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Click on their drop down list on the right hand side of their website for your country to see what they can offer to you.</li> <li><a href="https://agora.research4life.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)</a> - free or reduced-cost international agricultural journal online access for selected countries via institutions by <a href="https://www.research4life.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research4Life</a>. Check the website to see if your country is eligible, and if it is, ask your librarian to sign up.</li> <li><a href="https://partnership.who.int/hinari" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">HINARI</a> is for Access to Research in Health, and works in the same way as AGORA above.</li> <li><a href="https://www.oaresciences.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Online Access to Research in the Environment</a> (OARE) - again, refer to AGORA above for information. Check the website to see if your country is eligible, and if it is, ask your librarian to sign up.</li> <li>Another Research4Life collection is <a href="https://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Access to Research for Development and Innovation</a> (ARDI)</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/African-Digital-Library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African Digital Library (ADL)</a> is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) that can be accessed and used free-of-charge by anyone living on the African continent.</li> <li><a href="https://www.jstor.org/site/struggles-for-freedom/southern-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">JSTOR'S Primary Sources collection on African liberation struggles</a> and <a href="https://www.jstor.org/site/heritage/africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">World Heritage Sites in Africa</a> are collection of data from around the world on or relating to Africa. Access is free via African institutions, so speak to your university librarian about signing up.</li> <li><a href="https://www.jstor.org/librarians/fees/jai" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">JSTOR's African Access Initiative</a> allows free access to the full online journal archive of nearly 1000 titles from all disciplines to any academic or not for profit institution on the continent of Africa.<br><br></li> </ul> <h3>Collections that are free to all users:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.doaj.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</a> is a collection of thousands of free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals from all over the world. Over a quarter of these are searchable at article level.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.africaportal.org/publications/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AfricaPortal</a> is an online resource of policy research on African issues.</li> <li><a href="http://www.bioline.org.br/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bioline</a> is a non-profit journal aggregator of Open Access (free full text) biomedical journals containing research from developing countries.</li> <li><a href="https://www.biomedcentral.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BioMed Central</a> is a publishing initiative committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.</li> <li>African Studies and Columbia University hosts free <a href="https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/global/africa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electronic newspapers and journals</a> on and from Africa.</li> <li><a href="https://www.amedeo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AMEDEO</a> is a free information resource for healthcare professionals, as is <a href="http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Medical Journals</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Doar: Directory of Open Access Repositories</a> is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.plos.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Library of Science (PLoS)</a> is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.</li> <li><a href="https://scielo.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online</a> is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries.</li> <li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ResearchGATE</a> is a free of charge, online research platform with meta-data of around 35 million articles and publications and tens of thousands of full-texts available, focused on the sciences but open to all disciplines. ResearchGATE also acts as a social networking platform where information on jobs, conferences and new publications can be shared between individuals and groups.<br><br></li> </ul> <h3>Other useful links:</h3> <ul> <li>Open Education Resources for teaching and learning are available at <a href="https://www.oerafrica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OER Africa</a>.</li> <li>AJOL was a founding Member of the WWS Alliance, the multilateral governance structure for <a href="https://worldwidescience.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WorldWideScience.org</a>, which is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.codesria.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)</a> is an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, and is the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.</li> <li><a href="https://www.scidev.net/global/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Science and Development Network</a> — news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.</li> <li><a href="https://www.iedparis8.net/?Le-portail-du-numerique-dans-l-enseignement-superieur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The University of Paris online education portal.</a></li> <li><a href="https://doi.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This link</a> allows you to retrieve Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for journal articles, books, and chapters by simply cutting and pasting the reference list into the box provided on the page. You may use the form with any reference style, although the tool works most reliably if references are formatted in a standard style.</li> <li>"<a href="https://www.scanmyessay.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viper</a>" is a free-to-download anti-plagiarism and detection tool, useful for editors and authors alike.</li> <li><a href="https://www.authoraid.info/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AuthorAID</a> is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.doi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) System</a> is for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They act as a URL and allow the article/object in question to be found on the net even if it regularly moves location.</li> <li><a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-invalid="true">OASIS</a> aims to provide information on all things Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, and is used by researchers, librarians, publishers and administrators.<br><br></li> </ul> <h3>Style and Writing Guides:</h3> <ul> <li>This shows the <a href="https://libguides.mjc.edu/c.php?g=255746&p=3205500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Style</a> of referencing.</li> <li>This shows the <a href="https://www.mla.org/MLA-Style" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Style</a> of referencing.</li> <li><a href="https://writingcenter.uconn.edu/writing-in-biology/">This guide from the University of Connecticut</a> is intended to provide general content, style, and format guidelines for biology students learning to write papers in a standard, scientific journal style and format that can be easily adapted to specific journal requirements or disciplinary conventions.</li> <li>The <a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University</a> houses writing resources and instructional material. Researchers, students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.<br><br></li> </ul> <h3>Avoiding Plagiarism:</h3> <ul> <li>This <a href="https://guides.library.ucla.edu/citing/plagiarism/avoid#:~:text=To%20avoid%20plagiarism%2C%20one%20must,responsibility%20for%20your%20own%20learning.">University of California Los Angeles library services guide</a> deals with how to avoid plagiarism.</li> <li>Many authors are concerned about unintentional plagiarism, as covered in <a href="https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/academicintegrity/avoidingplagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this guide from the University of Reading</a>.</li> <li>Self-plagiarism is also possible, as explained in <a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/mylatrobe/self-plagiarism-when-recycling-your-own-work-can-get-you-into-trouble/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this guide</a> from LaTrobe University.</li> </ul> <h3>Getting an ORCID number</h3> <p>ORCIDs are free and allow researchers/authors to track their publications wherever they are online. 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