American Chemical SocietyThe 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 PhysicsAIP 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 SocietyAccess to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
American Society of Civil EngineersASCE 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 RadiologyAccess 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.
British Medical JournalBMJ 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.
BioMed CentralBMC 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 InternationalBioline 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.
Cochrane LibraryThe 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)Directory of Open Access Journals – lists free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
Edinburgh University PressEdinburgh University Press publishes over 35 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Emerald PublishingEmerald 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 – Lyell CollectionThe Lyell Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London.
HighWire PressHighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries that produces the online versions of peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Resources include a vast database of full-text scholarly, high-impact materials.
HST – Biomedical & Life Sciences CollectionSpecially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on Biomedicine and life sciences for researchers and university faculty members.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)The IMF is viewed as one of the world's most authoritative sources for economic information, analysis and harmonized statistics. IMF E-Library provides comprehensive data.
IOP PublishingIOP publishes over 60 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences.
Journal of Law and CommerceThe Journal of Law and Commerce is a law review published by an independent student group at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, focusing on domestic and international commercial and business law. The journal is published biannually, with recent issues available online.
JSTORJSTOR 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 researchers.
Mary Ann LiebertFounded 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.
OpenDOAROpenDOAR 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 JournalsOxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.
Palgrave Macmillan JournalsPalgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed e-journals.
Policy PressThe 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.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
Royal College of PhysiciansClinical 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 Chemistry37 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 JournalsOver 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine (STM).
SpringerOpenSpringer 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 & FrancisProvides access to more than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences. Makerere University has direct access (IP restricted).
University of Chicago JournalsThe 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 LibraryWiley 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.
ACM Digital LibraryACM Books is a series of scholarly research monographs and graduate-level texts, authored by computer scientists and practitioners at the forefront of computing technology and includes books across the entire spectrum of computer science, geared to researchers, educators, practitioners and students. Comprehensive in its coverage of both established and emerging computing fields, the series focuses on graduate-level textbooks, research monographs, practitioner-level professional books, and books devoted to the history and social impact of computing.
African Journals Online – AJOLAJOL, the indexing platform of quality African-published scholarly journals, is a Non-Profit Organization that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.
ACS PublicationPower your research and learning. Explore trusted, peer-reviewed research from one of the world's leading sources of authoritative scientific information.
Elgar OnlineElgar Online (Elgaronline) is the digital platform of Edward Elgar Publishing, an academic publisher that is particularly strong in the social sciences, law, business, economics, management, public policy, education, environment, politics, and related fields.
Britannica AcademicThe most relevant product is designed for higher education and research. Britannica provides resources such as: Encyclopaedia articles covering thousands of subjects, Biographies of important people, Images and multimedia resources, Maps and geographical information, Statistics and factual information, Primary-source and historical materials, depending on the institutional package, Background information useful for assignments, presentations and research, Citation and research tools that can help students identify and use information appropriately.
ProQuest – ERICJoin our webinar series to see how ProQuest Central Premium and ProQuest Ebooks support research, teaching and curriculum needs across key subject areas. Every library deserves a world-class collection. Discover 600 years of unique primary sources with journals, videos, and more.
IEEE XploreA public charity, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
IMF e-LibraryIMF e-Library is the digital research and publications platform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It provides access to the IMF's economic and financial research, publications, data and analytical material. Users can access resources including: IMF books and e-books, IMF Working Papers, IMF Country Reports, IMF Staff Discussion Notes, Regional Economic Outlooks, World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report, Fiscal Monitor, Finance & Development magazine, Economic and financial data and statistics, Research on macroeconomics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, trade, finance, economic development, and financial stability.
IOPScienceWelcome to IOPScience, the home of scientific content from IOP Publishing and our partners. IOP Publishing publishes high-quality, trusted, peer-reviewed research in over 100 scientific journals on our IOPscience platform, providing visibility, recognition, and impact for work across the physical sciences.
IWA PublishingIWA Publishing spreads knowledge about our most valuable resource, water, helping to improve global health and well-being. We publish a portfolio of eighteen peer-reviewed journals and 800+ books, along with other information resources. Read our Strategic Plan for more information.
LexisNexis – Relcx GroupWe have more than 2,000 technologists with advanced technology skills working in our local innovation centers around the world. Our global legal and news database contains 200+ billion documents and records, with 4 million new documents added daily. Nexis news and business content includes over 40,000 premium sources in 50 languages, covering more than 180 countries. It has data including 490 million company profiles, with a content archive that dates back 45 years.
Digital Theological LibraryThe mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections. The OADTL uses the world's most advanced integrated library system (ILS) for cataloging and discovery. This system, OCLC's WorldShare, makes content easily discoverable and retrievable.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 7,464,811 theses and dissertations.
OpenEditionOpenEdition brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. Advanced research and scholarship. Theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use.
Open LibraryOpen Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
OSMOSISWhere medicine finally makes sense; Osmosis turns even the toughest topics into clear, illustrated videos so you can learn rather than memorize.
Oxford Competition LawVisit this resource and subscribe to books previously published in Oxford Competition Law and discover the range of high-quality and trusted legal resources that Oxford Law Pro has to offer.
Oxford English DictionaryAn unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Handbooks OnlineEach Oxford Handbook offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examination of the progress and direction of debates, providing scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives. From economics and politics to literature and philosophy, you can discover more than 1,000 Oxford Handbooks on a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law.
Oxford Public International LawOxford Public International Law (OPIL) is a comprehensive, single location providing integrated access across our international law services, bringing you one step closer to the perfect research solution. Our ground-breaking online resources work to speed up research and provide easy access to authoritative content, essential for anyone working in international law.
Oxford ScholarshipYour gateway to research. Whether you're looking for trustworthy research, navigating an abundance of academic literature, or diving into a new topic, Oxford Academic is your gateway to scholarly excellence.
ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis GlobalProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT Global), continues to grow its repository of 5 million graduate works each year, thanks to the continued contribution from the world's universities, creating an ever-growing resource of emerging research to fuel innovation and new insights. PQDT Global provides researchers with quality and equitable search results across all institutions, as well as rich citation data that delivers insights into the connections building around the world.
Scite_Scite is built on the largest licensed database of scholarly content in AI research, with agreements across 40+ publishers plus the full open access corpus. When other tools hit a paywall, they guess. Scite reads the paper.
The Royal Society PublishingThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
World Bank Open Knowledge RepositoryThe World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank's official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Electronic books
Taylor & Francis E‑booksOur Routledge Subject Collections provide comprehensive coverage of subject areas and sub-disciplines across Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Education. This resource focuses on British society from 1789-1914. This resource contains thousands of chapters of primary and secondary material, searchable by Themes, Region, Period & Notable Figures, making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)Directory of Open Access Books – community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.
Repositories
Institutional repositories
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.
Virginia Tech UniversityProvides 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.
EThOSElectronic Theses Online Service (registration required).
Subject repositories
arXivProvides 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.
WorldWideScience.orgA global science gateway providing access to national and international scientific databases.
Open Access Educational Resources / Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWareMIT 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.
OER CommonsOpen 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.
MERLOTMERLOT 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.
Independent Databases
Research4Life (R4L)
Research4Life 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.
Free Search Engines
Google ScholarGoogle 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.
ResearchGateResearchGate 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.
