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Scholarly Journals
A Scholarly Journal is a periodical that contains articles written by experts in a particular field of study. The articles are products of systematic and investigative studies to support the advancement of academic and professional work in various disciplines.
​CORE is a non-profit database of open access research papers. It works by increasing the discoverability and reuse of open access content. It also supports a diverse range of researchers, academic institutions, developers, funders and companies and provides solutions for content management.
​DOAJ is an independent online directory that provides access to high quality, open access and peer-reviewed journals. It contains 17,500 indexed materials covering the areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. It accepts all journals from all countries and in all languages and are all freely available to the public. With the mission to increase the accessibility to many different open access across the world, DOAJ is financially supported by many libraries, publishers and the likes, making it being 100% committed for maintaining its primary services and metadata as free of charge for everyone to use or reuse.
Elsevier is a digital repository that provides access to different databases that mainly focuses on scientific, technical and medical content. It contains full-text articles and research and also provides access to its relevant resources. With the goal of expanding beyond boundaries, Elsevier is accumulating millions of different documents each year thus, it offers a vast variety of open-access collections in health, life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities. It also encourages users to publish and promote their own paper.
ERIC is an online digital database of research and information. Its mission is to provide easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text databases of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public that is essential for improving teaching and learning. It holds 1.5 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and covers a wide range of topics.
The Global Health and Human Rights Database, brought about by the joint venture of Lawyers Collective, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, and over 100 global partners (NGOs, academic, and private research outfits), is a free online database of worldwide laws associated to health and human rights. This database presents case laws of three different sections, namely, judgments; international and regional instruments; and national constitutions. Scholars and researchers would be able to explore this interactive, searchable, fully indexed website through quick searches, filtering cases, and advanced searches.
Oxford Academic Journals provides its users with a wide range of materials. Oxford Academic Journals is supported by Oxford University Press (OUP), which publishes high-quality journals and disseminates knowledge to a broad audience. OUP accomplishes this by collaborating closely with society partners, authors, and subscribers to deliver publishing services that complement their research needs. OUP journals receive three million article downloads each month on average, with access coming from practically every country in the world, including the 78 countries with agreements with library consortia.
The Philippine E-Journals is a growing collection of academic journals made available globally via a single Web-based platform. Philippine E-Journals is an online bibliographic library and archive of academic journals from the Philippines' many colleges, universities, and professional organizations. It provides a diverse range of scholarly journals from many academic areas. It is hosted by C&E Publishing, Inc., the Philippines' leading educational publisher and distributor of integrated information-based solutions.
ProQuest is an influential collaborator for content owners of all categories, maintaining and providing access to their rich and diverse resources. These collaborations have resulted in a growing content collection that presently includes 90,000 reputable sources, 6 billion digital pages, and spans six centuries. It contains a vast collection of academic papers, dissertations and theses. Moreover, there are 20 million pages and three generations of global, national, regional, and specialty newspapers. More than 450,000 ebooks, and abundant consolidated collections of the world's most significant scholarly journals and periodicals are available to explore and use. ProQuest also contains unique vaults of digitized historical collections from great libraries and museums, as well as organizations as diverse as the Royal Archives, the Associated Press and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
SAGE Journals is a multinational academic publisher that specializes in books, journals, and an expanding range of library goods and services. They cover a wide range of multidisciplinary fields such as business, humanities, social science, and science, technology, and medicine. SAGE Journals concentrate on publishing impactful research, enabling robust research methodology, and producing high-quality educational resources to assist instructors in preparing future citizens, policymakers, educators, and researchers. Every year, they publish over 1,000 journals and 900 new books worldwide, as well as library resources such as archives, data, case studies, video, and technologies for discovery, access, and collaboration. Since 1965, they have been a component of the worldwide academic community, promoting high-quality research that improves society and broader knowledge of individuals, communities, and cultures. They are dedicated to collaborating with publishing partners and the scholarly community to meet their expanding demands and disseminate their essential findings.
Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer-reviewed open access journals across various research disciplines. With the principle of offering a fast, quality and efficient publication, this database publishes a number of online journals across various topics which include biological, chemical, and health sciences. Moreover, having the mission to provide open access to its resources, all research articles published in this database are immediately freely available to read, download and share to social networking sites.