Library Resources


Information on Publishing

Know why you should publish and how to avoid predatory journals

EBSCO Discovery Service

Access the Library's entire collection of information materials from one search point

Academic Integrity

Understand plagiarism, how to avoid it, and how to access plagiarism detection tools


Library Receives Book Donations from the Town & County Planners Association of Kenya (TCPAK)

On 19th October 2023, the Town & County Planners Association of Kenya (TCPAK) donated books and Journals to the Faculty of the Built Environment & Design Library. The event took place in the Dean’s boardroom.

Looking on is the Director of library services Madam Angela Mumo, Deputy director technical services Madam Rosemary Otando, the Acquisitions Librarian Mr David Mulonzoa, the Librarian FBED library Madam Christine Mayende, Chairmen of departments, and student leaders.

ProQuest Journals

The University of Nairobi through the Library department is pleased to announce the addition of a new multi-discplinary journal database to its collection. 

ProQuest Journals features scholarly journals, and professional journals in all the fields within social and political sciences with complete resources such as Criminal Justice Database, Education Database, Library Science Database, Linguistics Database, Political Science Database, Social Science Database, and Sociology Database.

Training on Access to Electronic & Print Information Resources

The objective of this training is to guide students and researchers on how to access the subscribed electronic books, journals, core textbooks and open access resources. 

The training will also cover remote access to these resources, as well as the use of OPAC (online public access catalogue) to identify relevant print information resources.

Students of all levels are welcome to participate.