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LOCAL OPEN DATABASES FOR RESEARCH:
1. Acta Medica Philippina: The National Health Science Journal
Link: https://actamedicaphilippina.upm.edu.ph/index.php/acta
About: Acta Medica Philippina, is an open-access, international peer-reviewed, general medical and health science journal in English language that is published monthly by the University of the Philippines Manila.
2. Philippine E-journals
Link: https://ejournals.ph/
About: The Philippine E-Journals is an expanding collection of academic journals that are made accessible globally through a single Web-based platform.
3. U.P Diliman Journals Online
Link: https://journals.upd.edu.ph/
About: It aims to gather all the U.P. Diliman journals in a single repository, widen their dissemination and visibility online, and provide journal editors with a convenient means of implementing the editorial process.
4. HERDIN: Health Research and Development Information Network
Link: https://www.herdin.ph/
About: HERDIN is a health research information management system and collaboration platform for Higher Education and Research and Development Institutions to collect, organize, and disseminate research information.
5. Scilit
Link: https://www.scilit.net/
About: : Scilit is a comprehensive content aggregator platform for scholarly publications. It is offered for free to scientists, scholars and the interested general public.
6. PLARIDEL: Plaridel Journal of Communication, Media, and Society
Link: https://www.plarideljournal.org/
About: Papers published in Plaridel Journal include original research in different areas of media and communication studies in the Philippines and Asia. These can be qualitative or quantitative work in media effects, industry, political economy, subcultural practices, and journalism studies, among others.
7. BAHANDIAN: The official institutional repository of Central Philippine University
Link: https://repository.cpu.edu.ph/
About: BAHÁNDÌAN is the institutional repository of the Central Philippine University for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students.
8. Philippine Social Science Journal
Link: https://philssj.org/index.php/main
About: The Philippine Social Science Journal (PSSJ) is an open access indexed peer-reviewed journal published by Recoletos de Bacolod Graduate School, University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos. The journal publishes original and quality scientific papers dealing with social science and allied disciplines such as anthropology, human geography, demography, business, management, economics, education, psychology, criminal justice, political science, social policy, international relations, sociology, law, media studies, history, health and well-being, and religion.
9. ASIA PACIFIC CONSORTIUM OF RESEARCHERS AND EDUCATORS, INC.
Link: https://www.apcore-inc.org/pup-online-journal-system
About: APCoRE serves as a platform that brings together academic and research professionals from the Asia Pacific Region and around the globe. It offers a space where members can convene, exchange
valuable experiences, and enhance their understanding of research and education.
10. University of the Philippines: Diliman: Journals
Link: https://upd.edu.ph/research/journals/
11. Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal
Link: https://rmrj.usjr.edu.ph/rmrj/index.php/RMRJ/issue/view/34
About: RMRJ is dedicated to the promotion of knowledge through high-quality research publication in various disciplines.
12. Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Link: https://ideas.repec.org/s/phd/rpseri.html
About: IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,600,000 items of research, including over 4,200,000 that can be downloaded in full text. RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets.
13. Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Link: https://www.pssp.org.ph/diwa-e-journal/
About: Ang PSSP ay isang panlipunan at propesyonal na organisasyong may misyong palaganapin ang
Sikolohiyang Pilipino (SP) sa iba’t ibang sektor ng lipunan bilang isang inter-disiplinaryo at maka-Pilipinong pananaw at pamamaraan.
14. Ateneo Journals Online
Link: https://ajol.ateneo.edu/katipunan
About: A portal that gives you access to the university’s journals in the arts, philosophy, language and literary studies, theology, management, history, and social science.
15. Kritike: an online Journal of Philosophy
Link: http://www.kritike.org/
About: An Online Journal of Philosophy is a biannual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and international journal of philosophy published by the Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas. . Its focus lies on interdisciplinary approaches to philosophy, especially Filipino philosophy, oriental thought and east–west comparative philosophy, continental philosophy, and Anglo-American philosophy.
16. CulturED Philippines
Link: https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/talas-journal/
About: Philippine Cultural Education Program (PCEP) envisions A NATION OF CULTURALLY LITERATE AND EMPOWERED FILIPINOS by ensuring that culture is the core and foundation of education, governance, and sustainable development. It was designed to make cultural education accessible to all sectors of Philippine society, particularly the youth, teachers, artists and cultural workers, officials and employees of the government, members of the media, and civil society.
INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATABASES FOR RESEARCH:
1. Google Scholar
Link: https://scholar.google.com/
About: Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
2. Directory of Open Access Journals
Link: https://doaj.org/
About: The Directory of Open Access Journals is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access. It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals.
3. PubMed
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
About: PubMed is a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
4. CORE
Link: https://core.ac.uk/
About: CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access research. CORE has the largest collection of Open Access articles available. It allows users to search more than 219 million OA articles. While most of these link to the full-text article on the original publisher's site, or to a PDF available for download, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.
5. Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Link: https://oatd.org/
About: OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
6. Public Library of Science
Link: https://plos.org/
About: PLOS is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license.
7. JSTOR
Link: https://www.jstor.org/
About: JSTOR is a digital library that provides access to thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
8. Directory of Open Access Books
Link: https://www.doabooks.org/
About: DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
9. Science Open
Link: https://www.scienceopen.com/
About: ScienceOpen provides researchers with a wide range of tools to support their research – all for free. Functioning as a research and publishing network, ScienceOpen offers Open Access to more than 74 million articles in all areas of science.
10. Social Science Research Network
Link: https://www.ssrn.com/
About: SSRN or Social Science Research Network is a database that facilitates the research of humanities and social science. As of 2021, this site contains about 846,588 research papers and more than 650,000 abstracts. However, you need to register as a member to have free access to papers. This site also offers you a chance to interact with scholars around the globe.
11. EBSCO
Link: https://www.ebsco.com/open-access
About: EBSCO is among the most popular of research databases and offers a variety of peer-reviewed and reliable sources.
12. Open Research Library
Link: https://openresearchlibrary.org/
About: https://openresearchlibrary.org/
13. OpenDOAR
Link: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
About: OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
You may also access the PWC of Davao Libraries subscribed databases by clicking the links below:
https://search.ebscohost.com
https://www.starbooks.ph/login
https://www.sciencedirect.com
Just chat us through the PWC Library page or ask the librarian in-charge for the login details.
