JKUAT LIBRARY
ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES – 2014
NB: The following access details to electronic journals and books subscribed to by JKUAT are ONLY for use by bonafide
JKUAT users – academic staff, students and non-academic staff. They are not to be shared whatsoever by other non-JKUAT
members or to be posted in any website.
The databases are accessible through the JKUAT library website at http://jkuat.ac.ke/departments/library/
Please email vpn@jkuat.ac.ke for your password for off campus access. Also note that the library also offers training on
searching electronic resources
PUBLISHER/DATABASE
SUBJECT COVERAGE/ STRENGTH
USER ID
Accoustical Society of America
Access to all issues of Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America (JASA); Back to Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1929
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Contains 127 per reviewed journals from major scientific
publishers in food, Agriculture, Environmental Science and related
discipline
AJOL offers the table of contents and abstracts from journals
published in Africa in the following subjects areas.
Agricultural sciences, Arts, culture and literature, Health, Science
and technology, Social science
Applied and multidisciplinary physics
ag-ken008
Physics, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Condensed matter
and materials physics, Nuclear physics, Particles, fields,
gravitation, and cosmology, Statistical, non-linear, and soft matter
physics, Accelerators and beams, Physics education research
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http://scitation.aip.org/JASA
Agora
www.aginternetwork.org
AJOL (Africa journal Online)
www.ajol.info
American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/pubs/
American Physical Society
Reviews
http://publish.asp.org
PASSWORD
839T44
Need to register
individually to
access
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Annual Reviews
http://arjournals.annualreviews.o
rg
Beech Tree Publishing
Biomedical/Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences,
Economics
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Two international, peer-reviewed academic journals on Public
policy for science and technology and Research evaluation.
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11 international peer-reviewed journals offer the latest original
research to psychology academics and professionals worldwide
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Politics, Linguistics, Social Science, Humanities, Law,
Mathematics, Science, Medicine
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Username: Mativo
Password:
kenya2
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http://www.ingentaconnect.co
m/content/beech
British Psychological Society
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
content/bpsoc
Cambridge University Press
http://journals.cambridge.org
Cochrane Library
http://www.thecochranelibrary
.com
Ebrary
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/jkuat/h
ome.action
EBSCO Host Research
Databases
An internationally acclaimed database of regularly updated
evidence-based medical systematic reviews.
library has access to Academic Complete, a growing ebook collection spanning all academic subject areas.
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Good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities,
Strong business coverage, Strong nursing, medicine and allied
health coverage, Dedicated newspaper database,
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Off campus access with:
Username: S8856780
(please note that the S is Uppercase S)
Password: password
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http://search.ebscohost.com
Edinburgh University Press
Over 30 full-text electronic journals in the humanities and social
sciences.
http://www.eupjournals.com
Emerald Group Publishing
Ltd
www.emeraldinsight.com
Management, Library and information sciences, Marketing,
Engineering, Computer science.
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Username: jomo908
Password: kenyatta043
Gale
www.infotrac.galegroup.com
The Geological Society
Literature, Arts, economics & Sciences
jku
Geology, earth sciences. 5 journals
14000 peer-reviewed articles
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Access to over 2300 biomedical and related sciences for health
sector and academic institutions.
KEN034
Electrical, Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science,
Architecture, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology,
Telecommunications, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering,
Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering,
Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence
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Applied physics, Computer science, Condensed matter and
materials science, High energy and nuclear physics, Mathematics,
applied mathematics and mathematical physics, Measurement
science and sensors, Medical and biological sciences, Optical,
atomic and molecular physics, Physics education, Plasma physics
Anthropology, Archeology architecture, Biological Sciences,
Botany & plant Science, Business & Economics , Education,
Finance, ecology & history political science, language & literature,
Arts & Art history, Music, Mathematics, social sciences, Zoology
Biomedical research, Clinical medicine, Public health & health
care policies, Environmental studies and Multidisciplinary
j7544
www.lyellcollection.org
Hinari
www.healthinternetwork.org
Institute of Electronic and
Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org
Jstor
http://www.jstor.org
Mary Ann Liebert
http://www.liebertpub.com
National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
NPG - Palgrave Macmillan
Journals
http://www.palgravejournals.com/pal
Physical sciences, Biological sciences Social sciences , Applied
Physical Sciences, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Ecology,
Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Medical Sciences,
Microbiology, Plant, Biology
Offer a combined portfolio of over 60 peer-reviewed e-journals in
the field of Business, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
database
9C31T7M6
Off campus access with:
Username: jomolib12
Password: Kenyatta 598
Sigma754
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jkuat
jkuatlib
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Chemistry: Chemistry, Drug discovery, Biotechnology, Materials,
Methods & Protocols, Clinical Practice & Research: Cancer,
Cardiovascular medicine, Dentistry, Endocrinology,
Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Methods & Protocols, Pathology
& Pathobiology, Urology, Earth & Environment: Earth sciences,
Evolution & Ecology, Geosciences, Life sciences: Biotechnology,
Cancer, Development, Drug discovery, Evolution & Ecology,
Genetics, Immunology, Medical research, Methods & Protocols,
Microbiology, Molecular cell biology, Neuroscience,
Pharmacology, Systems biology, Physical Sciences: Physics,
Materials, Nanotechnology, Photonics,
Environmental information research in over 1,000 scientific
journals coordinated by United Nations Environmental Program
(UNEP and YALE University) covering biology, biotechnology,
genetics, genetically modified species, Botany, Environmental
disasters, remote sensing, hydrology water, marine biology,
Animal biodiversity satellite
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KEN525
3222W
OECD
Economics, Energy, Environment, Social sciences
nairobi2663
3023315
http://www.sourceoecd.org
OSA - Optical Society of
America
15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected
OSA meeting content.
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www.oxfordjournals.org
Biological Sciences, Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology,
Humanities, Social Sciences, Law ,Economics, Business, and
Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Computing and Physics
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OUP E-books Oxford English
Dictionary Online
An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation
of over half a million words, both present and past.
nairobi2663
African American and African Diaspora, Studies, African Studies,
American Studies, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Asian
Studies, Book History and Print Culture, Caribbean Studies,
Classics, Cultural Studies, Economics, Education, Film, Theater,
and Performing Arts, Folklore, French studies, German Studies,
History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine,
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Nature Publishing Group
(NPG)
http://www.nature.com
OARE (Online Access to
Research Environment)
http://www.oaresciences.org
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/
Oxford Journals OUP
3023315
http://www.oed.com/
Project MUSE
http://muse.jhu.edu
Palg raves Macmillan
http://www.palgravejournals.com/pal
Royal College of Physicians
International Relations, Judaic Studies, Language and Linguistics,
Latin American Studies, Library Science and Publishing, Literary
Magazines, Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Middle
East Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies,
Pacific Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Policy Studies,
Population Studies, Religion, Sociology Women's Studies
Covers business and management, economics, education,
information systems and technology, political science and
international studies, social and cultural studies, urban design and
architecture
Full text access to “Clinical Medicine”, the journal of the Royal
College of Physicians, London
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Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the
UK's national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the
biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running
continuously published journal in the world.
All branches of chemistry including traditional fields (organic,
inorganic, analytical chemistry) plus newer developments and
cross-disciplinary studies such as natural products and green
chemistry, databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and
catalysed reactions, organic synthesis and natural products,
specialist reports in: amino acids, peptides and proteins,
carbohydrate chemistry. monosaccharides, disaccharides and
specific oligosaccharides, catalysis chemical modeling, electron
paramagnetic resonance, NMR, organometallic chemistry,
organophosphorus chemistry, photochemistry, spectroscopic
Properties of inorganic and organometallic compounds
Mathematics, engineering and other physical sciences, All
biological sciences; particularly good on ecology, environment,
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science
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Business, humanities, social sciences, technology and medicine.
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
content/rcop/cm
Royal Society
http://www.royalsocietypublishi
ng.org/journals
Royal Society of Chemistry:
RSC Journals Online
http://www.rsc.org
Royal Society publishing
http://journals.royalsociety.or
g
Sage Journals Online
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http://online.sagepub.com
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The Taylor & Francis eBestseller Packages contains
1200 of their bestselling eBook titles from twelve key
subject areas- Business and Economics, Asian Studies
History’ Psychology, Media, ,Philosophy, Linguistics,
Geography, Politics, Architecture, Religion, Classics
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http://www.tandfonline.c
om/
Taylor & Francis journals
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University of Chicago Press
Education, Humanities, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Social Sciences,
Economics
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Business, Chemistry, Computer science, Earth and environmental
science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life sciences, Mathematics
and statistics, Medicine, Physics and astronomy, Polymers and
materials science, Psychology Social sciences
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Full indexed databases, cross-searchable Advanced search
features
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Taylor & Francis
http://lib.myilibrary.com
www.journals.uchicago.edu
Wiley-Blackwell - InterScience
Content
www.interscience.wiley.com
World Bank Publications
http://publications.worldbank.or
g
www.worldbank.org/newelibrary
Agriculture, community and human settlement, conflict and
development, Education, Energy, environment, finance and
Financial sector development, Gender, Health, Nutrition&
population, Industry, Information & communication technologies,
Infrastructure economics & finance, international economics &
trade, law development, macroeconomics& economic growth,
poverty reduction, Private sector development, public sector
development rural development, science & technology
development, social development, social protection & labor,
transport, urban development, Water Resources, water supply
&sanitation, world bank
Electronic books
Ebrary
The JKUAT library has access to Academic Complete, a growing
e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.
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You have full access to books with a green mark. This
database is only accessible within JKUAT
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The Taylor & Francis eBestseller Packages contains 1200 of their
bestselling eBook titles from key subject areas.
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http://site.ebrary.com/lib/jkua
t/home.action
SpringerLink E-books
http://www.springerlink.com/
books
Taylor and Francis ebooks
http://www.tandfonline.com/
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