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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.

Frontiers is a leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform. It offers peer-reviewed scientific journals focusing on science, technology, and medicine. It boasts 79 open-access journals covering 662 disciplines across academia.

Open Knowledge Maps is a visual interface that increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike. This tool will enable you to map a research topic, get an overview, identify relevant concepts, & find related papers.

Unpaywall is a web browser extension that searches the internet for a free, legal, and full-text version of that paper you thought you couldn’t access.

The Library fraternity/Maktaba family, led by the University Chaplain, Rev. Hosea Mitei, held a prayer meeting on 26/2/2020, at Jomo Kenyatta Memorial Library (JKML).

Librarians drawn from all the University branch libraries and members of the staff Christian Union attended the meeting

A delegation from India led by Ms. Dave Vibhavari Vijay, Honorable Minister of State, Women and Children Welfare, Education (Primary and Higher Education) and Pilgrimage Visited the new Library on February 14, 2020 .The Indian delegation, in company of the Chancellor, Dr. Vijoo Rattansi, and Vice Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama inspected the development projects that have been funded by the Indian Government, key among them Mahatma Gandhi Graduate Library. The Graduate Library was refurbished courtesy of a 100M grant from the Indian government.