MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY OF
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15653-00503, Mbagathi, Nairobi, Tel. +254 020 2071391, +254 020 724257083,
+254 020
735900008 Fax: +254 020 2071243 Email:info@mmu.ac.ke
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RESOURCES:
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SUBJECT COVERAGE
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Offers
instant access to the world's premier Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral
Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content.
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ProQuest preserves rich, vast and
varied information – whether historical archives or today’s scientific
breakthroughs – and packages it with digital technologies that enhance its
discovery, sharing and management. For academic, corporate, government,
school and public libraries, as well as professional researchers, ProQuest
provides services that enable strategic acquisition, management and discovery
of information collections.
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http://site.ebrary.com/lib/mmu
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Subject strength: Area & ethics studies, art & pacific
studies, art & architecture, creative writing, education, film theater
& performance arts, history, language & linguistics, library science
& publishing, literature, medicine & health, music, philosophy,
religion, science technology & mathematics, social sciences, studies by
time period and women’s studies gender & sexuality.
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Subject coverage:
Anthropology, Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Fine
Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine,
Physical Sciences, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences and Technology.
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E-JOURNALS
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library Electrical
Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science; Architecture, Imaging
Science & Photographic Technology, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering,
Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering, Remote Sensing
and Artificial Intelligence.
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Subject Strengths: Humanities, Social
Sciences, Scientific, Technical and Medical.
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The databases provide access to just
over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science,
technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.
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Covers Economics, History, Political
science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business,
Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics &
Statistics
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AIP Citation offers online access to a
robust collection of close to 1 million articles from leading Physical
Sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, standards,
and magazines published by AIP Publishing and AIPP’s publishing partners.
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America
Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and
journals produced by the American Physical Society.
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CSP currently owns and publishes 24
diverse international journals with distribution in more than 175 countries,
and provides publishing services to an additional 15 titles. Cover fields
across the spectrum of science and engineering, with a focus on fundamental
and applied sciences.
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The
Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different
types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare
decision-making, and a seventh database (The
Cochrane Collaboration ) that provides information about Cochrane groups.
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Publish books and journals across a
range of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.
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Management
and library & information services journals. The service also provides
access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and
materials science.
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Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science,
Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery and Physics high-impact journals and
books.
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Subject strength: biochemistry,
immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more
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Information Science, Interdisciplinary
Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics,
Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies
& Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science,
Social Sciences, Social Work, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban
Studies.
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The journals present original research
from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education,
Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
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Business, Chemistry, Computer Science,
Earth and Environmental Science, Education Engineering, Law Life Sciences, Mathematics
and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and
Materials Science, Psychology, Social Sciences.
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Covers
optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics.
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The BIR promote and encourage the
study and practice of the art and science of radiology radiobiology and the
medical applications of nuclear science in all their aspects and the study of
kindred sciences. It has access to online journals and resources on
radiologists, medical physicists, oncologist, radiographers and
radiobiologists.
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EBSCO
Religion and Theology Collection
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Religion and theology
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Covers the geosciences
e-resources. It shares the courtyard
with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London,
the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Linnean Society of London.
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Access to information and perspective
on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical
assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction,
and so much more.
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Covers history, modern languages,
literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry
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Biomedical Research, Life Sciences,
Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery,
and Nursing.
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Publishes journals and online
databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences and Clinical
medicine.
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Publishes over 120 peer reviewed books
each year and 7 journals in a wide range of print and digital editions for
researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, politicians, policy
makers and the informed general reader as well as for libraries and other
institutions globally.
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SIAM exists to ensure the strongest
interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological
communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books,
and conferences.
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Subject
strength: Research, health, art & humanities.
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HST - Libraries in a Digital Age
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Subject
strength: digital libraries
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Subject Strength: Agriculture &
environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease
disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition,
microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences,
reproduction & development
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Covers accounting, environmental studies, health & medical
care, government & politics, people, consumer information.
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Lexis Library delivers thousands of
trusted legal, tax and regulatory sources, such as: Butterworths, Halsbury’s
Laws, Tolley’s, Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and Civil
Court Practice. Plus, wide-ranging primary source materials including all
England Law Reports, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms
among others.
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Covers print, manuscripts and
archival, graphic & ephemera, and digital collections.
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Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life
Sciences, Marketing and Management collection.
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OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES
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Universal
content
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Subjects
covered: biological science, business and economics, development policy,
engineering, medical and health science, physical science, social science
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Is a community-curated online
directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access,
peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine,
social science and humanities
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ACS Publications stands alongside
Chemical Abstracts Services in supporting the American Chemical Society's
goal to be the most authoritative, comprehensive, and indispensable provider
of chemistry-related information, in keeping with the ACS's Vision
of Improving People's Lives Through the Transforming Power of Chemistry.
Subjects covered: agricultural and food chemistry, natural products ,
environmental science etc.
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The Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) Database provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies,
as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs.
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Is a non-profit offering public access
to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety
of journals, including PLOS
Biology and PLOS
Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature.
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Science.gov searches over 60
databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to
more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information
including research and development results.
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PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and
other highly relevant agricultural research. PubAg covers all of the core
topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food
quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources,
sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic
and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics,
extramural research, and extension education. PubAg is part of the AGRICOLA
family of products. PubAg contains full-text articles relevant to the
agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal
articles.
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 AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library) |
The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online
Access) database lists bibliographic records of materials acquired by the
National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agriculture and
related sciences.
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Covers agriculture, forestry, animal
husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension
literature from over 100 participating countries.
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PubMed
comprises approximately 20 million citations for biomedical literature from
MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and
abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also
provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI
molecular biology resources.
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Vadlo search engine
caters to all branches of life sciences (Ecology, Oceanography, Geology,
Meteorology, Zoology, Human biology, Botany). It allows users to search
within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and
Software. Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques,
assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will
cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and
manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint
files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to,
well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can
also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for
bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms,
executables, downloadable programs and collaborations.
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Is a digital
collection of research journals for agriculture and related sciences.
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Is an international
and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the
science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising
livestock.
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is a broad-based
publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently
publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering,
medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and
agricultural sciences.
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Publishes a number
of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals
cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social
sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish
their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed
accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are
published with free access to all.
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A global science
gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international
scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can
search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information
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Palgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70
peer-reviewed E-Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Subject strengths:
Biomedical/Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics.
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Subject covered:
physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health
sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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CAB Direct is the
most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences,
incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global
Health. It contains the following datasets:
Crop Protection
Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/cpc/
Animal Health and Production Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/ahpc/ Aquaculture Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/ac/ Forestry Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/fc/ |
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NCBI bookshelf
provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and
Healthcare.
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Biomedical &
Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science,
Computer Science & Communications
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Mathematics. |
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Provides access to
over 30 journals across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most
recently, clinical medicine.
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