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Journals, eBooks, databases and mixed packages

SUBJECT COVERAGE

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EBSCO Host Research Databases

The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

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EBSCO ATLA

This database is an essential resource for religious and theological studies, providing bibliographic records covering topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history and religion in social issues

http://search.epnet.com/

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Emerald insight

Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/

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Oxford journals

It has 291 titles receiving an Impact Factor. Journals in Medicine & health, Arts & humanities, sciences & mathematics, social sciences and Law

https://academic.oup.com/journals

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Sage Research Methods

Subject Strengths: research Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative, cases, videos, datasets 


https://methods.sagepub.com/

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Taylor & Francis Journals

Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies 

https://www.tandfonline.com/

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Taylor and Francis eBooks

5,000 titles (Perpetual Access)
Access to the world’s premier Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?isLicensed=true&key=

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Wiley Online Library

Full 2022 collection Access to journal titles which 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.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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PROQUEST Academic complete & Library Thing Book cover widget

ProQuest preserves rich, vast and varied information – whether historical archives or today’s scientific breakthroughs – and packages it with digital technologies that enhance its discovery, sharing and management.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/

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OECD

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/

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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.

https://muse.jhu.edu/browse

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University of Chicago Press

The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/

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Henry Stewart Talks Ltd

Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection

https://hstalks.com/

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IEEE

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.  

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp 

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Lexis Nexis Legal Library

NB: This is only accessed by 16 KLISC member institutions

Lexis Library delivers thousands of trusted legal, tax and regulatory sources, such as: Butterworths, Halsbury’s Laws, Tolley’s, Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and Civil Court Practice. Plus, wide-ranging primary source materials including all England Law Reports, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms among others

https://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal/

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JSTOR

Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics 

https://www.jstor.org/

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Royal Society

Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more

https://royalsociety.org/

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E-duke journals scholarly collection

African studies, anthropology, art & art history, asian studies, criticism & theory, cultural studies, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethnography, european studies, fiction & poetry, film & media studies, gender & sexuality studies, literary studies,

https://read.dukeupress.edu/ 

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 Edward Elgar publishing

Business management, Education, Economic and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching methods, Urban & regional, Development studies, Environment

https://www.e-elgar.com/

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Euclid Prime Collection

Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics

https://projecteuclid.org/

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Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal

Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering

https://msp.org/publications/journals/

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OpenEdition Journals

Is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers.

https://journals.openedition.org/?lang=en

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European Respiratory Journals

Adult and paediatric respiratory medicine, including cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, pathophysiology, imaging, occupational medicine, intensive care, sleep medicine and thoracic surgery

https://erj.ersjournals.com/

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International Water Association

IWA Publishing publishes 17 peer-reviewed journals, plus supporting 4 more in association with Elsevier.

https://www.iwapublishing.com/journals

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The Company of Biologists’ Journals

Free access to three journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology. Development ; Journal of Cell Science; Journal of Experimental Biology

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

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Subjects covered: biological science, business and economics, development policy, engineering, medical and health science, physical science, social science

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Is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. . Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities

 http://doaj.org/

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ACS Publications stands alongside Chemical Abstracts Services in supporting the American Chemical Society’s goal to be the most authoritative, comprehensive, and indispensable provider of chemistry-related information, in keeping with the ACS’s Vision of Improving People’s Lives Through the Transforming Power of Chemistry. Subjects covered: agricultural and food chemistry, natural products , environmental science etc

http://pubs.acs.org/

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The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA’s comments concerning the EISs

https://www.epa.gov/

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Is a non-profit offering public access to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety of journals, including PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature. 

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Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results

https://www.science.gov/

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PubAg

PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education. PubAg is part of the AGRICOLA family of products. PubAg contains full-text articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal articles.

https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/

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AGRICOLA( National)

The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database lists bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agriculture and related sciences.

https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

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AGRIS (FAO)

Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension

literature from over 100 participating countries.

http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do

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PubMed comprises approximately 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

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Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences (Ecology, Oceanography, Geology, Meteorology, Zoology, Human biology, Botany). It allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables,

downloadable programs and collaborations. 

http://vadlo.com/

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Is a digital collection of research journals for agriculture and related sciences.

http://teeal.org/

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Is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising livestock.

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture

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is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.

http://www.academicjournals.org/

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Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all.

https://benthamopen.com/

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a global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information

http://worldwidescience.org/

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Palgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed E-Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://www.palgrave-journals.com

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·         Subject strengths: Biomedical/Life Sciences , Physical Sciences, Social Sciences , Economics.

http://www.annualreviews.org/

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Subject coverage: Anthropology, Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Fine Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences and Technology

http://proquest.libguides.com/ebrary

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subject covered: physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

https://www.intechopen.com/

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·         CAB Direct is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. It contains the following datasets:

·         Crop Protection Compendium – http://www.cabi.org/cpc/
Animal Health and Production Compendium – http://www.cabi.org/ahpc/
Aquaculture Compendium – http://www.cabi.org/ac/
Forestry Compendium – http://www.cabi.org/fc/

www.cabi.org  

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National Center for Biotechnology Information

NCBI bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/

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Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science & Communications
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Mathematics

http://www.scirp.org/journal/

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NATURE PUBLISHING

Provides access to over 30 journals across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

https://www.nature.com

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Virtual University of Uganda Open Access Library

Universal content

https://virtualuni.ac.ug/library/

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