SBC Online Journal Links
FREE ONLINE DATABASES
http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm
ABC Chemistry – Free full-text chemical journals. It tells you which journals and what years are free.
Broad range of free articles. Many articles are of a popular rather than an academic nature.
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world’s greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare’s plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.
Scholarly arranged by subject.
Excellent source for articles and other materials related to education on all levels (preschool through university).
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Tons of stuff on a wide range of topics. Not all in English. Subject matter tends to be of a cultural rather than of a scientific nature.
The articles here are more of a popular than scholarly nature.
Google Book Search http://books.google.com/googlebooks/about.html
Many full text rare and important books. Not all books here are free, but if they are in the public domain (the copyright has expired) they probably are.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
This is a great source for academic journals. Many of the articles aren’t free for a stated period of time. Note that for developing economies, including the Philippines that certain journals articles are free sooner than they are for developed economies. Beside the citation is the price of the reprint. If there is no price, then it’s free.
http://www3.nsta.org/freearticles
(National Science Teachers Association) Journal articles on teaching science.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
This database is a good source for both full text books and free journals.
http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx
J-Gate requires a subscription, but Open J-Gate is free and gives access to thousands of open access (free) journal articles. It is produced in India so the spelling will have a British flavour.
http://www.refseek.com/site/about.html
Academically oriented. A good site. Many full text scientific articles. Science Links Japan
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/
Free English translations of Japanese journals in a number of mostly scientific fields. It’s well worth looking into.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/
University of Adelaide eBooks (Literary classics, often the translations are quite old) REFERENCE DATABASES
Online encyclopedia
Quite a few notable quotes since 1919, so keep that in mind.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Free dictionary. In addition to being a dictionary and thesaurus it has links to medical, legal, financial, acronyms, idioms, and an encyclopedia or two and dictionaries in other languages.
http://www.knowledgestream.org/kstream/index.asp
A variety of different audio and video lectures. Ohio based and biased.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
In addition to being a dictionary and thesaurus it has links to medical, legal, financial,acronyms, idioms, and an encyclopedia or two and dictionaries in other languages.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
Medline plus Dictionary (dictionary of medical terms).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Medline plus A.D.A. M. Encyclopedia (Over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. Many entries are illustrated.
Medpedia (very new source of medical information)
Like Wikipedia only more academically inclined
SciFlo http://sciflo.jpl.nasa.gov/
Heavy on earth and environmental science. Produced by NASA.
Structurae (structural engineering) Gives information on specific structures such bridges, stadiums, buildings. Both current and historical. Twain quotations He has opinions on a wide rage of topics. One of the most important writers the U.S. produced.
http://www.wikipedia.org/Almost
Anyone can add to this, sodon’t put your absolute trust in what you find there.
JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS (free full text articles):
Free articles from the Journal of Biology
http://www.businessweek.com/index.html
Business Week
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
In addition to being a dictionary and thesaurus it has links to medical, legal, financial,acronyms, idioms, and an encyclopedia or two and dictionaries in other languages.
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
A limited number of newspapers, but free from the Library of Congress
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/#
The National Geographic is criticized as “science light,” but it contains interesting articles on a variety of subjects and the organization sponsors many projects of
benefit to the planet.
Daily news from very important newspaper.
Primarily physics and some physical chemistry.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
Published by the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Weekly news magazine
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
This one recently started charging for some articles.