LIBRARIES

Library Resources

Digitalisation of knowledge resources and open access are at the heart of our library services

FREE & OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Peer-Reviewed Open Access Resources
  1. African Journal Archive: full-text journal articles published in Africa comprising 700 issues and 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organisations in Africa.
  2. ArXiv: an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
  3. BioMed Central: eJournals in science and medicine.
  4. CSIR Research Space: a full-text repository of research output of the CSIR.
  5. Elsevier Open JournalseJournals for scientific, technical, and medical content
  6. Hindawi Journals: Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences resources.
  7. In-Tech Books eBooks within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine
  8. Open Access Journal Publishing: latest African scholarly research.
  9. Open Access Publish in European Networksacademic eBooks in Humanities and Social Sciences.
  10. Open J-Gate: gateway to global journal literature in open access domain.
  11. OpenDOAR: directory of academic open access repositories.
  12. Oxford Open Journals: eJournals in humanities and social sciences.
  13. Sabinet African Journal Archive: African journal literature dating as far back as 1906, originating from a broad base of publishers and societies on the African continent
  14. Springer Open Books: eBooks covering all areas of science
  15. Taylor & Francis Open JournalseJournals across many research disciplines include the Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine sectors.
  16. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT): resources promoting the use of the Internet and web-based multimedia resources in higher education
  17. Wiley Open AccesseJournals across many research disciplines, including biology, chemical and health sciences
  18. World Bank Open Data: includes World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Africa Development Indicators and Global Economic Monitor.
  19. WorldWideScience: gateway to global science information.
Freely Accessible Peer-Reviewed Resources
  1. AccessMedicine COVID-19 Central: AccessMedicine channel for the latest information on the COVID-19 global pandemic.
  2. Africansunmedia: specialist supplier of publishing, print and design services for the higher education market and the private sector.
  3. Cambridge University Press textbooks: teaching and learning resources across various disciplines.
  4. Cochrane: high-quality, up-to-date systematic health-related reviews and other synthesised research evidence to inform health decision-making.
  5. Directory of Open Access Books:  a searchable database of scientific eMonographs
  6. Directory of Open Access Journals:  a searchable database of scientific eJournals
  7. EBSCO Faculty Select: Open Educational Resources (OER) and more than 225,000 DRM-free EBSCO eBooks™ from top academic publishers.
  8. Elsevier COVID-19 Clinical Toolkit: clinical resources and tools focused on the latest evidence-based practices for COVID-19 covering topics from symptom management to diagnosis, treatment and ongoing wellness.
  9. EpubBooks: classic English fiction eBooks collection of over the last four hundred years
  10. GeoScienceWorld comprehensive resources for researchers in the Earth Sciences
  11. Google Books: previews and full-text access to eBooks. Access to Full-text books is for books out of copyright or books that Google received permission from the publisher to reproduce.
  12. Hathi Trust Digital Library Repository:  access to the public domain and in-copyright content from various sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
  13. Internet Archive: Ebooks and texts containing a wide range of fiction, popular, children, historical and academic books and texts.
  14. JSTOR Archive Journals In Public Healthtopics addressed include Epidemiology, Health Policy and Administration, Occupational and Environmental Health, Health Equity and the Culture of Health, Aging, Bioethics, and Health Promotion.
  15. Mason OER Metafinder: a real-time simultaneous search across 21 different open educational resources
  16. NCBI Bookshelf: eBooks and documents in life sciences and healthcare.
  17. OAPEN Library: academic eBooks mainly in humanities and social sciences.
  18. Ohio State University Press: monographs and linguistics eTextbooks
  19. Open Book Publishers:  ebooks and e-textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
  20. Open Textbook Library: 700+ higher education eTextbooks
  21. PLOS (Public Library of Science): eJournals in science and medicine.
  22. Project Gutenberg: first and largest single collection of free eBooks that are out of copyright in the United States.
  23. Project Muse: eJournals and eBooks from university presses and scholarly societies.
  24. Springer Nature eBooksfree access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines
  25. Wolters Kluwer Health Clarity: COVID-19 Resources & Tools (Coronavirus Resources)