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Open Access Databases

Open Access databases are open to all researchers.

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Type : Journal Database

Content : The Chamber of Architects has prepared the Arkitekt journal database within the scope of the Zeki Sayar Commemoration Program (2010-2012).

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Type : Article Database

Content : It consists of articles in history, literature, and Islamic sciences in Ottoman journals.

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Type : Article Database

Content : It includes articles in the theology field and papers presented in symposiums and congresses, especially in journals published by faculties of Theology, scientific periodicals, various publishers, and institutions. The database now has 98,260 bibliographic tags and 91,350 articles in full-text PDFs.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : The BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. The BASE provides over 300 million documents from over 10,000 content providers.

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Type : Journal Database

Content : Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Atatürk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History – Turkish Historical Society Journal is published every four months. Online access started from the first issue on.

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Type : e-Books Database

Content : On August 24, 2011, 66 books in CaltechBOOK moved to the CaltechAUTHORS repository for the collection of all open-access books by Caltech researchers.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : It was prepared in order to share the documents used in the writing of articles in the Religious Foundation of Turkey Islamic Encyclopedia with the researchers.

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Type : Clinical Studies Database

Content : ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, healthcare professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The Web site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Type : Article Database

Content : CORE provides access to the world’s largest collection of open-access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals.

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Type : e-Theses Database

Content : Open access to electronic theses has been created to be used by researchers through a single portal.

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Type : Journal Publishing System

Content : TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM provides hosting services for OJS, a journal publishing–managing system. Dergipark created by TUBİTAK ULAKBİM provides access to more than 1.400 academic journals published in Turkey.

Subscription Status : Open Access

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Type : Article Database

Content : The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

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Type : e-Books Database

Content : DOAB’s main objective is to increase the discoverability of Open Access books. The DOAB database contains 2,256 open-access books from 76 publishers.

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Type : e-Journal Database

Content : DOAJ is a full-text database that provides free articles from scientific journals. The database contains articles on every topic and language.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : EconBiz is a database of rich contents of the German National Economic Library about the economy, business, accounting, and similar fields.

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Type : Article Database

Content : Its extended language models help it search the literature quickly. It uncovers searches across 125 million academic articles in the Semantic Scholar corpus, spanning all academic disciplines. When you extract data from articles in Elicit, the full text will appear if available, or the abstract if not.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : “Europeana” database provides access to more than 15 million digital sources in European museums, libraries, archives, and audiovisual collections.

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Type : e-Books Database

Content : Project Gutenberg offers more than 53,000 free eBook access.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : Google Scholar is a search engine that searches only for academic articles and topics.

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Type : e-Periodicals Collection

Content : This is a digital archive of Ottoman periodicals, included in the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection, which is currently kept at the Beyazıt State Library in Istanbul. All the digitized Turkish, Ottoman, and Arabic publications are now available on the Internet.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : Developed at TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, Turkey Academic Archive (Harman) is a metadata collation software that provides access to the content needed by international standards by establishing a relationship between national archives, journals (data providers) and search engine services (service providers). By collating the metadata of the contents of the National Institutional Open Archive, the publications are accessed via the Harman address.

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Type : Bibliographic Database

Content : The database is an electronic bibliography published in the field of law.

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Type : Article Database

Content : The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade, and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

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Type : Encyclopedia

Subject : Islam

Content : The TVD Islamic Encyclopedia, which started its preparatory work in 1983 and was first published in 1988, has original materials covering the history, geography, culture, and civilization of Islamic countries. This list has been prepared by scanning 500 basic sources. Thus there are 16,855 substances.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : Through the Islamic Heritage Project, Harvard University has cataloged, conserved, and digitized hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections. These rare—and frequently unique—materials are now freely available to Internet users worldwide. IHP is made possible with the generous support of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. For the IHP, Harvard’s Open Collections Program has produced digital copies of over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages.

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Type : e-Theses Database

Content : The MIT Library collection contains more than 40,000 dissertations completed by the mid-1800s.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : This database of the OECD contains publications on economics, finance, business, and other related social science fields. Archives with up to 300 periodicals, 9,900 books (with 3,780 summaries in several languages), 35,600 book chapters, 2,700 meeting reports, and 34,000 accessible excel files within full-text documents are directly accessible and searchable. With 5,000 excel files, OECD.Stat provides its archives access to 300 data sets and more than 5 billion data sets from 1960.

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Type : e-Books Database

Content : More than 500 books belonging to publishers such as the University of California, Michigan University, and the Austrian National University.

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Type : e-Books Database

Content : More than 1900 books belong to Routledge, CRC Press, and River Publishers.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : You can find free audiobooks, movies, and e-books, participate in free courses, and study many languages like Spanish, Russian, Latin, and Korean. At the same time, you can discover different worlds with blog entries.

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Type : e-Book Databese

Content : Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : OpenAIRE provides guidance and how-to guides on related European Open Access policies and mandates through an extensive support network covering all European member states. The network is a bridge between all research stakeholders and the world of Scholarly publications. OpenAIRE database harvests open-access archives (journals, theses, books, reports, etc.) of various academic disciplines. The database includes over 21607992 publications and 524772 datasets from 2700 repositories and OA journals.

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Type : Yearbook Database

Content : This database includes Ottoman Empire's state and provincial salnāmes.

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Type : Dictionary Database

Content : It is the most reliable and comprehensive historical dictionary project with over 430,000 entry headings and more than 158,000 words, including original texts. The database also includes explanations of Turkish words in German, English and French. The current Arabic and Persian meanings of 54,000 words of Arabic or Persian origin in the dictionaries are included and the equivalents of these words are also written.

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Type : Article Database

Content : Religious Minorities Online is the world's first reference work on religious minorities. It contains various articles, current essays, and research reports.

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Type : Official Gazette Database

Content : Provides access to the Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey.

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Type : Article Database

Content : SafetyLit includes summaries of doctoral dissertations, “scientific” reports, and journal articles on injury occurrence and risk factors.

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Type : Journal Database

Content : It provides access to all content of the Court of Accounts published by the Turkish Court of Accounts.

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Type : Bibliometric Database

Content : SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a public portal containing scientific papers and journals developed by the information (Elsevier B.V.) in the Scopus® database. These indicators can be used to evaluate and analyze scientific areas. Journals can be compared or analyzed separately. Country rankings can also be compared or analyzed separately. Journals can be grouped according to the subject area (27 main thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories), or country. The quotations have been obtained from more than 5,000 international publishers from 239 countries around the world and more than 21,500 titles from country performance measurements.

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Type : Article Database

Content : Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools and open resources for the global research community. It indexes over 200 million academic papers from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.

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Type : Article Database

Content : Social Science Research Network SSRNeLibrary presents 705,591 research articles from 325,365 researchers in 24 disciplines.

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Type : Journal and project database

Content : Databases of Engineering and Liberal Arts, Social and Human Sciences, Law, Turkish Medicine, Life Sciences, and TUBITAK-supported projects developed by TUBITAK ULAKBİM.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : This database consists of treatises on history, literature, and Islamic sciences.

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Type : Article Database

Content : The "Turkish History, Literature, Culture, and Art Article Database" opened by İSAM. The database now has 153,900 bibliographic tags and 132,730 articles in full-text PDFs.

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Type : Institutional Repository

Content : Institutional academic archive content in Turkey.

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Type : TBMM Reports Database

Content : All protocols of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey the National Assembly, the Senate of the Republic, the National Unity Committee, the Constituent Assembly, the House of Representatives, the National Security Council, and the Advisory Council are listed here from the opening of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on April 23, 1920, till today.

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Type : Hybrid Database

Content : The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is an electronic repository and archive containing 58,786 documents and research materials on European integration and unity.

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Type : Engraving and Map Database

Content : Engravings, also known as antique prints, are visual media that provide insights into the art, history, social life, culture, topographies of countries, cityscapes, architecture, etc., of societies before the widespread use of photography in daily life (from the 1850s onwards). Apart from original painted images, engravings serve as valuable resources for understanding various aspects of societies across the globe, ranging from the Ottoman Empire to Europe, from South America to Asia, Oceania, and Africa. The database contains over 10,000 engravings and maps depicting these regions and their inhabitants.

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Type : e-Theses Database

Content : The Council of Higher Education – National Thesis Center contains master’s thesis, doctoral thesis, specialty in medicine, and proficiency in art thesis published in universities and research hospitals. All theses in the archive of the National Theses Center were moved to the digital platform “Electronic Thesis Archive” in 2007, and these theses are available via this platform. The electronic thesis archive provides access to theses digitally accessible as full text (pdf) of those authors who are allowed to “copy and publish” their papers.

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