Open Access Library
Welcome to our Open Access Library, a vast collection of resources that support both student learning and staff research. Open Access Library content is free and open to the general public. The following is a list of on-line books and journals that are available for download or to read on-line:
The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank’s subscription-based collection of nearly 6,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers published since 1996~ However, free full text access is limited to ‘Development Outreach Journal’ and ‘Development Economics’ (DEe) policy research working papers.
Google Books is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. Many popular books are available with Google Books. Typically, the books available can be read online only and cannot be downloaded for later use
OUP – eBooks Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online offers quality content you can trust, with instant and comprehensive coverage of over 11,000 titles in 20 subject areas, covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Welcome to Baobab eBooks, a pioneering digital eBooks service to academic libraries in Africa. Explore the website to discover the full range of features. Each library customer subscribing to the Baobab eBooks platform will receive a collection of research documents from leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and research agencies. Provide resources in range of Agriculture, art, biography, business, economics, literature, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, politics, religion, science and technology
Since 2005, bookboon.com has experienced massive growth and is now the world’s largest eBook publisher. As a global eBook publisher, bookboon.com offers a wide range of over 900 textbooks for students and 600 eBooks for Accounting, Career & Study advice , Economics & Finance , Engineering, IT & Programming, Languages, Marketing & Law , Natural Sciences, Statistics & Mathematics and Strategy & Management
Oxford University Press (Oxford Journals)
Oxford Journals offers access to over 285 prestigious and authoritative journals published in collaboration with some of the world’s most influential and scholarly professional societies. The 2015 Oxford Journals Collection includes cited journals in the fields of Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology, Life Sciences, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics, Business, and Finance
The IMF is one of the world’s most authoritative sources for economic information, analysis and harmonised statistics. IMF eLibrary provides comprehensive data and original analysis, with coverage of almost every economy in the world and a special focus on developing and emerging economies. It Provides content like independent analysis on the Financial crisis, Development, Macroeconomics, Poverty reduction, trade, Globalisation, and much more in full text.
ARDI -Access to Research for Development and Innovation
With 17 publishers providing access to around 20,000 journals, books, and reference works
OARE – Online Access to Research in the Environment
Covers Biology; Biotechnology, Genetics & Genetically Modified Species; Botany & Plant Biodiversity; Climatology, Climate Change & Meteorology; Ecology & Wildlife Conservation; Energy, Public Health, e.t.c
AGORA – Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
AGORA provides a collection of more than 5700 key journals and 4100 books. Much as its an agriculture database it has several ebooks and journals covering health.
Provides access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. This package provides access to over 1,370 journals across all major academic disciplines.
University of Chicago Journals
The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences.
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.
Over 550 journals in business, humanities, medicine, technology and social sciences.
Royal Society of Chemistry – RSC Journals Online
Scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books
Royal Society – Royal Society Journals Online
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 world’s first science journal.
Clinical Medicine journal is read by leading physicians in hospitals across the world. It features articles covering original research, current issues, ethics, law, clinical governance and audit, and also reports on prestigious College lectures and conferences.
Project MUSE provides online access to 500 full-text journals from 200 non-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
The Policy Press publishes highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy. Policy Press is a leading specialist social science publisher committed to journals that will have an impact on research, learning, policy and practice at an international level.
Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed e-journals.
OUP offers access to over 285 prestigious and authoritative journals published in collaboration with some of the world’s most influential and scholarly professional societies. The 2015 Oxford Journals Collection includes cited journals in the fields of Medicine, Life Sciences, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Nature Publishing Group Journals
NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, NPG publishes a range of Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications.
Founded in 1980, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law.
A growing digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. It is recognized specifically for: offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works, facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research, exemplary standards for digitization and completeness, interfaces and functionality that support academic use, long-term preservation
IOP publishes over 60 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences, all available online
HST – The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection
Over 800 specially prepared online audio-visual lectures by leading experts in Biomedicine and life sciences
Gale Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center
For access to authoritative health and medical information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information.
Emerald Management 120 eJournal Collection
Subject Strengths
Accounting, Finance & Economics | Business, Management & Strategy | Education | HR, Learning & Organization Studies | Health & Social Care | Information & Knowledge Management | Library Studies | Marketing | Operations, Logistics & Quality | Property Management & Built Environment | Public Policy & Environmental Management
A collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials all the current evidence in one single environment.
Cambridge University Press – Cambridge Journals Online
Full text to over 323 Cambridge University Press Online Journals.
American Chemical Society Journals and Magazines
The leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. Access is to over 35 high quality, high impact journals.
PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 312,358,399 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don’t forget to bookmark and share the love!
All medical stuff is another database with current literature on all medical and pharmacology.
This site has current notes on Nursing, Allied Health, Medical Research which can be relevant to both students and lecturers.
PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites. This database is located in HINARI.
Enabling the developing world to access health research. Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI). Provides access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical literature, offered by the leading biomedical publishers.