e-Resources

E-resources A-Z

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)

American Chemical Society

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…

American Institute of Physics

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.

American Physical Society

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…

Cambridge University Press

Full text of over 323 Cambridge University Press Online Journals.

Cochrane Library

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…

EBSCO Host

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

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

Geological Society – The Lyell Collection Complete

The Lyell Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London.
Specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on library developments in a digital environment for researchers and university faculty members.
Specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on Biomedicine and life sciences for  researchers and university faculty members.
The IMF is viewed as one of the world’s most authoritative sources for economic information, analysis and harmonized statistics. IMF eLibrary provides comprehensive data
IOP publishes over 60 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences.
JSTOR is a growing digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, 20,000 books, and 2 million primary source objects.JSTOR helps students, scholars, and

Mary Ann Liebert

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

Oxford University Press Journals

Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.

Palgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed e-journals.

Policy Press

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.

Royal College of Physicians

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.

Sage Online Journals

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.

Taylor and Francis

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

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.

Open Access

  • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Open DOAR -Directory of Academic Open Access Repositories.
  • Bioline International
  • Biomed central
  • Free Medical Journals
  • Public Library of Science (PLOS)
  • SpringerOpen

Repositories

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.

  • Makerere Institutional Repository (Mak IR)
  • Virginia Tech University
  • EThos: Electronic (Theses online service) – Requires one to register

Subject Repositories

  • Arxiv
  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
  • WorldWideScience.org

Open Access Educational Resources/Courseware

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:

  • MERLOT
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)

Independent Databases/ Sites

  • Research4Life (R4L) – Independent Database housing about 5 different databases
  • Pdfdrive.com
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate
  • Agro-ecology