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Journals
with free online access
and free e-books


1. Public health, including water- and excreta-related diseases
2.  Water and sanitation
Water Policy*
Water Alternatives − “an interdisciplinary journal on water, politics and development”

3.  Wastewater treatment and reuse

*Free access for readers in 'Band 1' developing countries via HINARI (medical journals), OARE (environmental journals) or AGORA (agricultural journals); you have to register to gain access. Each of these sites has a list of all the journals in its scheme. ►For IWA journals see here.
†Free access for all readers after 1−2 years (depending on journal).

►FREE e-BOOKS
RapidLibrary
Bookboon
National Academies Press Reports

►See also:
BioMed Central information and articles on open access in developing countries
PubMed Central – the US National Institutes of Health’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Science and Development Network − news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.
HighWire Press − “the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth” − over 2 million free full-text articles and over 5 million total articles, 43 completely free sites and 256 sites with free back issues.
Free Public-Access Online [Medical] Journals (Lamar Soutter Library)
Public Library of Science − ‘PLoS’
Open Directory Project’s free online journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
Eldis – “sharing the best in development policy, practice and research” – see also: Open Access for development.
Taylor & Francis Developing World Initiative