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DATABASE NAME | DESCRIPTION | CATEGORY |
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Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) | The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1900 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. Username and password is available from your Library. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
American Institute of Physics (including 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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
American Physical Society | America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
British Institute of Radiology | The BIR promote and encourage 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, oncologist, radiographers and radiobiologists. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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 |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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, literary studies. |
Open Access |
EBSCOhost | Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals, over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline |
Subscription based |
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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
Edward Elgar Publishing | Business management, Education, Economic and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching methods, Urban & regional, Development studies, Environment. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
Emerald ejournals | Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science. |
Subscription based |
Euclid Prime Collection | Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
Open Access |
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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
HeinOnline | Access the following three core collections of the HeinOnline database.
The collections can be accessed via http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome. |
Subscription based |
Henry Stewart Talks | Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection. |
Both Open access and subscription based |
HST - Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC) | 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 |
Open Access |
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. |
Subscription based |
JSTOR | Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics |
Subscription based |
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 which 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. |
Open Access |
LexisNexis | Access the UK's most authoritative and comprehensive collection of annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary from Butterworths and Tolley |
Subscription based |
Liverpool University Press | Covers history, modern languages, literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry |
Both Open access and subscription based |
Mary Ann Liebert | Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing |
Open Access |
Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal | Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering |
Open Access |
Nature ALL Plus (Package 78 titles) | Publishes journals and online databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences and Clinical medicine |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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. |
Open Access |
Open Edition Journals | Is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. |
Open Access |
Optical Society of America (OSA) | Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics |
Both Open access and subscription based |
Oxford Journals | 2020 oxford journal collection- 357 high-quality journals in social sciences, humanities, life sciences, medicine, mathematics, physical sciences, and Law |
Both Open access and subscription based |
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. |
Both Open access and subscription based |