Free Online Resource
Eldis A gateway to global development information on international development issues. Provides free and easy access to materials on developing countries www.eldis.org/ Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers www.ipl.org/ Google Scholar Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. scholar.google.com Kenyan Law Online published by the National Council for Law Reporting which is a corporate body established by the National Council for Law Reporting Act, 1994. It is given the exclusive mandate of the: "publication of the reports to be known as the Kenya Law Reports which shall contain judgments, rulings and opinions of the superior courts of record, and also undertake such other publications as in the opinion of the Council are reasonably related to or connected with the preparation and publication of the Kenya Law Reports" (section 3) www.kenyalaw.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. www.doaj.org/ Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. http://ssrn.com/
Dictionaries & Encyclopaedia
Encarta World Dictionary Encarta takes seriously its responsibility both to encourage learning and to respect the role of parents in their children's education. dictionary.msn.com Onelook Dictionary Search Primarily a dictionary site but also has the ability to do wildcard searches on the words it knows about. www.onelook.com/ Encarta Concise free encyclopaedia MSN Encarta: your gateway for interactive learning on the Web. encarta.msn.com/ Britannica Online Encyclopaedia Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. www.britannica.com/ Webopedia An online computer dictionary and internet search engine for internet terms and technical support www.webopedia.com/ Wikipedia Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. www.wikipedia.org/
Subject Directories
BULB An Internet-based information service for the UK higher education community. bubl.ac.uk Intute Gateway to subject catalogues with links to high quality Internet sites, selected and described by specialists from within British academia. www.intute.ac.uk/ Living Internet General guide to the Internet, includes sections covering the history of the Web, email, Usenet and other topics. www.livinginternet.com/
Online Journal Databases
E-books - The Net Library Database:
http://www.netLibrary.com
This database provides access to about 271 e-books covering various subjects.
Full-Text Journal Databases - AGORA:
http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
The AGORA site (courtesy of FAO), provides free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture, and related biological, environmental and social sciences for public academic institutions in developing countries. - American Chemical Society:
http://pubs.acs.org/about.html
ACS provides more than 30 high quality, high impact journals and magazines countrywide for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries, in chemistry and related fields. - American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE):
http://asae.frymulti.com/
Journals on agriculture and biological engineering. - American Society of Civil Engineers:
http://ascelibrary.aip.org/journals/doc/ASCERL-home/jrnls/top.jsp
ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 30 journals encompassing more than 18,500 full-text papers published since 1995 - that's over 175,000 pages! Approximately 1500 new papers will be added each year. - Blackwell-Synergy/Wiley InterScience:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Blackwell-Synergy (now merged with Wiley InterScience) provides access to over 750 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines, namely: Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Details of individual subject coverage are clearly outlined when searching by subject. - Cambridge Journals Online:
http://journals.cambridge.org
This database provides access to over 190 journal titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science, and Humanities. - The Cochrane Library:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME
The Cochrane Library is a medical/health resource database comprised of critical reviews, abstracts and trails in all branches of medicine and health care. It is also available on CD-ROMs in the Albert-Cook Medical Library. - EBSCO:
http://search.epnet.com
The EBSCO Host Site is a collection of online databases of journals and other learned content. Under the PERI programme, access is provided to 8 databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, Masterfile Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source Nursing Academic, Health Source Customer Edition, and MEDLINE), which can be searched individually or in groups by selection. The EBSCO Host collection is also available on CD-ROMs in the Main Library. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/login
The Emerald database offers the worlds widest range of over 100 journal titles in management, librarianship, information communication and technology, most of them in full text. - GALE (THOMAS LEARING):
http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/makuni
The GALE database has two collections: - Academic ASP provides access to full-text periodical articles on Current events, Economics, Education, History, Humanities, Literature and Art, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.
- Health and Wellness Resource Center provides access to journals, magazines, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on health-related issues.
- HINARI:
http://www.healthinternetwork.org/scipub.php
The HINARI site (courtesy of WHO), provides free or low-cost access to 2300 biomedical and related social sciences journals and other resources for the health sector and academic institutions in developing countries. - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/periodicals.jsp
IEEE provides full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE also contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. - Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP):
http://www.iop.org/EJ
IOPP offers access to journals in Physics and other related disciplines available in full text. - International Forestry Review:
http://www.inasp.info/file/380/international-forestry-review.html
International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes, and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research. - NISC:
http://www.nisc.co.za/
Provides access to 4 databases on Africa covering a wide range of information about Africa. These databases include African HealthLine, Africa-Wide: NiPAD (NISC information, Publications and African Databases), Fish & Fisheries Worldwide and Water Resources Worldwide. - NRC Research Press (Canada):
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/journalsearch.html
- OARE
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
Online Access to Research in the Environment is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. - Oxford University Press (OUP) Oxford Scholarship Online
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/index.html
Provides access to articles on religion, political science, economics and finance modules. - Palgrave Macmillan Journals (access not activated):
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/jnlsubject.html
The site provides access to journals mainly in the social sciences and the humanities. - The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC):
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/consortia/periproducts.asp
Under the PERI programme, this site provides access to a collection of journals in the field of chemistry. - The Royal Society of London:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/
This database provides access to articles in the fields of science and technology. - Sage Publications
http://online.sagepub.com
Over 490 journals in the humanities, social sciences and STM. - SpringerLink (only 50 titles):
To search the whole database, click this link: http://www.SpringerLink.com
SpringerLink provides access to journals mainly in the fields of science, engineering, technology and other related disciplines.
Resources Declared for Free Access The resources in this category are e-journals, e-books and resourceful information contained in conference proceedings and reports. - American Physical Society:
http://publish.aps.org
APS provides access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and ten journals produced by the American Physical Society. - Annual Reviews
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/action/showJournals
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 34 scientific disciplines. Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). - Beech Tree Publishing
http://www.minabs.com/
Three international, peer-reviewed academic journals in the fields of Public policy for science and technology, Research, Environmental, social, health and other impacts.
Free Access to Science provided under the Washington DC Principles
http://www.dcprinciples.org/index.htm
The resources outlined on this site are published research findings by Medical/Scientific Societies and Publishers like: American Society for Human Genetics, IEEE University Library - Geological Society
http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/search.dtl
Publishes the most topical and highest quality articles covering the full range of the Earth sciences. The Journal features short communications, interdisciplinary articles and reviews in key areas, and is one of the key titles for researchers in the geosciences. - Institution of Chemical Engineers
http://www.icheme.org/journals
Provide access to four journals, each containing original, peer-reviewed chemical, process and related engineering research - Jstor
http://www.jstor.org/search/
JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections, such as arts and sciences, as well as Biological Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences. Other disciplines include Mathematics, Statistics and Business.
- Mary Ann Liebert Publishers:
http://www.liebertpub.com
Mary Ann Liebert database offers access to 55 authoritative publications in the most exciting and promising areas of biomedical research, clinical medicine & surgery, and law.
- Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland MinAbs Online
http://www.minabs.com
This database contains about 120,000 abstracts relating to the earth sciences, mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, economic geology, gemology, extraterrestrial mineralogy, environmental science and nano-particle science.
- National Academy Press (US)
http://www.nap.edu/
NAP provides free access to books on Science, Engineering and Medicine.
- Oxford University Press (OUP):
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/
The OUP site offers access to journals in the following subject fields: Art history & Visual culture, Biochemistry & Molecular biology, Biology & Ecology, Communication studies, Computing & Engineering, Economics & Business, Genetics, Geoscience, Health sciences, History, Language studies, Linguistics & Philology, Law, Literary studies, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Music, Neurology & Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political science, Psychology & Psychiatry, Religion, Sociology, Social policy, and Social work.
- University of Chicago Press
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/
UCP provides full text access to journal articles on Astronomy, education, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. - University of California Press
http://ucpressjournals.com/index.asp
It provides 7 journals covering area studies, history of Science, human research and bioethics, sociology and social interaction.
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