Other Resources for Researchers

This is a selection of external links that AJOL hopes will be useful additional sources of information to researchers. If you are looking for instructions on using AJOL itself, click on the link under "How to use AJOL" on the left of the page.

We would welcome any suggestions of links that should be added to this collection, or alerts to any links present that are no longer working. Please contact AJOL for these purposes at webmaster@ajol.info

Please note that AJOL is not responsible for content, products or services on externally linked websites.

 NB: If African researchers make use of free journal collections from the Developed Global North, we must please not do so at the expense of using the important and relevant research from our own continent!

Collections that are free for most African Researchers (or to researchers from Low Income Countries)

http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/peri.html The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), runs the PERii programme, which offers free access to large amounts of academic literature from all over the world. 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.

http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) - free or reduced-cost international agricultural journal online access for selected countries via institutions. Check the website to see if your country is eligible, and if it is, ask your librarian to sign up.

http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ HINARI works in the same way as AGORA above, but it relates to Public Health in content.

http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ Online Access to Research in the Environment - 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.

http://www.africaeducation.org/adl/Default.htm The African Digital Library (ADL) is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) that can be accessed and used free-of-charge by any person living on the African continent.

http://www.aluka.org/ A 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.

http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/new/fees/africanAccess.jsp JSTOR African Access Initiative 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.

 Collections that are free to all users

http://www.doaj.org/ The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a collection of over 4,000 free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals from all over the world. Over a quarter of these are searchable at article level.

http://www.bioline.org.br/ A non-profit journal aggregator of Open Access (free full text) biomedical journals containing research from developing countries.

http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/ Science in Africa - Africa's first online science magazine.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/ejournals.html Free electronic newspapers and journals on and from Africa.

http://www.africapeace.org/ and http://www.africaworkinggroup.org/ The African Peace and Conflict Network publishes open access material including topical analyses, reports, and research findings related to peace-building in Africa. See their now quarterly published Occasional Paper Series, ISSN 2150-4989

http://madarevues.recherches.gov.mg A list of Madagascan published journals including archives, conference reports, theses and other papers.

 Other useful links

AJOL was a founding Member of the WWS Alliance, the multilateral governance structure for WorldWideScience.org, 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.

http://www.codesria.org/ The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) 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.

http://www.scidev.net/en/ The Science and Development Network - news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.

http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ This link 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

http://www.scanmyessay.com/ "Viper" is a free-to-download anti-plagiarism and detection tool. Useful for editors and authors alike.

http://www.authoraid.info/ AuthorAID is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.