Free:
Full-text Databases:

• UN publications: https://documents.un.org
• Nuclear and renewable energy www.iaea.org/inis
• RAND: http://www.rand.org/pubs/online.html
• E-corpus http://www.e-corpus.org/
• Global agreements database: http://www.un-documents.net/
• Waste management database: http://www.unep.org/gpwm/InformationPlatform/WasteManagementDatabases/tabid/79590/Default.aspx

Journals:

• free refereed list of journals; www.doaj.org
• Free African journals: http://www.ajol.info/

Dissertations

• a good full text source: http://thumper.vtls.com:6090/search/advanced?theme=NDLTD

Books:

• Alexanderia book project: http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/dar.jsf (Arabic books)
• http://www.e-kutub.com/index.php (Arabic books)
• http://mybook4u.com/ (Arabic books)
• https://openlibrary.org/
• http://www.openedition.org/
• Social good website for materials Scribd.com
• http://4kitab.com/ (Arabic books)
• http://www.nashiri.net/ebooks.html (Arabic books)

Data (a good open source for presenting data http://www.statsilk.com/)

• World bank data: http://data.worldbank.org/
• UN data: http://data.un.org/
• Official stats on the web http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/browse/
• UNIDO stats database (paid but could get access for reduced/free price) http://stat.unido.org/

Library catalogs

• http://oaister.worldcat.org/

Repositories: (attached a list of repositories in the region)

• http://www.opendoar.org
• http://www.ssoar.info/en/home.html

Science Portals (well-selected websites)

• http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/portals.dtl
• http://www.folden.info/scienceportals.shtml

Tools useful to researchers:
A: Journal impact and evaluation: (good for academia)
http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
http://www.uifactor.org/
http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/
http://globalimpactfactor.com/journals-list/
http://Scholar.google.com
B- Citations:

• http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
• http://www.makecitation.com/
• http://www.eturabian.com/turabian/index.html
• https://www.zotero.org/