Description: Listing of Open Access Database (LOADB) is to create a web-enabled, linked, classified and categorized collection of Open Access (freely available) Science and Technology Databases. Developed and maintained by CSIR-UDRIP, Pune
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A large number of Government agencies, research institutions and academic institutions across the world create databases in various fields of science and technology. Today, many of these databases are available free on the World Wide Web through individual portals or websites of the respective organizations. Unfortunately, these databases are not separately classified. So a user upon searching on the Internet gets thousands and millions of hits and keeps on clicking the websites to find if there is a releva
The objective of Listing of Open Access DataBases (LOADB) is to create a web-enabled, linked, classified and categorized collection of Open Access Databases which one can access from a single portal. Although initial focus is on science and technology subjects, the ultimate aim is to include all subject areas.
It is a pilot listing and is being subjected to peer review to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access Databases. The listing is open to all publishers who publish databases in Open Access mode. LOADB will rely on crowd sourcing model to update and sustain its services and welcomes submissions and suggestions from all the stakeholders such as database publishers, research institutions, universities, libraries, government and private agencies, scholars and students.