ANNOUNCEMENT
ONLINE LIBRARY SERVICES
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ONLINE REFERENCE ASSISTANCE
Faculty and students can ask for assistance on finding articles, books and other online library services thru.
Bibliographic Service
A subject-oriented research guide designed to encourage researchers to a self-directed use of the library resources.
Webliographies
List of resources related to a particular topic that can be accessed on the World Wide Web in full text or abstract only; a gateway to the scientific sources of information on the Net, whether annotated or not.
Document Delivery Service
A service whereby the library obtains a copy of published articles on behalf of its library users. Currently allowing electronic or online copies only.
Electronic Resources
| DICTIONARIES, GLOSSARIES, AND THESAURI
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary Medical Dictionary.Free Dictionary Visual Dictionary Online: Anatomy Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine ENCYCLOPEDIAS |
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) – releases various publications, reports, media releases and other relevant resource materials to increase public awareness on various economic and financial issues of the country.
Chan Robles Virtual Law Library – a comprehensive legal site linked to major legal resources worldwide.
DTI e-Library – Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – offers a quick and convenient way to access materials pertaining to business, consumers, and laws and policies.
eFOI – Electronic Freedom of Information – a platform where the public has a general right of access to official documents and to make provisions for incidental and connected purposes.”
Filipinas Heritage Library – a one-stop digital research center on the Philippines. It is the other half of Ayala Foundation’s Arts and Culture Division.
Herdin PLUS – Health Research and Development Information Network (HERDIN Plus} is a one stop (health) research information management platform in the Philippines.
LawPhil – a legal website project of Arellano Law Foundation.
Philippine e-Journals – A single web-based platform providing access to an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations.
PHL CHED Connect – a digital platform offering open access on higher education materials in various formats useful for learning, research and teaching purposes.
Philippine eLib – a single web-based portal for all the library and information collections of the participating agencies, the National Library (TNL), the University of the Philippines (UP), the Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and DOST.
Journal of the Philippine Medical Association
Philippine Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
Philippine Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (PJCSA)
Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine
Philippine Journal of Ophthalmology
Philippine Journal of Orthodontics
Philippine Journal of Pathology
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts – is a collection of digital texts with focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Its purpose is to help facilitate a person’s liberal arts education.
arXiv – “is an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.”
Avalon project:Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy – an online full text collection on American law, history, politics, economics, diplomacy and related topics. It was created by the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale.
B.C. Open Textbook Collection – a source of a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects reviewed by faculty. Some textbooks include ancillary materials (e.g., quizzes, test banks, slides, videos).
Digital Book Index – One of the most comprehensive sources for free, downloadable and web-based e-books, while many others are available at very modest cost. Its collections include History; Language and Literature; Social Sciences; Health Sciences.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – is an online directory that indexes and provides access to academic open access peer-reviewed books from different publishers.
Google Books – search the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books.
E-Books Directory – is a daily growing list of links of freely accessible and downloadable ebooks, lecture notes and documents found all over the internet.
FreeTechBooks – a database of free open access online computer science books, textbooks, and lecture notes.
Internet Archive – provides universal access all knowledge, a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
OAPEN Library (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) – contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.
OER Commons – Higher Ed Textbook Hub – provides free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources organized by discipline.
OnlineProgrammingBooks.Com – “lists free eBooks and online books related to programming, computer science, software engineering, web design, mobile app development, networking, databases, information technology, AI, graphics and computer hardware which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally.”
Open Book Publishers –publishes an open acess high quality academic textbooks and monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Open Culture Free Textbooks: Computer Science – collect “the best free cultural and educational media on the web.” They’ve compiled lists of free and open textbooks written by knowledgeable scholars.
Open Textbook Library – are textbooks every student can access and afford that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed which were reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.
OpenStax – offers free peer-reviewed and openly licensed textbooks which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. OpenStax is part of Rice University.
Open SUNY Textbooks – is a free, open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants and SUNY Geneseo.
Springer Nature – publishes open access books and chapters across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences
Academia Publishing Journals – offers open access, peer-reviewed journals in the domains of engineering, medical science, scientific research, biological sciences, agricultural sciences, educational research, business and management studies.
Academic Journals – publishes peer-reviewed open access journals on art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
AIMS Press – provides Open Access, online, peer-reviewed journals in the major scientific and medical fields.
BENTHAM Open – publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access online journals covering major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences.
Bioline International – provides open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries.
BioMed Central – provides access to peer reviewed journals covering all areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine. BMC is part of Springer Nature.
BMJ – BMJ Open is a medical journal.
Elsevier Open Access Journals – all open access peer reviewed published journals can immediately be accessed and downloaded by everyone. Reuse is permitted as defined by the author’s choice of Creative Commons user licenses.
Emerald Insight – aims to help researchers make their findings open to all, through journals, books and case studies giving them the opportunity to create real impact and drive positive change across the world on business and management, health, social care education and engineering
Free Medical Journals – provides open access to medical journals and other related subjects.
Frontiers -provides access to academic discipline journals peer-reviewed by top researchers that are freely accessible and downloadable.
| Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry – provides access to journals in chemistry, biochemistry and related subjects |
Hindawi Publishing – publishes peer-reviewed open access journals for biological sciences, medicine, case reports, physical sciences, social sciences, education, mathematics, and engineering and computer science.
Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme – provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
International Scholars Journals – (ISJ publishes peer-reviewed, open access journals on agricultural, biological, life, medical, physical, and social science which can be copied, downloaded, distribute or reuse provided the author and original sources are cited properly.
J-STAGE – promotes “open access”, which consists of (1) free access to articles and (2) specifying the scope of reuse like modification or redistribution. Articles displaying a CC license can be reused under the terms of the license.
Journals Directory – A platform that bridges the gap between authors and publishers in the scientific research stream
JSTOR – is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
MDPI – offers scholarly open access journals to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Journals are freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Medwin Publishers – provides s journals which covers 120 different topic areas covering cutting-edge research in the fields of Dental, Pediatrics, Diabetes, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Biotechnology, Virology.
OMICS International – Provide Open Access publications to 700+ peer reviewed journals on Science and Technology.
Open Science Directory – a global search tool for Open Access Journals (full – partly) for General Works; History; Geography and Recreation; Social Sciences; Political Sciences; Law; Agriculture; Fine Arts; Education; Science and Technology.
Oxford Open – majority of journals in the humanities, social sciences, law, science, and medicine offer the optional open access option in addition to the fully open access.
PLOS Medicine – This publishes articles of general interest on biomedical, environmental, social and political determinants of health.
PLOS ONE – features report of original research from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, related social sciences and humanities.
PubMed Central (PMC) – a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Remedy Publications – provides peer reviewed scholarly research and academic journals covering various disciplines of science, technology, medicine, surgery, oncology and oral health.
Royal Society Open Science – journal publisher of high-quality original research across all of science, engineering, and mathematics on the basis of objective peer-review.
SciRes Literature – SciRes Literature LLC has dedicated a platform to publish innovative original and highest quality journals in the research fields of Medicine, Life Science and Pharmacy.
Skeletal Muscle – is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes articles investigating molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle
SpringerOpen (B&J) – publishes high-level peer reviewed journals and open access books and chapters in a wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM) and within the humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Wiley Open Access – publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.
California Institute of Technology
Dissertations and Theses (PQDT Open)
DIVA (thesis from 40 universities in Sweden
Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Virginia Tech
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
North Carolina State University
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
Open Access Theses and Dissertation-USCB
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. UNESCO
1finder – provides full text access to more than 30 million open access journal articles in all fields of research from over 100 countries, across disciplines and languages.
Amedeo – Free medical literature guide for healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends.
Digital Book Index – One of the most comprehensive sources for free, downloadable and web-based e-books, while many others are available at very modest cost. Its collections include History; Language and Literature; Social Sciences; Health Sciences.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) – DOAJ is an independent community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.
Google Scholar – is a web search engine that searches scholarly literature and academic resources.
Haz-Map – is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the adverse effects of workplace exposures to chemical and biological agents.
Journals Directory – a platform that bridges the gap between authors and publishers in the scientific research stream.
JSTOR – is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
MedicineNet.com – is a medical website that provides detailed information about diseases, conditions, medications and general health.
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) – real-time federated search for OER contents.
MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) – is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) – is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) – is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier with more than 385,629 records.
OER Commons – a repository of OERs from many disciplines in multiple formats including textbooks, syllabi, activities, video, images and more.
OnlineSchools.org – provides a listing and review of some of the most reputable open-access journal websites, as well as paid subscription databases that are still widely used by traditional college students.
Open Science Directory – a global search tool for Open Access Journals (full – partly) for General Works; History; Geography and Recreation; Social Sciences; Political Sciences; Law; Agriculture; Fine Arts; Education; Science and Technology.
Open Textbook Library – are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
Project Muse – provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses and scholarly societies around the world.
PubChem – U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Unpaywall – is a service that maintains a database of links to full-text articles from open-access legal sources all over the world.
Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) – an online index of medical and health journals published in Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region.
Databases
To access the databases, please e-mail: library.mnla@eac.edu.ph
Research Library is a truly multidisciplinary resource featuring a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the top 150 subject areas.
SIRS® Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine, and reference book content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality global sources.
The STEM Database delivers a comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support studies in science, tech, engineering and math subject areas. Disciplines covered include earth, life, physical, medical, mathematics and applied sciences, such as engineering.
To access the database, please e-mail: library.mnla@eac.edu.ph
Subject coverage: multidisciplinary