UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
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The Elsevier eBooks platform combines authoritative, world-class book content from Elsevier and improved search, rich media, and social and community features from Inkling, making it one of the most efficient tools available to health care professionals today.
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The Emerald Insights platform provides access to and information with highest quality, peer reviewed research. A high quality, interdisciplinary journal collection serving the academic and professional research communities in accounting, finance, economics, marketing and library studies.
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USP NF Online is your trusted guide through the pharmaceutical process. It’s your source for FDA-enforceable quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods, and more.
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Electronic Databases
EBSCO
EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast.
DynaMed: Evidence-Based Medicine, Point-of-Care Reference Nursing Reference Center Plus Rehabilitation Reference Center
Emerald Insight
The Emerald Insights platform provides access to and information with highest quality, peer reviewed research. A high quality, interdisciplinary journal collection serving the academic and professional research communities in accounting, finance, economics, marketing and library studies.
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Euromonitor International (Passport)
Passport, Euromonitor International's gateway to global market research database provides statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. Passport connects market research to company goals and annual planning, analysing market context, competitor insight and future trends impacting businesses globally.
MyLegalWhiz
Curated and annotated Philippine legal content accessible across all platforms – tablets, smartphones, laptops, and desktops.
To get the Username and Password, click http://bit.ly/USTLibMyLegalWhizPW and accomplish the form completely. Your Username and Password will be sent automatically to your UST Google Workspace account.
Philippine E-Journals
The Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) is an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations.
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SciFindern
SciFindern by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a research discovery tool that provides comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
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UpToDate Lexidrug
UpToDate Lexidrug is a drug referential platform that gives clinicians the information they need to make evidence-based drug decisions that address patients' unique needs.
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The new UpToDate® Lexidrug™ mobile code can be accessed by clicking on this link and following the installation instructions.
Electronic Journals
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MICROBIOLOGY
MUSIC
NURSING
NUTRITION
PHARMACY
PHILOSOPHY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS
PHYSICAL THERAPY
PHYSIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
REHABILITATION SCIENCE
SCIENCE
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
THEOLOGY / CANON LAW
TOURISM
Open Access Resources
The guide that includes a curated list of free, peer-reviewed journals and journal databases from a number of disciplines
Aardvarknet.info (Asian Resources for Librarians)
provides direct links to various free Asian online databases and fulltext electronic journals. Searchable and browsable. Subjects include library and information science, medical sciences, social sciences, agriculture, education, science and technology.
ARTSTOR Digital Library
The Artstor Digital Library is a resource that provides digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
BioMed Central
All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. Approximately 130 titles are available full text. Subject areas include biology and biomedicine.
CiteSeer
is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported.
College & Research Libraries (C&RL)
D-Lib Magazine
is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
is a database of the University of Lund (Sweden) which provides access to quality controlled scientific Open Access Journals covering several subject areas. Open access journals use a funding model that does not charge the readers. Approximately 1,670 titles are available in full text. Currently 414 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 76,402 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
eBook Directory
is the biggest directory of free downloadable ebooks online. All ebooks on the site are free to download and will always be free.
ENR: Engineering News-Record
Filipinas Heritage Library
Free Medical Journals
is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medicaljournals over the Internet. It lists a large number of medical journals that currently provide free full-text access on the WWW.
GlobaLex
GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law."
The information and articles published by GlobaLex represent both research and teaching resources used by legal academics, practitioners and other specialists around the world who are active either in foreign, international, and comparative law research or those focusing on their own domestic law. The guides and articles published are written by scholars well known in their respective fields and are recommended as a legal resource by universities, library schools, and legal training courses. The tools available in GlobaLex will continue to expand to cover international law topics, countries and legal systems thus providing a coherent and encompassing research tool for all constituencies."
Google Scholar
It enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
It is research based information on the social scientific study of religion.
HERDINPLUS
A database that provides quick and easy access to more than 50,000 citation and bibliographic information from published (Philippine health research journals , conference/convention proceedings, International databases and publications) and unpublished (research institutions research projects and reports, thesis and dissertations) health researches in the country.
Citations may include links to full-text content from publisher web sites or downloadable at HERDINPLUS.
HighWire Press, Internet Imprint of the Standford University Libraries
Over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 939,111 free full text articles and from 868 HighWire-hosted journals. Covering several subject areas.
HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative)
It provides free or very low cost online access to 2300 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit and academic institutions in the health sector in 113 developing countries.
Homiletic and Pastoral Review
Index to Philippine Periodicals
IPP Online is primarily a Web-based article indexing system based on the Index to Philippine Periodicals (IPP) which was originally produced as a printed research guide to periodical articles indexed by the Bibliography and Indexing Section of the UP Diliman University Library.
Journal of Philippine Librarianship (JPL)
is an annual publication of the School of Library and Information Studies of the University of the Philippines (UPSLIS). It covers all aspects of library, archival and information studies in the Philippines.
Library Journal
Mesothelioma.Net
Mesothelioma.net is dedicated towards helping mesothelioma patients. Helps in educating the world about mesothelioma.
OAIster
is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service which aims to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone. It has 5,740, 091 records from 522 different institutions.
Open Access Journals
Philippine eLib
The Philippine eLib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), University of the Philippines (UP), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The availables resources include: union catalog of the five partners; digitized Filipiniana materials including theses and dissertations;special collection/researches of the five partners.
Philippine Journals of Psychology (PJP)
is an international, open access, and refereed journal published biannually by the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP). It is the flagship journal of psychology in the Philippines, and its principal aim is to promote psychological studies in the Philippines and psychological studies of the Filipino people.
PLoS Biology
is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource.
PLOS One
is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Public Library of Science. The best thing about this database is that it provides information on online article usage, citations to the article, and other indicators of impact. The regularly updated data fall into the following categories: Citations, Article Usage, Media and Blog Coverage About The Article, Social Tools for Reference Management as well as Research Recommendation and Evaluation, PLOS Reader Evaluation.
POPLINE (POPulation Information onLINE)
provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy.
Project Euclid
Cornell University Library is proud to launch Project Euclid, an initiative to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
PubChem
is a freely accessible database created by NIH in 2004 to provide information about small organic molecules. It is designed for use as a research tool and as a starting point that may lead to the development of new medications. The database connects chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information, organizing facts in numerous databases into a unified whole.
PubMed Central
is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature. PMC currently provides free and unrestricted access to the full text of 104 life sciences journals, with more to come.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 30,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents.
SourceOECD
is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The University Library is not a subscriber but access to the search engine and some parts of the website is free.
WIPO Lex
WIPO Lex provides free of charge access to legal information on intellectual property (IP) from around the world.
The WIPO Lex Database is organized into three collections, consisting of IP laws and regulations, WIPO-administered treaties and IP‑related treaties, and IP judgments.
World Population Data
Every year, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) provides the latest demographic data for the world, global regions, and more than 200 countries. This year’s special focus, “Human Needs, Sustainable Resources,” is the subject of our Insights feature. Explore the data in new map and chart tools. Compare countries’ population projections in the data visualization.
OPEN ACCESS ELECTRONIC BOOKS (Also available off-campus)
Digital Book Index
provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
Google Books
gives access to full text of books.
MERLOT
is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Subjects include arts, business, education, mathematics, statistics, social science, science and technology.
Online Books Page
is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web.
Project Gutenberg
is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
Welcome to the Glass Age
This is a multi-authored book designed to whet the interest of an intelligent 18 year old; it was printed for the International Year of Glass opening ceremony in Geneva last February 2022. The 13 chapters were written by glass experts and explain how glass artefacts are helping the United Nations achieve its 2030 humanitarian goals.
On-trial Databases
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