E-resources
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Since 1929 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound. The Journal serves physical scientists, life scientists, engineers, psychologists, physiologists, architects, musicians, and speech communication specialists.
African Journals Online (AJOL)
Tables of contents and abstracts of over 430 African journals with 90% of articles having their full text available for download.
American Astronomical Society
The Society publishes three scholarly journals that are available through PERI: The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal (including The Astrophysical Journal Letters), and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
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, reliability, and innovation. Access is to over 35 high quality, high impact journals.
American Institute of Physics
AIP publishes 12 journals,2 magazines,and a conference proceedings series.AIP’s Scitation platform hosts over2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publicationsfor 28 earned society publisher.
American Physical Society APS
Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
ASABE Technical Library includes a range of content including journals, textbook materials, monographs, standards and proceedings as well as the important reference work-in-progress, Design Topics.
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 32 journals encompassing more than 48,000 full-text papers published since 1983 – that’s over 408,000 pages!Approximately 4000 new papers will be added each year.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life,Physical and Social Sciences. The authoritative and comprehensive review articles are written by leading scholars who are dedicated to helping scientists, students and researchers around the world prioritise and navigate the vast amount of primary research literature and data that is available to them. Year after year, Annual Reviews publications earn the highest Impact Factors according to the ISI® Journal Citation Reports (JCR®).
Beech Tree Publishing
Beech Tree makes accessible to PERI two of its international, peer-reviewed academic journals. They have readers in over 80 countries, mainly in universities and government.They are on public policy for science, technology and innovation and on the evaluation of research.
Cambridge University Press
Over 230 leading titles in Linguistics,Politics,Medicine,Science,Technology,Social Science and Humanities.
EBSCO EconLit
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 480 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance.
EBSCO Host Research Databases
Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier;ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic;Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline.
EBSCO NISC
EBSCO NISC, through PERii provides access to the four databases all with relevance to Africa.
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
Emerald Management, features 140 Business and Management journals and Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection, features 19 Engineering journals. All of which are peerreviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the world’s top 300 management journals.
Gale Cengage Learning: Expanded Academic Resource Center
Expanded Academic: Unparalleled in its depth and scope, this premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic subject — from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies.
Gale Cengage Learning:Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center: For access to authoritative health and medical information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information to academic, medical and public libraries.
Geological Society
The Lyell Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal,Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London.It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality.
HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme
This database is accessible using username and password.You may request the access details from John F.Kennedy Memorial or Medical Library.
HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 11,400 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 18,500 e-books, up to 70 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 100 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
INFORMS publishes 12 scholarly journals,including a journal for the practice of OR/MS (Interfaces),as well as an on-line open access journal (INFORMS Transactions on Education).
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers(IEEE)
IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) includes the core collection of IEEE engineering, electronics and computer science periodicals, with a backfile to 2005.IEEE Proceedings Order Plans (POP) is the world’s leading conference proceedings collection,with a backfile to 2005.
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Digital Library
Over 20 Research journals and letters in electrical and electronic engineering.
International Forestry Review
The International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research.It is published four times per year. Themed editions are a regular feature and attract a wideaudience.
Institute of Physics(IOP) Publishing
IOP publishes over 60 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences, all available online through IOP publishing.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Our overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost-effective ways. We operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. We collaborate with organizations that can help us achieve our objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
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, and law. Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is pleased to offer free full text electronic access to the entire journal program to researchers, students and clinicians in developing nations.Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. encourages professionals to become familiar with our important content and, possibly submit an article for review and publication.
NPG – Nature
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes journals and online databases across the life,physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology,and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.
Canadian Science Publishing (was NRC Press)
NRC Research Press has been publishing scholarly journals since 1929. As part of Canadian Science Publishing, NRC Research Press publishes 16 journals, monographs,conference proceedings, and allied publications.A continuing investment in electronic publishing keeps us at the forefront of scientific communications and helps satisfy the needs of our international clientele.
OECD
OECD is the world’s largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues.
OSA – Optical Society of America
15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA, conference papers, and selected OSA meeting content, including Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP), new in 2009.
Oxford Journals (OUP)
Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical,humanities, arts and social science disciplines. Organisations that qualify for the free Developing Countries Oxford Online Collection offer will obtain access to over 200 titles.
Policy Press Journals
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.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides online access to almost 500 full-text journals from 140 non-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
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
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.
Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Archive
Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.
Sage Publications
Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM
Sage Publications – IMechE (was PEP)
18 journals representing the best in mechanical engineering. Also available is the IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996.
SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 270,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
SPringer Lecture Notes Series
The Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), includes its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). The series publishes new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching – quickly, informally, and at a high level.
Symposium Journals
Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals,i.e.journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions,standards, and presentation as conventional journals. New for 2009, Power and Education.
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.
University of Chicago Press
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 (formerly Inter Science)
Wiley InterScience® is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. This package provides access to over 350 journals.
Wiley Online Library (formerly Synergy)
Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
World Bank e-library
The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Bank’s full-text collection of books, reports/working papers, journals and other documents on social and economic development. It is the most comprehensive collections in the area and it brings together, in PDF format, a fully indexed and cross-searchable database of 6,000+ titles, as well as every new title as it becomes available in print. In addition, subscribers have access to information not available in print. eLibrary is fully searchable by subject, region, keyword, title, author, abstract, or year of publication.
World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF) Database
Global Development Finance (GDF) Online offers external debt and financial flow data for over 129 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System. Time series includes over 200 indicators from 1970 through 2017. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates,and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.
World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) Online Database
World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the premier data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for 854 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
World Bank – Global Economic Monitor
Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-today developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a “one-stop shop” portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators.Global Economic Monitor features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions,including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries.
World Bank: Africa Development Indicators
Africa Development Indicators provides the most comprehensive collection of data on Africa available. It contains data for over 1,400 statistical indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources,infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.