Kenya National Commission for UNESCO provides a wide variety of electronic resources for students, staff, lecturers, researchers and the general public. The electronic resources are invaluable research tools which complement the print-based resources. They are networked products that provide easy and simultaneous access to information. In addition, the resources provide fast and quick access of desired information. The resources are peer-reviewed and present original research from international scholars. The electronic resources and their subject strengths are listed alphabetically.
Subscribed Online Resources
Free Online Resources (Open Access)
| DATABASE NAME | SUBJECT COVERAGE |
|---|---|
| AIP Publishing | Journal of Mathematical Physics: AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). It comprises peer-reviewed journals, including Open Access titles that cover all areas of the physical sciences. |
| American Physical Society | America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society. |
| British Institute of Radiology | The BIR promote and encourage the study and practice of the art and science of radiology radiobiology and the medical applications of nuclear science in all their aspects and the study of kindred sciences. It has access to online journals and resources on radiologists, medical physicists, oncologist, radiographers and radiobiologists. |
| Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) | CSP currently owns and publishes 24 diverse international journals with distribution in more than 175 countries, and provides publishing services to an additional 15 titles. Cover fields across the spectrum of science and engineering, with a focus on fundamental and applied |
| Cochrane Library | The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database (The Cochrane Collaboration ) that provides information about Cochrane groups. |
| 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. |
| 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, |
| Edward Elgar publishing | Business management, Education, Economic and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching methods, Urban & regional, Development studies, Environment |
| Emerald Insight | Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science. |
| Euclid Prime Collection | Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
| 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. |
| Henry Stewart Talks Ltd | Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection |
| 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. |
| International Water Association | IWA Publishing publishes 17 peer-reviewed journals, plus supporting 4 more in association with Elsevier. |
| JSTOR | Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics |
| Lexis Nexis Legal Library | 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, Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms among others. |
| Mary Ann Liebert | Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing |
| Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal | Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering |
| Nature ALL Plus (Package 78 titles) | Publishes journals and online databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences and Clinical medicine |
| 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. |
| OpenEdition Journals | Is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics |
| Oxford journals | It has 291 titles receiving an Impact Factor. Journals in Medicine & health, Arts & humanities, sciences & mathematics, social sciences and Law |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Royal Society | Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more |
| Sage Research Methods | Subject Strengths: research Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative, cases, videos, datasets |
| Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DATABASE NAME | SUBJECT COVERAGE |
|---|---|
| Africa Journals Online (AJOL) | Africa Journals Online (AJOL): is the world's largest online Library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals with full text articles from Africa. |
| Free online textbooks & Monographs | Open Book Publishers: This is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. It publishes textbooks and monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All books are available to read for free online. |
| Free Online Dictionaries Merriam-Webster Oxford | These platforms offer top online reference information sources comprising of a comprehensive online dictionaries, synonyms, antonyms, and related words. |
| IIEP Publications | IIEP publications play a key role in disseminating new concepts, methods, and techniques in educational planning |
| InformationR.net | Information Research is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. |
| KYEB Digital Library | The book gives an account of government programmes and policies as well as key milestones achieved in our development agenda as guided by vision 2030. Special emphasis is placed on infrastructure development, social services, trade and investment. |
| Online Kenyan Law Journals | Articles, Bills, Case Search, Cause List, Complete Laws of Kenya (Statutes & Subsidiary Legislation), Kenya Gazette, Legal Notices, Newsletters, Parliament and Practice Notes. |
| Out-of-print books online access | Z LIBRARY: This is an online platform which is part of Open Library intended to create "one web page for every book ever published" which can be read online. It provides access to many public domain and out-of-print books. |
| PhysMath Central | This is an independent publishing platform operated by BioMed Central committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed physics and mathematics research. |
| Springer OA Books | Offers fully open access journals and books (unrestricted online access), covering all areas of science including chapters in a wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM). |
| UNESCO Digital Library | A repository of UNESCO’s institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information), with more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945 |