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CD-ROM Databases

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
TEEAL is a full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It arrives in a box, containing a comprehensive collection of current journals, and provides a complex bibliographic search engine.

It covers the following subjects:Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Improvement, Environment and Natural Resources, Food Processing and Nutrition, Forestry, Livestock Production, Range Management, Rural Management, Soil and Water Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine.


AGRICULTURE

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)-CD-ROM Based
TEEAL is a full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It arrives in a box, containing a comprehensive collection of current journals, and provides a complex bibliographic search engine.

It covers the following subjects:Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Improvement, Environment and Natural Resources, Food Processing and Nutrition, Forestry, Livestock Production, Range Management, Rural Management, Soil and Water Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine.

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)

The AGORA site provides access to over 400 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.
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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Provides information resources published each year including technical papers from meetings and conferences, peer-reviewed journal articles, membership magazine, textbooks, reference books and standards. Publication target engineers, scientists and technicians.

International Forestry Review -Commonwealth Forestry Association

It 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 wide audience.

BIOLOGY

 

BIOONE

It is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high impact bioscience research journals. It contains a set of interrelated journals focused on the Biological, Ecological and Environmental Sciences.

CHEMISTRY

 

American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

Provides access to the full text of 35 journals in chemistry and related fields as well as magazines published by ACS, from 1879 to the current ACS titles.

 

Institution of Chemical Engineers

Full-text access to their 6 journals

 

Royal Society of Chemistry:RSC Journals Archive

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

 

Beech Tree Publishing

Contains three international peer-reviewed academic journals. Subject strengths: Public policy for Science and Technology, Research, Environment, Social, Health and other impacts.

 

Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland -MinAbs Online

Database contains about 120,000 abstracts relating to the earth sciences, mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, economic geology, gemology, extraterrestrial mineralogy, environmental science and nano-particle science.

 

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)

OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including Biology; Biotechnology, Genetics & Genetically Modified Species; Botany & Plant Biodiversity; Climatology, Climate Change & Meteorology; Ecology & Wildlife Conservation; Energy Conservation & Renewable Energy; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental & Natural Resource Economics; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Law, Policy & Planning; Fish & Fisheries; Forests & Forestry; Geography, Population Studies & Migration; Geology & Earth Sciences; Natural Environmental Disasters; Oceanography & Marine Biology; Pollution & Environmental Toxicology; Satellite & Remote Sensing Technologies; Soil Sciences and Desertification; Waste Management; Water, Hydrology & Wetlands; and Zoology & Animal Biodiversity.

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GEOLOGY

 

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.

 

HEALTH SCIENCES

 

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. Subject coverage includes: biology, health, medicine and nursing. It includes the following databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Central Register of Controlled Trials, The Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database and others.

 

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)

HINARI provides free online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local and not for profit institutions in developing countries. Over 2900 journal titles are now available.

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Oxford Textbook of Medicine Online

The online version of the fifth edition of the foremost international textbook of medicine. Contains the full-text of the print edition, links to all references, and downloadable figures and illustrations. Content is revised and updated twice a year.

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.

LAW

 

Butterworths LexisNexis

The resource offers full text to international and South African legal and commercial information for students and lecturers. Subjects include: South African Law Reports South African Criminal Law Reports The Constitutional Law Library
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LINGUISTICS

 

Multilingual Matters

One of the world leaders in research on multilingualism and minority language rights offering access to 19 journals in this specialized field. Subject strengths: Bilingualism, Second language learning, sociolinguistics, translation and interpreting.

MANAGEMENT

 

Emerald

Emerald management Xtra 140 features, and Emerald Engineering 15, peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the worlds top 300 management journals

Institute of Operations Research and 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). It covers the following subjects: Operations Research, Management Science, Analytics Marketing, Operations Management, Information Systems, Decision Analysis, Computing Theory, Research Theory.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

 

African Journals Online (AJOL)

AJOL offers the tables of contents and abstracts from journals published in Africa in most disciplines.

British Library Direct

British Library Direct offers pay-as-you-go access to articles from the top 20,000 international research journals, in fields ranging from aeronautics to agriculture, from pharmacy to law. BL Direct provides free table of contents searching from 5 years of data. Upon finding a relevant article, the user can then order it online and pay by credit card. There is no need to subscribe in order to use the service and articles can be ordered singly or several at a time. Nearly 20% of the articles can be downloaded instantly. PERI supports the use of the British Library Direct for online searching and the BL's Standard Service for document ordering. This service delivers paper documents by airmail.

Cambridge Journals Online (CJO)

CJO covers over 230 tittles with subject areas ranging from Agriculture, Archeology and Anthropology, Nutrition, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Religion and Social Studies.

EbscoHost

EbscoHost is one of the world's largest academic multi-disciplinary databases. It provides full-text for more than 3800 scholarly publications, including full-text for nearly 2800 peer reviewed journals.

Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Allows you purchase titles one eBook at a time and provide them to your users online so you can offer remote, 24 hour access. No specialized reader or hardware are required just a standard Web browser and the Adobe Acrobat® plug-in. Gale Virtual Reference Library's powerful delivery platform puts your reference content into circulation.

Intute

Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. This service is created by network of UK Universities and partners.

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in global research community.

JSTOR

This is an online journal archive providing access to back issues of 600 core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, business, social sciences, ecology, botany, language and literature.

Mary Anne Liebert Inc.

55 Authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law.

OUP E-books Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 4,600 Oxford books in the humanities, social sciences, sciences medicine, and law. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, and at least 500 new and recently-published books are added each year.

Oxford Journals

Over 170 leading titles in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

Sage Journals Online

Over 630 journals, including those of over 245 learned societies and institutions, and over 700 books a year across a broad range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

ScienceDirect Journals

ScienceDirect is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world. Produced by Elsevier, it contains over 9.6 million articles from over 2500 journals, including titles such as The Lancet and Cell , and over 6,000 e-books, reference works, book series and handbooks.

The articles are grouped in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

University of California Press -Caliber

Access to 7 journals of the University of California Press

University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press publishes nearly fifty scholarly journals, many on behalf of some of the worlds most prestigious societies. The journals present original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences.

PHYSICS

 

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

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 ten journals produced by the American Physical Society

Institute of Physics

This is a full-text database for Physics and Physicists. It promotes the advancement and dissemination of a knowledge of and education in the science of Physics, pure and applied.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Acoustical society of America(ASA)

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.

Subject coverage includes: linear and nonlinear acoustics; aeroacoustics, underwater sound and acoustical oceanography; ultrasonics and quantum acoustics; architectural and structural acoustics and vibration; speech, music and noise; psychology and physiology of hearing; engineering acoustics, sound transducers and measurements; bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics and bioresponse to vibration.

American Astronomical Society

Access to three (3) scholarly journals published by the society Subject strengths: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Mathematics.

Annual Reviews

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to help you keep up to date in your area of research. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines.

 

Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

 

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. The Optical Society of America brings together optics and photonics scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders.

 

ISI Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports (Covers 1985 - present)

The Web of Science database provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

 

Palgrave Macmillan Journals

Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher, serving learning and scholarship in the academic and professional worlds. We publish journals, textbooks, monographs and professional and reference works in print and online. Our programme focuses on Business, the wider Social Sciences and the Humanities.

 

Royal Society -Royal Society Journals Online

Four leading international journals from the UK's national academy covering the whole of the biological and physical sciences Subject strengths: Mathematics, Engineering and other physical sciences, all biological sciences, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science.

 

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REFERENCE WORKS

 

Oxford English Dictionary Online

An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

 

Oxford Reference Online

130+ subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia.

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Biographies of over 55,000 people who have left a mark in British History

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WORLD BANK DATABASE

 

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-to-day 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.

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