Open Access Databases

BazTech is a bibliographic and abstract database that indexes articles from Polish journals in science and technology, as well as selected topics in science and environmental protection. BazTech started in 1998 as a bibliographic database and is now developing into a full-text citation database. Since 2005, references have been added to bibliographic descriptions, and based on agreements with publishers, full texts are also included. In this way, the database has become part of the open science movement.

Registered documents

• articles from journals
• materials published by academic presses and research institutions
• conference proceedings published in journals or by the above-mentioned publishers

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A bibliographic and full-text database covering economics and related fields, developed by the Library of the Krakow University of Economics. The database is hosted on the Virtual Library of Science platform of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM)

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Biblioteka Nauki (The Library of Science) is an open-access platform that offers academic articles and scholarly books, primarily published in Poland. Articles are provided in PDF format, while books are additionally available in EPUB, MOBI, and XML formats.
The platform allows for searching across resources from five disciplinary databases:
AGRO – journals in agricultural, exact, and natural sciences;
BazTech – journals in engineering, technology, exact, and natural sciences;
CEJSH – journals in social sciences and humanities;
DML-PL – journals in mathematics and engineering sciences;
PSJD – journals in exact, natural, medical, and health sciences.
The platform also includes full texts of scholarly books previously collected via the Otwórz Książkę (Open the Book) service, as well as other titles provided by publishers collaborating with the Library of Science.

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BioMed Central (available on SpringerLink) is a platform for full-text scientific journals published in an open-access model.
Founded in 2000, BMC was one of the first commercial open access publishers; since 2008, it has been part of Springer (now Springer Nature).
The BMC database includes over 300 online journals from the Springer Nature portfolio, covering a wide range of disciplines, including biology, medicine, health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences.

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Citations in BazEkon is a bibliometric software tool similar to Publish or Perish, which processes bibliographical annotations of articles registered in BazEkon database. This tool calculates basic bibliometric characteristics (Hirsch index and number of citations) for authors and journals listed in bibliographic annotations. For more information, see the Info section on the program's website.

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DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open-access books and helps users to find trusted open-access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge, and all data is freely available.

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DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a database that indexes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journals. It allows users to search for journal titles and articles, providing free access to full-text publications. The scope covers all fields of study: technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.

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OSTI.GOV is the primary search engine for research results funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Managed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, it offers a comprehensive collection of scientific, technical, and engineering findings.
The database contains over 3 million records—the vast majority of which are available in full-text—including journal articles, technical reports, research data, patents, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

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The European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS) was founded in 1995 as the central portal for electronic math resources in Europe. Since then, with the support of the European Mathematical Society and many publishers, FIZ Karlsruhe has developed the largest open access electronic library in mathematics ELibM as the core of EMIS, as well as many more useful resources.
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Mathematics Literature Databases
Literature Databases provide a detailed and complete overview over the publications in a field. The world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in mathematics is Zentralblatt MATH with more than 3 million entries from 1826 till today. There are also community-specific services as MathEDUC for mathematical education, STMA-Z for statistics, io-port for computer science and many more.
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ELibM – Electronic Library of Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics (ELibM) is the longest-running and largest open access repository in mathematics.
Today, the library contains more than 100 journals, proceedings und electronic books. More than 40 mirrors provide quick access from all over the world.
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EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) is a database of electronic journals developed by the University Library in Regensburg in cooperation with 664 institutions. EZB provides access to scholarly e-journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines, including engineering, technology, architecture, computer science, economics, mathematics, and the natural sciences. Popular science journals are excluded from the collection.

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FreeTechBooks is a service providing a catalogue of free books, textbooks, and educational materials in the fields of computer science, programming, engineering, and related disciplines. It includes publications that are legally available on the Internet, such as e-books, lecture notes, and training materials.

The service does not host full texts itself but instead directs users to publishers’ or authors’ websites, where the publications can be accessed online or downloaded.

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The IntechOpen platform provides peer-reviewed books on an Open Access basis. Its subject coverage spans four main scientific areas: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Health Sciences, as well as Social Sciences and Humanities. The collection currently includes over 8,000 books.

How to access the content:

1. Select a scientific field by clicking: Open Access Books
2. Choose a book.
3. In the table of contents, click on a selected chapter (highlighted in red) – the full text will open and can be read online.

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Access e-books in the field of: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Access e-books in the field of: Life Sciences

The Internet Archive is a free digital archive of the internet and multimedia resources. It collects and provides access to websites (the Web Archive – Wayback Machine), books and e-books, films, audio recordings, images, software, and other digital materials.

The service was established in 1996 and operates as a non-profit organisation whose mission is to preserve the digital heritage of the internet and ensure long-term, permanent access to it.

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The database gives bibliographical descriptions of various types of documents collected in ITB Library and also registers publications of ITB employees and ITB certificates. It includes descriptions of books, periodicals, unpublished ITB and COBRI HYDROBUDOWA research and scientific works, Technical Approvals of all approval bodies and ITB certificates. The database plays a role of ITB Library catalogue beginning from year 1991 - previous collections can be searched in card catalogues of the Library.

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J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) is a Japanese platform providing access to scholarly publications, including journals, conference proceedings, and research reports across a wide range of disciplines, such as the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

J-STAGE promotes an open-access model that ensures free access to content. More than 90% of the publications on the platform can be accessed for free. Open access articles are marked with a Creative Commons (CC) licence, which defines the terms of their reuse.

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MDPI is an international scholarly publisher of open access journals. It currently publishes 514 journals, including 505 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, supported by more than 295,000 academic experts from around the world.

MDPI’s publications cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, including the natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical and health sciences, social sciences, as well as selected areas of the humanities.

All articles are fully open access and freely available online, ensuring unrestricted access to the latest research findings for all users.

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PLOS (Public Library of Science) is an international, non-profit scholarly publisher that produces peer-reviewed scientific journals across a wide range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, medicine, the physical sciences, engineering, and the social sciences.

All publications are freely available online under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted reading, downloading, and reuse.

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The Polish Scholarly Bibliography (Polska Bibliografia Naukowa) is a portal of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education that collects information on publications by Polish researchers, the scholarly output of research institutions, and Polish and international academic journals. It forms part of the Integrated Information System on Science and Higher Education (POL-on).

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