Databases of the National Library of Myanmar (Yangon)
ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
Accounting,Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest)
Bringing together global scholarly journals and other key resources this collection cover the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
AGRICOLA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)
The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.
AGORA provides a collection of up to 15,500 key journals and up to 48,000 books in more than 115 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the five programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE, ARDI and GOALI.
American Doctoral Dissertations (Proquest)
American Doctoral Dissertations, is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Links to full-text where available.
ARDI - Research for Innovation
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program, coordinated by WIPO together with its partners in the publishing industry, aims to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries. By improving access to scholarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology, ARDI seeks to: reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level.
Currently, over 100 publishers provide access to around 30,000 journals, books, and reference works for 120 developing countries and territories through ARDI.
Art, Design and Architecture Collection (ProQuest)
This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
This full-text journal database has been created to complement databases including ARTBibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, British Humanities Index, MLA International Bibliography and Philosophers Index. Users can link directly from citations in these indexes to the corresponding full-text articles.
Open-access archive for 1,665,576 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreement Database (APTIAD)
Online database of trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region contains information on all preferential agreements within the region, an agreement-country matrix, and an advanced search engine allowing to locate agreements by country, agreement name, status, scope, WTO notification status, and keywords.
Asian & European Business Collection (Proquest)
Offering detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Includes full-text coverage of news stories, country information and statistics and political, economic, social, and business profiles.
Audiovisual Library of International Law
The research library contains links to other web-based resources providing international law-related materials. The library is divided into four components: resources relating to treaties; materials concerning the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals; access to selected UN publications and repositories; and selected scholarly writings in international law.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)
Comprehensive tool for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history.
Providing access to a wide range of biology topics from approx 400 titles, with more than 325 available in full text.
233 peer-reviewed open access journals, including access to Arthritis Research & Therapy, Breast Cancer Research, Genome Biology and journal of biology. Covering all areas of Biology and medicine.
British Periodicals (ProQuest)
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
Covering over 450 titles, dating back to the early 1990's, the database includes full-text from scholarly journals, trade publications and consumer titles. Includes product reviews.
A collection of legal texts, agreements, national implementation measures, and other documentation relating to the work of the The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
Provides access to more than 35,000 ECLAC publications in digital format, ranging from the first publication of ECLAC in 1948 to the most recent ones. All documents are available in full-text.
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ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. The database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature.
EDP Open is the Open Access arm of EDP Sciences, providing access to free content made available from the EDP Sciences platform. Includes journals, conferences and e-books.
Comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database renowned for extensive indexing of drug information.
The Employment Protection Legislation database (EPLex) of the International Labour Organization provides information on key topics that are regularly examined in national and comparative studies on employment termination legislation.
The eTekkatho library contains over 1,700 full text academic resources. This second edition of the library covers education, human geography, physical geography, earth sciences and the environment along with supporting subjects of computer literacy, mathematics and English language. All the resources are selected and described by subject specialists.
EThOS (e-theses online service)
Search over 400,000 doctoral theses from over 120 institutions. Users must register before use. Around 160,000 are available in full text, and of the remaining 240,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for paid scanning.
GOALI - Global Online Access to Legal Information
GOALI - Global Online Access to Legal Information is a new programme providing free or low-cost online access to legal research and training in the developing world.
Academic and professional peer-reviewed journals, publications and databases in selected subject areas of law from the world's leading academic publishers.
Hinari - Access to Research in Health Programme
Hinari Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 16,000 journals, up to 63,000 e-books, up to 105 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 120 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.
League of Nations Treaty Series
This is a collection of 205 volumes of treaties and subsequent treaty actions registered with and published by the Secretariat of the League of Nations pursuant to Article 18 of its Covenant.
Myanmar Manuscripts Digital Library
Access to the 780 palm leaf manuscripts and 5 parabaiks U Pho Thi Library, Thaton, Myanmar via University of Toronto website.
Full text of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a US-based nonprofit organisation which conducts research into economics, aimed at public policymakers, business professionals and the academic community.
Online Database of Illustrations by Bagyi Aung Soe
www.aungsoeillustrations.org is an open-access online database of periodical and book illustrations and covers by Bagyi Aung Soe (1923/24–1990), Myanmar’s trailblazer of modern art, who was also her most prolific illustrator in the twentieth-century. It seeks to conserve the memory of this artistic, cultural and intellectual heritage, to raise awareness of its value and significance, and to foster scholarship on the topic.
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories. It enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest)
Over 750 historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences are provided from volume 1, issue 1. Published from 1802 to 2005, across 37 different disciplines, from over 30 countries and in more than 25 languages.
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. Over 160 subjects areas are covered including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search the historical archive of The Guardian, The Observer and 13 major American newspapers including The New York Times. Click "i" for a full coverage list.
Searches ProQuest Newsstream and Historical Newspapers databases
Psychology Database (ProQuest)
ProQuest Psychology Journals provides abstracts and indexing for more than 650 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Also includeed are 4,000 full text dissertations representing a range of psychology disciplines.
Public Health Database (ProQuest)
Covering public health literature with access to over 800 publications and over 500 in full-text.
ProQuest Religion covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions. In addition, there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.
A public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and individual international scientific publishers. The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries by providing affordable access to critical scientific research. Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI are providing researchers in low- and middle-income countries with free or low-cost online access to leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and law.
Covering Asian literature collection, Children's literature collection (Audio & eBook), Rare books on Asian literature collection.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) data service brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.
Gateway to archival resources, projects and organisations, mainly in the UK, providing descriptions, contact details and web links. The portal can either be searched, or browsed by name, subject category or geographical area.
UNICEF Data: Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women
UNICEF maintains several databases for tracking the situation of children and women globally. The databases include only statistically sound, nationally representative data from household surveys and other sources. They are updated annually.
UN Legal Publications Global Search
Full-text searchable database for publications of the Office of Legal Affairs Codification Division, including International Law Commission documents and yearbooks, proceedings of diplomatic conferences, summaries of International Court of Justice judgments, reports of international arbitration awards, the Repertory of Practice of UN organs, and the Juridical Yearbook.
United Nations Treaty Collection
A collection of full-text databases containing treaties deposited with the United Nations.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.