Information resources
Portals and Digital Libraries of Grey Literature
Resources marked with the logo 
are a component part of the Tech Subject Gateway of the same name, which offers search of Czech and foreign information resources in one place (library catalogues, databases, subject portals) mainly from the field of technology
ArXiv.org e-Print archive
Archive of pre-print documents from the field of physics, mathematics, computer science, non-linear sciences.
http://www.arxiv.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The DOAJ service is an open access directory of journals provided by the University in Lund (Sweden). It offers open access to full texts of scientific and scholarly journals. The journals can be browsed according to the titles or personalised subject categories. Membership represents a financial contribution to support their activity.
http://www.doaj.org/
La Documentation Francaise
A French national system that serves to register administrative types of news (documents from the field of bodies and organisations of governmental and regional administration in France). Communication is in the French language; access is to full texts in different formats.
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/
DRIVER
The project DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) was established with the aim to create a European network of digital repositories offering sophisticated functional services to researchers as well as the public. It is a state-of-the-art system extending the existing institutional repositories and networks and it is aimed to be integral to GÉANT2, i.e. an academic network connecting thirty-four (34) countries by means of 30 national research and educational networks. The project DRIVER was funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme. In November 2007 a testing version of this project was finished and its outcome was a search portal with content of seventy (283) open-access repositories. The next stage of the project lead to DRIVER II, which was transformed from a testbed to a fully state-of-the-art service. The main aim of the project is to establish the Confederation of European Digital Repositories and further integrate the digital repositories with non-text content (images, presentations). Within the DRIVER project a study was written: Graf, M.; Eijndhoven, K. The European Repository Landscape : Inventory Study into the Present Type and Leve of OAI-Compliant Digital Repository Activities in the EU describing the situation of the functional repositories in Europe.
http://www.driver-community.eu/
The EASY (Electronic Archiving System)
A system that is maintained by the institute Data Archiving and Networked Services. It is an institute by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is responsible for providing the storage of open-access research documents from the field of arts, humanities and social sciences and making them accessible.
http://easy.dans.knaw.nl/dms
euroCRIS
A non-profitable organisation which brings together research organisations. It has developed a standard for the exchange format of research information CERIF (European Research Information Format), i.e. an international standard for communication of national information systems which should enable easier exchange of data on an ongoing research. It is recommended by the European Commission. The latest version of the format CERIF was published in September 2008.
http://www.eurocris.org/
E-PRINT Network
An information network for resources of pre-prints from the field of science and technology.
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library
A Czech centre of the Technical Reference Digital Library ERCIM. It is a component part of the NCSTRL Library. Open access search in the digital collection of Czech documents, ERCIM and NCSTRL documents.
http://dienst.isti.cnr.it/
GPO Access - A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office
A portal which disseminates the official information from the US government. Search is done via the catalogue
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
Portál NARCIS
In April 2008 the portal DaREnet became a component part of the science portal NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System), which was developed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Its users can find information about research, programmes, projects, research workers and institutions together with their profiles.
The NARCIS portal can be searched via the Google engine. The budget of this project is 6 million EUR and it is subsidised owing to the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. It uses the URN:NBN identifier.
http://www.narcis.info/index
NTIS Technical Reports (FedWorld)
An important information server for technical reports from the USA in the field of science, technology and commerce, operated by the American service NTIS (http://www.ntis.gov/).
http://www.fedworld.gov/
NCSTRL - Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
A digital library collection of research and technical reports, dissertations, articles. The field of Computer Science. Open access search, possibility to download the documents in a selected format.
http://www.ncstrl.org/
NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
NASA is a server of technical reports from the field of cosmic research. Open access to abstracts and full texts of technical reports from various NASA centres and programmes.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp
NZDL - The New Zealand Digital Library – Computer Science Technical Reports
A collection „Computer Science Technical Reports“ contained in the digital library NZDL.
http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=cstr
Office of Scientific & Technical Information –U. S. Department of Energy
A scientific portal for grey literature of technical information. Open access documents via the online interface from the resources DTIC, DOE, NASA, EPA; it is a project within the US Department of Energy (http://www.energy.gov/)
http://www.osti.gov/
OpenDOAR
The OpenDOAR project (The Directory of Open Access Repository) was created at the University of Nottingham in Britain. It is a directory of academic open access repositories. It enables search for repositories according to countries, to keywords, language and software used. Harvesting of the metadata from the repositories is done by its employees and therefore the quality of the repository is guaranteed. Within the OpenDOAR project they produce statistical charts as well.
http://www.opendoar.org/
Projekt PUMA (PUblication MAnagement)
A system to provide access to institutional repositories in Italy. It was created by the Institute of Information Science and Technologies. At present they make accessible forty (40) institutional repositories via the user interface in Italian or English.
http://puma.isti.cnr.it/
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
It is a registry of „open access“ repositories, created by the University in Southampton. It offers search for repositories according to key words, countries, software, source type and contents. The search results of the repositories are displayed as thumbnails of the web sites of repositories. It provides statistical data and graphs. It is created under one platform E-prints – it is a platform to create open access repositories, e-prints courses and educational materials.
http://roar.eprints.org/
Science Links Japan
It is a category list of resources of Science Link Japan of Japan Science and Technology Agency. There are available online information resources from the field of science and technology (Japan) owing to the translations from English, Chinese and French. Databases, e-journals, lists of research workers of institutions, translations and so on are a component part of this database.
http://sciencelinks.jp/
SCIRUS - for scientific information only
A complex search system on the web that contains more than 450 millions of scientific texts. It is possible to search the contents of scientific journals as well as pages of scientists, preprints, patents and institutional repositories.
http://www.scirus.com/
Portál SOWIPORT (Sozialwissenschaften Portal)
Institute GESIS - Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen created an information portal SOWIPORT which includes grey literature and „open access“ publications from the field of social science. The concept of SOWIPORT is based on the so-called information cycle which divides information into three groups according to the activities performed.
http://www.sowiport.de/
ETD registers and archives
Národní registr VŠKP
National register of thesis and dissertations in the Czech Republic
http://www.theses.cz
Digitale Dissertationen
An archive of digital dissertations, post-doctoral thesis and master’s thesis of the Technical University in Berlin.
http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/index.html
EThOSnet
Electronic thesis online system „Open access“ to UK postgraduate thesis and dissertations. It also offers theses and dissertations which are digitalised retrospectively as well.
http://www.ethos.ac.uk/
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
A digital library of theses and dissertations of cooperating universities. Open access to the database ETDs - Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
http://rogers.vtls.com:6080/visualizer/
THESA
A French information system of doctoral theses of specialised universities.
http://thesa.inist.fr/eng/Accueil.htm
Theses Canada Portal
A Canadian information system of theses and dissertations.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Index to Theses
A listing of theses with abstracts of Universities in Great Britain and Ireland.
http://www.theses.com/
ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PQDD)
The database contains 1,6 million of records of dissertations and partially theses defended at Northern American universities and some European ones with a retrospective to 1861. Each record from 1980 has an author’s abstract and from 1997 there are available online facsimiles of the introductory part of the document (24 pages). Full texts of most of the documents are available upon payment of a fee quoted at web page of PQDD.
http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/pqdd_unavailable.shtml
Nemertes
Nemertes is an institutional repository of the University in Patras (Greece) which currently serves as a repository for doctoral, postgraduate and undergraduate theses completed at this university. In the future it aims to be a repository for all theoretical works of academic and research workers at the university and thus will enrich the contents of the repository by technical reports and conference papers.
http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/dspace/?locale=en
