Resources

This portal is set up by UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa). Its advantage is the types of socioeconomic publications it contains, which cover the African continent. It has several search criteria to improve the search results according to the user’s needs. There are also full-text documents downloadable. It is accessible at: http://askia.uneca.org/

The BASE search engine is developed by the University of Bielefeld in Germany. It contains millions of bibliographical references, many of them are in open access. This very powerful search engine has several search criteria giving search results that meet the most relevant academic criteria. The service is accessible at: https://www.base-search.net/about/en/

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

Launched in 2011, CORE now lists more than 79 million documents in grey literature, research papers, dissertations and open access theses from several information sources. It is the world’s largest aggregator of full-text and free-text research documents. It can be accessed at: https://core.ac.uk/

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

DOAJ is a bibliographic database that lists open access scientific journals that meet quality criteria. It contains full text articles with free access. Its ambition is to cover all subjects on all languages. It is accessible at: https://doaj.org/

Érudit

Érudit is a non-profit organisation founded by the University of Montreal Press. Its main mission is to disseminate and promote scholarly research results, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. More than 85% of the content on the platform is available open access. Access it at: http://www.erudit.org/

Gallica

Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. In open access since 1997, it has more than five million documents. Gallica is accessible at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/content/accueil-fr?mode=desktop

Horizon Pleins Textes

Horizon Plein Textes is the online bibliographic database created by the French institution, IRD (Research Institute for Development). The database contains publications by IRD researchers or researchers associated with this organisation. They are in open access if these texts are free of rights. The Horizon database provides access to more than 73,000 documents online and more than half are available online in full text. Find the database at: http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/

ilissAfrica – Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa

IlissAfrica is a project of the African section of Frankfurt University Library and the Information Centre of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. It is a portal that provides integrated access to many sources of scientific information in the fields of sub-Saharan African studies. Access it at: http://www.ilissafrica.de/en/

Isidore

Isidore is a platform and search engine that specialises in the social sciences and humanities. Full-text documents linked to metadata are indexed to the extent that they are freely accessible. Isidore contains many documents in French regarding the data producers participating in the project (Cairn.info, Persée, OpenEdition Journals, Érudit, Gallica of the BnF, etc.) in addition to other languages such as English and Portuguese. Access Isidore at: http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/

OpenEdition Journals and Books

OpenEdition Journals is a portal for electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text access to hundreds of journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.

Access the journals at: https://journals.openedition.org/

Access the books at: https://books.openedition.org/

Persée

Persée allows free consultation of a complete collection of scientific publications. The portal, managed by ENS (École Normale Supérieure) Lyon, is open access. With more than 700,000 documents disseminated and more than 300 collections freely available online, Persée is the largest Francophone resource of articles and documents in the social sciences and humanities. Find it at: http://www.persee.fr/

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

Owned by Elsevier, the SSRN specialises in the fields of social sciences and humanities and allows researchers to share articles before publication. It is one of the main open and collaborative archives in the field of SSH. It is accessible at: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/.

Taylor & Francis

The Taylor & Francis Group is an international publishing house of the United Kingdom that publishes academic and scientific publications.
Taylor & Francis publishes more than a thousand journals, about one thousand eight hundred books each year and has a catalogue exceeding twenty thousand titles. The catalogue address is: https://www.tandfonline.com/

World Bank/IMF Library Network

This network of libraries is set up by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for the documentation needs of their staff. Access it at
https://library.worldbankimflib.org/

1findr platform

1findr platform is the largest collection of peer-reviewed articles in the world covering all scientific fields. The platform has both an optimized and a free versions with the possibilty to download documents. The address of his catalog is: www.1findr.com