KIRINYAGA UNIVERSITY ONLINE DATABASES

Kirinyaga University Library subscribes to peer reviewed full text electronic journals and books to support teaching, learning and research activities of the University. The available electronic databases cover all subject areas. The major databases and their subject coverage are summarized below. Kindly access the databases for more information.

SUBSCRIBED ERESOURCES FOR 2025

 

Journals, eBooks, databases and mixed packages

SUBJECT COVERAGE

URL LINK

1.  

EBSCO Host Research Databases

The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

 

https://research.ebsco.com/

 

2.  

EBSCO ATLA

This database is an essential resource for religious and theological studies, providing bibliographic records covering topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history and religion in social issues

https://research.ebsco.com/

 

3.  

Oxford journals

It has 291 titles receiving an Impact Factor. Journals in Medicine & health, Arts & humanities, sciences & mathematics, social sciences and Law

https://academic.oup.com/journals

4.  

Sage Research Methods

Subject Strengths: research Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative, cases, videos, datasets 

https://methods.sagepub.com/

5.  

Taylor & Francis Journals

Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies 

https://www.tandfonline.com/

 

6.  

Taylor and Francis eBooks

 

5,000 titles (Perpetual Access)

Access to the world’s premier Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/search?isLicensed=true&key=

7.  

Wiley Online Library

Full 2022 collection

Access to journal titles which cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities, and include many titles ranked at the forefront of their field.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

8.  

PROQUEST Academic complete & Library Thing Book cover widget

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.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/

9.  

OECD

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/

10.                  

Project Muse

Project MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

https://muse.jhu.edu/browse

11.                  

University of Chicago Press

The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/

12.                  

Henry Stewart Talks Ltd

Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection

https://hstalks.com/

13.                  

IEEE

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.  

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp 

14.                  

Wolters Kluwer’s Basic Sciences Collection

Covers journals, cases, videos, clinical skills in Health sciences including basic sciences, Medical education, Pharmacology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Anatomy, microbiology, Epidemiology, Neurosciences, Pathology

https://www.lwwhealthlibrary.com

15.                  

Wolters Kluwers Ovid eBooks

Covers ebooks in Health sciences including basic sciences, Medical education, Pharmacology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Anatomy, microbiology, Epidemiology, Neurosciences, Pathology

https://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.html

16.                  

JSTOR

Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics 

https://www.jstor.org/

17.                  

Royal Society

 

Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more

https://royalsociety.org/

18.                  

E-duke journals scholarly collection

African studies, anthropology, art & art history, asian studies, criticism & theory, cultural studies, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethnography, european studies, fiction & poetry, film & media studies, gender & sexuality studies, literary studies,

https://read.dukeupress.edu/ 

19.                  

Edward Elgar publishing

Business management, Education, Economic and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching methods, Urban & regional, Development studies, Environment

https://www.e-elgar.com/

20.                  

Euclid Prime Collection

Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics

 

https://projecteuclid.org/

21.                  

Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal

Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering

https://msp.org/publications/journals/

22.                  

OpenEdition Journals

Is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers.

 

https://journals.openedition.org/?lang=en

23.                  

European Respiratory Journals

Adult and paediatric respiratory medicine, including cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, pathophysiology, imaging, occupational medicine, intensive care, sleep medicine and thoracic surgery.

https://erj.ersjournals.com/

24.                  

International Water Association

IWA Publishing publishes 17 peer-reviewed journals, plus supporting 4 more in association with Elsevier.

https://www.iwapublishing.com/journals

25.                  

The Company of Biologists' Journals

Free access to three journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental BiologyDevelopment ; Journal of Cell Science; Journal of Experimental Biology

https://www.biologists.com/journal-of-cell-science/