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74 repositories available

Alianza de Servicios de Información y Documentación Agropecuaria de las Américas - SIDALC

Provides access to an online search engine of digital collections, including more than 250,000 full texts, audiovisual materials and photographs, among others. It integrates agricultural, environmental and forestry information systems from several countries of the Americas.

ALICIA: Acceso libre a investigación científica para la investigación

Developed and managed by Concytec, it gathers the scientific and academic output of universities, institutes and state entities that maintain institutional repositories.

arXiv.org

Hosts preprints of scientific articles in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, statistics and quantitative biology. It is administered by Cornell University.

Banco Mundial: Banco de datos

The World Bank DataBank contains collections of time-series data on a variety of topics, such as gender, health, poverty, infrastructure, environment and economic policy. It provides tools to generate tables, charts and maps.

Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD)

Database of Brazilian theses and dissertations, presented in Brazil or defended by Brazilians abroad.

Biblioteca Pública Digital - BNP

Digital platform of the National Library of Peru that provides free access to contemporary editions in Spanish on subjects such as literature, the arts, social sciences, exact sciences, and children's and young adult literature, among others. Both e-books and audiobooks are available, making reading and information more accessible. Access requires creating a free personal account.

BID: Números para el Desarrollo

Numbers for Development is the open data portal of the Inter-American Development Bank, which lets you explore, visualize and download data on Latin America and the Caribbean. The data covers education, labor markets, global integration, poverty, gender and agriculture, among other topics.

Bookboon.com

Multidisciplinary database of books.

CONCYTEC - Biblioteca virtual

An information service provided by the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC), whose aim is to give its users free access to the information resources subscribed by CONCYTEC in the different areas of knowledge. The Virtual Library currently offers access to full-text databases of scientific and technological journals, as well as reference databases and analyses of world scientific output. Through the platform, users can also consult the open access collections: SciELO Peru and the National Digital Repository of Science, Technology and Innovation (ALICIA).

Dialnet

Contains journal articles, chapters of collective works, books, conference proceedings, book reviews and doctoral theses, many of them in full text, written in Ibero-American languages.

Dimensions

A database offering the most complete collection of linked data on a single platform: from grants, publications, datasets and clinical trials to patents and policy documents. Because Dimensions maps the entire research lifecycle, you can follow research from funding through output and impact.

What it offers:

  • A comprehensive database that places no limitations on users, with a wide variety of filtering options so you can always select the data you want to see.
  • Beyond citations, a broader picture of impact: it is the only database that links publications and citations with grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets and policy documents for a more holistic view of the research landscape.
  • Citation networks as a key discovery tool, available to all researchers.
  • Connected data offering a 360° perspective of each research output: citing and cited publications, related grants, funders, article metrics, patents, clinical trials, policy documents, datasets and much more.
  • A modern linked-data architecture with an easy, flexible interface and a powerful API with a domain-specific query language for more complex analyses.
  • A single platform for both discovery and analytics, available at no cost to the scientometric research community, which is encouraged to build the next generation of indicators with it.

Collections: more than 106 million publications with over 1.2 billion open access citations.

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)

Directory of open access e-books on a wide range of subjects. DOAB's goal is to increase the availability of books that meet academic standards and are peer-reviewed.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Directory of open access scientific journals worldwide.

Docta Complutense (antes E-Prints)

Contains all kinds of documents produced by the teaching staff and researchers of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Documentos en línea de la OMC

Provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization. The database, updated daily, contains more than 100,000 documents in the three official languages, distributed since 1995. All WTO documents are available in PDF and Word format, each with a descriptive record; they can be consulted online and downloaded.

Espacenet

Free access to more than 100 million patent documents from over 100 patent authorities.

EUR-Lex: El acceso al derecho de la Unión Europea

Contains treaties, directives, regulations, decisions and consolidated legislation; the case law of the EU (judgments, orders, etc.); international agreements; EFTA documents; and the authentic electronic edition of the Official Journal of the EU in 24 languages.

Europages

Company locator for Europe.

Europeana

European digital library, freely accessible, bringing together digitized contributions from renowned cultural institutions of the 28 member states of the European Union.

Feedbooks

Provides access to fiction and other books in several languages, including Spanish. Requires Adobe Digital Editions.

FLACSO Andes

Contains the digital master's and doctoral theses in Social Sciences from all the campuses of FLACSO's International System.

Google Arts & Culture

Website of the Google Cultural Institute featuring a collection of high-resolution images of artworks exhibited in museums around the world, as well as virtual tours of the galleries where they hang. Images can be browsed by museum collection, artist, subject, artistic technique, artistic movement and historical figure.

Google Libros

Offers access — mostly restricted, depending on each book's copyright, and sometimes free — to information contained in books available through Google.

IDE-MINAGRI

The Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Agriculture and Irrigation Sector (IDE-MINAGRI) is an articulated set of policies, standards, procedures, data, and human and technological resources that enable access to and use of the Ministry's geographic information, together with the associated administrative and statistical records of the sector. It consists of a unified, official access platform for all the geographic information produced by the Agriculture and Irrigation Sector, and offers the following services:
  • Map viewer, adapted to mobile devices, with improved interoperability and new functions.
  • Metadata catalog: descriptive information about geographic datasets and services — cartography, photographs, studies, etc.
  • WMS geoservices: the Web Map Service (WMS) allows requesting georeferenced map images.

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos - Repositorio institucional

Provides full-text access to publications of the Institute of Peruvian Studies on history, anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, sociology, political science and social studies of language and literature.

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática - INEI

Web portal of INEI presenting the country's official statistics. It also contains a virtual library, query systems and databases.

IntechOpen

Contains open access books in:
  • Physical sciences, engineering and technology
  • Life sciences
  • Health sciences
  • Social sciences and humanities

Jurisprudencia Nacional Sistematizada

Identifies the main guidelines and criteria established by the Chambers of the Supreme Court through their rulings. One of its purposes is to guide the work of lower courts, avoiding contradictory decisions on the same matter and thereby achieving predictability of judicial decisions.

La Referencia

Provides a search service for Latin American scientific publications in open access, integrating repositories from eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.

Latindex

Regional Online Information System providing access to the bibliographic records of scientific journals available in the digital serials collections of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.

Latipat

A free public access point, powered by Espacenet technology, for searching technical information in Spanish and Portuguese in patent documents from Latin America and Spain.

MERLOT

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content-creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

MIDAGRI - SERFOR - SNIFFS

The SNIFFS is an information system that provides forest and wildlife information resources and services, registered, compiled, linked, processed and published by the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR). The information offered by the SNIFFS supports better decision-making both by SERFOR — as the National Forest and Wildlife Authority — and by the Regional Forest and Wildlife Authorities, local governments, public and private institutions, civil society organizations, academia and, in general, anyone involved in forestry, wildlife and related activities. The SNIFFS comprises six modules and four components. The modules contain information on the operational processes of the forest and wildlife sector and are interconnected to guarantee integrated management useful for the sector's development and competitiveness:
  • Control Module
  • Inventories Module
  • Forest Cover Monitoring Module
  • Forest Heritage Monitoring Module
  • Promotion and Competitiveness Module
  • Knowledge Management Module
The cross-cutting components support the sector's operational processes and add value to the system:
  • Statistical Component
  • Forest Cadastre Component
  • Regulations Component
  • Capacities Component

MIDAGRI - SIEA - Herramientas Tecnológicas Satelitales

Through the Integrated Agricultural Statistics System (SIEA), MIDAGRI provides a technological platform for satellite image analysis, where you can find:
  • Frost monitoring
  • Thematic satellite mosaics
  • Soil moisture monitoring
  • Satellite system for agroclimatic modeling
  • Satellite pasture monitoring system
  • Mapping of transitory and permanent crops
  • Precipitation anomalies

MIDAGRI - SIEA - Superficie Agrícola Oficial

Official National Map of Agricultural Area of Peru, detailed by department, province and district.

MIDAGRI - SIEA- GeoPortal

MIDAGRI Geoportal, an ArcGIS-based platform for publishing maps on the web, allowing visual exploration of georeferenced information.

MIDAGRI - Sistemas de información

MIDAGRI offers the following information systems:
  • Agrochatea. A chat application for checking the prices of agricultural products traded in the wholesale markets of Metropolitan Lima.
  • Mi Caserita. A mobile app that lets homemakers and the general public check, in real time, the prices of staple foods in the capital's main markets.
  • Sowing and Harvest Calendar. District-level sowing and harvest information for 75 main crops — transitory and permanent — which account for 97% of the gross value of agricultural production and 93% of the country's harvested area, to promote the marketing of agricultural products.
  • SISAP. Price queries for the main products in wholesale and retail markets in Metropolitan Lima and major cities nationwide.
  • SISPIA. Registration and processing of poultry hatchery data, with online statistical reports and queries.
  • SISSIC. Alerts, planning and guidance for farmers and decision-makers on the behavior of sowings of crops of interest for the agricultural season.
  • SEPGA. Annual national and regional statistics since 1950 on livestock and poultry activity: population, slaughter, production, yield and producer prices of the main livestock species.
  • SEPA. Annual statistics since 1950 on production, harvested area, yield and producer prices of Peru's main crops and regions.
  • SISCEX. A free-access database with information from the year 2000 onwards on foreign trade, rankings, tariffs and national subheadings.

MIT OpenCourseware

Database of teaching materials from courses taught at MIT.

OAPEN Library

Academic books, especially in the humanities and social sciences, mostly published by European universities.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

Provides access to theses from more than 1,100 universities and research institutes around the world.

Open Course Library

Database of teaching materials: a collection of free, high-quality courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google Docs, making it easy to access, browse and download.

Open Library

Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, partially sponsored by the California State Library. It provides online reading access to books on a variety of subjects in different languages.

Open Textbook Library

Database of books, managed by the University of Minnesota.

Patentscope

Patentscope allows searching 93 million patent documents. It belongs to the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Pepsic

Database of scientific journals of Psychology in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Perú. Compendio Estadístico (INEI)

Demographic, economic, social and departmental indicators of Peru.

Programa para la cohesión social de la Unión Europea para América Latina EUROsociAL

The EUROsociAL web library offers around 400 publications on gender equality, democratic governance and social policies. They are the product of knowledge transfer between European and Latin American institutions on best practices in public policies that promote social cohesion and contribute to achieving the SDGs.

Punku

Web portal of Osiptel concentrating the statistical information of the telecommunications sector.

Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal)

Redalyc is an indexing system that includes the region's journals of high scientific and editorial quality. After 16 years of giving visibility to journals and supporting their consolidation, it now exclusively includes those that share the non-profit publishing model, in order to preserve the academic and open nature of scholarly communication, from any region.

REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico)

Database of scientific and academic journals and articles in electronic format produced in the Ibero-American sphere.

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to improve the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, book chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data is then used in various services that deliver the metadata to users or enhance it.

So far, more than 2,000 archives from 102 countries have contributed about 3 million research items from 3,500 journals and 5,000 working paper series. More than 57,000 authors have registered and 75,000 email subscriptions are served every week.

Repositorio Digital de CLACSO

The CLACSO Virtual Library Network (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) digital repository offers free access to more than 100,000 texts from the CLACSO network and receives more than one million requests per month at CLACSO and in the CLACSO collection at Redalyc.

The CLACSO-REDALYC portal offers open access and indicators for 850 social sciences and humanities journals from Ibero-America (350,721 articles). This collection receives more than 4 million downloads per month.

It is a CLACSO service run with the participation of the publications, library and multimedia teams of CLACSO member centers.

Repositorio digital de la CEPAL

Provides access to more than 35,000 digital publications, from ECLAC's first publication in 1948 to the most recent one. All documents are available in full text.

Repositorio digital del Ministerio del Ambiente

Provides access to digital publications of:
  • Vice-Ministry of Strategic Development of Natural Resources
  • Vice-Ministry of Environmental Management
  • General Secretariat
  • National Environment Council - CONAM (1994-2008)

Repositorio Institucional - UNI

Provides access to digital theses of the National University of Engineering.

Repositorio Institucional - URP

Provides access to digital theses of Ricardo Palma University.

Repositorio Institucional del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana - IIAP

The IIAP Institutional Repository is the platform of the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon that gathers, describes, preserves and disseminates in open access the digital publications resulting from IIAP research projects on the biodiversity, ecosystems and Amazonian populations of Peru.

Repositorio Institucional Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria - INIA

The INIA Institutional Repository is the platform that gathers, describes, preserves and disseminates in open access digital publications of the following kinds:
  • Articles, papers, conference communications
  • SNIA management in the regions
  • Reports and working documents
  • Books and manuals
  • Technical dissemination materials
  • Multimedia
  • Institutional publications
  • Theses
  • Recognized Agrobiodiversity Zones

Repositorio Institucional MIDAGRI

Provides access to digital publications such as economic analyses, articles, calendars, books and manuals, dissemination materials, videos and advertising spots.

Repositorio UNMSM

Provides access to digital theses of the National University of San Marcos.

ResearchGate

The professional network for scientists and researchers. More than 19 million members around the world use it to share, discover and discuss research. It is guided by the mission of connecting the world of science and making research open to everyone. Click the green button — Join for free — and start discovering.

Revista "Folia Amazónica" del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana - IIAP

Folia Amazónica is an open access, specialized scientific journal published by the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP) since 1988. Its aim is to disseminate scientific articles resulting from original research on the knowledge, conservation and sustainable use of the biodiversity resources of the Peruvian and continental Amazon. The journal covers areas of the biological sciences such as botany, ecology, biochemistry, zoology, forestry, aquaculture, agronomy and ethnobotany, with a distinctly Amazonian focus.

It is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scientific articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English, twice a year (June and December).

Scielo-Scientific Electronic Library Online

A product of the cooperation between FAPESP (the São Paulo Research Foundation) and BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information), this database publishes scientific journals, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sistema Nacional de Información Ambiental

Web portal where you can find statistical, documentary, regulatory, geospatial and other information related to environmental issues.

Stanford Business Research Papers

Abstracts and full texts of working papers written by Stanford Business School faculty from 1990 to the present.

TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)

Cooperative repository containing, in digital format, more than 20,000 doctoral theses defended at universities in Catalonia and other autonomous communities. Managed and coordinated by the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC) and sponsored by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Ted Ed

Contains videos of talks and introductory lessons on a variety of subjects, given by teachers from different educational institutions.

TESEO Sistema de Gestión de Tesis Doctorales

TESEO, designed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, provides access to abstracts — and in some cases the full text — of doctoral theses from Spanish universities.

Trade Map

Provides — in the form of tables, charts and maps — indicators of export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies.

Trade Map covers 220 countries and territories and 5,300 products of the Harmonized System. Monthly, quarterly and annual trade flows are available from the most aggregated level down to the tariff-line level.

UNESCO Acceso Abierto

Provides access to documents on literacy, gender, youth, the environment, culture and other disciplines directly or indirectly related to development issues.

USA Trade online

The official source for detailed United States export and import statistics. Accessing the statistical data requires creating an account first.

USPTO

Patent search system of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Wikimedia Commons

A centralized multimedia repository of free photographs, diagrams, cartoons, music, recorded speech, video and media files of all kinds. Any file may be used, copied and modified as long as the source and authors are credited.

World Press Photo Contests

Collection of the World Press Photo Foundation reflecting more than half a century of human history through photojournalism.