e-Resources
Open Access Databases
- Bioinfo Publications: Bioinfo Publications is an academic publisher with Peer Reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
- BIOMED CENTRAL: BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering, and medicine.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is openly available online for everyone.
- Free Medical Journals: Over the next years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge - the new standard in medical publishing - will have a major impact on medical practice.
- Global Library of Women's Medicine: The Global Library of Women's Medicine (GLOWM) is a free, open-access resource dedicated to enhancing women's healthcare worldwide. It offers a comprehensive range of expert, peer-reviewed materials tailored for medical professionals.
- JSTOR: JSTOR provides access journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
- PLOS: PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice.
- PubMed Central (PMC): PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). The PMC archive contains more than 10 million full-text article records spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research.
- WHO Publications: These platforms are designed to facilitate access to a broad spectrum of health information, supporting research, policy development, and implementation of health initiatives worldwide.
- Free Medical Books: Over the next years, many textbooks will be available online, free and in full text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice.
Bibliographical Databases
- Scopus: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Scopus has comprehensive scholarly literature, data and analytical tools to keep you up-to-date.
- Journal Citation Reports: Journal Citation Reports (or JCR) is a comprehensive, unique resource from Clarivate for evaluating and comparing journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals in the fields of science, technology, and the social sciences. JCR is most well-known for the "Journal Impact Factor" or JIF.
Most useful for:
- Authors looking for information to help them decide where to publish.
- Finding the journal quartile rankings for the journals in your subject area.
- Using the authoritative source for Journal Impact Factors.
Databases through OpenAthens (Remote Access Software):
- BMJ Journals: Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ Group publishes some of the world’s most cited and widely read journals includes.
- Cambridge Core: is an online platform that provides access to academic content from Cambridge University Press. It includes journals, eBooks, and other research materials.
- Science Direct: ScienceDirect is a comprehensive online collection of journals, books, and reference works and provides access to scientific documents from journals, books, handbooks, reference works, and book series.
- ProQuest Central: ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science, and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
- Royal Society of Chemistry Publications Online (RSC): The RSC is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. RSC Publishing is a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. RSC is one of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science information in the world.
- Springer Link: SpringerLink provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books , series, protocols, and reference works. It is a comprehensive online collection of health science journals, books, and reference works.
- Taylor & Francis Online: Access to Medical Library online journals with back file access for all the title.
- Wiley Online Library: Access to Wiley Complete Medical Collection of online journals with back file access for all the titles.
- ClinicalKey Student: ClinicalKey Student is an interactive education platform that supports students and faculty by enhancing the learning experience with tools tailored to develop and assess the medical knowledge of aspiring professionals.
- Sage: Access to ‘SAGE Health and Medicine Custom Collection’s online journals. more than 1,100 journals, including over 200 gold open access journals allows us to help researchers, educators, institutions, and our society partners, shape the future.
- Oxford University Press academic resources: Access to Complete Medicine collection of 123+ online journals with back file access for all the titles.
- Wolter Kluwers: Wolters Kluwer is committed to empowering the next generation of healthcare professionals with the best educational resources available.
- Library portal: https://libportal.manipal.edu/MTMC/MTMC.aspx
- Web OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue): The library has been fully automated using Koha Library management software, and the resources are made available as an online public access catalogue (WEB OPAC). The user can search for a book by title, author, call number, and keywords.
Link web Opac: https://mtmcopac.koha.manipal.edu
- Remote access (Open Athens): OpenAthens is an access management platform that allows the library to enable and monitor access to subscribed electronic resources. There will be no change to the library’s subscribed resources as a result of moving to OpenAthens, and users should be able to continue using the library resources with little or no disruption. OpenAthens offers increased security and control of library resources, reduces service interruptions, and allows campus researchers to access e-resources across library databases and publisher websites with just one login.
Link https://www.openathens.net/librarians/myathens/
- AJE: AJE, is a large academic author services company offering a range of translation, formatting, editing, and peer-review services.
Link: https://secure.aje.com/en/home/
- Turnitin (plagiarism): The library checks the originality of the documents on request using Turnitin anti-plagiarism software.
Link https://www.turnitin.com
- MAHE Coursera: Coursera is the global online learning platform that offers anyone, anywhere access to online courses and degrees from world-class universities and companies.
Link: https://coursera.manipal.edu
- Online Newspapers and Online Magazines Via Library Portal https://libportal.manipal.edu/MTMC/MTMC.aspx
- Research Data Management System (RMS): is a comprehensive software platform or set of tools designed to facilitate the entire lifecycle of research data management. It helps researchers, institutions, and organizations manage data efficiently, ensuring compliance with standards, improving data quality, and enhancing collaboration.
Link: https://rms.manipal.edu/Login.aspx?val=Session%20time%20expired
- BioRender: is a web-based tool designed specifically for creating professional, high-quality scientific illustrations and diagrams.
Link: https://www.biorender.com/
- GraphPad Prism: statistical and scientific graphing software widely used by researchers, scientists, and students, particularly in the fields of biology, pharmacology, and medicine.