Databases A-Z

OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 15,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh.

This is the online version of Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, which covers the “genes and genetic mechanisms underlying human disease states.” Information about the underlying basis of genetic diseases includes chapters about amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, porphyrins, metals, disorders of mitochondrial function, vitamins, hormones, membrane transport disorders, various organs and systems, neurogenetics, inborn errors of development, and the genetics of complex disease.

One of the largest independent Open Access publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All the books are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors.

An open access database of electronic theses and dissertations which offers access to more than 800,000 ETDs, including those previously available in American Doctoral Dissertations™. It provides electronic access to a comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities and increasingly dissertations from select colleges and universities around the world. Citations include a link to access the full text, when available, via the Institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.

Open Grey is a free database of bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature produced in Europe. Topics include pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities.

A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.

Open-i is an experimental multimedia search engine that retrieves and displays structured MEDLINE citations augmented by image-related text and concepts and linked to images based on image features.

Searching, with full-text access to hundreds of open access journals in French, covering the humanities and social sciences.

The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.

The Optical Publishing Group, formerly Optics InfoBase, is a web-based repository of optics research with added services to meet the individual subscriber's needs.

Science, technology, and engineering research information funded by the Department of Energy (DOE). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.

Oxford Academic, Oxford University Press (OUP)’s platform for research, offers a single point of entry for access to scholarly and academic books and journals. Please note that JHU does not subscribe to all content.