Free and Open Access Links: Humanities

Information about humanities specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and humanities specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.

African Journal Archive
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue (determined by the publisher). The website comprises over 700 issues and 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa. Online access to the archive is free of charge to Africa and the world.

Globethics.net Library - A Global Digital Library on Ethics
This library provides users free access to full text versions of over 200 journals and 1.5 million documents in the field of applied ethics. The digital library on ethics was developed by Globethics.net, a global network organization with the objective of empowering people in all regions of the world to reflect and act on ethical issues. They developed the Globethics.net Library to ensure that persons and institutions - especially in Africa, Asia and Latin-America - have access to good quality and up to date knowledge resources. There is no cost involved in using the library. Individuals only need to register (free of charge) as participants on the Globethics.net website (www.globethics.net) to get access to all the full text journals, encyclopedias, e-books and other resources in the library.

History Cooperative
The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship.

Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
In fulfilling its mandate which is to prosecute the persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of International Humanitarian Law committed in the territory of Rwanda, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (www.ictr.org) has produced an invaluable public domain judicial literature made of indictments, decisions, orders and judgements. This jurisprudence is acknowledged by legal practionners worldwide. The Legal Library Section of the Tribunal has further pulled together all its judicial publications in what is called "ICTR Basic Documents and Case Law Database" This is an over 6000-entry database (www.ictrcaselaw.org) comprising all the official documents of the Tribunal ( the statutes, the rules of procedures and evidences, the budget, other Security Council and United Nations official documents on ICTR etc.) and more importantly all the decisions issued from 1995 to present. The Database is bilingual and fully searchable.

Voice of the Shuttle 
This is a good starting point for humanities research and Internet resources. Search or browse by broad subject groups; also university home pages, libraries and museums, reference resources, journals, publishers, and more; maintained by Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara.