IMF eLibrary
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to
the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find
information and perspectives on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical
assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research -IJSER
The International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research is a one-stop, open access source for a
large number of high quality and peer reviewed journals in all the fields of science, engineering and
technology. Scientists and engineers involved in research can make the most of this growing global
forum to publish papers covering their original research or extended versions of already published
conference/journal papers, scholarly journals, academic articles, etc.
knowledge@wharton
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is committed to sharing its intellectual capital
through Knowledge@Wharton, the school’s online business analysis journal.
Bangladesh Journal Online
Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research,
and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship. BanglaJOL is a database of journals
published in Bangladesh, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of BanglaJOL is to
give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. BanglaJOL is
managed by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and it is hosted by Ubiquity Press.
Directory of open access journal
The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with
300 open access journals. Today, the independent database contains ca. 12000 open access journals
covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Directory of open access books
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service that points to Open Access books that can
be found elsewhere. It enables you to search the description of the books and enables you to download
the books from the site of the publisher. All books in DOAB have a full OA license, making them ‘free to
share’. All publishers in DOAB are screened for their peer review procedures and licensing policies.
World Bank Open Data site
World Bank Open Data Free and open access to global development data
American Mathematical Society
AMS peer-reviewed journals are of the highest quality in mathematical research. Journals have been
published since 1891 and cover a broad range of mathematics. Each journal is managed by editors who
are prominent in their fields, and each is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports. In
addition to publishing and distributing printed journals, the AMS offers searchable electronic versions
that are available prior to the print versions.
Open Access Bangladesh
Open Access Bangladesh is a platform for advocating open access and sharing success stories of open
access movement in the world and Bangladesh. It invites everyone who is involved and interested in the
open access movement to discuss and raise issues related to open access in general and in specific to
Bangladesh. The group would work for influencing the policy makers, managers, researchers, scholarly
societies to adopt open access policy for their research and to take forward the open access
Indian Open Access Journals
In India, open access to scholarly communication has been developing for several decades. During May
2004, two workshops were organized by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai which laid
the foundation for the Open Access movement in India. The National Knowledge Commission in its
recommendations (2006) had proposed that “access to knowledge is the most fundamental way of
increasing the opportunities and reach of individuals and groups. In 2009, the Council of Scientific &
Industrial
PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the
U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
BioMed Central
BMC is dedicated to publishing the best open-access journals across a portfolio of over 250 titles,
consistently striving to drive progress in biology, health sciences, and medicine.
PLOS One
PLOS One is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.
MDPI
MDPI is a publisher of open-access scientific journals. It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access
journals. MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output, and is the
largest publisher of open access articles.
Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is an open access peer reviewed journal which
provides latest updates in treatments, advanced procedures, technologies associated within the field of
Pharmacology and other related sub-divisions.
GOALI
Global Online Access to Legal Information is a programme to provide free or low cost online access and
training to law and law-related content to research, public and not-for-profit institutions in developing
countries.
ARDI
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program, coordinated by WIPO together
with its partners in the publishing industry, provides free online access to major scientific and technical
journals to local, not-for-profit institutions in least-developed countries and low-cost access to industrial
property offices in developing countries across the world.
OARE
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) is led by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) in partnership with major publishers. The programme enables developing countries
to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science research.
AGORA
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) is one of the four Research4Life programmes
that provides free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological,
environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. AGORA was launched in
October 2003 and today, after more than 14 years, it provides access to up to 8200 journals from the
world’s leading academic publishers.
HINARI
Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major
publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature.
There are up to 15,000 e-journals and up to 60,000 online books available to health institutions in more
than 10 countries. Hinari is part of Research4Life, the collective name for five programs – Hinari (focusing
on health), AGORA (focusing on agriculture), OARE (focusing on environment), ARDI (f
