The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality…
AIP publishes 12 journals, 2 magazines, and a conference proceedings series. AIP’s Scitation platform hosts over 2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 earned society publishers.
Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 33 Peer-reviewed journals with more than 60,000 full-text papers and a 31-Year archive from 1983 to the present.
British Institute of Radiology
Access to British Journal of Radiology (BJR) and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (DMFR) Global Health is a bibliographical abstract and indexing database specialising in public health, human nutrition, parasitic…
BMJ Journals is a collection of more than 60 medical and allied science titles. They are published by BMJ, the global healthcare knowledge provider and pioneer in the development of open access.
BMC is dedicated to publishing the best open access journals across a portfolio of over 250 titles and is always striving to drive progress in biology, health sciences and medicine.
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. It provides open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. The journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity.
Full text of over 323 Cambridge University Press Online Journals.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence…
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) relies on support from the stakeholders in scholarly communication to sustain its services. DOAB has been deemed an essential open science infrastructure by the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS).
This collection has 237 000 titles and covers these topics, Education, Language arts and disciplines, Political science, Religion, Literary criticism, Medical, Social Science, Philosophy Technology and engineering, World…
Edinburgh University Press publishes over 35 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Emerald Publishing Group Limited
Emerald CUUL full-text access features Emerald HR, Learning & Organization Studies (25 journals) and Emerald Accounting, Finance & Economics (39 journals) all of which are peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals
Promoting free access to medical journals.
Geological Society – The Lyell Collection Complete
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
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Contain digital collections that preserve and provide access of intellectual output of an institution, and content varies i.e. could be open or closed, though open is encouraged today. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded there. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.
Oxford University Press Journals
Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.
The Policy Press publishes four 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.
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
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.
Royal Society for Chemistry – RSC Journals Online
37 full-text journals spanning all branches of chemistry, plus a range of key databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and catalyzed reactions, organic synthesis, and natural products plus its online series of specialist periodical reports, and a range of key databases.
Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine (STM).
Springer eBooks and Springer Open
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.
Provides access to more than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences. Makerere University has direct access (IP restricted)
University of Chicago Journals
The University of Chicago Press publishes nearly fifty scholarly journals, many on behalf of some of the world’s most prestigious societies, and several that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields. The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences
Wiley Online Library is a leading international resource for scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. This package provides access to over 500 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Institutional repositories: These are “digital collections that preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of an institution.” Contents in IR vary, some could be open or closed, though open is encouraged.
Provide open access learning objects: Quiz, Syllabi, course outline, notes, presentations, simulations, games, videos, podcasts etc. Mostly feature a community of users. Among others, these include:
Makerere Institutional Repository (Mak IR)
Mak IR is a collection of scholarly output of by researchers of Makerere University, including scholarly articles and books, electronic theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, technical reports and digitised library collections. It is the official Institutional Repository (IR) of Makerere University.
Provides access to theses and dissertations generated by a variety of harvesters and search engines in cooperation with the NDLTD–Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
Provides open access to 855,382 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Contains open e-print archive with over 100000 articles in physics, 10000 in mathematics, and 1000 in computer science.
MIT Open Course Ware (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Open Access Educational Resources (OER) – Commons
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge for teachers and learner Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials made freely available online. Grouped by subject area and grade.
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
R4L is an Independent database housing 5 different databases. Access different content portal for academic and professional resources for education, research, and policymaking in all subject areas.
Research4Life content is grouped into the following collections
ResearchGate is a professional network for scientists and researchers – providing a platform for you to connect, collaborate, and share your work with a global community of 25+ million members. Our mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. The 20 million researchers in our community come from diverse sectors in over 190 countries, and use ResearchGate to connect, collaborate, and share their work. ResearchGate is for you: the scientist, the clinician, the student, the engineer, the public health worker, the lab technician, the computer scientist.
Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine specifically for scholarly literature. It indexes a wide variety of research, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and technical reports from all areas of academic study. Users can search across many disciplines and sources, making it a valuable tool for researchers, students, and anyone seeking academic information. The platform is continually updated, and its citation metrics can be helpful for researchers.