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Tutorial

Guide no. 23

OPEN SOURCES

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OPEN SOURCES =OPEN ACCESS

• OPENDOAR= Directory of Worldwide Repositories= Master & PhD Theses

• DOAJ= Directory of Journals• OAISTER= Worldwide National & University

Libraries• WHOLIS= World Health Organization• GOOGLE SCHOLAR= Academic documents• GOOGLE BOOKS= e-books• For more information see Alma Swan• http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/presentations.html

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Directory of Open Access Repositories

• http://www.opendoar.org/• Over 2200 Repositories

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is also from http://www.doaj.org/ .

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OAISTER: Libraries Worldwide http://www.oclc.org/oaister/access.en.ht

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Type your terms or words

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WHOLIS = World Health Organization http://www.who.int/library/databases/en/ Search for

“Air Quality Standards” or any term regarding your health

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Select the terms that the systems is suggesting to you

Click here

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Google Scholar Remember that Google Scholar

covers Universities & institutions not only from America but from

the whole world. Click where PDF is listed.

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Google Books: The same with OAISTER—we can see originals from the best universities and national

libraries from all over the world.

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This book, published in 1854, was digitized for the Harvard collection. The whole world’s memory is at

your fingertips; use it properly.

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Remember

Your results will depend on terms or words used and how you search the open access directories and databases.