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Key Information Databases - Kenya Science Library

ELECTRONIC DATABASES RELEVANT TO KENYA SCIENCE CAMPUS USERS’ COMMUNITY

  1. American Institute of Physics  

URL: https://www.aip.org

Subject Strengths: Applied and multidisciplinary physics.

  1. American Physical Society APS

URL: http://publish.aps.org/

Subject Strengths: Physics, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Condensed matter and materials physics, Nuclear physics, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology

Statistical, non-linear, and soft matter physics, Accelerators and beams, Physics education research.

  1. EMERALD           

URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Key Subject covered: Education, Management, HR & Organizational studies, Management, Public Policy & Environmental Management, and Sociology

  1. Geological Society

URL: http://www.lyellcollection.org/, largest integrated collections of online Earth science

Subject Strengths: Geology, Earth Sciences

  1. JSTOR

URL: http://www.jstor.org

Subject Strengths:  include – Economics, History, Political Science, Language & Literature, Art & Art History, Music, Science,,  Mathematics & Statistics, Education.

  1. Royal Society of Chemistry

URL:  http://pubs.rsc.org

Subject Strengths:  biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics

  1. SAGE

URL:  https://journals.sagepub.com 

Subject covered: Cell biology, Life and biomedical sciences, Neuroscience

  1. TAYLOR & FRANCIS ONLINE JOURNALS

       URL: www.tandfonline.com/

       Subject covered: Biosciences, Computer science, Earth science, Education, Mathematics &    

       Statistics and physical Sciences

  1. University of Chicago Press

URL:  http://www.jstor.org/publisher/ucpress

Subject covered: Education, Biological and medical sciences, physical sciences and Social sciences

Social Development Social Protections and Labor, Transport; Urban Development, Water  Resources, Water Supply and Sanitation.

 

NOTES:

UNLESS WHERE SPECIFIED, ALL DATABASES/RESOURCES ARE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH IP AUTHENTICATION

 

 

Thematic areas

  1. Physics

     2.Biology

    3.Chemistry

   4.Mathematics

   5.Computing & Informatics(ICT)

  6. Educational Foundations

 

 

 

 

 

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