E-resources A–Z
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E-book databases
7 e-book platforms.
- Directory of Open Access BooksDOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open-access books and helps users to find trusted open-access book publishers.
- Edward Elgar BooksEdward Elgar Publishing is one of the largest independent academic book publishers in the Social Sciences and Law.
- Law AfricaThis collection comprises resources and materials covering a wide range of fundamental law subjects that the university offers.
- ManyBooksContains books in various genres, fiction, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Science Fiction, Biographies, Action & Adventure.
- Open Research LibraryA multidisciplinary aggregator of Open access e-books.
- PerlegoPerlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of multidisciplinary academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks
- ProQuest E-book CentralIt is your ultimate eBooks Platform providing breadth and depth of authoritative content across all major fields of study.
E-journal databases
65 e-journal databases and indexes, A to Z.
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- African Journals Online (AJOL) (opens in new tab)AJOL is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals
- American Institute of Physics (incl. Acoustical Society of America) (opens in new tab)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 (opens in new tab)America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
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- BFI Lists (opens in new tab)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.
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) (opens in new tab)Sixty percent of its content is Open access, and you can filter your search accordingly. Curates’ multidisciplinary subject’s articles on education, computer science & business.
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute (opens in new tab)Provides access to freely available British, Irish, and European Union primary legal materials, including case transcripts and legislation, and many tribunal decisions.
- British Institute of Radiology (opens in new tab)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.
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- Cambridge Journals (opens in new tab)Publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals, across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today.
- Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) (opens in new tab)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
- CIA World Factbook (opens in new tab)Provides facts about every country in the world, which are organized by category and include information about history, geography, transportation, and much more.
- Cochrane Library (opens in new tab)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.
- CORE (opens in new tab)CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of Open access Research.
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- dblp Computer Science Bibliography (opens in new tab)Provides access to both Open access computer science articles and those behind a paywall
- Digital Library of the Commons Repository (opens in new tab)A multidisciplinary journal repository that allows users to access thousands of free and open access articles from around the world.
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- E-duke journals scholarly collection (opens in new tab)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.
- EBSCOhost (opens in new tab)This interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals, and e-books. The databases are particularly useful for identifying journal articles and other publications on a particular topic within the subject areas covered by each database. You can also search across more than one database at a time.
- EconBiz (opens in new tab)A great resource for economic and business studies.
- Edinburgh University Press (opens in new tab)The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
- Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) (opens in new tab)ERIC is an excellent database for content specific to education.
- Edward Elgar Publishing (opens in new tab)Business management, Education, economics and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching Methods, Urban & regional, Development Studies, and Environment.
- Emerald journals (opens in new tab)Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering, and materials science.
- Euclid Prime Collection (opens in new tab)Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics
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- HeinOnline (opens in new tab)Access the following three core collections of the HeinOnline database.Law Journal LibraryEnglish Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867)Kluwer Law International Journal LibraryThe collections can be accessed via http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.
- Henry Stewart Talks (opens in new tab)Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing, and Management collection.
- HST – Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC) (opens in new tab)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.
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- IEEE Xplore (opens in new tab)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.
- IMF eLibrary (opens in new tab)The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade, and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
- InTechOpen (opens in new tab)A multidisciplinary database with several open access e-books.
- The International Journal of Humanities & Social Science (opens in new tab)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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- Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI) (opens in new tab)JEMI is an interdisciplinary, focused on economics, business, and management journal
- JSTOR (opens in new tab)Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics
- JURN (opens in new tab)Covers the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine.
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- Kenya Law Reports (opens in new tab)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.
- Kenyan Court Cases (opens in new tab)A collection containing the research notes and files of UCLA Law Professor Rick Abel, taken during his research visit to Kenya in the 1960s
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- LexisNexis (opens in new tab)Access the UK’s most authoritative and comprehensive collection of annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents, and commentary from Butterworths and Tolley.
- Liverpool University Press (opens in new tab)Covers history, modern languages, literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry
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- Mary Ann Liebert (opens in new tab)Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing
- Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal (opens in new tab)Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering
- MDPI (opens in new tab)A multidisciplinary journal database providing open access to education, business, management, STEM, law & computer science articles.
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- OECD (opens in new tab)OECD Library is the online library of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, and statistics, and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.
- Open Library of Humanities Journal (opens in new tab)Open Library of Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines.
- OpenEdition Journals (opens in new tab)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) (opens in new tab)Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics
- Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) (opens in new tab)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.
- Oxford Journals (opens in new tab)2020 oxford journal collection- 357 high-quality journals in social sciences, humanities, life sciences, medicine, mathematics, physical sciences, and Law
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- Policy Press (opens in new tab)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 (opens in new tab)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 (opens in new tab)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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- Research4Life (opens in new tab)Research4Life is the collective name for five programs: Research in Health (Hinari) , Research in Agriculture (AGORA) , Research in the Environment (OARE), Research for Development & Innovation (ARDI) 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.
- ResearchGate (opens in new tab)Access over 160 million publication pages and stay up to date with what’s happening the fields of business, humanities, computer science & education.
- Royal Society of Chemistry – RSC Journals Archive (opens in new tab)Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science, Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery, and Physics high-impact journals and books
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- Sage Journals (opens in new tab)Subject Strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Scientific, Technical and Medical. SAGE is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content publishing more than 900 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. A growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and videos.
- SAGE Research Methods (opens in new tab)SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
- SCIRP (opens in new tab)A multidisciplinary journal database providing open access to education, business, management, STEM, law & computer science articles.
- Semantic Scholar (opens in new tab)Multidisciplinary scholarly papers from all fields of science
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (opens in new tab)Offers collection of papers from the social sciences community.
- Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (opens in new tab)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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- University of California Press (opens in new tab)Subject strength: research, health, art & humanities
- University of Chicago Press (opens in new tab)The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
- Up-To-Date (opens in new tab)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 (opens in new tab)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.
- World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (opens in new tab)The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products