Online Access to Research in the Environment

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature.

Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others.

more at: http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

see also:
http://www.waysnet.org/2006/nov/08/1435/bethsnowy/developing_wor...

arXiv.org

Open access to 382,035 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
powered by Cornell University Library

http://arxiv.org/

Open J-Gate

Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3721 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

http://www.openj-gate.com/

"It claims to be the largest OA portal in the world, providing access to more than 3,000 journals and millions of articles, and promising to add more than 300,000 new articles every year. It's well-implemented but has some bumps to smooth out. For example, the scope is very large, but it omits two of the first four BMC journals I tried to find. I love the way it support article-level searching, but when you find relevant articles, it links more often to publisher web sites and current journal issues than to the articles themselves. It has a very flexible advanced search function, letting users limit searches to authors, titles, author-institutions, date, and so on, as well as to topics at any of three levels of specificity (for example, "Basic Sciences" / "Chemistry" / "Nuclear Chemistry")."

A comment from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-06.htm

Directory of Open Access Journals

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2352 journals in the directory. Currently 682journals are searchable at article level. As of today 107380 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

http://www.doaj.org/

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

Enabling worldwide access to information and knowledge

INASP assists researchers, scientists, educators, and health and rural development practitioners in transitional and developing countries to access, create and use information and knowledge.

read more at:
http://www.inasp.info/

INASP produce a wide variety of resources available at:

http://www.inasp.info/pubs/index.shtml#1

Free Medical Journals

The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The access to free scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice and attract Internet visitors to these journals. Journals that restrict access to their Web sites will lose popularity. If you wish to be informed about new free journals, you may subscribe to the Journal Alert

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3300 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.

http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

Free Agricultural Journals

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.

AGORA provides a collection of 892 journals to institutions in 69 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Open access publishing takes advantage of the ability to exchange information more efficiently and creatively via the Internet, allowing barrier-free access to scientific and medical information for a global audience. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) seeks to catalyze a change from traditional subscription-based scientific and medical journal publishing to open access publishing.

Power and Interest News Report

The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) is an independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader.

see for instance the article about ''Asia's Coming Water Wars''.

Free online Analytical Science Journal
The Journal of Analytical-Science.com is a subscription free journal, available to all their Internet visitors, providing a wide exposure of your work across academia and industry.

http://www.analytical-science.com