URL: http://www.bioline.org.br/ A pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries.
Coverage: Participating Countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela. Research Topics: public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, biodiversity, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases, the environment, and conservation.
Description: Bioline is an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement.

URL: http://www.case.edu/chsl/homepage.htm (Case login frequently required)
Coverage: The collections at the Health Center Library cover the life science, biology, dentistry, nursing, and nutrition. The Allen Memorial Medical Library houses clinical medicine and surgery, public health, health services administration, legal medicine, and the history of medicine. The Dittrick Medical History Center in the Allen offers a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images.
Description: The combined collections total over 475,000 volumes including electronics and collectibles and over 2500 journal subscriptions both print and electronic within scope. Both libraries are open to the public for in-house use of most materials.

URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/
Coverage: Federal and state case & statute law including U.S. Code. Topical digital law collections including Social Security Administration materials.
Format: ASCII & PDF
Description: This site provides public information including all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992. Important secondary sources in the areas of legal ethics and social security as well as topical pages that serve as subject guides and Internet resource listings for over 100 areas of law.

URL: http://www.doaj.org DOAJ is a sister project of OpenDOAR and together they offer two infrastructure supports for the growth of Open Access in research and scholarly communication.
Coverage: High impact factor scientific & medical journals. There are now 4766 journals in the directory with 1888 searchable at the article level. Approximately 357,608 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Format: Searchable by broad subject categories & title.
Description: This directory provides access to quality controlled open access journals. It is comprehensive and covers all open access scientific and scholarly journals that publish research or review papers in full text. To be included, a journal must use quality control on papers submitted through an editor, editorial board and/or peer-review. It is not limited to particular subjects or languages.

URL: http:/dida.library.ucsf.edu/
Coverage: DIDA contains over 2500 documents about pharmaceutical industry clinical trials, publication of study results, pricing, marketing, relations with physicians and involvement in continuing medical education.
Format: html
Description: DIDA was created by the Center for Knowledge Management at the University of California San Francisco Library, to house material pertaining to United States of America ex rel. David Franklin vs. Parke-Davis. Documents were obtained from public-access files of the United States District Court for Massachusetts and other sources including the plaintiff’s law firm. Additional sources, including court cases and U.S. government committee investigations, have been added to DIDA over the last few years.

URL: http://scholar.google.com/
Coverage: Multidisciplinary; searches peer reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts & articles.
Format: Abstracts or citations. Scholar Preference can provide link to specific libraries.
Description: Simple way to broadly search scholarly literature. Searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Results are ranked by relevance.

URL: http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/bioethics/ The EthicsWeb websites strive to present a selected range of high-quality ehtics related resources on a particular topic.
Coverage: The EthicsWeb sites have a Canadian "slant," but all provide information that will be of interest to international visitors.
Format: html
Description: Applied Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web: Topics include: Science and Technology Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Animal Welfare Ethics, and Ethical Decision Making, to name a few.

URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Coverage: Hosts over 1308 journals, books reference works and other scholarly publications. Keyword, author & publisher search. Over 140 publishers work with HighWire to develop & host their online content: Nearly 1300 sites & more than 6 million articles are fully searchable online.
Format: xml, links ,RSS feed, pdf
Description: HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 2/22/10, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,980,858 free full-text articles and 6,219,491 total articles. There are 18 sites with free trial periods, and 45 completely free sites. 285 sites have free back issues, and 1205 sites have pay for view.

URL: http://hubmed.org/ An Alternative Interface to the PubMed Medical Literature Database
Coverage: Interface to the PubMed Medical Literature Database.
Format: RSS feeds; multiple formats
Description: Hubmed interface transforms data from PubMed and integrates it with data from other sources. Hubmed makes metadata available from each HubMed URI in a wide variety of formats not offered by NCBI. This is one of HubMed’s most useful features. Hubmed also provides various personalized features such as tagging.

URL: http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Coverage: University of California virtual library of internet resources built by librarians for scholars. Relevant topics include medical sciences and e-journals. Free & fee based.
Format: HTML, PDF. RSS feed
Description: Scholarly internet resources for university researchers. Includes databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library vcard catalogs, articles, directories of researchers and other types of information.

URL: http://healthreform.kff.org/ Health Care Reform and Health Insurance Reform Analysis, Data and Information
Coverage: Health Care reform and health insurance
Description: Health care reform portal

URL: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/
Coverage: Free Databases: ETHXWeb: over 300,00 references in medicine, biotechnology, law, science and government -- GenETHX: ethics and genetics -- International Organizations (ORGS): listings for over 1600 bioethics organizations -- Syllabus Exchange: over 650 syllabi for bioethics course planning.
Format: Links to directories, full text resources, teaching resources, current news
Description: Databases from the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), and the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics (NIREHG). Resources in these specialized collections include books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other documents concerned with biomedical and professional ethics.

URL: http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/library/ejournals.aspx Community gateway to online public health resources
Coverage: Includes free and fee-based full text articles, links to authoritative public health websites and searchable databases.
Format: html, pdf, RSS feed
Description: Gateway to online public health resources including free and fee-based full text articles, links to authoritative public health websites and databases and, other services.

URL: http://www.mipt.org/open-access-journalsmagazines
Coverage: National and international biosecurity peer-reviewed journals. Topics include: public health, biodefense, bioscientific research, and conflict mediation.
Format: multiple
Description: MIPT Lawson Library houses over 5,000 books and other materials on terrorism, law enforcement, and homeland security issues.

URL: http://www.oaister.worldcat.org/ Union catalog of millions of records.
Coverage: OAIster contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide. Resources inclued: digitized books and journal articles, digital text, audio files, video files, photographic images, data sets and, thesis & resarch papers. Additionally OAIster records are fully accessible through WorldCat.org.
Format: Weekly updates, PDF, HTML, international
Description: Union catalog of millions of digital resources. Access to digital resources is provided by "harvesting" metadata records. Currently, it has more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. Searchable by keyword, author, title, subject & language.

URL: http://orefil.dbcls.jp/ Facilitates the search of online resources that are introduced in peer-reviewed papers.
Coverage: OReFiL extracts all URLs from MEDLINE abstracts and PubMed-indexed BioMed Central full-text papers and indexes them with MeSH terms and author names.
Format: html; pdf
Description: OReFiL can be searched by MeSH terms or author names in addition to free words. Sponsored by the University of Tokyo.

URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov (PMC)
Coverage: Free digital archive of biomedical and life science literature. Contains a growing number of journals and some free full text. Some titles have release delays, but there are many complete runs. It is now required that scientists submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central.
Format: Links to PubMed
Description: Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed Central was developed and is managed by the NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCIB) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). NIH Public Access Policy requires that NIH funded research is accessible to the public on PubMed Central.

URL: http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
Coverage: Updating alert service for PubMed & Genbank.
Format: Results are PubMed citations, no links. Sorted by date.
Description: Alerting service that scans daily updates to PubMed and GenBank. Free weekly e-mailed citations based on your pre-written PubMed queries. Current contents listing of new database entries based on research interests.

URL: http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu SUMSearch selects the best resources for your question, formats you question for each resource, and makes additional searches based on results.
Coverage: "As SUMSearch performs live searches of other websites, content is always up-to-date."
Format: multiple
Description: Meta-searching (simultaneous search of multiple internet sites) database that automates the search for medical evidence. Further, the resulting links are organized by breadth of discussion, from broad to narrow.

URL: http://www.scielo.org/
Coverage: Individual journal issues published by SciELO should start from 1997, or from its first issue in the case of journals founded after that year. Journal articles and other works can be published in the English, Portuguese or Spanish languages. Journals published by the SciELO collection need not necessarily publish a printed version.
Description: SciELO was conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and Caribbean countries. It provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessiblilty to their scientific literature, helping to overcome the phenomena known as ’lost science’. Journals must carry out a peer review process for analysis and approval of submitted contributions.

URL: http://www.scirus.com With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, Scirus allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Coverage: Scirus, the seearch engine for science, focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. It filters out non-scientific sites; finds peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files, and; searches the most comprehensive combination of Web information, preprint servers, digital archives, repositories and patent and journal databases.
Format: Results ranked by relevance and number of links.
Description: Comprehensive science-specific search engine for the internet. Scirus helps researchers pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data. Also find reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals. Sponsored by Elsevier Publications.

URL: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking
Coverage: Search engine that allows ranking of journals based upon "counted citations which cite journal volumes published in the preceding eight years." See "Explanation" for more information about ranking methodology.
Description: "The purpose of the Law Journals webpage is to allow authors to find law journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author’s article submission to those journals."