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E-Resources

A platform for accessing thousands of online full-text databases. These are in the form of subscribed electronic journals, Electronic books, free online resources and selected institutional repositories. The resources are arranged alphabetically from a-z

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  1. Academic Journals
    Subject strengths: medical sciences, social sciences, biological sciences, agricultural sciences, physical sciences, engineering, arts and education, legal studies, peace and development studies.
  2. Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA).
    Subject strengths: Agriculture, Biology, Biotechnology/Applied microbiology, Chemistry/Biochemistry/Biophysics, Economics, Entomology/pest control, Environment/Ecology/Natural Resources, Fisheries/Aquatic science and Food science.
  3. African Journals Online (AJOL)
    Subject strengths: Agriculture, Biology, Economics, Environment, Natural Resources, Food science.
  4. Aluka
    Subject strengths: Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines. Subject strengths are: Law, sociology, religion, journalism & communication, international relations, geography, history, architecture, cultural studies, feminist & women studies, music.
  5. American Institute of Physics Journals
    Subject strengths: Applied and multidisciplinary Physics
  6. American Physical Society.
    Subject strengths: Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and 11 journals produced by the American Physical Society. Subject strength: Physics
  7. Annual Reviews.
    Subject strengths: Publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritizing and synthesizing the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines. Subject strengths: for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.
  8. Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI).
    Subject strengths: Has over 20,000 journals, books, and reference works. Subject strengths: Science and Technology.
  9. Bangladesh Journals Online.
    Subject strengths: Agriculture, Biological Sciences; Engineering; Linguistics, Classics and related subjects; Mathematics and Computer Sciences; Medicine and Dentistry
  10. Beech Tree Publishing.
    Subject strengths: Public policy for science and technology and Research evaluation
  11. BioMed Central.
    Subject strengths: Biology, clinical medicine and health, AIDS Research and Therapy, BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC International Health and Human Rights, BMC Public Health, Chinese Medicine
  12. BioOne
    Subject strengths: Bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.
  13. Bookboon
    Subject strengths: (E-Books) Free online textbooks. They are downloadable. Cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
  14. The British Institute of Radiology Journals.
    Subject strengths: Diagnostic radiology, radiotherapy, oncology, nuclear Medicine, ultrasound, radiation physics, radiation protection, Radiobiology; BJR/case reports: diagnostic radiology, radiotherapy, radiation Sciences; DMFR: oral radiology, head and neck imaging.
  15. Calvary Holiness Church archives
    Subject strengths: Executive Council Meeting minutes, Articles of Faith, Central Documents of Administration & Finance, Delegates Conference minutes, Documents relating to Local (UK) church’s, Documents relating to Overseas Mission, Youth Work & Evangelism, CHC Artefacts, Ephemera & Photographs, plus published copies of The Flame.
  16. Cambridge Journals.
    Subject strengths: linguistics, politics, medicine, science, technology, social science and humanities.
  17. Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)
    Subject strengths: publishes scholarly journals in a wide range of academic fields, including the social sciences, the humanities, the natural sciences, the biological and medical sciences, education, economics, and management.
  18. Chicago Journals Online
    Subject strengths: Contains journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields.
  19. The Cochrane Library.
    Subject strengths: Contains high-quality reliable evidence based resources.
  20. CSIR Researchspace.
    Subject strengths: This database provides access to some of the research outputs generated by CSIR scientists. The CSIR in South Africa is one of the leading scientific and technology research, development and implementation organizations in Africa.
  21. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
    Subject strengths: This directory has more than 2116 e- books, all of which are in Open Access and meet academic standards. Subject strengths: multidisciplinary.
  22. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
    Subject strengths: General works, social sciences, sciences, law, engineering, philosophy and religion, languages and literatures, arts and architecture, agriculture and food sciences
  23. Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources.
    Subject strengths: Gives access to open access scholarly contents. It contains journals, conference proceedings, academic repositories, monographic series and scholarly blogs (since 2014).
  24. E-Book Central
    Subject strengths: Anthropology, business and economics, computers & IT, education, fine arts, history, language and literature, law, life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, psychology, religion, social sciences, technology.
  25. Ebook Central SSO
    Subject strengths:
  26. EBSCO Host Research Databases
    Subject strengths: Theology, education, business, philosophy and ethics, library and information science.
  27. EBSCO Open Dissertations
    Subject strengths: Publishes scholarly journals in a wide range of academic fields, including the social sciences, the humanities, the natural sciences, the biological and medical sciences, education, economics, and management.
  28. Edward Elgar Publishing Journals Collection
    Subject strengths: Law, economics, management and leadership studies.
  29. Edward Elgar Publishing Development Studies e-book Collection
    Subject strengths: Multidisciplinary collection of books in development studies including finance, economics, innovation studies, infrastructure development, health, corporate governance, public and social policy, migration, research methods, intellectual property, legal reform, and more.
  30. Emerald Insight.
    Subject strengths: Features 50 full text journals and reviews from the world management journals. Subject strengths: Management, Library and information sciences, Marketing, Engineering, computer science
  31. eScholarship(University of California).
    Subject strengths: eScholarship provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Powered by the California Digital Library.
  32. FreeBooks4Doctors!
    Subject strengths: Provides access to over 395 free medical books on different fields of medicine.
  33. Gale Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center.
    Subject strengths: Expanded Academic: Offers balanced coverage of every academic subject — from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies.
  34. Geological Society.
    Subject strengths: The Lyell Collection is an electronic collection of new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. Subject strength: It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality.
  35. Global Digital Theological Library
    Subject strengths: The mission of the Global Digital Theological Library (GLDTL) is to make high quality digital content in religious studies available to academic institutions in the developing world in an economically feasible manner. Access password is only available for SRCM students.
  36. Google Scholar
    Subject strengths: Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
  37. HINARI
    Subject strengths: Provides access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Subject strengths: Agriculture, medicine general, law, statistics and mathematics, psychology, science (general).
  38. Historic Nazarene Messenger now online
    Subject strengths: The paper was a weekly for most of its life, and each issue downloads as a PDF file that is searchable for people, places, theological subjects, schools, and many other topics.
  39. HEINONLINE
    Subject strengths: Subjects covered include criminal justice, political science, technology, human rights, and more. Coverage for all journals is from inception and goes through the most currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers
  40. Holy Joys
    Subject strengths: Committed to robust theology and Biblical ministry practices. In all of their articles, podcasts, videos, sermons, academic papers, and other resources, they seek to exude an audacious optimism about grace and to promote a liberating paradigm for Christian sanctification: holiness for the sake of our happiness in God.
  41. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
    Subject strengths: electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science & architecture, Imaging science & photographic technology, robotics, biomedical engineering, computer science information systems, software engineering, remote sensing & artificial intelligence.
  42. International Monetary Fund (IMF eLibrary).
    Subject strengths: economic information, analysis and harmonized statistics. Has a special focus on developing and emerging economies.
  43. Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    Subject strengths: Publishes 14 scholarly journals, including the flagship journals Management Science and Operations Research.
  44. InTech
    Subject strengths: Pioneer and world’s largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
  45. Institute of Physics Publishing
    Subject strengths: Provides access to over 60 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related disciplines.
  46. JSTOR
    Subject strengths: Economics, History, Political Science, Language & Literature, Art & Art History, Music, Mathematics & Statistics, Education, Health Science, Biology, Architecture
  47. Kenya Law Reports.
    Subject strengths: Free online reference resources of the republic of Kenya. Subject strengths: Articles, Bills, Case Search, Cause List, Complete Laws of Kenya (Statutes & Subsidiary Legislation), Kenya Gazette, Legal Notices, Newsletters, Parliament and Practice Notes.
  48. Lexis Library
    Subject strengths: has thousands of trusted legal, tax and regulatory sources, e.g. Butterworths, Halsbury’s Laws, Tolley’s, Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and Civil Court Practice. Also has primary source materials like all England Law Reports, Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms etc. Access through Hinari
  49. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers.
    Subject strengths: biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine, engineering/ informatics, environmental studies, psychology, surgery and Law.
  50. Manchester Digital collections
    Subject strengths: Comprise millions of items. From papyri to pixels, cuneiform tablets to contemporary art, they span five thousand years and an astonishing array of world cultures.
  51. Methodist and Wesleyan Studies collection: Globe Ethics
    Subject strengths: Provides access to resources on Methodist and Wesleyan theology and studies as a resource for teaching, learning and research. An online library of Methodist studies resources that will be available to scholars and students free of charge throughout the world.
  52. Nature Publishing Group
    Subject strengths: Publishes 79 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.
  53. Nazarene Archives
    Subject strengths: Nazarene Archives is a unique collection of sources of Nazarene life, including religious practices, higher education, cross-cultural ministry and mission, music, congregational and district life, church publications, and social ministries.
  54. Online Access to Research In the Environment (OARE).
    Subject strengths: Has up to 5710 peer reviewed journals and 1119 online books, and other information resources are available to environmental institutions. Subject strength: Environmental research.
  55. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
    Subject strengths: statistics, analysis, Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues.
  56. Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
    Subject strengths: Online Dictionary. Search for words from across the English speaking world.
  57. Online Books
    Subject strengths: is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

  58. Subject strengths: List of world repositories archiving scholarly materials and peer reviewed journals of interdisciplinary nature
  59. Open Book Publishers
    Subject strengths: offers online digital editions free of charge. The books are multidisciplinary.
  60. Open Dissertations
    Subject strengths: EBSCO open dissertations offers millions of elecronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
  61. Optical Society of America (OSA).
    Subject strengths: Contains 15 Optics and photonics journals by OSA. Subject strengths: engineering, education, optics.
  62. Oxford Journals
    Subject strengths: science, technology, medicine, public health & epidemiology, computing and physics, humanities and social sciences.
  63. Palgrave Macmillan Journals-GP.
    Subject strengths: Business, & management, economics, education, information systems & technology, political science & international studies, social and cultural studies, urban design.
  64. Project Gutenberg.
    Subject strengths: Project Gutenberg offers over 45,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
  65. Project MUSE Books.
    Subject strengths: Thousands of peer-reviewed digital books from major university presses and scholarly publishers
  66. Project MUSE JOURNALS.
    Subject strengths: (Provides online access to over 430 full-text journals from 70 publishers.) international relations, language and linguistics, library science and publishing, cultural studies, economics, education, music, philosophy, religion, sociology.
  67. RightNow Media
    Subject strengths: Contains on-demand video resources about leadership, professional development, personal care, apologetics, bible study materials, history, worship, illustrations, kids entertainment etc.
  68. Royal Society for Chemistry – RSC Journals Online.
    Subject strengths: Chemistry
  69. Sage Online Journals.
    Subject strengths: Business, humanities, social sciences
  70. Sage Research Methods
    Subject strengths: Subject Strengths: research Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative, cases, videos, datasets
  71. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journals (SIAM).
    Subject strengths: Applied mathematics and computational science.
  72. Springer eJournals.
    Subject strengths: Business and management, Computer science. Biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics.
  73. SUNScholar
    Subject strengths: Open access electronic archive for the collection, preservation and distribution of digital materials created by members of Stellenbosch University, which are of great academic research importance.
  74. Symposium Journals
    Subject strengths: (Pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals.) Education, learning
  75. Taylor & Francis Journals
    Subject strengths: contains more than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.
  76. Taylor and Francis Electronic books
    Subject strengths: various disciplines including, 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
  77. Theology on the web
    Subject strengths: A rich collection of theology books and articles from 7 websites, covering bibliographies on each book of the Bible, hermeneutics, biblical languages, range of theologies and theologians, church history before, during and after reformation, archaeology of the lands of the Bible and missiology.
  78. The University of Manchester Library: Religions and Theology Special Collections
    Subject strengths: Comprise material for the study of Christianity in its broadest context. Individual rare books and manuscripts include the St John Fragment and a complete Gutenberg Bible. There are superb collections of bibles,devotional works including medieval Books of Hours, and hymn books.
  79. University of Manchester Image Collections
    Subject strengths: Literary, historical, antiquarian, genealogical, biblical, devotional, ritualistic, medical, scientific, legal and administrative texts in numerous languages.
  80. United Nations Digital Library.
    Subject strengths: United Nations Digital Library holds documents, votes, speeches, public domain publications, and more!
  81. University of Manchester Open Access Resources.
    Subject strengths: A rich resource providing access to the University of Manchester open access content. It contains articles and books in Anthropology, archaeology & heritage, architecture & visual culture, economics & business, film, media & music, history, human geography, International relations, law, literature & theater, methods and guides, philosophy & critical theories, politics, religion and sociology.
  82. UN Member States on the Record
    Subject strengths: UN Member States on the Record provides access to information about membership and statements of Member States at the UN.
  83. UN official document system.
    Subject strengths: For full -text official documents.
  84. United Nations Research and Knowledge Management Platforms.
    Subject strengths: UNHQ Library Knowledge Management Portal. Search for an answer to a UN- related question e.g “ How many countries are members of UN?”
  85. UNHQ Library Research Guide.
    Subject strengths: Use this to conduct a quick research on specific topics e.g. Environment, Gender etc.
  86. UN Geneva Library Research Guides
    Subject strengths:
  87. Wiley Online Library STM.
    Subject strengths: Contains full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. Subject strengths: Chemistry, earth & environmental science, education, engineering, humanities & social sciences, information science and computing, law, health sciences, pure sciences, psychology.
  88. World Bank eLibrary
    Subject strengths: Package of electronic databases that includes: World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators (WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online.
  89. World Health Organization (WHO).
    Subject strengths: Free online reference materials on health related topics. Coverage may be on occupation-related disease or safety issue, the burden of the disease, analysis of interventions (cost-effectiveness, etc.), WHO policies, and actual activities carried out by WHO and its partners.
  90. org
    Subject strengths: Global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Search and translate over 400 million pages of science and technology information.
  91. Methodist History Journal
    Subject strengths: This is the official publication of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. A peer-reviewed journal dealing with Methodist history around the world.
  92. Kenya Projects OrganiZation (KENPRO)
    Subject strengths: KENPRO indexes Open Access Journals on the principle that making information freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
  93. Nation News Paper
    Subject strengths: This is a digital copy of the Nation News Paper
  94. Kariuki Muigua & Co Advocates (Books and Journals)
    Subject strengths:
  95. Kariuki Muigua & Co Advocates (Publications)
    Subject strengths: Kariuki Muigua & Company Advocates is a Top-Tier Kenyan law firm situated at the heart of Nairobi city in Kenya. We are a broad-based practice with a reputation for offering a full range of quality services to our domestic and international clients.
  96. Journal of ADR and Sustainability
    Subject strengths: Journal of Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) & Sustainability is aimed at a worldwide audience and is focused on disseminating knowledge and creating a platform for scholarly debate on pertinent and emerging areas in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Sustainability.
  97. The Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development
    Subject strengths: International and National Conflict; Conflict management; Conflict resolution; Dispute Settlement; Approaches to Conflict Management; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; Environmental Conflicts; Gender; Social Reform and Development; Climate Change; Energy; Food Security; Human Rights; Waste Management; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Water; Oceans and Fisheries; African Development; the Environment and Sustainable Development in general.
  98. Journals – CIArb Kenya
    Subject strengths: The ADR Journal is a publication by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Kenya that spearheads intellectual discourse on pertinent and germane issues in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and other related fields of knowledge.
  99. ANU vCalc Collaboration. links to free online calculators for the use and benefit of students and faculty around the world.