A platform for accessing thousands of online full-text databases in the form of subscribed electronic journals, Electronic books, free online resources and selected institutional repositories. The resources are arranged alphabetically from a-z
Please contact the library reference desk through [email protected] if you have any problem accessing these resources.
Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium subscribed Electronic Books and Freely Available Electronic Books.
| 1. |  | ProQuest 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. |
| 2. | Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Online Dictionary. Search for words from across the English speaking world. | |
| 3. |  | Taylor and Francis Electronic books in 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. |
| 4. | Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This directory has more than 2116 e- books, all of which are in Open Access and meet academic standards. Subject strengths: multidisciplinary. | |
| 5. | FreeBooks4Doctors! Provides access to over 395 free medical books on different fields of medicine. | |
| 6. | InTech is a pioneer and world’s largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. | |
| 7.8. | Online Books is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.Open Access Digital Theological Library. The mission of the Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to make all open access content in religious studies and related fields discoverable to everyone, everywhere in the world through a single search experience for free forever. | |
| 9. | OpenDOAR. List of world repositories archiving scholarly materials and peer reviewed journals of interdisciplinary nature | |
| 10. | Open Book Publishers offers online digital editions free of charge. The books are multidisciplinary. | |
| 11. | Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg offers over 45,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. | |
| 12. | United Nations Library. UNBISNET- This is the library bibliographic catalogue with data from 1979.UN member states on recordUN official document system. For full -text official documents. | |
| 13. | United Nations Research and Knowledge Management Platforms. UNHQ Library Knowledge Management Portal. Search for an answer to a UN- related question e.g “ How many countries are members of UN?”UNHQ Library Research Guide. Use this to conduct a quick research on specific topics e.g. Environment, Gender etc. :UN Geneva Library Research Guides: | |
| 14. | The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR). Contains official World Bank open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. It contains research from thousands of works including World Bank published books from 2009-2012; all World Development Reports (WDRs) since 1978; Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP) from 2009-2012; Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies from 2009-2012; Journal articles from 2007-2010 published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO). | |
| 15. | World Health Organization (WHO). 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. |
