Sensors Journal - Free access is just great

Omega Engineering produces lots of literature for free. Here is a link to their series titled "Transactions."

Vol. 1 - Infrared

Vol. 2 - Data Acquisition

Vol. 3 - Pressure

Vol. 4 - Flow & Level

http://www.omega.com/literature/transactions/

Dear HerbVic

Omega sure produces good catalog with lots of information. However, they are not research journal publications.

What I have given reference is the published research paper with free access. There is an innovative program for fast publishing research and making the matter available for free accessing to the greater number of web site users and all high paid information is for sale.

This idea looks OK to me as you buy what you feel absolutely necessary and also see some free idea that come from not so rich people but have good research value.

I do agree there are number of other web sites that are not journal but are good source of info. One of them is www.photonicsspectra.com

However web sites like www.ieee.org www.aip.org www.acs.org www.osa.org www.isa.org etc are restricted for their publications. What we need is more references to open societies and journals.

Of course. I understand completely. There has been some public discussion about the difficulty in obtaining advanced research information. It seems the monetization of research information is still stuck in the pre-Internet 20th century, and those companies that benefit don't want to release their rights to profit.

I thought I'd mention Omega for your thread just because it was free, technical, and very informative despite not being research.

Good luck with your initiative. Here's another free reference site, The A to Z of Materials, or AZOM.com.

http://www.azom.com/materials.asp

And Power Systems Engineering Research Center, or PSERC.

http://www.pserc.wisc.edu/

Yes, that is a good wavesite on materials.

I also appreciate the catalogs of www.goodfellow.com for high purity metals and perhaps http://www.emerck.com/ for high purity chemicals I used for my research.

I think there are few good sources of optical and IR spectra that may be free access and I will like to have such library references.

It is really not easy for people in poor countries to have easy access to research information. I had good access from Government's best collected resource running to few million books and lots of journals. Yes, it is more money now and perhaps publications can't survive without that.

I am educating poor people and I feel what they feel about the high cost of information. Think of people who live below $1 per day life and want to be a scientist or engineer. That is real India and 80% of it is that way. Most of the scientists come from that background. I was one such person.

Ah open source

Can we access any of your research?

No insult intended, you give freely of your knowlege, in many ways.

It's a balancing act, share too much & give your competitors the edge to put yourself out of business!

unless your company can do it better or cheaper you will cease to be profitable, If you share all your propritarey secrets.

the open source programing model, only works when individules or organizations can sell the premimum version to fund the overhead or someone w/deep pockets just wants to do it.

I agree that there should be access to research, a % of goverment subsides to institutions of learning should be allocated to the expenses involved in making information available @ no cost. Many of the findings are used to great profit by private industries! part of the royalties the universites, should be allocated to open access to info!

Some {cambridge} seem to be in the business [for profit] of info brokering.

The good ol boys must be paid, or they will make sure no one, but other good ol boys play.

Dear Garthh

Idea is not to ask any one for free knowledge. What I am here pointing out is something that is made for public display as free / open knowledge is still not open knowledge to the public because intermediate people make it difficult for their own reason, which I am not questioning but here I am looking for those who make it possible for greater access of information for free and I will like to appreciate their efferts by compiling here the links to their information resource. It will have greater reach for all. We live in the age of information technology and it is a small way of doing it.

Here are few good links that make this possible for science research. I greatly appreciate these people. We may find more in time.

Free Journal
http://www.mdpi.net/sensors/

Free Journals
http://highwire.stanford.edu/

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Brain- Journal of Neurology - Free Access
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/

Advanced Internet science journal
http://www.acadjournal.com/

public Library of Science - Free Access
http://www.plos.org/

A-Z on materials

http://www.azom.com/materials.asp

Chemicals of high purity

http://www.emerck.com/

Metals of high purity

http://www.goodfellow.com/

Photonics Research and News

http://www.photonicsspectra.com

Instruments - temperature pressure flow etc

http://www.omega.com/

Once again you give freely

Great links

thank you

Here's a potentially usefull link.

World Intellectual Property Organization

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en