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Neue Politische Literatur is a review journal covering current research literature in modern German, European and non-European history and in theory-driven and historical political science. From 2026 it is published by the University and State Library of Darmstadt as a diamond open access journal, with articles and issues available free of charge on the website.
REBASE is a curated, open database of restriction enzymes and related proteins, including DNA methyltransferases. It provides data on enzymes, genomes, sequences and scientific literature, along with data files, tools, lists and compilations. The site states that information from REBASE should remain open and accessible to the public.
An awesome list of open-source tools for systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and evidence synthesis derived from Evidence Synthesis Tools Directory. It organizes tools under categories such as literature search, text mining and NLP, screening, data extraction, risk of bias, meta-analysis statistics, and visualization and reporting.
BACTIBASE is a database dedicated to bacteriocins, which are bacterial antimicrobial peptides. It provides browsing and advanced search across general data, physicochemical profiles, structural information, correlations, taxonomy, literature, anti-infective properties, and antimicrobial combinations. The platform includes tools such as similarity search, BLAST, FASTA, USEARCH, sequence alignment (CLUSTALW, MUSCLE), physicochemical profiling, hidden Markov models, and structure prediction. Users can log in, register, submit sequences, view results, and contribute as 'Molecule Authority'.
DEG is a database that lists essential genes in archaea. Its browse page shows organisms with counts of essential genes, the conditions used, and literature references, including Methanococcus maripaludis S2 and Sulfolobus islandicus M.16.4.
DIRENO is the digital repository of Lower Austria, a scholarly repository for collecting and permanently preserving digital assets, including current and historical literature concerning Lower Austria. It holds publications of the Lower Austrian State Archive and State Library, other state administration and research institution publications, regional studies reference works, historical newspapers and printed works, directories, statistics, election results, and current research data.
EbookPDF is a free digital library search engine that indexes open-access PDF textbooks, academic research papers, classic literature and professional manuals. Users search by title, author or topic to find full-text documents, and all indexed documents are available for free preview and educational download without subscription or registration. Downloads are in standard PDF format.
EconStor is a non-commercial public publication server for scholarly economic literature provided by the ZBW. It holds 318,726 open access documents, and research institutions use it to disseminate publications in economics and business studies. It also supports institutions and authors in distributing their work.
Web portal for geoscience data from Estonia. It provides direct search capabilities to the SARV information system and links to other data sources, and lists related services including geoscience literature, fossils, minerals and rocks, and geological survey reports.
FID4SA is a specialized information service for South Asian studies. It provides research literature through interlibrary loan, open access publishing through Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, and digitization of research-relevant collections via its portal. It also offers FID4SAimages, a digital image and multimedia repository.
GenomeRNAi is a database of phenotypes from RNA interference screens in Drosophila and Homo sapiens. It also provides a resource of RNAi reagents and their predicted quality. Screening data is extracted from the literature through manual curation. The database supports searching by gene, RNAi identifier, phenotype or screen, and browsing by screens or frequent hitters.
LIVIVO is an interdisciplinary search engine for literature and information in the life sciences, run by ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. It searches library catalogues, publisher directories and databases such as PubMed, AGRICOLA and AGRIS through a standardised interface, using semantic search technology with controlled vocabularies. Results are sorted by relevance and can be narrowed with filters.
MEKA is an open source implementation of methods for multi-label learning and evaluation, based on the WEKA Machine Learning Toolkit. It includes dozens of multi-label methods from the scientific literature and a wrapper to the MULAN framework. The project is distributed via SourceForge, with code hosted on GitHub.
MetaReview is a free, open-source online meta-analysis tool that combines PubMed literature search, AI screening and data extraction, effect-size calculation for OR/RR/HR/MD/SMD, forest and funnel plots, subgroup and sensitivity analysis, PRISMA flow diagrams and report export. It runs in the browser without R, Stata or RevMan. A comparison page states the tool is free.
Morph·D·Base is a web platform for scientific research and education that documents morphological metadata and stores media files supporting morphological investigations. It records specimens, media, literature and phylogenetic character matrices, and its planned ontology-based descriptions remain in development.
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database is a database of extragalactic sources drawn from the astronomical literature. Its September 2026 release highlights note ingestion of 221K sources, including 157K cross-matches with NED objects and 63K new objects, and describe suggested data publication practices for journal articles.
NeuroElectro is a project that extracts information about the electrophysiological properties of diverse neuron types from existing literature and places it into a centralized database. It aims to support discovery of neuron-to-neuron relationships and understanding of functional diversity across neuron types. Data is offered via bulk download and a RESTful API.
NeuroMorpho.Org is a curated inventory of digitally reconstructed neurons and glia linked to peer-reviewed publications. It collects contributions from laboratories worldwide and is updated as new morphological reconstructions are published and shared. The site offers browse, search, literature, metadata and API access to the collection.
Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet. It states that it is free and gratis to use and free from advertising.
PHI-base is a curated database of molecular and biological information on pathogen genes shown to affect the outcome of pathogen-host interactions. It also records target sites of some anti-infective chemistries and covers pathogens, hosts, diseases, ontologies, taxonomies and literature citations. Users can search, run BLAST searches for homologs and phenotypes, download data and submit published phenotype data.
The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) is a resource providing integrated biological information for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It offers search and analysis tools for exploring these data, supporting the discovery of functional relationships between sequence and gene products in fungi and higher organisms. Gene pages include literature, interaction, protein and regulation information.
SIBiLS is a service of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics that provides personalized information retrieval in biological literature. It offers fully customizable searches in semantically enriched content using keywords or mapped biomedical entities from standardized and legacy vocabularies. Its collections include MEDLINE, PubMedCentral, Plazi treatments and PMC supplementary files, updated daily, and it is accessible via REST APIs.
Sophie is the Sophie Digital Library, an open-access, full-text-searchable collection of literature written by German-speaking women from medieval times through the early 20th century. It covers a broad spectrum of genres and makes works available in facsimiles of their original format where possible and in PDF transcriptions that support keyword searching.