Databases and e-resources

In order to enhance the quality of teaching, learning, research and innovation the Library of University of Rwanda has subscribed to a wide variety of Online Full text Journals and Databases as well as curates a list of high quality free resources. The library will eventually use EZProxy service which will enable Library users to access the subscribed e-resources also outside the campus network.

AJOL is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals in health, education, climate change & under-development.
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Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal (including The Astrophysical Journal Letters) and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
Subject area: Physics
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Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
AIP publishes journals, magazines, and a conference proceedings series on applied and multidisciplinary physics . AIP's Scitation platform hosts several articles from many scholarly publications.
Subject area: Physics
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The American Physical Society and the Physical Review Online Archive serve to produce and diffuse the knowledge of physics, molecular and optical physics through its wonderful peer reviewed research journals. .
Subject area: Physics
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Annual Reviews publications prioritize and synthesize the primary research literature in several disciplines on biomedical/Life Sciences, physical sciences, social Sciences and economics.
Subject area: Economics, Veterinary Sciences, Physics, Geography
Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary study of sound. 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, transduction; bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics.
Subject area: Physics, Engineering
Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
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. Subject Strengths: agricultural engineering, agricultural health and safety, power and machinery, soil and water, food and process engineering, structures and environment, information and electrical technologies, biological engineering and Forest engineering.
Subject area: Science, Agriculture
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Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
ASCE is an online full-text civil engineering database providing the contents of peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, e-books, and standards published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Library offers free access to abstracts of Academic journal articles, proceedings papers, e-books, and standards as well as many e-book chapters. Access to the content is available either by subscription or pay-per-view for individual articles or chapters.
Subject area: Technology, Computer science, Engineering
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Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Brill is an online database containing books, journals, reference works, bibliographies and primary sources. It covers various areas of social sciences, history, literature, religious studies, and education.
Subject area: International law
Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Access to British Journal of Radiology (BJR), BJR/case reports and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (DMFR).
Subject area: Medicine and health
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Cambridge Journals online provide access to a variety content in politics, linguistics, humanities, law, mathematics and Medicine.
Subject area: Humanities, Science, Social sciences
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the NRC Research Press journals) is an independent publisher devoted to serving the needs of researchers and their communities by publishing peer-reviewed journals and supporting the knowledge-sharing activities of scholarly societies.
Subject area: Medicine and health
Content: E-Books, Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Free
The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library provides access to Cochrane review and other sources of reliable information, from other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials all the current evidence in one single environment.
Subject area: Medicine and health
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Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Access to a wide variety of content in history, law, linguistics and communications, literary studies, mathematics, medicine, natural sciences, philosophy, social Sciences, theology, judaism and religion. Includes titles which are in the highest ISI ranks. Some journals have German-language titles and include contributions in English and other languages.
Subject area: Humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Access to publication on library and information science journals.
Subject area: Archives, libraries, museums
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository.
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Content: E-Books
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Free