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The University of Nairobi Library Department will be holding a virtual Library Open Week event from 23th – 25th June 2020.

On Monday 8th June 2020 11.20 am to 12.35 pm EAT. The Library Department held a historic online teambuilding event. The event is a 2019/2020 PC (Performance Contract) target, hence the necessity to hold it before the 30th of June when the PC timeline ends. The online event was quite successful with participating staff actively doing so live from the comfort of their homes. Noteworthy was the presence of the newly recruited staff from the Mombasa campus.

Prof. Stephen Kiama has been officially installed as the eighth Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, taking over from Prof. Peter Mbithi. During his installation in Taifa Hall, Main Campus on June 5, 2020, Prof. Kiama promised to institute reforms and steer the ship in the turbulent waters.

University of Nairobi Library subscribes to Lexis Library;

Lexis Library is a legal research platform which gives legal professionals up-to-date information, resources and expert opinion from established names such as Butterworths, Tolley and Halsbury’s.This database contains most current statements and explanations of the law giving lawyers complete confidence in the advice they provide to their clients.

CORE is the world’s largest aggregator of open access content with millions of full texts, deriving from thousands of repositories, journals, and other web resources. All CORE content is available to everyone for free. Click HERE to visit the CORE search engine.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and on this occasion, Springer Nature is offering free access to selected research and blogs written by key opinion leaders on the topic of Climate Change and Policy

The University Press community is opening a wide variety of resources - books, and journals to support teaching, learning and scholarly research as community response to the coronavirus pandemic.

More than eighty (80) publishers have contributed information about those open or free access materials. Researchers can access the links, browse and sort the available information resources via a Google Sheet - 

WAIVER/DISCOUNTED ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES FOR MEMBERS OF THE KENYA LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES CONSORTIUM (KLISC) RESEARCHERS

Research4Life is the collective name for five programmes;

AAAS publishes six respected peer-reviewed journals.