Online Journals

The university library subscribes to academic journals and e-books in various disciplines through the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (P.E.R.I.) programme as well as open access databases.

Open Access Journals - Abstracts

African Journals Online (AJOL)

http://www.ajol.info

Abstracts of over 250 African-published journals, with access to some full text online, and a document delivery service.

Annual Reviews

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/

Annual reviews publishes in authoritative reviews in 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences. Amongst the most highly cited in scientific literature, they are available online and in print to individuals, institutions, and consortia worldwide.

Open Access Journals – Full text journal articles

Aluka

http://www.aluka.org

Aluka is a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

Agora

http://www.aginternetwork.org

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.

AMREF art knowledge hub

http://hub.amref.org/

An up—to-date website on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and research.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals):

http:// www.doaj.org

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.

HINARI -Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

http://www.who.int/hinari

OARE

http://www.oaresciences.org

Project MUSE

http:// muse.jhu.edu/

Project MUSE provides online access to over 430 full-text journals from 70 publishers in humanities and social science. MUSE pricing meets library needs around the world.

World Bank Publications

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/ddpqq

This is a package of electronic databases that includes: World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators (WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online.

World Bank – Global Economic Monitor

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/ddpqq/

Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a "one-stop shop" portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators.

World Bank: Africa Development Indicators

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/ddpqq/

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.

INASP: INASP Directory of Free and Open Access to Online Resources

http://www.inasp.info/peri/peri/free.shtml

There are many free, high quality information resources available on the Internet. This listing provides links to some of them, organized into subject areas for ease of navigation. (Please note that the list is not intended as a comprehensive catalogue, but as an indication of the types of material available.)

The journals accessible through PERI are listed below:

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

http:// www.asa.aip.org/

Access to all issues of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA); Back to Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1929

American Institute of Physics

http://www.aip.org/pubs/

AIP publishes 12 journals, 2magazines, and a conference proceedings series. Their Scitation platform hosts over 1.5 million articles from more than 25 scholarly publishers.

American Physical Society APS

http://publish.aps.org

Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and 11 journals produced by the American Physical Society. Physical review letters, physical review and reviews of modern physics.

Beech Tree Publishing

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/

Two international, peer-reviewed academic journals on Public policy for science and technology and Research evaluation.

British Library Direct

http://www. direct.bl.uk

Provides free table of contents searching from 5 years of data for over 20 000 journals.

British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC)

http://www.bl.uk/articles

The world's largest collection devoted to the provision of remote document delivery covering every aspect of science, technology, medicine and humanities, in many languages.

British Psychological Society

http:// www.bps.org.uk

Cambridge University Press

www.journals.cambridge.org

Over 230 leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities.

Cochrane Library

http://www.thecochranelibrary.com

An internationally acclaimed database of regularly updated evidence-based medical systematic reviews.

EBSCO Host Research Databases

http://www.ebscohost.comor http://searchepnet.com

Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline.

eIFL:

http:// www.eifl.net

eIFL.net is an independent foundation that strives to lead, negotiate, support and advocate for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transition and developing countries. Its main focus is on negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, while supporting the enhancement of emerging national library consortia in member countries.

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Emerald Management Xtra 140 features 140, and Emerald Engineering 15, peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the worlds top 300 management journals.

Gale Cengage Learning: Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center

http:// www.gale.cengage.com

Expanded Academic and Health & WellnessResourceCenter: General research database that covers subject areas from art and literature to economics and the sciences.

Geological Society

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk

The Lyell Collection is an electronic collection of new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality.

Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)

http:// www.ieee.org

Access the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL), which provides access to 2 million full-text documents in electrical engineering and computer science.

IOP Publishing

http://www.iop.org

Over 50 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related disciplines.

JSTOR

http://www.jstor.org/

Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

http://www.liebertpub.com

Sixty four authoritative publications in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.

Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland

http://www.minersoc.org

Database containing over 135,000 abstracts relating to the earth sciences, mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, economic geology, gemmology, extraterrestrial mineralogy, environmental science and nano-particle science. This is now an archived resource and no additions will be made to it.

This is an open access resource so registration is not necessary.

National Academies Press http://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/

Over 2,800 reports, e-newsletters and journals from US National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

http://www.nature.com

Publishes 79 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

OECD

http://www.oecd.org

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) is the world's largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues.

OSA - Optical Society of America

www.osa.org/journals/osajournalsor

http://www.opticsinfobase.org

Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected OSA meeting content.

OUP E-books Oxford English Dictionary Online

http://www.oed.com or http: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Journals (OUP)

http://www.oxfordjournals.org

Over 200 leading titles in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

Palgrave Macmillan

http://www.palgrave-journals.com

Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of over 60 peer-reviewed e-journals in the field of Business, Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Royal Society

http://royalsociety.org

Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running continuously published journal in the world.

Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Archive

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals

Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.

Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Online

http://www.rsc.org/is/journals

Online Journals Database (chemistry); plus 4 key abstracting databases plus a series of specialist online periodical reports.

Springer eJournals

http://www.springerlink.com/journals/

Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies. Springer’s eJournals cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics.

Symposium Journals

http://www.symposium-journals.co.uk

Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals.

Taylor & Francis Online Journals

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/online

Over 1300 titles in the humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.

TEEAL- The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library

http://www.teeal.org

A full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture.

University of California Press

http://www.ucpressjournals.com

Access to 8 Journals of the University of California Press.

University of Chicago Press

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu

The Journals Division publishes journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields.