Databases

Last Updated: Monday, 11 March 2024

A collection comprising of the following databases: eBook Academic Collection (Over 118,000 ebooks), Academic Search Complete (Is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals), Audiobook Collection (Search audiobooks, listen to samples, and download your selection), GreenFILE (Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment).

More than 84,000 e-Books, Ebrary provides content products, which include handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents. You are bound to find loads of e-books.

JSTOR online resources offers users full text issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. It is basically made up of content on back issues

EconBiz aims to establish a central gateway for a broad range of international economic and Business information and to give direct access to full-text documents. It is a search engine that includes important German sources and also a calendar of events in economics and business studies.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

The IBM Journal of Research and Development is a peer-reviewed technical journal, published bimonthly, which features the work of authors in the science, technology and engineering of information systems.

Britannica Academic is a widely used multi-disciplinary reference tool with articles written by Nobel Prize Winners. Has a lot of research tools such as maps, flags, articles, geographic tools that give facts on any two countries side-by-side, wide-ranging statistics, primary sources, curated list of top academic sites, free images & videos, access to Ebsco Academic journals as well as news from New York Times and BBC.

LawPavilion is a leading legal IT Research Tools provider whose existence serves to help Lawyers, Judges and Law firms make the most of their legal practice through the provision of cutting edge IT Solutions for the Legal Industry.

A digital library of thousands of copy-and-paste, already done for you legal materials and resources with over 12,000 Case Summaries, thousands of Ratios and Google-type search engine. A Username and Password is required !

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. It offers access to more than 81 billion public records aggregated from 10,000+ sources. A Username and Password is required!

ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s leading information solution for researchers, teachers, students, health care professionals and information professionals . It combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that you can stay informed in your field, and can work more effectively and efficiently.

Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. Emerald manages a wide range of digital products, a portfolio of nearly 300 journals, more than 2,500 books and over 450 teaching cases.

ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

The World Bank eLibrary is the World Banks subscription-based collection of nearly 8,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers

AJOL is a database of African-published journals, publishing in a range of Academic disciplines. The objective of AJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey.

BioOne is an internet-based collection of electronic journals in the biological, ecological and environmental science, many of whom are published by Members of the American Institute of Biological Science.

The largest dictionary of any language in the world, it charts the meaning and evolution of over 6000,000 words over the last 1500 years.

A collection of journals related to the subject Physics.

(Global Economy Monitor Portal): The Global Economic Monitor (GEM) provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of developing as well as high-income economies. Daily data updates are provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, commodity prices and emerging market.

World Bank Portal is an annual compilation of data about development.

(African Development Indicators)

The World's Largest Library Catalog.

The World Bank eLibrary, Documents and Reports, The Complete  World Development Report (WDR) Online, WDR 2013 for iPad, and World Bank eAtlases.

 


A username and password is necessary for the following databases. Please ask at the Information Desk for a list of usernames and passwords.


Research4Life provides institutions with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. It aims to improve teaching, research and policymaking in health, agriculture, the environment other life, physical, Law and social sciences. Research4Life provides access to over 151,000 Resources. It Hosts over 30,951 Journals and over 131,814 books. The content is grouped into the following collections:

This is an online digital library managed by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The goal is to ensure that users (subscribers) have the latest publications of the highest calibre in their respective fields .

Very short introductions offer concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects in the Arts and Humanities, Science and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Law, as well as Medicine and Health. It combines facts, analyses, and insights. It makes highly challenging topics readable for the development of core knowledge.

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