Daystar University has a library in each of its three campuses. Agape library, based at the Athi River Campus, has a seating capacity of 450 students, 250 at the Nairobi Campus and 30 in Mombasa. The library is automated using Sirs Mandarin software, whose modules are integrated, thereby creating a seamless interaction of services.
Mission The library aspires to establish and sustain creative and innovative information services in support of the university mission of teaching, learning, research, outreach and partnership in a globally dynamic Christian learning environment.
Collection The libraries have a stock holding of over 50,000 volumes of books in a wide range of subjects. These include core textbooks and supplementary texts. Academic journals, periodicals, government publications, research reports, theses, audio and video material and newspapers also form part of the collection. These resources are available in print and electronic formats. To access the WEB OPAC, go to: http://192.168.19.254
General Collection Books in the general collection are loaned for a period of two weeks. Registered patrons who include students, staff and faculty are eligible to borrow these books.
Reserve/ Short Loan Section The reserve section is closed access and is within the Circulation section. Books are borrowed for a period of two hours and are used within the library. Reserve books can be borrowed overnight and returned the following morning. Core texts are found in this section. Penalties are levied on defaulters as laid out in the university handbook.
Periodicals and Special Collection These include local and international academic peer reviewed journals, magazines, news papers, Theses, research reports as well as government and NGO's publications. The Section currently subscribes to more than 70 academic journals and magazines. It also houses more than 3000 volumes of bound periodicals and 2,000 reports.
Resource Sharing Daystar University library collaborates with like minded institutions in resource sharing. This enables the library to complement its diverse information resources through inter - library borrowing. Please liaise with the library for access to inter-library borrowing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a package of electronic
databases that includes: World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators
(WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online.
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.
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
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.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 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.
Expanded Academic and Health & WellnessResourceCenter:
General research database that covers subject areas from art and literature to
economics and the sciences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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