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Thursday, 20 October 2005 |
These are document databases held by different organisations that may be helpful in the localisation of documents in specific niches.
E-Print ArXiv
is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for
research papers. It covers areas such as physics and related
disciplines, mathematics, non-linear sciences, and computer science.
The e-prints on E-Print ArXiv are freely accessible for everyone.
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BioMed Central
is an independent online publishing house committed to providing
immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical
research it publishes.
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The Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives
(Caltech CODA) is the institutional repository of the California
Institute of Technology. It contains the broad spectrum of Caltech
research results, such as theses, technical reports, preprints, and
self-archived journal articles and conference papers. In addition, the
Caltech CODA contains Caltech-related material such as oral histories
of faculty and administrators and issues of Engineering and Science (a
magazine published by Caltech). As the digital information environment
evolves, other kinds of content will be added. The Caltech CODA is
managed to be a reliable long-term archive.
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CiteSeer
is a free, full-text e-print archive of published, peer-reviewed
documents in the computer sciences.
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CogPrints
is a free, full-text e-print archive of published, peer-reviewed
journal postprints plus prepublication unrefereed preprints in the
cognitive sciences, covering psychology, behavioral biology, computer
science, linguistics, philosophy and related disciplines.
CogPrints runs on free Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant
e-prints software provided by http://www.eprints.org .
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DiVA,
the Digital Scientific Archive (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet in
Swedish) is a comprehensive description of a system developed at
Uppsala University Library in Sweden. An archive of fulltext documents
published at Uppsala University has been created and metadata records
are disseminated to other information services. In cooperation with the
Royal Library long-term preservation is guaranteed as well as
accessibility. Today it is mainly doctoral theses and research reports
that are published through DiVA, but it is also possible to publish
undergraduate theses.
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Project Euclid
is a user-centered initiative to create an environment for the
effective and affordable distribution of serial literature in
mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the
unique needs of independent and society journals through a
collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional
societies, and academic libraries. Project Euclid was launched by the
Cornell University Library.
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LexisNexis® is a leader in comprehensive and
authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored
applications. LexisNexis® is a member of Reed Elsevier
Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK].
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), available online at http://ocw.mit.edu,
makes the MIT Faculty's course materials used in the teaching of almost
all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web,
free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. MIT OCW can be
considered a large-scale, Web-based publication of educational
materials. Educators in the U.S. and the developing world utilize the
materials for curriculum development, while students and self-learners
around the globe draw upon the materials for self-study or
supplementary use. With 915 courses now available, MIT OCW is
delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.
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Since 1992, NASA has offered their "unclassified, unlimited" technical
reports, contractor reports, NASA-authored dissertations and reprints
on the web. The subject areas include all engineering and scientific
disciplines, but are heavily focused on aerospace research. NASA also
makes available the reports of its predecessor agency, the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, 1917-1958).
The NASA sources are available through National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Technical Reports Server (NACATRS).
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NDLTD is an international non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use,
dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the
traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. It offers the world's
largest digital library of theses and dissertations of academic
institutions worldwide. It aims to cover all significant graduate
research results, in all areas, all nations, and all languages.
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MEDLINE®
is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic
database that contains approximately 13 million references since the
mid-1960s to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on
biomedicine. MEDLINE® is the primary component of PubMed®, provided by NLM's National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
In addition to MEDLINE citations, retrieval may
include other records in PubMed, including
approximately 1.7 million pre-1966 OLDMEDLINE®
citations, in-process citations, and citations from MEDLINE journals
that are out-of-scope for MEDLINE or that precede the date the journal
was selected for MEDLINE.
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PubMed Central
is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National
Library of Medicine (NLM). With PubMed Central, NLM is taking the lead
in preserving and maintaining unrestricted access to the electronic
literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed biomedical
literature. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class
library in the digital age.
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RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a
collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44
countries
to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the
project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles
and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
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ScienceDirect Online
is a subscription information source for scientific, technical and
medical research published by Elsevier. It offers access to millions of
articles from over 1,800 journals, covering all fields of science, in
most cases from volume 1, no. 1 to the present. Users at an institute
with a subscription to ScienceDirect will have seamless access to the
ScienceDirect articles that the institute is entitled to receive.
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Scitation is the online hosting service of the
American Institute of Physics.
In addition to the cross-publisher series, Virtual
Journals in Science and Technology, Scitation hosts the e-journals and
conference proceedings of AIP, selected English language publications
from
the Russian Academy of Sciences, and many other physical science and
engineering publishers.
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SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) has a
comprehensive publishing program in applied and computational
mathematics. Each journal has its own home page. To ensure the
strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and
technological communities, it remains the policy of SIAM to:
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Advance the application of mathematics and
computational science to engineering, industry, science, and society; |
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Promote
research that will lead to effective new mathematical and computational
methods and techniques for science, engineering, industry, and society; |
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Provide media for the exchange of
information and ideas among mathematicians, engineers, and scientists. |
(www.siam.org/journals/journals.htm)
detailing editorial policy, editorial board with e-mail links,
instructions for authors, TEX resources, staff, subscription
information, tables of contents, and more.
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The T-Space repository
is a partnership between University of Toronto communities and
Libraries. T-Space content consists of collections produced, submitted
or sponsored by University of Toronto communities, which are managed,
preserved and distributed by University of Toronto Libraries through
T-Space.
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