ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
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| LIST OF E-BOOK DATABASES | |
| DATABASE NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| ProQuest E-book Central | It is your ultimate eBooks Platform providing breadth and depth of authoritative content across all major fields of study. |
| Directory of Open Access Books | DOAB 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. |
| Many books | Contains books in various genres, fiction, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Science Fiction, Biographies, Action & Adventure. |
| Open Research Library | A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open access e-books. |
| Edward Elgar Books | Edward Elgar Publishing is one of the largest independent academic book publishers in the Social Sciences and Law. |
| Law Africa | This collection comprises resources and materials covering a wide range of fundamental law subjects that the university offers. |
| Perlego | Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of multidisciplinary academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks |
| LIST OF E-JOURNAL DATABASES | |
| DATABASE NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| A | |
| African Journals Online (AJOL) | AJOL is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals |
| B | |
| Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) | 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 Institute of Radiology | 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. |
| British and Irish Legal Information Institute | Provides access to freely available British, Irish, and European Union primary legal materials, including case transcripts and legislation, and many tribunal decisions. |
| C | |
| 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 |
| Cambridge Journals | 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. |
| CIA World Factbook | 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 | 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 | CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of Open access Research. |
| D | |
| dblp Computer Science Bibliography | Provides access to both Open access computer science articles and those behind a paywall |
| Digital Library of the Commons Repository | A multidisciplinary journal repository that allows users to access thousands of free and open access articles from around the world. |
| E | |
| EBSCOhost | 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 | A great resource for economic and business studies. |
| Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) | ERIC is an excellent database for content specific to education. |
| Edward Elgar Publishing | Business management, Education, economics and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching Methods, Urban & regional, Development Studies, and Environment. |
| Emerald journals | 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 | Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
| I | |
| IEEE Xplore | 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 | 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 | A multidisciplinary database with several open access e-books. |
| J | |
| Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI) | JEMI is an interdisciplinary, focused on economics, business, and management journal |
| JSTOR | Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics |
| JURN | Covers the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine. |
| K | |
| 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 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 | A collection containing the research notes and files of UCLA Law Professor Rick Abel, taken during his research visit to Kenya in the 1960s |
| L | |
| LexisNexis | Access the UK’s most authoritative and comprehensive collection of annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents, and commentary from Butterworths and Tolley. |
| M | |
| Mary Ann Liebert | Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing |
| MDPI | A multidisciplinary journal database providing open access to education, business, management, STEM, law & computer science articles. |
| N | |
| OECD | 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 Edition Journals | This is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. |
| Open Library of Humanities Journal | Open Library of Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines. |
| P | |
| 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. |
| Project Muse | 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. |
| Perlego | |
| R | |
| Research Gate | Access over 160 million publication pages and stay up to date with what’s happening the fields of business, humanities, computer science & education. |
| S | |
| Sage Journals | 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 | 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 | A multidisciplinary journal database providing open access to education, business, management, STEM, law & computer science articles. |
| Semantic Scholar | Multidisciplinary scholarly papers from all fields of science |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | Offers collection of papers from the social sciences community. |
| T | |
| Taylor & Francis Journals | Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies. |
| World Bank Open Knowledge Repository | The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products |
| U | |
| University of California Press | Subject strength: research, health, art & humanities |
| W | |
| Wiley Online Library | 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. |