eJournals

Google Scholar: Google. 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.

Directories of eJournals
Check out these sites which include links to many eJournals and news sources.

Directory of Open Access Journals : Lund University Libraries. Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Electronic Journal Miner : Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Lists ejournals and other online serials that are available from publishers or directly from their producer.

FreeMedicalJournals.com : AmedeoGroup. Links to free full text journals on the Internet, with the focus on medical but has journals that support the medicine field as well. Listing is by topics or titles.

Genamics JournalSeek : Openly Informatics, Inc. A database of freely available journal information, including the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. It does not contain articles or abstracts.

HighWire Science, Technology & Medical Journals

Internet Public Library : The Reading Room Magazine collection contains over 2300 titles that can be searched or browsed by subject or by title.

NewJour: Electronic Journals & Newsletters : New journals and newsletters available on the Internet.

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web : University of Houston. Provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.

Links to Science Journals : Compiled by HighWire Press.

Journal Abbreviations

For some citations, the journal title is abbreviated. You first need to know the full journal titles in order to follow-up using TDNet or OPAC (i.e. determine if the journal is available to NP). You may use the following to translate the abbreviations.

All that JAS : Iowa State University Library. A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.

jake: Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment : Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. A database of online journals, journal publishers, database providers, and journal aggregators.

For Biotechnology journals, try any of the following:

BioABACUS : New Mexico State University. A searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms in Biotechnology.

Entrez Journals Database : National Center for Biotechnology Information (US). You may search for abbreviations of journals found in the various Entrez databases, e.g. PubMed, Medline, etc.

Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA : National Agricultural Library (US). Search for journals indexed in AGRICOLA, a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature. Use the search option "Abbreviated Title" with "Currently or Previously Indexed" in Display.

Off-Campus Access
Access to many electronic resources (those marked with [Intranet]) on the Library homepage is restricted to Ngee Ann students, staff and on-campus users. To access restricted resources from home, you must own a valid NPNet account (issued by the Computer Centre).

For staff
1) Set-up the VPN.
NP Staff Intranet Menu >Administration>CC Help desk self-service>Home Connection
2) Ensure that the automatic proxy for staff VPN is set up.
NP Staff Intranet Menu>Administration>CC Help desk self-service>Frequently Asked Qns>Internet n Intranet>Configuration guides
3) Log into your VPN using the same ID and password as your office PC.
4) Once the VPN is set-up, go to the Library Home Page (http://www.np.edu.sg/index_library.html) to access all databases

For student
For Microsoft Vista/XP user, please follow instructions from here:

Help
Library Electronic Services Instructions & Setup
Databases Quick Guides & Demos [Intranet]
Finding full-text articles of citations
How to search eResources effectively

Any queries?
Call Library Reference at 6460 6290 or email lib_ref@np.edu.sg.