Electronic Books Collection
Free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences for public academic institutions in developing countries.
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Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritizing and synthesizing the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.

Bioline International
Subjects covered: public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity.

Ebook Central

Ebook Central is an online digital library of full texts of over 17,000 scholarly e-books. It is an online database collection that combines scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade and professional publishers. It also includes government documents. Additionally, Ebook Central offers a wide variety of content across many subject areas, especially in business and social science. Ebook Central continues to add quality eBooks and other authoritative titles to their selection from the world’s leading academic and professional publishers.

EBSCO Host
Over 10,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 16,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source Nursing Academic; Health Source Consumer Edition; Medline.

Free Book Centre

This portal focuses primarily on academic material. Free Book Centre contains links to thousands of free online technical books and other subject areas, which include: Computer Science, Arts, Religion, Church Administration, Languages, Fiction and Cooking.

NCBI Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare. Access is via keyword search or Browse Titles or New Releases. In the keyword search tool, other access options (limits) include Subjects, Types and Publishers. Search results contain the PDFs of books, collections, databases, documentations and reports.

Google Books

This search tool contains an extensive list of material from the Google Library Project and Partner Programmes covering Arts, Religion, Church Administration and Languages. Google books has a keyword search key plus several search tools (limit) options. Search results will include full-text e-books and also chapters/sections of a book on that topic. Links (citations) can be stored in a personal Google Account.

Electronic Journals Collection

African Portal

The Africa Portal is an online resource that seeks to broaden the availability, accessibility and use of policy research on issues critical to the future of Africa. It is a collaborative project between the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR)

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

Geological Society
The Lyell Collection is an electronic collection of new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality

Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search

Search the 5,007,869 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive:

IMF eLibrary

JSTOR
Access to fulltime-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines

Liebert Online

OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, to enable developing countries to gain free access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science literature. Over 1000 scientific journal titles are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008.
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Oxfam
Oxfam GB publishes a range of books on development and humanitarian issues in partnership with Practical Action Publishing. Oxfam also publishes Gender & Development journal, and provides access to articles from Development in Practice journal. All journal articles and many of the books are available to download free.

Oxford University Press
Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.

Nature and Palgrave MacMillan Journals
Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of 75 peer-reviewed e-journals.

The Royal Society
Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running continuously published journal in the world.

Springer
Springers eJournals cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics

Wiley-Blackwell Synergy Content: 
Wiley is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to over 3 million articles across 1400 journals.

Wiley InterScience
Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

WorldWideScience.org

World Bank Publications

• Africa Development Indicators is the premier data source on the African economy. It contains over 1,400 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries
• Global Economic Monitor is a “one-stop shop” portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators
• Global Development Finance Online offers external debt and financial flow data for over 129 countries
• World Development Indicators is the premier data source on the global economy
• World Bank E-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.

Free Online Databases

AGORA
AGORA covers the full spectrum of the biological, environmental and social sciences. Its peer-reviewed publications cover 22 subjects that run from agriculture through to soil science, with topics including animal science, biology, development studies, economics, food safety, forestry, nutrition, fisheries and aquaculture, natural resources and more.

AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, and extension education.

AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology)
AGRIS is a global database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology including food, nutrition, agriculture, crop, fisheries, forestry, and environment.

PubAg
PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education.

TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library)
TEEAL is a full-text library of international, peer-reviewed journals spanning a wide variety of subjects related to sustainable agricultural development, including agriculture; agricultural engineering; animal science and veterinary medicine; biology; biotechnology and applied microbiology; chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics; economics, social science, and development; entomology and pest control; environment, ecology, and natural resources; fisheries and aquatic sciences; food science and nutrition; forestry; human medicine and physiology; and plant science and soil science.

CAB (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences) Abstracts
CAB Abstracts is a comprehensive database in applied life sciences that provides users access to more than 8.4 million records and has more than 380,000 abstracts. Subject coverage includes Agricultural engineering, applied economics and sociology, animal health, animal nutrition, animal production, aquaculture, biofuels, biosafety and bioterrorism, biotechnology, breeding, chemistry, climate change, crop science and grasslands, ecotourism, environmental science, food science and technology, forestry, genetics, helminthology, nutrition, natural resources, land management, water management, nematology, soil science, veterinary medicine, waste management.

DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers 9000+ open access journals from 128 countries covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)

Re3data.org: Registry of Research Data Repositories
It is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. The data repositories on agricultural sciences can be found on https://goo.gl/oculhI.
Zenodo
Zenodo covers all research outputs in all subject disciplines and accepts any file format.

Figshare
Figshare is an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos. It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data

Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers, monitor the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow.

ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers and find collaborators.

 

eReference Tools

Encyclopaedia Britannica

• Oxford Reference Online – Oxford Reference Online includes over 1.4 million entries across 27 subject areas, everything from architecture to zoology. It offers the very best in quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by top academics and experts. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.
• Oxford English Dictionary Online – Oxford English Dictionary Online provides you with unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words (past and present) from across the English-speaking world.
• Dictionary.Com 
• Cambridge Online Dictionary  – The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English.
• Encyclopaedia.Com  – Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
• Wikipedia
• Gale Virtual Reference Library – Business

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