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Renewal of Overdue Books

All library users with books that are overdue are advised to communicate the details of the borrowed books to maktaba@ku.ac.ke for virtual renewing as soon as possible. Ensure that you do the same for any book that will be due for return within the period the University is closed during the COVID-19 season. Kindly indicate your name; […]

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Access to theses and dissertations and other CORE resources

The CORE Search engine (https://core.ac.uk/) is the world’s largest aggregator of open access content with millions of full texts, deriving from thousands of repositories, journals and other web resources. CORE content is available to everyone for free. The database is also a good source of theses and dissertations done in universities globally.

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Open Access E-Resources on Covid-19 Pandemic Information and Related Research Outputs

Longdom Publishing  As a leading publisher of trusted science, technology, medicine research, Longdom Publishing is committed to help public health authorities, researchers, clinicians and the general public to manage the spread of COVID-19. Contagion Live Contagion® is a fully integrated news resource covering all areas of infectious disease providing practitioners and specialists with disease-specific information designed […]

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Emerald Guide to Getting Published

The following training sessions are upcoming for the faculty, research students and librarians. There are no limits to the number of attendees per institution. Please find the registration link and session details below: On the 14thMay 2020, Thursday, @ 11:00am South African Standard Time & Central Africa Time or 12:00pm East Africa Time:         Emerald General Access and Platform […]

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Renewal of Overdue Books

All library users with books that are overdue are advised to communicate the details of the borrowed books to maktaba@ku.ac.ke for virtual renewing as soon as possible. Ensure that you do the same for any book that will be due for return within the period the University is closed during the COVID-19 season. Kindly indicate […]

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Kenyatta University features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings

Kenyatta University is the only Kenyan University that has featured in the second edition of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings that were published on 23rd April 2020. The rankings are based on the impact of universities on selected United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The University was positioned within the 401-600 band. The performance […]

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Access to the Brill COVID-19 collection

Brill publishing has opened up a collection of books and journal articles with research on epidemics, home schooling, crisis management, and more.  Feel free to explore and use the Brill COVID-19 collection. This is in line with making more user-friendly student, researcher and lecturer e-resources available as they study remotely away from campus.

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Self-activation of off campus access to e-resources accounts

For self-activation of off campus access to e-resources accounts please visit the self-activation link Please follow the steps below: Login using your KU email(@students.ku.ac.ke or @ku.ac.ke) Upon successful login the system will redirect you back to the off campus registration page The system will retrieve and populate your name and KU email address Provide your student registration […]

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Free COVID-19 related Elsevier resources

Novel Coronavirus Information Center: Elsevier’s free health and medical research on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Information Center for nursing and healthcare educators: Textbooks ScienceDirect Textbooks: The 256 textbooks currently on ScienceDirect will be automatically entitled to all active ScienceDirect customers (including those journals customers who do not currently have books) for a period of 90 […]

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