E-Resources

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America contains news items of interest to acoustical scientists, book reviews, references to contemporary papers in acoustics, reviews of acoustical patents, and news on the development of standards.

The African Digital Library offers free access to anyone living in Africa in the area of Education in Africa and Development in Africa. It contains more than 8000 full-text books and around 2400 free journals.

African Journals Online (AJOL), a multi-disciplinary database of African-published peer-reviewed scholarly journals. AJOL provides free online hosting peer-reviewed journals from 31 African countries.

AIP Publishing provides the global physical sciences community with a comprehensive collection of highly cited peer reviewed scientific information.AIP Publishing’s portfolio includes prestigious titles such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and The Journal of Chemical Physics, and the AIP Conference Proceedings series.

Annual Reviews provides a comprehensive, timely collection of critical reviews written by leading scientists for 46 focused disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences including economics.

Multi-disciplinary. Subjects covered include Social Sciences and the Humanities – politics, linguistics, law, mathematics, science and medicine

Multidisciplinary Open Access database with the aim of facilitating access and navigation across relevant scientific papers stored in UK Open Access repositories.

CUDOS

EBSCOHost is the interface for databases the Library subscribes to from EBSCO Publishing including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Religion and Philosophy Collection, EconLit and others. EBSCOHost provides access to over 10,000 e-journals on a wide range of subjects. Includes specialist databases for business & economics, media, languages and social sciences. 

Explore the updated online Encyclopædia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

GOALI provides free or low cost online access to legal research and training in developing countries on law and law-related content covering over 2,500 journals, 12,000 books, and 35 other information resources from 65 publishers.

HINARI is a World Health Organisation (WHO) project partnered by international publishers to assist developing countries have access to biomedical and health literature. The database has about 12,700 journals, 24,900 e-books and about 70 other information resources.

INSCRIBE

Access full text articles from Physics Education, the international journal for everyone involved with the teaching of physics in schools and colleges.Subject coverage include applied physics, computer science, condensed matter and materials science, high energy and nuclear physics, mathematics, applied mathematics and mathematical physics, measurement science and sensors, medical and biological sciences, optical, atomic and molecular physics, physics education and plasma physics.

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a subscribed service and viewed as the authority on the English language. It is an unparalleled guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.       

Oxford Reference provides quality and up-to-date dictionaries and encyclopaedias in all subjects. It offers a collection of over 100 reference titles, for a wide range of subject areas; including: language, art & architecture, history, literature, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, economics & business and law.

POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU AFRICA LIBRARY(PRBAL)

Royal Society of Chemistry is a scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books. RSC provides an online Journal Archive of backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies)

Sage Research Methods Online offers full text materials on research methods, major research paradigms, cognitive research, qualitative and quantitative researches as well as designing research questions.

Wiley Online Library is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. The Subject Strengths are Chemistry & Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine & Nursing, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science.

The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports/working papers, journals and other documents on social and economic development. It offers fully indexed and cross-searchable database of 6,000+ books, reports, journals, and working papers, as well as every new title as it becomes available in print.

Africa Development Indicators is the premier data source on the African economy. It contains over 1,400 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries.

The GEM, conceived by the World Bank team is responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy. It is a "one-stop shop" portal for analysis of current global growth trends, industrial production, international trade, oil and non-oil commodity markets, financial markets as well as currencies.