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Databases Acquired
and own databases"Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan"-inquiry
legal system contains: -normative acts on all spheres of the
law
-comment too the current legislation
-the forms of the standard documents
-decisions of the region's akim
All documents are united in a convenient cover,
which helps you choose the necessary information efficiently.
This data base
includes a single classifier, a variety of ways to search an information, a hypertext,
legal comment, information and help (to safe time and give a lot of full necessary
information on every document.). Free access to its data base in Open Legal Information
Center - http://pravo.pushkinlibrary.kz "A
reference book on office work"(in Kazakh)It contains
the models of more than 120 of official documents. Hypertext content helps to
find the required document "Megaencyclopaedia of Kiril and Mephody"-
huge electronic text database.It's the largest enquiry
- encyclopaedia edition in the Internet. It has a large variety of information
from the mesozoic era up to the modern civilization. It will be interesting for
the teachers of various subjects, for scientists, for the students and pupils,
and also for all inquisitive users.
Different types of media-illustrations
are added to the texts.
-18500 of high quality photo-illustrations, slides,
pictures;
-640 of sound fragments (more than 6 hours of sound);
-unique
selection of video-fragments with the news-reel usage and videos
-animation
and animation models
-interactive panoramas
-tables and geographical cards… Megaincyclopaedia
gives an excellent opportunity to rewrite the necessary information for your CD
and to use the ready files.
up On
- line Databases Scientific Information Institute on Social Sciences(SIISS)-
www.union.ruBibliographic
databases (DB) on social and humanitarian sciences have been used since 1980.
They maintains annotated description of books and articles from magazines and
collections in 140 languages of the world received by the library of SIISS. Users
can work with the whole complex of databases on literature; linguistics; philosophy
and sociology; economics and demography; history; archeology and ethnography;
the teaching of science; the teaching of religion and orientalism. Scientific
Central Medical Library- www.scsml.rssi.ruhas
been forming its fund since 1988. It includes a list of periodical publications
and an electronic catalogue. It maintains articles, books and synopses of dissertations.
A fee is required for this service. All-Russian Scientific Technical Information
Institute (ASTII)- www.viniti.ruhas
been forming since 1981 based on materials of VINITY on natural and technical
sciences. It maintains books, conference materials, periodical publications, patents,
normative documents and deposited scientific works. A fee is required for this
service. State Public Scientific Technical Library of Siberian Department
of Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SD RAS)- www.spsl.nsc.ruThis
is the greatest collection of scientific, industrial-technical and educational
literature. The catalogue consists of several separate databases: "A catalogue
of books and continued publications", "A catalogue of dissertation synopses",
"A database of literature on library operations and informatics. It includes
articles as well as the whole system of branch regional bibliographic databases
which reflects the literature of Siberia and the Far East. State Public
Scientific Technical Library (SPSTL)-
www.gpntb.ruYou can find Russian and foreign publications
on different spheres of science and technique, economics and adjacent disciplines,
dissertation synopses, unpublished translations and accounts. "Summary catalogue
on scientific-technical literature" is presented as well, which maintains
over 520,000 notes. Library on Natural Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences
(LNS RAS)- http://ben.irex.ruhas
one of the richest collections of scientific literature in Russia publicated after
1973.
Funds of LNS RAS include Russian and foreign literature on natural and
accurate sciences as well as on theoretical problems of technical, medical and
agricultural sciences. Electronic catalogue "BEN RAN" or "LNS RAS"
reflects over 46,000 books among which are Russian publications since 1993, and
foreign publications since 1995. Russian National Library (RNL)- www.rnl.ruElectronic
catalogue "RNL" maintains over 113,000 books received by the library
since 1998. Catalogues of dissertation synopses, special types of literature and
maps are represented as well. State Ushinsky Scientific Pedagogical Library-
www.gnpbu.ruFund
includes literature of historical, theoretical and practical directions in pedagogy,
education, psychology, study of mental and physical handicaps and adjacent sciences.
Electronic catalogue of the library reflects all materials in the library since
1994. These include Russian and foreign books, serial publications, dissertation
synopses, text-books and educational methodological aids, plans, programs, courses,
symposium and conference materials. The database is updated with an analytical
list of Russian and foreign periodicals, thematic collections, labors of Institutes. National
Library of Republic of Kazakhstan (NLRK)- www.nrlk.kzFunds
of NRLK are unique and universal. They amounted to 5.5 millions of units in 100
languages of world nations. NL has been forming since 1994. You can order from
NL the following:
- articles from magazines and newspapers;
- theses on
materials of conferences and meetings;
- separate pages of monographs, not
more than 50 pages;
- synopses EBSCO
Databases' access is carried out within the framework of the project "Electronic
Information for libraries" (EIFL Direct) and this project is financed by
the Institute of Open Society. EBSCO Publishing Databases access the largest databases
of foreign periodical publications in the world, including more than 4000 full
texts of scientific magazines in the original language. In the ON-LINE regime,
there is access to: the scientific academic databases in the humanitarian spheres
Academic Search Elite and Business Source Premier; databases of popular periodical
publications of general trends MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source; medical database
Medline with full texts. Each of the databases has a search system to seek the
required information on key words.
Up Access
to Free OnLine Journals and Databases http://www.inasp.info/peri/free.htmlThere
is already a wealth of online free materials available on the Internet
Some important sites, which will also lead you to other sources include:
American Medical Association (AMA)
The
American Medical Association provides ten scientific journals without charge to
developing nations. The titles include The Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA); Archives of Dermatology; Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery; Archives
of General Psychiatry; Archives of Internal Medicine; Archives of Neurology; Archives
of Ophthalmology; Archives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery; Archives
of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Archives of Surgery.
http://www.amapubs.com
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
The eleven journals of the American Society for Microbiology are now available
full-text online without cost through PubMedCentral. Embargo periods range from
6-12 months.
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
Analytical Chemistry Web Resources
A compilation of resources
(by Ghirma Moges) useful to support teaching and research in the field of analytical
chemistry, including technical and specialized databases, encyclopaedias and dictionaries,
journals, university departments, organizations, societies, chemical companies
and manufacturers, news sources, and much more. There is also a special section
devoted to 'Chemistry in Africa' with links to educational and research materials,
online textbooks, and other tools and resources for students.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/ghirma.moges/xx_anal_link.html
Association for Information Systems
All university libraries
in countries not listed in the World Bank's list of high income economies http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/class.htm#High_income
can be granted free subscriptions to the high-quality electronic journals Communications
of AIS (http://cais.aisnet.org/)
and the Journal of AIS (http://jais.aisnet.org/).
Bentham Science
All Bentham
Science biomedical/pharmaceutical journals published in the year 2000 and 2001
are now available FREE on-line in full text PDF format in collaboration with INGENTA
for the year 2002.
http://www.bentham.org/Berkeley
Electronic Press (bepress)
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) makes
its current journals freely available to researchers in the developing world.
Interested parties should send a request on institutional letterhead. Details
of titles can be found at http://www.bepress.com
Best of Science
The Best of Science is a free-access
scientific publication of preprints and peer-reviewed articles. It is publishing
in five major fields split in thousands of special areas: Exact Sciences, Technologies,
Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences and Human Sciences. Best of Science authors
pay for the publishing process of papers and preprints. Fees are low and especially
adapted to respond to the geographical origins of the authors. Papers can be published
1 week after reception. Access to the journal is wholly free. http://bestofscience.free.fr/
Biogate
Compiled by staff at the Library of Ecology, the
National Resource Library of Biological Sciences at Lund University in Sweden,
this is a portal to "our 1,000 best links in the biological sciences." Search,
or browse by 11 broad subject categories in the biological sciences, which are
divided into sub-groups showing the number of links for each.
http://biogate.lub.lu.se/
BioMed Central
BioMed Central offers online publishing of articles in all areas of original
biomedical research with full peer review and open access. Submission is online
and authors retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the
BioMed Central journals (18 in the field of Biology and 52 in the field of Medicine),
as well as being posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed.
http://www.biomedcentral.com
BMJ Publishing
Group
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) Publishing Group has for almost
a year provided free access to the electronic version of its 23 specialist journals
(http://www.bmjpg.com/template.cfm?name=specjou)
to anybody in the 50 poorest countries in the world. Now they are extending free
access to over 100 of the poorest countries in the world, which between them include
most of the world's population (http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7334/380).
Potential subscribers should follow the standard subscription procedure
as the BMJ subscription system will automatically recognise the origin of access.
http://www.bmjjournals.com/
ContentsDirect
A free e-mail service which delivers Elsevier
Science book and journal tables of contents directly to your PC, providing you
with the very latest information on soon-to-be published research. Imprints covered
by this service are Elsevier, Pergamon, North Holland and Excerpta Medica.
Registration to ContentsDirect also entitles you to unlimited free access to Sample
Copies Online using the same username and password. http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/alert/?mode=direct
EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing
This portal provides quick access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing
information sources available on the Internet. Resources were selected, catalogued,
classified and subject-indexed by a team of experts and information specialists.
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
eJDS - eJournals Delivery Service
The Abdus Salam ICTP/TWAS
Donation Programme, in collaboration with the ICTP Scientific Computer Section
and ICTP Library, is developing a prototype information retrieval system called
eJDS: eJournals Delivery Service. This is geared to facilitate the access to current
scientific literature for scientists in institutions in Third World Countries
who have low bandwidth internet facilities. Titles are included from Academic
Press, the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics Publishing and World
Scientific.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/
Electronic
Journal Miner
Search for e-journals at this site using keywords, or browse
e-journals by title or by LC subject headings; you can limit searches to (i) free
publications, (2) peer-reviewed publications. Hosted by the Colorado Alliance
of Research Libraries. The database currently contains 6,960 titles. An excellent
resource.
http://ejournal.coalliance.org/
Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library
is a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the
use of scholarly journals on the Internet. At 1 January 2003 it contained 12,979
titles, among them 1319 online-only journals, covering all subjects, of which
3358 journals can be read full-text free-of-charge.
http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/ExtraMed
Informania Ltd, the world's largest electronic publisher of biomedical journals
from the Third World, has announced that it will provide the ExtraMED full-text
database to developing country users for free or at very low cost.
CONTACT:
Chris Zielinski, Chief Executive, Informania Limited, P.O. Box 40, Petersfield,
Hants GU32 2YH, UK Tel: +44-(0)1730-301297 Fax: 0044-1730-265398 e-mail: informania@supanet.com
Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
The FFTC is an international
information center serving small-scale farmers in the Asian and Pacific region.
Its website and database provides several hundred technical publications on tropical
agriculture, with an emphasis on low-cost technology for small farms. Materials
include books, extension bulletins and extension leaflets, and articles on major
problems facing farmers in the region. The full text of all publications (in a
choice of either HTML or PDF format)is available free of charge.
http://www.fftc.agnet.org
FreeBooks4Doctors!
The AMEDEOGroup are now making many important medical textbooks available online,
free and in full-text. At 1 August 2002 550 titles werer included in the service,
sorted by speciality and title. FreeBooks4Doctors! also provides a free alert
service as new titles are added.
http://freebooks4doctors.com/
The Free Medical
Journals Site
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion
of free access to medical journals over the Internet. At 1 August 2002 it included
over 970 full-text journals sorted by subject , language, and title, as well as
highlight free journals with high impact factors. There is also a mailing list
to alert you as new free journals are added to their list.
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ Health
InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
As the first phase of making health content available, the Health InterNetwork
provides a vast library of the latest and best information on public health: more
than 2,000 scientific publications, one of the world's largest collections of
biomedical literature.
http://www.healthinternetwork.net/
HighWire
Press: Sources of free On-Line full text articles and journals
HighWire
Press work with scholarly societies and responsible publishers to host their content
online. They do not own the material, nor do they set the journals' policies.
HighWire contains over 439,456 free full-text articles as of January 2003.
HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions
of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines. A list of journals
with free full-text articles online is available
http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
The link http://www.highwire.org/lists/devecon.dtl
lists the journals
published online with the assistance of HighWire Press
which offer free
online access to current content (not just back issues) to
all countries
that appear in the World Bank's list of "low income economies"
(plus
Djibouti).
INASP Health Links
A Gateway to selected
Web sites of special interest to health professionals, medical library communities,
publishers, and NGOs in developing and transitional countries.
http://www.inasp.info/links/health/index.html
INASP Links & Resources Access to information
The INASP Links
& Resources section provides a quick-access guide to selected Web sites and
Internet resources that will be of special interest to the library and information
science communities, and to scientists and publishers in developing countries.
In particular it was designed to assist organizations involved in electronic networks
for development, and those who are thinking of moving to an electronic environment
for scholarly communication. However, each section contains links to a large number
of addtional free resources. http://www.inasp.info/links/index.html
/ http://www.inasp.info/links/contents.html
Indian Academy of Sciences
The
Indian Academy of Sciences is providing free full-text access to its 11 journals.
http://www.ias.ac.in/journals.htmlInfo
Finder
In collaboration with Future Harvest Centers,
CGIAR and FAO/WAICENT, the Info Finder allows you to search for digital information
on the Future Harvest Centers', CGIAR and FAO web sites. Contains full text documents
and links to websites.
http://infofinder.cgiar.org/
InformationR.net
The journals and
newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items
that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals
that are not freely accessible are not listed.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/infres/fr/freejnls.html
Journal of Biology
The Journals of Biology is a new international journal,
published by BioMed Central, which provides immediate open access to research
articles of the highest standard, similar to those published by Nature, Science
or Cell. Unlike the latter, all research articles published in Journal of Biology
will be permanently available free of charge and without restrictions, ensuring
the widest possible dissemination of the work.
http://www.jbiol.com
Journal of Postgraduate
Medicine
A multidisciplinary quarterly biomedical journal, is one of the
oldest medical journals from India. The journal is official publication of the
Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India.
The website of the journal provides free access to full text of articles from
1990. Free access to all articles to all users, online.
http://www.jpgmonline.com/
MedicalStudent.com
MedicalStudent.com
is described as a digital library of authoritative medical information for all
students of medicine. It is meant to serve as a "pico portal" for users interested
in quality medical resources on the Internet. Contains over 250 medical textbooks
arranged alphabetically in topics from Anatomy to Urology. Each textbook included
is free to use, in part or in whole
http://www.medicalstudent.com/Multilingual
Matters/Channel View Publications
Free electronic access to journals for
institutional subscribers in countries of "low human development" as defined by
the Human Development Index are now offered. The company will also offer subscriptions
at a substantially reduced rate to institutional subscribers in countries of "medium
human development".
Libraries wishing to take up this offer should contact:
Email: info@multilingual-matters.com
Tel: +44 (0)1275 876519
Fax: +44 (0)1275 871673
Multilingual
Matters Ltd
Frankfurt Lodge
Clevedon, England, BS21 7HH
NASA
Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded
project that provides free access to over 300,000 free full-text articles in astronomy
and astrophysics. Most of the major astronomical journals are included. In many
cases articles published in the current year are not available through ADS. Articles
are available in PDF, GIF, or other electronic formats.
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
National Academy
Press
Contains more than 2,500 reports from the US National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and
the National Research Council are available online free for the reading from the
National Academy Press. Site visitors can read and search the full text of online
reports. http://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The US Department
of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has begun electronic
delivery of all its reports dating to 1997. Reports numbering fewer than 20 pages
are free; those over 20 pages are $8.95. The scanned reports appear in Adobe PDF.
http://www.ntis.gov
New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is available to over 60 countries (listed
on their web site) under its "Access for Low-Income Countries" program. Users
from these countries will be recognized automatically by their IP addresses and
allowed access to full text without charge.
http://www.nejm.org/custserv/lowinc.aspPOPLINE
Database
POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population,
family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet.
All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can
be accessed for no charge at: http://www.popline.org
For those in developing countries who may have limited access to the
Internet, POPLINE will continue to distribute POPLINE on CD-ROM to over 950 sites
twice a year. For more details about this service go to: http://www.jhuccp.org/popline/popcd.stm
POPLINE Digital Services also provides full text documents of many of
its abstracts in the database at no charge for readers in developing countries.
Full-text documents are only available if the information is not available locally,
is not a commercially published book, and is less than 100 pages in length. POPLINE
sends full-text documents as an e-mail attachment in Adobe Acrobat format or by
mail. More inormation is available at: http://www.jhuccp.org/popline/docdel.stm
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the US National Library of Medicine,
provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life
science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi Project
Gutenberg
This project digitises books which are in the public domain
and puts them online free of charge. It was founded in 1971 and has so far published
7,500 e-books. Gutenburg is aiming for 10,000 by the end of this year and a million
by the end of 2016. Please visit this website to view the e-books http://promo.net/pg/
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is an open access web-based archive
of journal literature for all of the life sciences. It is being developed by the
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library
of Medicine (NLM). http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Reproductive Health Library (RHL)
A subscription to the WHO
Reproductive Health Library is free to individuals in developing countries by
sending the request to the e-mail address:
rhl@who.int
Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
The Royal College of Psychiatrists allows free access to the online full-text
version of its three journals ('British Journal of Psychiatry', 'Psychiatric Bulletin'
and 'Advances in Psychiatric Treatment') to 75 different developing countries.
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/dev_countries.htm
SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting
A special email service designed to deliver tables of contents for any Taylor
& Francis, Carfax, Routledge, Spon Press, Martin Dunitz or Psychology Press
journal. This service is completely free of charge, all you need to do is register.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara
SciBase. The Scientific World
SciBase provides free access
to a very large collection of the world's premier databases of scientific, technical
and medical literature, currently covering more than 30 million articles published
since 1965 in more than 30,000 journals. Search the database by key words, author,
journal, and/or year of publication, and you can store three search profiles in
a 'Personal User Profile (PuP)'. SciBase also offers (for a charge) immediate
digital delivery of full text articles from nearly 500 current journals produced
by participating publishers. http://www.thescientificworld.com/scibase/search.asp?uid=&bid=
Science and Technology Sources on the Internet. There is Such a Thing
as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public (by Sandy Lewis)
A good descriptive inventory of databases that produce lists of citations to scientific
literature, and which are freely accessible. In addition to the major free databases
such as UnCover, Agricola, Medline, etc. it also includes searchable databases
from learned societies, government agencies, electronic journal publishers, and
various discussion groups-all freely accessible. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-winter/internet.html
SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online
The objective
of the site is to implement an electronic virtual library, providing full access
to a collection of serial titles, a collection of issues from individual serial
titles, as well as to the full text of articles. The access to both serial titles
and articles is available via indexes and search forms. No charge is made. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_alphabetic&lng=en&nrm=iso
Scirus
A specialist search engine for scientific, technical
and medial information sources. It offers two types of services: Web sources provide
information for which no subscription or online registration is required. Scirus
searches the entire Web and excludes sites with no scientific content. Examples
of Web sources are university Web sites, learned society pages, scientists home
pages, preprint servers, commercial companies, etc. Membership sources are information
sources for which either a paid subscription or online registration is required,
and often including peer-reviewed scientific information not directly accessible
by standard search engines. http://scirus.com/
UNESCO
The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents
and provides access to the full text of many of these. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/
World Development Sources (World Bank)
World Development
Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval system which contains a
collection of over 6,000 World Bank reports most of which are scanned and are
available in imaged format, which you can access via a web browser and search
through a multi-field search engine. These include Project appraisal reports,
Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports, studies and working papers. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/
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