Subscribed Databases
THE UNIVERSITY OF JOS SUBSCRIBED DATABASES LIST
AGORA - ACCESS TO GLOBAL RESEARCH IN AGRCULTURE
The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of up to 15,500 key journals and up to 48,000 books in more than 115 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the five programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE, ARDI and GOALI.
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The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.
A richly interlinked set of connections among authors, works, institutions, and specialized communities.
African Commons is a project to digitize, disseminate and discover African Cultural materials. The aim is to enable Africa to easily control, digitize and disseminate its archival riches – those within Africa and items residing internationally. The project helps to preserve African content and enable African scholars to easily find and access expressions of their heritage in western collections. The University of Jos is the only University that has been given access to the beta site.
The materials in this database span several centuries and may contain content that’s harmful or difficult to view. They have been presented as part of the historical record so they can help society understand and learn from the past.
AFRICAN ONLINE DIGITAL LIBRARY
AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.
AODL is aimed at a broad international constituency, from university researchers and secondary school teachers to individuals seeking to inform themselves about African people on the continent and in the diaspora.
TETFUND SPONSORED
Access for staff and students of TETFund Sponsored Beneficiary Institutions to access high quality research materials and journals from across the world. Access millions of high-quality impactful journals covering the broadest range of interdisciplinary scholarly works. Browse over 3,300 eBook titles and a portfolio of over 3,000,000 academic materials. Research in academic, corporate, government, public and school libraries around the world.
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The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program, coordinated by WIPO together with its partners in the publishing industry, aims to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries. By improving access to scholarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology, ARDI seeks to:
Reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and
Support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level.
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Berghahn Journals is the journals division of Berghahn Books, an independent scholarly publisher in the humanities and social sciences. A peer-review press, Berghahn is committed to the highest academic standards and seeks to enable innovative contributions to the scholarship in its fields of speciality.
The BioOne Digital Library is a community-based platform that provides global distribution for more than 350 journals and eBooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The BioOne Digital Library provides access to all of BioOne’s offerings, including our flagship aggregation BioOne Complete, the BioOne Complete Archive, and the ESA eBook Collection. This inaugural collection from the BioOne eBooks program features 160+ newly digitized titles from the Entomological Society of America.
Initiative for the Development of Digital in the French-speaking University Space (IDNEUF)
DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE FRANCOPHONE UNIVERSITY SPACE
Access different AUF applications with unified authentication
Your authentication will give you access to the following applications:
The Digital Library of the Francophone University Space (BNEUF)
The AUF Social Network
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is, to our knowledge, also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures POSI.
With EconBiz you search for scholarly literature quickly and professionally:
For students, researchers and teachers EconBiz offers orientation and help in the search for articles, working papers, e-books and more.
Result lists can be sorted according to relevance or date.
A variety of filter options help you find the relevant titles more quickly.
Individual support helps you with the search for and access to the full text.
The integrated Thesaurus for Economics (STW) helps with topic searches by e.g. including synonyms in the search.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier's premier platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
Advance research and scholarship with the world's leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical and health literature. Our intuitive features make it easy to stay informed and work more efficiently. 1.4 million articles on ScienceDirect are open access
Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made freely available for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the user license displayed on the article.
From foundational science to new and novel research, discover our large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied.
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Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference.
We work with thousands of universities and business schools across the world to share knowledge and provoke the kind of debate that leads to positive change. We are passionate about people and doing things differently.
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Gale offers a variety of resources for education, lifelong learning, and academic research. Whether you are looking for peer-reviewed articles; full-text magazines, newspapers, and eBooks; primary source documents; and videos or podcasts, Gale puts the right vetted content and tools at your fingertips!
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GOALI – Global Online Access to Legal Information
GOALI - Global Online Access to Legal Information is a new programme providing free or low-cost online access to legal research and training in the developing world.
Academic and professional peer-reviewed journals, publications and databases in selected subject areas of law from the world's leading academic publishers for Researchers, students, librarians, policymakers, judges, legal experts through their institutions in 115 low- and middle-income countries . And All institutions registered for any of the Research4Life programmes can access all of the programmes' portals, including GOALI.
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HINARI – Health Internetwork Access to Research Institute
Hinari offers access to thousands of journals, books, and other information resources in biomedical and health sciences topics. The journals and books can be searched through a special version of PubMed (Medline) and through other databases.
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At its launch in May of 2000, HeinOnline sought to provide the authority of print with the ease of online access. HeinOnline’s first online database, the Law Journal Library, marked the platform’s initial entry into the online research community. Since then, the Law Journal Library has grown to include nearly 40 other disciplines, in addition to law, and has become a resource relied on by millions.
In addition to its Law Journal Library, HeinOnline has released more than 100 other document and subject-specific databases over the past twenty years which have become essential to multidisciplinary research. Each month, these databases grow with the addition of new content at no cost to the subscriber. Each year, HeinOnline works diligently on curating new and exciting databases with the help of experts, editors, and authors.
Peruse the categories below to view a comprehensive list of our databases. Choose a specific category to learn more about the databases within.
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IEEE Xplore is the flagship digital platform for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
IEEE Xplore contains more than 6 million documents and other materials from some of the world's most cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and related sciences.
Electronic publishing of books is quickly changing how companies around the world are producing and distributing knowledge and how the public, students and researchers are consuming it. The mission of iG Publishing is to facilitate access to this global knowledge.
Established in Singapore since 2006, iG Publishing works with more than 60 reputable publishers to represent their brands. The company is the leading provider of eBook collections in the region with over 150,000 titles covering all disciplines. iG Publishing is growing its online resources to meet emerging needs and embracing innovative and new technologies to deliver relevant and timely content to readers at home, in colleges and universities and in the workplace.
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Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
IMF-INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND ELIBRARY
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
Launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited, J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles. The J-Gate platform is fronted by a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface, and also gives users complete control over search filters. By allowing users to access content from a wide variety of publishers on a single platform, J-Gate exponentially increases journal usage.
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JSTOR - JOURNAL STORAGE PROJECT
Enrich your research with primary sources
Explore millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
JSTOR help you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. We collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations.
JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
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OARE - ONLINE ACCESS TO RESEARCH IN THE ENVIRONMENT
OARE provides developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed journals, books and databases on the environment--up to 11,500 scientific journals, 27,000 e-books, 40 databases and other information resources in 118 countries. It is led by UN Environment in partnership with leading scientific publishers and Yale University.
OARE is part of the Research4Life partnership, together with four other sister programmes: Hinari, AGORA, ARDI, and GOALI, all designed to bridge the knowledge gap between developing countries and the industrialized world, and to contribute to science-driven policies and decision-making.
OpenEdition brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences.
If you wish your university to subscribe to additional services and give you access to downloadable formats (PDF, ePub), please visit our Institutions section.
Research with impact
The home of 500 peer-reviewed journals published by Oxford University Press and learned societies from around the world.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.
Welcome to Ebook Central, the industry’s most intuitive ebook platform for users and librarians.
Ebook Central makes it easy to manage discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and reporting all in one place – and to give students, faculty and researchers seamless and immediate access to the ebooks they need.
An all-in-one ebook platform for research, teaching and learning…and simpler administration for libraries.
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Academic Complete: 20 years of ebook curation excellence
Librarians around the world rely on this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary foundation
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PubMed® comprises more than 36 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 web sites.
Sage Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from Sage that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.
We index over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.
With Semantic Scholar, researchers can understand a paper at a glance. Our system extracts meaning and identifies connections from within papers, then surfaces these insights to help Scholars discover and understand research.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Springer Nature advances discovery by publishing trusted research, supporting the development of new ideas and championing open science. We are committed to playing our part in accelerating solutions to address the world’s urgent challenges.
TEEAL – THE ESSENTIAL ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
DATAD - THE DATABASE OF AFRICAN THESIS AND DESSERTATIONS
A-Z Databases: Theses and Dissertations
The Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) is a programme to improve management and access to African scholarly work. It is an abstracts database containing information from 11 African institutions, some as far back as 1982.
• Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200 publications per year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently researched information on important matters in science and health policy.
This is an independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society has played a part in some of the most fundamental, significant, and life-changing discoveries in scientific history and Royal Society scientists continue to make outstanding contributions to science in many research areas.
Welcome to the UNESCO Digital Library website.
The UNESCO Digital Library is a key tool for enabling UNESCO’s mission of building peace in the minds of people, in particular by “advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding, and encouraging cooperation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, including […] the exchange of publications, objects of artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information” (UNESCO Constitution).
In more concrete terms, it provides access to publications, documents and other materials either produced by UNESCO or pertaining to UNESCO’s fields of competence. These collections are accessible online or physically - at the library or the archives room.
The UNESCO Digital Library is constantly enriched with new publications and documents produced by UNESCO, as well as with acquisitions, resources shared by other institutions and donations. Furthermore, new digital materials are produced daily under a major ongoing project “Digitizing our shared UNESCO history”, which allows to preserve and share thousands of collection items, previously unavailable electronically. They will be integrated in the UNESCO Digital Library in the near future.
The UNESCO Digital Library is the 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. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centres in UNESCO’s Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives.
Zendy was founded with a vision to make research affordable and accessible for all. We are committed to fostering collaboration between publishers and research communities on a global scale, to ensure the dissemination of knowledge is inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.
Zendy was born from a simple vision: to make academic content more affordable and accessible for everyone.And we mean everyone. No matter where you’re from or what you’re interested in, Zendy’s Online Library helps you discover more about our world.
