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To get better acquainted with the databases and e-resources, Database Finders: Compendium of Open Access Databases recommends to access these video tutorials for further details.
Open Archives
Open Archives are online repositories where users can access archival records and other types of primary resources that can help people, especially learners and professionals, gain a glimpse and a better understanding of history and other eventual events that continue to reshape the various facets of society and the world today.
AccessScience is a trusted and active online scientific resource that provides students with incisively written, high-quality reference resources. This award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge offers more than 8,700 articles covering all major scientific disciplines, 115,000-plus definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, hundreds of briefings about newsworthy subjects in science and technology specifically designed to engage and inform, 3000 biographies and video biographies covering the life and work of notable scientific figures, and 19,000-plus downloadable images and exclusive animations. It also provides specially designed curriculum maps tied to core content for teachers, as well as topical headlines from Science News with links to pertinent AccessScience content. AccessScience builds on and continues a long heritage of providing thoroughly validated scientific knowledge and concepts in engaging and accessible ways, with origins in McGraw-world-famous Hill's scientific publishing program
​The Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) OER hub aim to promote the use, development, and sharing of OERs in the Arab region, in line with ALECSO’s goal of enhancing the fields of education, culture, and science in the regional and national levels, and to foster cooperation among Arab states. The hub houses collections of open educational resources covering various branches of science curated by ALECSO and partner countries. These include subjects such as botany, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, etc. for primary, intermediate, and secondary education. The hub also provides free PhET interactive simulations for STEM education from its featured providers.
Creative Commons is a non-profit open-access repository that offers access to different kinds of licensed resources. It varies from literary works, to videos, photos, audio, open education, scientific research and many more. It also enables users to share their work and allows authors to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they refrain from applying for the benefit of other creators.
​Emerald Insight is an online website that holds different open access journals, books and case studies across the world that aims to share knowledge while showcasing researches that can make a difference. Emerald Insight continues to grow its collection that consist of different subjects of research and dissertations. It also pursues a fairer society by providing its wide collection.
The IFLA Library is the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ official online repository that brings the organization’s digital resources together in an accessible, searchable, and browsable online platform. Majority of the items in the IFLA Library are documents presented at the annual IFLA World Library and Information Congresses, including digital resources and metadata about the materials IFLA has generated and published. These resources are under the CC-BY 4.0 license and can be browsed by activity or group, IFLA annual congress, author, or subject generally written in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital repository of internet sites that allows researchers, historians, and scholars to freely access cultural artifacts in digital form, including books, movies, software, music, websites, etc. With a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive has amassed 625 billion web pages, 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings, 7 million videos, 4 million images, and 790,000 software programs in digitizing versions of published works. These whopping numbers encapsulate 25+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine.
Karger is a database that provides easily read and shares trusted, peer-reviewed articles in health sciences, facilitating a rapid and impactful exchange of ideas in these fields. It offers journals, archive journals, books, and archive book collections for the users to access and download it anytime and anywhere. Since the resources are mostly published online, having an Internet connection is advised. Some of the journal subjects that can be accessed are Public Health, Dental Medicine, Audiology and Neurotology, Emergency Medicine, Nephrology, and such. This website is open access, it means that the users can download and access the resources without having a prior account.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which began in 1987 and was launched in 1996, is a collaborative initiative involving more than 120 universities from across the world. This international organization is dedicated to the creation, distribution, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations from academic institutions throughout the world. It strives to improve the abilities of all graduate students creating theses or dissertations, so they can generate an electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) and efficiently use digital libraries. It is rapidly increasing as a consequence of local, state, regional, national, and worldwide activities. Moreover, over a million electronic theses and dissertations are available through the NDLTD Union Catalog.
​ScienceDirect is the world's most comprehensive database of scientific, technical, and medical information. They provide full-text databases with articles and book chapters from over 2,500 peer-reviewed publications and 11,000 books. For with an added fee, archives comprising older materials (past files) are available. They also include the full text of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals published by Elsevier, Academic Press, and a few other publishers throughout 1995 up to the present, as well as abstracts from over 3,000 journals. ScienceDirect promotes the discovery of resolution to the world's most pressing concerns by providing access to the most reputable, high-quality, multidisciplinary research and scholarly literature. They will help you develop a solid knowledge foundation, keep on top of your area, and receive in-depth insights into popular subjects as you take your next steps in discovery, whether you're a teacher, student, librarian, or researcher.
UNESCO ICT Competency Frameworks for Teachers (ICT-TFT) is a hub which contains collections of Open Education Resources (OER) curated by UNESCO and partner countries, which are aligned to the UNESCO ICT-CFT. This database aims to help educators who are using information and communication technology to discover contents in order to improve teaching practice. UNESCO ICT-CFT is intended to inform educational policy makers, providers of professional learning and working teachers on the role of ICT in educational reform, as well as help national ministries of education and higher education institutions develop comprehensive national teacher ICT competency policies, standards, courses and open materials.