Open access e-resources

Publishing platforms/research repositories

• AREI : Algemeen Reglement op Elektrische Installaties

• BBT database: Best Beschikbare Technieken 

• BCFI : Belgisch Centrum voor Farmacotherapeutische Informatie with the online Gecommentarieerd Geneesmiddelenrepertorium

• BIMportal :awareness and information portal around BIM 

• BioMed Central 

• ChemSpider : database of over 67 million chemical structures from hundreds of databases

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 

• EBPracticenet: reference platform for Evidence Based Practice for all Belgian healthcare providers 

• EconBiz 

• Elsevier Science Direct Open Access : publisher Elsevier's platform with open collection 

• Emerald : platform from Emerald Publishing (recently launched and thus still a fairly limited offering)

• European Bioinformatics Institute: the most comprehensive database of free and up-to-date molecular data

• Free Medical Journals 

• GGZ Standaarden: Dutch knowledge base with all care standards 

• Google Scholar 

• Hindawi : peer-reviewed journals around various fields within sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences

• INTECHopen : science, technology and medicine

• International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene 

• KCE : Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg

• Merck Manual Professional Version : symptoms, diagnoses and treatments within different branches of medicine

• PLoS Collections (Public Library of Science): including medicine, genetics, pathogens 

• PubMed Central (PMC): full-text archive on bio and biomedical science

• RePEc (EconPapers and IDEAS): research papers on economics 

• Smart Home Knowledge Bank 

• Springer Open Access 

• TropMed: Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp 

• VLIZ (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee): platform for marine research 

• VSR:  knowledge bank of the Nederlandse Vereniging Schoonmaak Research 

• Wiley Open Access