Document Delivery Services : Free Online Resources: Websites/Resources

Document Delivery Service (DDS) is a service for KAUST students, faculty and staff to request full-text articles and book chapters (maximum 3 chapters) not available in the Library sources.

Free online resources

Books, Journals, Websites, and resources

Many of these are government resources or special collections. For a list of free resources organized by subject, visit webliographies compiled by librarians for the journal Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship here.

Books

- Internet Archive Project

- Open Library

- Project Gutenberg

- Google Books

- Merck Manuals Online Medical Library

Home Health Handbook
For Healthcare Professionals

- Free e-book links

- Page by page books

- National academy press Nap

- Digital library

- Books spot

- Biblio Mania

- E-text

- Many books

- Cornell Open

- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

Websites and Resources

DOE e-print network (US Dept of Energy).
DOE research reports (US Dept of Energy).
DOE PAGES(Beta) (US Dept of Energy) - free access to DOE-affiliated scholarly articles and reports on energy and science
A repository of MIT intellectual output.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. It is written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education, and has explanations for technical subjects that are both clear and accessible.
Theses from the United Kingdom.
International Nuclear Information System on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
Mechanical models demonstrating kinematics from Cornell University.
More than 22,000 science and engineering calculators.
MathWorldTM is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
Online Writing Lab from Purdue University.
Technical Reports from Hewlett-Packard laboratories.
US National Academies Press.
US National Academies Press TRB (Transportation Research Board) reports -(search for TRB).
E-prints in physics, math, computer science, biology, finance, and statistics.

Journals

Directory of open access journals

Engineering preprints - engrXiv

(see blog about this new archive)

Electronic journal of theoretical physics

Government Technology’s Emergency Management

American Society for Education's Prism magazine