FREE (Open Access) Online Resources

FREE (open access) Online Resources

Discovery tools (search engines and databases)

 Google Scholar – for scholarly resources  Scirus – for scientific information only  cedb.asce.org - searches American Society of Civil Engineers publications  contrails.iit.edu - searches old US Air Force aerospace technical reports  DOE Energy Citations Database - www.osti.gov/energycitations/  fris2.nist.gov/starweb/FireDoc/servlet.starweb?path=FireDoc/firedoc.web - Fire research database from US NIST  Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center - nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/index.html  pubmed.gov - for biomedical articles from US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and life science journals  www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/science.html Science and technology publications of the US Government  www.science.gov – searches databases and websites from US federal agencies. See especially Image Search under Special Collections

 Internet Archive Project – openlibrary.org  Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page  Google Books – books.google.com  Merck Manuals Online Medical Library o www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html (Home Health Handbook) o www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html (for Healthcare Professionals)  Free e-book links o http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ o http://www.nap.edu/ o http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ o http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/ o http://www.bibliomania.com/2/-/frameset.html o http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html o http://www.bibliomania.com o http://manybooks.net/

Journals

 www.doaj.org/ Directory of open access journals  www.ejtp.com Electronic journal of theoretical physics  www.iiu.edu.my/ejournal/home/index.php/islamasia/issue/current Journal of Islam in Asia (open access journal, no issues published as yet)  www.lancs.ac.uk/jais/volume/index.htm Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies  www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ fulltext of journals, proceedings and reports from Japanese societies  http://www.emergencymgmt.com/back-issues Government Technology’s Emergency Management magazine  http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jnst JNST: Journal of nuclear science and technology from Atomic Energy Society of Japan  http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/articles/journals/free.aspx Links to free e-journals

 Inside Mecca (National Geographic) http://freedocumentaries.org/  Inside Mecca (National Geographic) http://www.snagfilms.com/films/  Inside Mecca (National Geographic) search also www.youtube.com  Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 1: Prophet Muhammad and rise of Islam (full; PBS Documentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3UHNhQ1Zk  Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 2: The Awakening (full; PBS Documentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PxJomypQE  Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 3: The Ottomans (full; PBS Documentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7Qkcyz3tM&feature=related

Websites and resources

 www.archive.org/ - Internet Archive  DOE e-print network www.osti.gov/eprints/ (US Dept of Energy)  DOE research reports - www.osti.gov/bridge/ (US Dept of Energy)  dspace.mit.edu - repository of MIT intellectual output  Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. It is written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education, and has explanations for technical subjects that are both clear and accessible.http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/  ethos.bl.uk/Home.do - theses from United Kingdom  inisdb2.iaea.org/ proxy problem – International Nuclear Information System on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.  Jane’s www.janes.com  kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/ (mechanical models demonstrating kinematics from Cornell University)  www.lindahall.org/services/digital/index.shtml Linda Hall Library digital collections (historic)  www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators4.html - 22,000 science and engineering calculators  MathWorldTM is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/  Online Writing Lab from Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/  www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/ Technical Reports from Hewlett-Packard laboratories  www.nap.edu/ - US National Academy Press  www.usa.gov/ US federal government resources  xxx.lanl.gov/ e-prints in physics, math, computer science, biology, finance and statistics

Patents

 ep.espacenet.com/ - from European Patent Office  www.freepatentsonline.com/ - US and European patents  www.google.com/ptshp?tab=st - Google patent search

 lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA Life Sciences Data Archive  www.matweb.com/ - MatWeb, material property data

Software

 www.techbriefs.com/content/view/1863/38/ NASA software programs

dfb 9 March 2011