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.

The Policy Press is a leading international publisher of high quality books and journals across a wide range of social science - Policy & Politics, Evidence & Policy, the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Voluntary Sector Review, Families, Relationships and Societies and journal Critical and Radical Social Work.
Subject area: Humanities, Social sciences, International relations, Political science, Sociology
Content: E-Books, Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Project MUSE provides online access to book packages published during 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 copyright years.
Subject area: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, architecture, design, Ethnology, History, Language and languages, Literature, Music, film, theatre, dance, Philosophy, history of ideas, Religion
Content:
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Project MUSE provides online access to full-text journals from non-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
Subject area: Language and languages, Literature, Music, film, theatre, dance, Philosophy, history of ideas, Religion, Medicine and health, Mathematics, Sociology
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
ProQuest is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest provides applications and products for libraries. Its resources and tools support research and learning, publishing and dissemination, and the acquisition, management and discovery of library collections.
Subject area: Economy, Humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science, Social sciences, Technology
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Research4Life is the collective name for four programmes (HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI) that provide developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. HINARI: Health Online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. AGORA: Agriculture Access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. OARE: Environmental Science Access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research. ARDI: Technology and Innovation Access to scolarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology.
Subject area: Economy, Humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science, Social sciences, Technology
Content: E-Books, Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The Royal Society have extensive collections open to researchers and members of the public. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science, Mathematics, engineering and other physical sciences and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's first science journal.
Subject area: Philosophy, history of ideas, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
This is an archive without current subscriptions of journals or books. RSC is a scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books.
Subject area: Medicine and health, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Science Direct is database that covers publications (journals and books) in Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences. Health Sciences. Social Sciences and Humanities
Subject area: Environmental sciences and sustainable development
Content: Journals
Full text: No
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
The SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics) Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics research, providing unprecedented access to more technical papers from SPIE Journals, Conference Proceedings, and eBooks.
Subject area: Medicine and health, Science, Astronomy, Physics, Media, information, communication, Technology
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Springer Nature is a database covering research Journals in life, physical, clinical, applied and social sciences.
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Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
TEEAL is a digital library of research in the agricultural and related sciences. Search and browse this site for access to more than 609,000 full-text articles from over 525 journals. TEEAL also includes research from the Gates Foundation, AGRA, ATA, Oxfam International and USAID. Please sign up first to access its resources.
Subject area: Agriculture
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Free
University of California Press, known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing, users can access more than 33 journals of the university of California.
Subject area: Humanities, History, Social sciences, Sociology
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
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
Subject area: Economics, Humanities, Law, Physics, Social sciences
Content: Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
Wiley Online Library is a leading international resource for scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals across all major academic disciplines.
Subject area: Business economics, Humanities, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Social sciences, Computer science, Engineering
Content: E-Books, Journals
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
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. In addition, eLibrary is fully searchable by subject, region, keyword, title, author, abstract, or year of publication.
Subject area: Economy, Business economics, Economics, Humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences and sustainable development, Social sciences, Computer science
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Subscribed
WorldWideScience.org​ is a global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information. Resources available via WorldWideScience include DOAJ and all the Journals Online projects (JOLs).
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Content:
Full text: Yes
Subscribed / Free: Free