Open access resources

Dear scientists and students of NUS named after. adm. Makarova! Project MUSE offers books and journals with open access from well-known university and scientific societies in the United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, Cornell University Press, The MIT Press and others.) and Europe (Amsterdam University Press, Leiden University Press, Edinburgh University Press and others.). Project Muse also provides open access to magazines: Constitutional Studies Journal of Appalachian Health RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Всі книги та журнали доступні вільно для завантаження у форматі PDF. Project MUSE prepared MARC Records for that, so that libraries can add books to their catalogs (https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/open-access-overview/). Access to Project MUSE: free online, by the link: https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=oa_browse

INTERNATIONAL OPEN WEEK - 2020

International Open Access Week is held annually in the last week of October. IN 2020 p. it will take place with 19 by 25 October. The theme of this year's International Open Access Week is "Open for a purpose: taking measures for the formation of structural equality and inclusion " («Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion». More details at the link: 2020 Open Access Week). Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding supports the movement of open access to scientific information: - through the placement of scientific works of the teaching staff, employees and students of NUS named after. adm. Makarov in the electronic institutional repository eIR NUOS; - through support in free access of electronic versions of scientific publications "Shipbuilding and marine infrastructure", "Collection of scientific works of NUS". Every year our library, uses Open Access Week as a platform for meetings and educational activities. This promotion provides an opportunity to better understand the benefits, which provides open access, to share experiences, ideas for the implementation of Open Access and helps to expand the circle of members of the Open Access Movement. To successfully perform scientific and educational work, scientists and students need to quickly navigate the huge flow of information. The challenge is, to find the original most valuable in this stream, current information, which is presented in the book, articles, any other source and is publicly available. So, in the conditions of quarantine measures, associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the transition of NUS. adm. Makarov for distance learning, employees of the Electronic reading room (The main building, aud. 547) ready to answer your questions, advise on the public access of your publications, talk about citation indices and impact factors of journals, about the electronic resources of our library and access to them through individual consultations or by e-mail tetyana.korolova@nuos.edu.ua. Also, to the International Open Access Week, prepared the Eighth issue of the web navigator "Open Access Resources". It can be found on the library's website in the "Open Access Resources" section. https://bit.ly/3nY8c3W. Let's make access to knowledge free!

Electronic archive dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mykhailo Hrushevsky

  To the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mykhailo Hrushevsky by the National Library of Ukraine named after V.. AND. Vernadsky within the corporate project with the participation of institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute of History of Ukraine, Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies. M. FROM. Hrushevsky, Institute of Literature. T. D. Shevchenko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Historical and Memorial Museum, Mykhailo Hrushevsky State Memorial Museum in Lviv, Svit Publishing House,Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Canada) a new information resource has been launched "E-Archive of Mykhailo Hrushevsky" (Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archives). Financial support and assistance of the project was provided by the Foundation of the Departments of Ukrainian Studies (USA) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Canada) – (publishing grant from the Peter Jacyk Eternal Fund, 2016/2017 рр.). Project "E-Archive of Mykhailo Hrushevsky" designed to unite the efforts of historians, historiographers, literary critics, archivists, archaeologists, museum workers, bibliographers, publishers, IT specialists and those who are simply not indifferent in order to reveal to the world community information about Mykhailo Hrushevsky - a prominent Ukrainian scientist, public, political and statesman.

MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology resources in the public domain

  MIT OpenCourseWare (WITH OCW) - project Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) from the publication in open access of materials of all courses of the institute. Published materials include course plans, lecture notes, Homeworks, examination questions and answers to them. For 24 course videos of lectures are available. Marked by a number of awards, the MIT initiative set an example, which was followed by other universities. Basic courses:

• Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Anthropology
• Architecture
• Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
• Biological Engineering
• Biology
• Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Comparative Media Studies
• Comparative Media Studies/Writing
• Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Economics
• Edgerton Center
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Engineering Systems Division
• Experimental Study Group
• Global Studies and Languages
• Health Sciences and Technology
• History
• Linguistics and Philosophy
• Literature
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Media Arts and Sciences
• Music and Theater Arts
• Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Physics
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Sloan School of Management
• Supplemental Resources
• Urban Studies and Planning
• Writing and Humanistic Studies

Springer has opened free access to technical and scientific books

  Springer Publishing has allowed you to download your science books for free, research and mathematics, which over 10 years. The books are available in PDF format – they can be sorted by topic, authors, etc.. You can download them at: http://link.springer.com/search/page/8?facet-language=%22En%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false

EASTERN EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

  The purpose of the magazine – close that gap, which arises between new scientific knowledge, which appear quickly, and their introduction into industry, which requires much more time. The task of the journal is to form a "scientific component" of the transfer of modern technologies from science to industry. Therefore, in the articles, published in the journal, emphasis is also placed on scientific novelty, and on practical value. The Eastern European Journal of Advanced Technology is an open access journal. All articles are free to view, reading, download and print.

E-books directory

E-books directory - free web resource, from which you can download books, documents, lectures, technical documents. The resource contains links to more than 1780 e-books, listed in 392 categories, including from business, computer science, techniques, humanities, literature, medicine and more.

Scientific periodicals of Ukraine

Scientific periodicals of Ukraine - access to full texts above 2 thousand. journals and collections of scientific papers. Resource of the National Library of Ukraine named after VI. Vernadsky.

OAI ґарвестер

OAI ґарвестер - search system in open archives of Ukraine. This service provides the possibility of simultaneous search in electronic full-text libraries of Ukraine. This service works on the basis of the OAI-PMH protocol. The OAI PMH protocol is designed to create open electronic libraries and provides the ability to integrate information resources.

E-LIS

E-LIS - international open electronic archive in the field of library business and information disciplines. Includes more 14 thousand. documents and a team of volunteer editors from 30 countries of the world. Supports 22 languages. The E-LIS repository is built on the principles of open access (open access) and self-archiving (self-archiving). The author can independently send to E-LIS any finished work (including unpublished).

Driver Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

Driver Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research - the resource is an electronic repository of European research. It includes archives of free access from various disciplines 36 countries of the world, includes more 2,6 million. scientific publications on 36 languages. The DRIVER project ended in December 2009 year, but his support continues.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - the resource gives access to metadata and full texts of books of academic publishers in open access on the Internet. The service allows you to search for books by the following parameters: book title, author, Keywords, annotations to books, publisher, ISSN / ISBN of the book or for all the listed elements. You can view the content of the service by name in alphabetical order, by subject headings and by publisher (e.g.. Academia Press, University of Michigan Press, Springer Science - Business Media, etc.).

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - international multidisciplinary catalog of open access journals. Contains more 10000 titles of scientific journals and 2105530 articles. The catalog aims to cover all open scientific journals, adhering to the general principles of quality of scientific publications, and thus promote their spread, use and promotion of the Open Access movement.

Libruk - Ukrainian electronic library

Libruk - resource, which brings together works of different genres and times of Ukrainian classic writers and contemporary authors. On the site you can download books in the most popular electronic formats - fb2, epub, mobi. Books are also available to read online, where you can not only remember the last page you read, but also customize the display of the book. You do not need to register. On the pages of the electronic library Libruk there is an opportunity to read an abbreviated biography to get acquainted with the life and creative path of Ukrainian writers. A section has been created on the site, where you can place your own works. LIbruk was created with a love for the native language, solely for the purpose of conveying to the reader the wonderful works of talented Ukrainians.

EU open data portal European Union Open Data Portal

The portal was launched as a result of the European Commission's "Data Openness Strategy for Europe" initiative in December 2012 p. It opens access to data of other organizations of the Union, authorities, offices and agencies, working under his authority. All users can download the published information, to reuse or share it. Open data is general information, which can be freely used and distributed by anyone. In this case, this applies to all information, which is produced, collected or purchased by EU authorities. It includes geographical and meteorological data, statistics, information on research projects, state-funded, and electronic versions of library books.

DBLP: bibliographic support for researchers in the field of computer science

  Dear users, we offer you a freely available bibliographic database on computer science DBLP, which indexes over 2,8 million. publications more than 1,4 million. authors. Advanced search features are available to users, export high quality records in BibTeX formats, RIS, RDF, XML, and there are buttons to continue searching for documents on Google, Google Scholar, MS Academic Search and in the discussion forum PubZone . Subject to compliance with standards, everyone can offer documents for inclusion in DBLP.

Online collection of English old prints in open access

  Libraries of the Universities of Michigan and Oxford, together with ProQuest, posted over 25000 English old prints (1473-1700 рр.). In the online collection of Early English Bookshttp://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/ the texts of the first printed editions of Shakespeare are presented, Chaucer, Milton and many other lesser-known writers. This project has its own peculiarity: all books were transcribed manually and non-scanned pages were made public, and only the texts themselves.

Acta Diurna is an electronic archive of Ukrainian periodicals

Acta Diurna - http://ad.lnu.edu.ua/index.php - a new domestic resource to meet the needs of academic science, educational projects and all those interested in studying the history of Ukrainian periodicals and in general the history of Ukraine. Acta Diurna is a powerful project of the Scientific Library of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, which involves filling two large sections - the repository of full-text copies of newspapers, which provides the ability to search and identify documents by name, date or place of publication, as well as by keywords, and - a general catalog of periodicals. The resource already contains 12 names, 374 numbers, 4797 pages of Ukrainian periodicals for 1919–1944 from the funds of the Scientific Library of LNU named after. AND. Franko and the State Scientific Archival Library. Digital images of newspapers are available, as well as extensive full-text search capabilities. More details on the site Scientific Library of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

New databases from EBSCO

EBSCO offers a new free database American Doctoral Dissertationshttp://www.opendissertations.com/, which contains almost 100000 references to American dissertations 1933-1955 years. Next to the entry you will see a PDF link Full Text, but do not rush to rejoice - this is not the text of the dissertation, but only a page scan from the index. For those, who is interested in the history of European colonization of America there is another free base European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750. And let's not forget about the old free abstract bases: GreenFILE, LISTA та Teacher Reference Center. EBSCO database access address: http://search.ebscohost.com and from the site of the National Library of NUS http://lib.nuos.edu.ua/

“Geo: Geography and Environment” in the public domain

“Geo: Geography and Environment” – the first full - text open access scientific journal from Royal Geographical Society and the famous British publishing house Wiley. geography, ecology, related research. In addition to the already known benefits of ezines, here, except for articles, there are many additional materials: video, tables, interactive maps, audio clips, 3D-image.

Journal Metrics від Elsevier

The academic community has long needed more transparent and accessible scientometric tools for evaluating journals. Elsevier has unexpectedly launched a website Journal Metrics, on which 3 popular indicators (Source Normalized Impact per Paper, SCImago Journal Rank, Impact per Publication) available absolutely free. The search is very simple and is performed among all magazines, included in Scopus, in the results we will see the metrics for 1999-2013 рр.

Harvard University Library Electronic Collection “Women, working” (Women Working)

New collection from the Harvard University Library “Women, working” (Women Working) available in free access. The collection contains documents on the issue of the women's movement and its impact on the development of the US economy from 1800 to the time of the Great Depression 1930. So., you can read the documents, representing not only the working conditions of American women, but also living conditions, rest, Health Care, other social aspects, etc. for 130 years. The collection counts 650 000 digitized pages of documents, including books, magazines, archival files, photos. Well organized, convenient search.

The world's best textbooks in free access

Dear students! We suggest you use the open (free) resource Open Culture, which offers a collection of books (6000) and textbooks (170+), movies (675) and audio books (550), online courses from the world's leading universities, language lessons and business courses.

The most popular articles from c

WITH 18 am to 31 July 2014 p. to the International Nelson Mandela Day (18 July),publishing house Springer will give all users free access to the most popular publications (sampling based on Almetric data), which are related to Mandela's values. These are articles from industries, education, human rights, political science and health. Documents can be easily downloaded and saved.

ROAD: all open access resources on one platform

ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources - catalog of open access scientific resources, including magazines, conference materials, monographs and institutional repositories. ISSN International Center project, being developed with 2013 p. with the support of UNESCO. Now contains 1,7 million. records on 150 languages ​​of the world from over 200 countries. Materials are included in the catalog based on certain criteria: open access to all content of resources; the resource is composed, mostly, on research work; resource audience - mainly, researchers and scientists. Allows you to search for most open source scientific publications from a single platform, by types of documents, subjects, countries. Indexed 94 domestic projects. Registration in the system is free.

Scientific periodicals of DNUZT named after. acad. IN. Lazaryan

Scientific and Technical Library of Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V.. Lazaryana invites you to view full-text electronic journals and collections of scientific papers:

• Science and progress of transport. Bulletin of the Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V.. Lazaryan
• Anthropological dimensions of philosophical research
• Electromagnetic compatibility and safety in railway transport
• Transport systems and transportation technologies
• Electrification of transport
• Problems of transport economics

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Elsevier is open access

Elsevier reveals the secrets of finding magazine articles in the public domain. Don't miss it: “Six simple steps: how to find free elsevir content” from Mrs. Rachel Martin (Rachel Martin), manager in the field of open access programs, charity projects and access technologies published by Elsevier. Read in Ukrainian Read the original (in English) IN 2013 p. the publishing house continues to expand the list open access logs, which already counts 40 names. We join and enjoy!

“Edic-leg. Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland” “Віртуальна бібліотека рукописів Швейцарії”

Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Friborg (Switzerland) with the support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation (New York, USA) Monday - Friday: 2007 year implements the project "E-codices. Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland” (Virtual Library of Swiss Manuscripts). Researchers plan to digitize all surviving ancient manuscripts from Swiss history and publish them on special site in free free access. Accompanying texts are submitted in English, in German, in French and Italian. The collection of digital copies is constantly updated and currently contains 1054 units. Among those presented on the site, special attention is drawn 500 manuscripts from the library of the famous Abbey of St. Gallen in St. Gallen. Among the rarities is the famous "Plan of St. Gallen" - a medieval drawing of the ideal model of the monastery, which arose in the early IX century. This is the only known architectural image in Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the XIII century.. The plan is considered a Swiss national heritage and is of great interest to historians, art critics and architects.

 

 

Visit the Journals for Free portal

Journals4Free– portal of open access logs with over 7000 titles of academic journals! Search by categories, language, or presence in databases:

• 3867 Scopus
• 1871 PubMed
• 1514 CONTENT Master

E-books and magazines from Springer

The well-known international scientific publishing house Springer is among the top five world scientific information, offering 2769 titles of scientific journals, 54 000 titles of scientific books, 1700 book series. The program Open Choice from Springer – this publication is more than 90 scientific journals freely and for free. The publishing house has just announced a new program Springer OpenBooks – books in free access (monographs, textbooks, reference books from various fields of knowledge). Access via SpringerLink. The books are published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC BY-NC), allowing free and free use, distribution, etc.. not for commercial purposes. All books from SpringerOpen Book will also be posted through Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). “Books – the next logical step in the development of open access, and this initiative from Springer will help to introduce open access to the model of publishing monographs and other scientific literature,Said the Director of the Directory of Open Access Books and the OAPEN Foundation. We invite you to use the information in open access!

The program of open journals from the scientific publishing house Taylor & Francis Group

Well-known world scientific publishing house Taylor & Francis Group (1500 titles of scientific journals) announced an open journal program. In addition to the hybrid model (when the author at will and for a decent fee allowed to open at once free access to the article in the subscribed magazine), a whole list of completely free free scientific journals is attached:

• Complex Metals.
• Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews.
• International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials.
• Journal of Biological Dynamics.
• Journal of Organic Semiconductors.
• Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online – published on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Nanoscience Methods.
• SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS – published on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council.
• Systems Science & Control Engineering.