The University Learning Resource Center

About SKSU - ULRC

The University Learning Resource Center (ULRC) is an academic library that caters to the needs of the students, faculty, alumni, administrators, and staff of Sultan Kudarat State University. Its services are geared towards the University vision, mission, goals, and objectives and its four (4) fold-functions namely Instruction, Research, Extension and Production. It strives to meet the demands of the growing population through its resources and services. Further it aims to provide books and other reference materials in varied formats through which students, faculty members and other users will have access for research and instructional purposes.
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Index to Online Free Access Abstract/Full-text Research Databases
(Linkages are arranged in alphabetical order)

  • arXiv offers  scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. Go visit at: https://arxiv.org/
  • BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine  is operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, and it offers more than 100 million documents from more than 4,000 sources. Sixty percent of its content is open access. Go visit at: https://www.base-search.net/
  • BioMed Central provides open access to  high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the Go visit at: BMC Serieshttps://www.biomedcentral.com/
  • CORE the world's largest collection of open access research papers. Go visit at: https://core.ac.uk/
  • DBLP Computer Science Bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Go visit at: https://dblp.org/
  • EThOS e-Theses Online Service search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily. Go visit at: https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
  • JURN provides links to various scholarly websites, articles, and journals that are all free access or open access. Specifically covering the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine, JURN has indexed almost 5,000 repositories to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Go visit at: http://www.jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0
  • JURN Directory An organised links directory for the arts & humanities, listing selected open access or otherwise free e-journals. Go visit at: http://www.jurn.org/directory/
  • Public Library of Science (PLOS) an Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Go visit at: https://plos.org/
  • PubMed  comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Go visit at:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Open Access E-Books

Below are some of the best sites collected from the web
that offers free access to electronic books, some are
downloadable and some are to be read online.