Open Access Databases:

3. Open Access Databases:

There are also Open Access Databases, Journals, CourseWare and E-books available online and do not require any subscription

Database Name	Subject Strengths
African Health OER Network	Health Education Resources
Africa Information Ethics	Information Ethics Resources
CAB Direct	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: Aquaculture Compendium Animal Health & Production Compendium Crop Protection Compendium Forestry Compendium
Capstone Publishers	Medical Textbooks in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Data World Bank	Subject strengths: Agriculture & Rural Development, Health, Aid Effectiveness, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Labor & Social Protection, Economic Policy & External Debt, Poverty, Education, Private Sector, Energy & Mining, Public Sector, Environment, Science & Technology, Financial Sector, Social Development, Gender; and Urban Development.
Directory of Open Access Books	The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access licence. 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.
Directory of Open Access Journals	Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
CORE	CORE is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. The directory lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria – see the Find page – which can also be viewed as statistical charts.
EAC Documents & Publications	The links provides access to Documents and Publications generated within EAC.
ERIC	Bibliographic records of education literature, plus a growing collection of full text resources
ESRI e-books.	This list of resources is provided by ESRI. The resources provide useful information in Geographic Information Systems. Most of the materials are in PDF format that can be downloaded.
Free Book Center	Contains links to thousands of free online technical books. Which include core Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Electronics, and Medical books.
Gateway for Free E-Journals	Access 700 Free E-journals covering Subjects like Business & Managment, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Library Science,Life Sciences, Material Science, Mathematics, Media and Communication, Physics & Social Sciences.
Google Books	Millions of multidisciplinary great books to review
Google Public Data Explorer	Public Data Directory
HiWire Stanford University	HighWire Press is the largest collection of free full-text online articles on Science
Kenya Open Data	This site makes public government data accessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what’s to come. The information here is key to improving transparency, unlocking social and economic value, and building Government in Kenya.
Memorial University Libraries	Free E-journals on all research subject areas from different databases.
National Academies Press	Multidisciplinary e-books available.
National Center for Biotechnology Information	NCBI bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare

POPLINE	POPLINE subjects include: Adolescent Reproductive Health; Family Planning Methods; Family Planning Programs; Gender; Health Communication; HIV / AIDS; Maternal and Child Health; Population Dynamics; Population Law and Policy; Population, Health, and Environment; Reproductive Health; and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Project Gutenberg	Project Gutenberg provides access to a wide range of multi-displinary ebooks.
Royallite Global Journals	Royallite global is an international academic publishing business which deals in books and journals. We operate in five countries in the world. We render services to professional bodies, academic institutions and commercial market through information and communication interchange. Apart from publishing we train on research and publishing across all networks.
Science Supercourse Library	This is one of the largest and comprehensive collections of Research Methods. It represents a one stop Library to answer your Research Methods questions.
The Stata Journal	Statistics Journals
World Library of Science	A Global Community for Science Education
World Wide Science	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)
OECD iLibrary	OECD iLibrary is the global knowledge base for OECD’s data and analysis. It 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.
RUFORUM Knowledge Repository	RUFORUM is an African Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM). It is a consortium of 66 African universities operating within 26 countries spanning the African continent.
MSD MANUALS for Health Information	Explore MSD MANUALS which are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Manuals contain one of the best current medical information accessible to health care professionals and patients.