more than 600 journals.
 
SJI publishes dozens of peer-reviewed open-access journals for all major disciplines.
 
Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.