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E-journals A - Z Listing

DATABASE NAME DESCRIPTION
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African Court Cases A collection containing the research notes and files of UCLA Law Professor Rick Abel, taken during his research visit to Kenya in the 1960s.
American Institute of Physics (incl. Acoustical Society of America) AIP Citation offers online access to a robust collection of close to 1 million articles from leading Physical Sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, standards, and magazines published by AIP Publishing and AIPP’s publishing partners.
American Physical Society America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
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British Institute of Radiology The BIR promotes and encourages the study and practice of the art and science of radiology radiobiology and the medical applications of nuclear science in all their aspects and the study of kindred sciences. It has access to online journals and resources on radiologists, medical physicists, oncologists, radiographers, and radiobiologists.
BFI Lists

The Ministry of Higher Education & Science, Denmark.

The BFI lists show the publication channels (Publishers, Journals, Book Series and Conference Series) in which publication of research results are awarded points.

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Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) CSP currently owns and publishes 24 diverse international journals with distribution in more than 175 countries, and provides publishing services to an additional 15 titles. Cover fields across the spectrum of science and engineering, with a focus on fundamental and applied
Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making and a seventh database (The Cochrane Collaboration ) that provides information about Cochrane groups.
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Edinburgh University Press The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
EBSCOhost EBSCO is a leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks, and discovery services for academic libraries.
E-duke journals scholarly collection African studies, anthropology, art & art history, Asian studies, criticism & theory, cultural studies, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethnography, European studies, fiction & poetry, film & media studies, gender & sexuality studies, and literary studies.
Edward Elgar Publishing Business management, Education, economics and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching Methods, Urban & regional, Development Studies, and Environment.
Euclid Prime Collection

Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics

Emerald ejournals Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering, and materials science.
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Geological Society Covers the geosciences e-resources. It shares the courtyard with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Linnean Society of London.
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HeinOnline

Access the following three core collections of the HeinOnline database.

  • Law Journal Library
  • English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867)
  • Kluwer Law International Journal Library

The collections can be accessed via http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.

Henry Stewart Talks Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing, and Management collection.
Subject Strength: agriculture & environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, reproduction & development.
IEEE IEEE/IET Electronic Library Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science; Architecture, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering, Remote Sensing, and Artificial Intelligence.  
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JSTOR Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics 

JOVE

(Journal Of Visualized Experiments)

Scientific video journal focusing on STEM subject areas -Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Engineering, Psychology, Clinical Pharmacology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection etc. 

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Kenya Law Reports

This resource provides universal access to public legal information by monitoring and reporting on the development of jurisprudence for the promotion of the rule of law. Except for some material that is expressly stated to be under a specified Creative Commons license, the contents of this website are in the public domain and free from any copyright restrictions.

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LexisNexis Access the UK's most authoritative and comprehensive collection of annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents, and commentary from Butterworths and Tolley. LexisNexis
Liverpool University Press Covers history, modern languages, literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry
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Mary Ann Liebert Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing
Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering
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Nature ALL Plus (Package 78 titles) Publishes journals and online databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences, and Clinical medicine
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OECD OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, and statistics, and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.
OpenEdition Journals This is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers.
Optical Society of America (OSA)

Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics

Oxford Journals 2020 oxford journal collection- 357 high-quality journals in social sciences, humanities, life sciences, medicine, mathematics, physical sciences, and Law
Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED)

The Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

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Policy Press Publishes over 120 peer-reviewed books each year and 7 journals in a wide range of print and digital editions for researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, politicians, policymakers, and the informed general reader as well as for libraries and other institutions globally.
Project Muse Project MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
ProQuest Journals 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.
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Royal Society of Chemistry - RSC Journals Archive Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science, Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery, and Physics high-impact journals and books
Research4Life

Research4Life is the collective name for five programs:

  1. Research in Health (Hinari),
  2. Research in Agriculture (AGORA),
  3. Research in the Environment (OARE),
  4. Research for Development & Innovation (ARDI)
  5. Research for Global Justice (GOALI)

Get online access to up to 100,400 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences, and legal information.

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Sage Journals Subject Strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Scientific, Technical and Medical
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.
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Taylor & Francis Journals Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies.
The International Journal of Humanities & Social Science A multi-disciplinary peer reviewed open access academic journal. Subject strength - Economics, Education, Ethics, Anthropology, Business Studies, Communication Studies, Corporate Governance, Criminology, Cross Cultural Studies, Demography, Media Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Visual Arts, Human Rights, Public Administration, Sociology, Social Welfare, Linguistics, Literature, Paralegal, Performing Arts, Religious Studies, Geography, History, Industrial Relations, Information Science, International Relations, Development Studies, Development Studies, Linguistics, Library Science.
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University of California Press Subject strength: research, health, art & humanities
University of Chicago Press The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
Up-To-Date Up-To-Date aims to enhance access and uptake of the latest clinical evidence among future health care providers for better patient care everywhere, for everyone, every time. The database is supported by Ariadne Labs, a center for health systems innovation parented by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Wiley Online Library

Access to journal titles that cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities, and include many titles ranked at the forefront of their field.

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