his guide was prepared to assist University of the Gambia (UTG) staff and students to find relevant information to support their learning, research and teaching. The guide lists electronic journal databases, subject gateways and other useful web resources that allow you to search for specific topics or articles. It is not an exhaustive list but it attempts to identify some of the most valuable resources available, most of which are free services.
Alphabetical List of Electronic Resources
African Journals On Line (AJOL)
http://www.ajol.info/
AJOL is the world’s largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals. These journals cover the full range of academic disciplines including sections on health, education, agriculture, science and technology, the environment, and arts and culture. The journals can be listed by subject area, country, or alphabetically. The email alerts also provide a reminder service, to alert users to newly-published issues from their selected titles.
Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL) Link
http://bubl.ac.uk/
BUBL Link is a catalogue of Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. It is organized according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system,
similar to how the books are arranged in the Library. Search by title, author, resource type or subject.
ChemSynthesis
http://www.chemsynthesis.com/
ChemSynthesis is a freely accessible database of chemicals. The resource contains substances with their synthesis references and physical properties, such as melting point, boiling point and density. There are currently over 40,000 compounds and synthesis references listed in the database.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/
The Directory of Open Access Journals service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. Currently 1224 journals are searchable at article level.
The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
The Free online dictionary and encyclopedia also includes medical, legal and financial terms.
Free Medical Journals
http://www.fj4d.com/
The Free Medical Journals web site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. If you wish to be informed about new free journals you may subscribe to their Journal Alert
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
http://www.who.int/hinari/
The HINARI program was set up by the WHO together with major publishers. The resource enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. You will need to login to search the database. Please ask the Library staff for the institution username and password.
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
The Internet Public Library is a learning and teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information. The online resources are selected, described and organized by Librarians.
InternetTutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
The Internet tutorial is a web searching tutorial featuring search strategies, tools, and website evaluation techniques. The tutorial presents the substance of the web searching workshops offered by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
Intute 
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online database of web resources for learning, teaching and research. The resources are carefully selected by subject specialists. You can search or browse through the resources and connect to relevant websites.
The Intute: Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
The Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web.
JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/
JSTOR is a digital archive collection of scholarly journals. It includes materials from over 40 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The archives date back from the early 19th century. It offers a full-text search service and it is interlinked by citations and references.
MEDLINE – free access
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Online Access to Research in the Environment 
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It enables developing countries to gain access to collections of environmental science research. You will need to login to search the database. Please ask the Library staff for the institution username and password.
OAIster 
http://www.oaister.org/
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. The database can be searched by title, author/creator, subject, language or entire record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency. The search results allow further limiting by data contributor.
The Online Book Page 
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
The Online Books Page facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. The site lists over 30,000 free books on the Web.
Pinnakes 
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Pinnakes subject launchpad provides links to over 40 different subject gateways. It is hosted by Heriot-Watt University.
Directory of Open Access Repositories 
http://www.opendoar.org/index.html
OpenDOAR is a trial search service for academics and researchers around the world. It provides a global directory of freely available open access repositories that hold research material and offers a full-text search service.
OpenLearn 
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
OpenLearn provides free access to Open University course materials. It includes subject areas, study skills section, lesson plans, reading material and podcasts of lectures. The LearningSpace is open to learners anywhere in the world.
YourDictionary 
http://www.yourdictionary.com
YourDictionary is a free online dictionary. The dictionary search gives definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation and etymology results for your word. It provides resources to help you find the best dictionary and translation sites for French, Spanish, Italian, German and many other languages.
Electronic Working Papers
INSEAD Knowledge
http://knowledge.insead.edu/home.cfm
Provides access to the full text of INSEAD working papers. Online registration is required.
Working Papers Nuffield College Library, Oxford University
http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/library/serials-workingpapers.asp
Links to various working paper collections across the world. The working paper series list is arranged alphabetically by the name of the distributing body.
Newspaper Index 
http://www.newspaperindex.com/
The Newspaper index is an index of evaluated newspapers worldwide.
Total News
http://www.totalnews.com/
Search engine and directory of news sites worldwide and provides links to newspapers and news sources for each country.
Recommended Search Engines
Google
http://www.google.com/
Google has one of the largest databases of Web pages. You can search for websites, images, groups, news or try Google scholar to search for scholarly literature.
Ask
http://www.ask.com/
Search for websites, pictures, news, maps, videos, MP3 and FTP files
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
Search for websites, news, images, maps or Yahoo!'s website directory.
Metasearch Engines (Search many search engines at once)
IxQuick
http://www.ixquick.com/
Searches up to 12 different search engines for sites, videos, news, pictures and in several different languages.
Clusty
http://www.clusty.com/
Searches multiple search engines and groups similar results together into different subcategories.
DogPile
http://www.dogpile.com/
Searches multiple search engines such as Google,Yahoo, Windows Live and Ask.
Addresses on the Internet can change fairly quickly. The resources listed here were accurate at the time of writing but no guarantees can be given that they will be as they have been described.
New web sites are added to the Internet every day and it is not possible to keep track of all of them. If you know of any worthwhile resources which are not listed here, please contact the University Librarian so they can be included in subsequent lists.
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