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S/No.	RESOURCES: Journals, databases and mixed packages	SUBJECT COVERAGE	URL LINK
		E-BOOKS
1.	Taylor & Francis eBooks	Offers instant access to the world's premier Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content.	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
2.	Proquest Ebook Central	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. For academic, corporate, government, school and public libraries, as well as professional researchers, ProQuest provides services that enable strategic acquisition, management and discovery of information collections.	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/mmu
3.	Project MUSE books	Subject strength: Area  & ethics studies, art & pacific studies, art & architecture, creative writing, education, film theater & performance arts, history, language & linguistics, library science & publishing, literature, medicine & health, music, philosophy, religion, science technology & mathematics, social sciences, studies by time period and women’s studies gender & sexuality.	https://muse.jhu.edu/about/UPCC.html
4.		Subject coverage: Anthropology, Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Fine Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences and Technology.	http://proquest.libguides.com/ebrary
		E-JOURNALS
5.	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
6.	Sage Journals	Subject Strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Scientific, Technical and Medical.	http://journals.sagepub.com/
7.	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.	http://search.epnet.com/
8.	JSTOR	Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics	https://www.jstor.org/
9.	American Institute of Physics (including Acoustical Society of America)	AIP Citation offers online access to a robust collection of close to 1 million articles from leading Physical Sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, standards, and magazines published by AIP Publishing and AIPP’s publishing partners.	https://www.aip.org/
10.	American Physical Society	America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.	https://www.aps.org/
11.	Canadian Science Publishing (publisher of the  NRC Research Press journals)	CSP currently owns and publishes 24 diverse international journals with distribution in more than 175 countries, and provides publishing services to an additional 15 titles. Cover fields across the spectrum of science and engineering, with a focus on fundamental and applied sciences.	http://www.nrcresearchpress.com
12.	Cochrane Library	The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database (The Cochrane Collaboration ) that provides information about Cochrane groups.	http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
13.	Edinburgh University Press	Publish books and journals across a range of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.	https://www.euppublishing.com/
14.	Emerald ejournals	Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science.	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
15.	Royal Society of Chemistry - RSC Journals Archive	Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science, Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery and Physics high-impact journals and books.	http://pubs.rsc.org/
16.	Royal Society	Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more	https://royalsociety.org/
17.	Taylor & Francis Journals	Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies.	https://www.tandfonline.com/
18.	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/
19.	Wiley Online Library Full collection (1,360 titles)	Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education Engineering, Law Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, Psychology, Social Sciences.	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
20.	Optical Society of America (OSA)	Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics.	https://www.osa.org/en-us/
21.	British Institute of Radiology	The BIR promote and encourage the study and practice of the art and science of radiology radiobiology and the medical applications of nuclear science in all their aspects and the study of kindred sciences. It has access to online journals and resources on radiologists, medical physicists, oncologist, radiographers and radiobiologists.	https://www.bir.org.uk/
22.	EBSCO Religion and Theology Collection	Religion and theology	http://search.epnet.com/
23.	Geological Society	Covers the geosciences e-resources.  It shares the courtyard with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Linnean Society of London.	https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/
24.	International Monetary Fund (IMF)	Access to information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.	http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
25.	Liverpool University Press	Covers history, modern languages, literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry	https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/
26.	Mary Ann Liebert	Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing.	https://www.liebertpub.com/
27.	Nature ALL Plus (Package 78 titles)	Publishes journals and online databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences and Clinical medicine.	https://www.nature.com
28.	Policy Press	Publishes over 120 peer reviewed books each year and 7 journals in a wide range of print and digital editions for researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and the informed general reader as well as for libraries and other institutions globally.	https://policypress.co.uk/
29.	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics	SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.	http://www.siam.org/
30.	University of California	Subject strength: Research, health, art & humanities.	https://www.ucpress.edu/journals
31.	HST - Libraries in a Digital Age	Subject strength: digital libraries	http://library.nul.ls/index.php#gsc.tab=0
32.	HST - The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC)	Subject Strength: Agriculture & environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, reproduction & development	https://hstalks.com/biosci/
33.	Lexis Nexis Academic	Covers accounting, environmental studies, health & medical care, government & politics, people, consumer information.	https://academic.lexisnexis.eu/
34.	Lexis Nexis Legal Library	Lexis Library delivers thousands of trusted legal, tax and regulatory sources, such as: Butterworths, Halsbury’s Laws, Tolley’s, Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and Civil Court Practice. Plus, wide-ranging primary source materials including all England Law Reports, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms among others.	https://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal/
	Audio Visual materials	Covers print, manuscripts and archival, graphic & ephemera, and digital collections.	https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/exhibits-events/library/primary_sources/audio-visual
	Henry Stewart Talks Ltd	Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection.	https://hstalks.com/
		OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES
35.	Virtual University of Uganda Open Access Library	Universal content	https://virtuaL
36.		Subjects covered: biological science, business and economics, development policy, engineering, medical and health science, physical science, social science	https://carijournals.org/
37.		Is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities	http://doaj.org/
38.		ACS Publications stands alongside Chemical Abstracts Services in supporting the American Chemical Society's goal to be the most authoritative, comprehensive, and indispensable provider of chemistry-related information, in keeping with the ACS's Vision of Improving People's Lives Through the Transforming Power of Chemistry. Subjects covered: agricultural and food chemistry, natural products , environmental science etc.	http://pubs.acs.org/
39.		The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs.	https://www.epa.gov/
40.		Is a non-profit offering public access to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety of journals, including PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature.	https://www.plos.org/
41.		Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.	https://www.science.gov/
42.	PubAg	PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education. PubAg is part of the AGRICOLA family of products. PubAg contains full-text articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal articles.	https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/
43.	AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library)	The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database lists bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agriculture and related sciences.	https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
44.		Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 participating countries.	http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do
45.		PubMed comprises approximately 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
46.		Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences (Ecology, Oceanography, Geology, Meteorology, Zoology, Human biology, Botany). It allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, downloadable programs and collaborations.	http://vadlo.com/
47.		Is a digital collection of research journals for agriculture and related sciences.	http://teeal.org/
48.		Is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising livestock.	http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture
49.		is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.	http://www.academicjournals.org/
50.		Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all.	https://benthamopen.com/
51.		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	http://worldwidescience.org/
52.		Palgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed E-Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences	http://www.palgrave-journals.com
53.		Subject strengths: Biomedical/Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics.	http://www.annualreviews.org/
54.		Subject covered: physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.	https://www.intechopen.com/
55.		CAB Direct is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. It contains the following datasets: Crop Protection Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/cpc/ Animal Health and Production Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/ahpc/ Aquaculture Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/ac/ Forestry Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/fc/	www.cabi.org
56.	National Center for Biotechnology Information	NCBI bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare.	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
57.		Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science & Communications Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Mathematics.	http://www.scirp.org/journal/
58.	NATURE PUBLISHING	Provides access to over 30 journals across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.	https://www.nature.com