Free Databases
1. ASEE – American Society for Engineering Education
The American Society for Engineering Education is a non-profit organization that supports education in engineering technologies. Free access to 11 academic journals and conference proceedings is provided.
Access: http://www.asee.org/
2. BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) provides access to over 60 million full-text articles on philosophy, psychology, sociology, literature, history, linguistics, technology, and art.
Access: https://www.base-search.net/
3. bioRxiv
An open-access database of publications in the life sciences.
Access: https://www.biorxiv.org/
4. bookboon.com
1,500+ resources for college students, professionals, and frequent travelers It is a database that offers free access to over 800 e-books. It contains more than 800 textbooks written by respected professors working in the world's leading universities; It includes over 400 e-books written by business experts and over 300 travel guides for destinations on different continents, from Europe to Australia, North America, and Africa.
Access: https://bookboon.com/
5. Creative Commons AUDIOVISUAL, BIBLIOGRAPHY
Creative Commons provides authors, scientists, artists, and educators with free tools to save their work.
Access:https://creativecommons.org/
6. Crossref
Contains full-text articles, books, and standards published in open-access scholarly journals.
Access: https://search.crossref.org/
7. Digital Library and Archives
Contains over 30 journals on education, philosophy and engineering.
Access: https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/
8. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DOAB; It is a database that indexes and provides access to academic, peer-reviewed open-access books.
Access: https://www.doabooks.org/
9. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a database that provides full-text access to articles published in open-access scientific journals.
Access:https://www.doaj.org/
10. Dogpile REFERENCE TOOL
Brings the best search engines together in a single interface
European institutional and open archives portal.
Access: https://www.dogpile.com/
11. OpenAIRE
European institutional and open archives portal.
Access: https://www.openaire.eu/
12. EDP Sciences
EDP Sciences publishes high-quality scientific journals, conference proceedings, and other publications in a wide range of scientific, technical, and medical disciplines (physics, astrophysics, mathematics, engineering, life sciences, computer science, etc.) It publishes proceedings, books, and journals.
Access: https://publications.edpsciences.org/
13. Encyclopedia of Earth
An open-access database containing encyclopedic information on biodiversity, environmental science, environmental engineering, and earth sciences.
Access: https://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Earth
14. Espacenet
A database that provides free access to over 90 million patents
Access: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/
15. Europeana
A digital archive providing data on images, films, books, and visual materials contributed by more than 2,000 organizations from Europe.
Access: https://www.europeana.eu/en
16. Genamics JournalSeek BIBLIOGRAPHY
Provides information about the content, subject, publisher, acronym, and ISSN of many interdisciplinary journals. Provides links to journal websites.
Access: http://journalseek.net/index.htm
17. Google Scholar
A search engine that allows searching scientific literature.
Access: https://scholar.google.com.tr/
18. J-Stage
Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic; health sciences, social sciences, engineering, chemistry, architecture, etc. Contains academic articles published in Japan on these topics.
Access: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse
19. National Academies Press
Publishes reports of the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine.
Access: https://www.nap.edu/
20. OAIster & BIBLIOGRAPHY & ÖZ
This is a union catalog of the world's open archives.
Access: https://oaister.worldcat.org/
21. Open Library
This is an open, editable library catalog containing hundreds of e-books in various formats. Free access is provided by membership with a username.
Access: https://openlibrary.org/
22. OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories & BIBLIOGRAPHY & ÖZ
The world is a guide to open archives.
Access: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
23. Proteus Internet Search
It offers many search engines in a single interface.
Access: https://www.thrall.org/lightswitch/general.html
24. SCImago Journals & Country Rank
SJR is a portal containing scientific indicators for journals and countries. It can be used in identifying and evaluating scientific impact areas.
Access: https://www.scimagojr.com/
25. TÜİK Publications
All printed publications published by TÜİK since its establishment are available as e-books.
Access: https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/yordambt/yordam.php
26. Turkey Articles Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indexes bibliographic information for national Turkish journals published in all branches of science.
Access: https://makaleler.mkutup.gov.tr/
27. USPTO Patent Database
This is an open-access database containing engineering patents from the United States from 1790 to the present.
Access: http://patft.uspto.gov/
28. DergiPark Academic
This is a platform for open-access scientific journals in Turkey.
Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/
29. EThOS
Includes UK e-theses.
Access: https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
30. DMOZ Open Directory Project
DMOZ is the largest website on the web.It is the largest and most comprehensive human-edited directory. It is built and maintained by a large, volunteer community of editors from around the world. Formerly known as the Open Directory Project (ODP).
Access: https://dmoz-odp.org/
31. Science.gov
A gateway to US science information. The portal provides free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies.
Access: https://www.science.gov/
32. Master's Thesis Database
This database searches master's, doctoral, medical specialty, and artistic theses prepared by universities and training and research hospitals, and provides access to the full text of those theses with access permission.
Access: https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/
33. BabLa Language Portal
It is an open-access dictionary portal that provides online services.
Access: https://tr.bab.la/
34. EUR-Lex
It is an electronic database published by the European Union in the field of law and in various languages.
Access: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html
35. Law Dictionary BIBLIOGRAPHIC
It is an electronic dictionary in the field of law.
Access: https://www.law-dictionary.org/
36. Project Gutenberg
It is a free e-book access database.
Access: https://www.gutenberg.org/
37. E.Mevzuat
This database contains the codified, current texts of laws, decrees, statutes, regulations, and communiqués, as well as repealed provisions of laws.
Access: https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/
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