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Access to ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that gives you access to over 1,400 disease topic pages covering risk factors, treatments, clinical manifestations, and more. It covers patient education, clinical overviews, drug monographs, procedures consult, guidelines, books, and journals. Download the ClinicalKey App from the Google Play Store for easy and convenient access.

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BioMed Central Open Access Journal

  BioMed Central (BMC) Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an open access journal publishing research articles on interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies. The Open access journal specializes on research on biological mechanisms, their efficacy, safety, costs and patterns of use or implementation. BMC is part of Springer nature which publishes research […]

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Kenyatta University emerges second in webometric ranking

Kenyatta University has moved from position three to second position in Kenya in the just released July 2018 edition of Webometric Ranking. 2nd position was previously held by Egerton University in the January 2018 edition. University of Nairobi maintained position one. The ranking is based on web presence, impact, openness and excellence. In Africa, Kenyatta […]

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Journal suggesters/recommenders

Having trouble identifying a suitable journal for your research work? Some publishers have provided a service that assists in identifying journals based on details of your paper. Here are some of these useful links; JournalGuide Springer Journal Suggester Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE) Elsevier Journal Finder IEEE Publication Recommender AIP Journal Selector

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Turnitin: A plagiarism check software for Kenyatta University

In view of the need for academic integrity, another key research support tool that the library has subscribed to is Turnitin. This is an online service for educational institutions that is used to determine the originality of a written report. It compares submitted papers to its extensive online database of public Web content and to […]

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SAGE Research methods

Find resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions at SAGE Research Methods. SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SRMO links researchers to content from books, book chapters, journals, reference books, and videos. SRMO covers methods and concepts to […]

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Reference and Citation Management Software

Now that you know the wide spectrum of online books and journals available to you, what is required of you as you make use of them? As a responsible researcher, you are obligated to give credit to the owners of the information by acknowledging them in your citations and compiling the information sources you have […]

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT OPEN) provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses published free of charge by the authors. This Open Access Publishing is a new initiative offered by ProQuest’s UMI Dissertation Publishing. At PQDT OPEN, you can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view […]

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Making your research easier

The Kenyatta University Library has provided tools that will make every stage of your research work easier and less time consuming. We will be telling you about these tools in subsequent posts. Let us start with the most basic. Current and up to date online books and journals are available here. Each of the database […]

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