September 2006
The
IRC JAKARTA
Web Alert
Is an annotated list of resources freely available through the
internet.
Compiled
by The
Information Resource Center,
Public Affairs Section,
US Embassy Jakarta
FREE
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
GENERAL
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and
scholarly journals. There are now 2334 journals in the directory and
currently 672 journals are searchable.
FreeFullText.com;
http://www.freefulltext.com/
Direct links to scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their
online content to be viewed by anyone with Internet access for free.
Google
Scholar; http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and
articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Open
J-Gate; http://www.openj-gate.com/
Provides access to millions of journal articles available online.
Scirus;
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the
Internet. Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages.
Windows
Live Academic; (a beta test version) http://academic.live.com/
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content
for article titles, author names, article abstracts, and conference
proceedings.
MEDICAL SCIENCE
MedScape; http://www.medscape.com/welcome/journals
This site is used by many health care providers in the U.S. One must
register to get access to the free journals.
PubMed; http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal
literature.
NATURAL SCIENCES,
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Arxiv; http://arxiv.org/
Open access to more than 370,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics,
computer science and quantitative biology.
CiteSeer; http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses
primarily on computer and information science.
The
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journal; http://www.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html
PLoS Journal offers
scientific and medical literature freely available online, without
restrictions on use or further distribution and free from private or
government control.
Science-advisor: http://science-advisor.net/
A free online forum for scientific discussions and short reviews of
research articles.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science
research, it is composed of a number of specialized research networks
in each of the social sciences.
Social
and Human Sciences Online Periodicals; http://www.unesco.org/shs/shsdc/journals/shsjournals.html
Free access to specialized articles in social and human sciences from
about 700 periodicals.
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