Five Data Bases You Should Know About
DOAJ: the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/) is dedicated to increasing “the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals“ Open Access journals do not charge readers for access and allow users to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.” The DOAJ tries to select peer-review journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results. It allows text, keyword, and subject searching. Currently there are 4148 journals in the directory but only 1497 are searchable at the article level. Periodicals range from Applied Theatre Researcher (from Australia) to Fishery Bulletin (USA) to Clinical Epidemiology (UK).
As a test I looked up a new subject I am interested in MEMS (Microelectro-Mechanical systems). MEMS are made up of components in between 1 to 100 Micrometers in size. I found 81 articles from different journals such as Sensors, Journal of Applied Sciences, Acta Montanistic Slovaca and BMC Medical Research Methodology.
J-Stage: The Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/) offers a list of titles 21 pages long, all free. You can search by Keyword, Article Title, Author’s name, and Journal Title. Titles go from Annals of Japan Prosthodontic, to the Society Journal of Chemical Software to Turbomachinery.
A simple search for MEMS uncovered 1006 articles. On advanced search I selected only English language articles in peer reviewed journals and got 173 hits from periodicals like IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines, IEICE Electronics Express and the Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology.
SciELO: The Scientific Electronic Library Online (http://www.scielo.org/) is the result of cooperation between a number of Latin American and Caribbean scientific and medical institutions offering 619 titles. Almost every article is available in English and you can search with several different systems. Its titles include Vaccimonitor (Cuba) to Mastozoologia Neotropical (Argentina) to the Brazilian Political Science Review. A search for MEMS found five hits from the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, the Brazilian Journal of Physics and the Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society. The article from Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP has an abstract available in English but the text was only in Portuguese. However this article turned out to be about MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination).
Hindawi Publishing Corporation ( http://www.hindawi.com/) is a Cairo-based for profit publisher of journals in science, technology and medicine. It is an open access item publisher were every article is open for free. Is survives becausecontributors pay to have their articles appear but every article is subject to a professional review. They currently have over 200 journals. When I asked my MEMS test question I got 28 responses. The ones that seemed mostly directly related to MEMS as I understand the term were from Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Sensors, Journal of Nanomaterials and Active and Passive Electronic Components.
The Online Books Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu) is a project run by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania, which hosts the site. It lists 35,000 free books on the Web, which they mostly found thru recommendations from readers. You can search by author, title and subject. I have been able to help students find original pamphlets from the Chicago Black Panthers and slave narratives that are out of print here.
I found nothing under MEMS but ten books under microelectromechanical systems. I decided to not include “Tom Swift and His Photo Phone" or it would be eleven.
As a test I looked up a new subject I am interested in MEMS (Microelectro-Mechanical systems). MEMS are made up of components in between 1 to 100 Micrometers in size. I found 81 articles from different journals such as Sensors, Journal of Applied Sciences, Acta Montanistic Slovaca and BMC Medical Research Methodology.
J-Stage: The Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/) offers a list of titles 21 pages long, all free. You can search by Keyword, Article Title, Author’s name, and Journal Title. Titles go from Annals of Japan Prosthodontic, to the Society Journal of Chemical Software to Turbomachinery.
A simple search for MEMS uncovered 1006 articles. On advanced search I selected only English language articles in peer reviewed journals and got 173 hits from periodicals like IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines, IEICE Electronics Express and the Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology.
SciELO: The Scientific Electronic Library Online (http://www.scielo.org/) is the result of cooperation between a number of Latin American and Caribbean scientific and medical institutions offering 619 titles. Almost every article is available in English and you can search with several different systems. Its titles include Vaccimonitor (Cuba) to Mastozoologia Neotropical (Argentina) to the Brazilian Political Science Review. A search for MEMS found five hits from the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, the Brazilian Journal of Physics and the Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society. The article from Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP has an abstract available in English but the text was only in Portuguese. However this article turned out to be about MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination).
Hindawi Publishing Corporation ( http://www.hindawi.com/) is a Cairo-based for profit publisher of journals in science, technology and medicine. It is an open access item publisher were every article is open for free. Is survives becausecontributors pay to have their articles appear but every article is subject to a professional review. They currently have over 200 journals. When I asked my MEMS test question I got 28 responses. The ones that seemed mostly directly related to MEMS as I understand the term were from Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Sensors, Journal of Nanomaterials and Active and Passive Electronic Components.
The Online Books Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu) is a project run by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania, which hosts the site. It lists 35,000 free books on the Web, which they mostly found thru recommendations from readers. You can search by author, title and subject. I have been able to help students find original pamphlets from the Chicago Black Panthers and slave narratives that are out of print here.
I found nothing under MEMS but ten books under microelectromechanical systems. I decided to not include “Tom Swift and His Photo Phone" or it would be eleven.
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