Category: Library News

Kenyatta University featured in Top 200 Universities in Africa

Logo from UniRank The 2020 African University Ranking (UniRank) has ranked Kenyatta University number 16 of the top 200 recognized higher-education institutions in Africa. In Kenya, it is position two after University of Nairobi. The ranking measures popularity of the featured universities. Universities ranked must meet the following criteria: They must be chartered, licensed and/or […]

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Ministry of Health Guidelines on Home Based Isolation and Care for COVID-19 Patients

On 10th June 2020, the Ministry of Health, Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), Dr. Rashid Aman during the daily COVID -19 briefing at Afya House announced that the government has developed Guidelines on Home Based Isolation and Care for COVID-19 Patients. The guidelines cover aspects such as eligibility, procedures for the care, referral system if patient’s health deteriorates, […]

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BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

https://www.base-search.net BASE is an academic search engine that lets you search more than 200 million documents. It is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open […]

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Ministry of Health guidelines on nutrition management of COVID-19

Image from https://idealnutrition.com. The World Health Organization has reiterated that although food or food supplements may not prevent one from being infected with COVID-19, our diet goes a long way in building immunity and protecting one from getting other health problems. For this reason, the Ministry of Health has developed guidelines for nutrition management of […]

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourse resources

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish  learning materials for undergraduate and graduate level- The resources are freely available. You can search the resources by topic. You can read more about the courseware * Please note that anybody with access to internet can access the MIT courseware (it […]

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COVID-19 Ebook Access Extended Through August 31

JSTOR has extended the offer on access to ebooks through to 31st August. The package includes 38,000 ebooks to support the sudden shift to remote teaching and learning, as well as a lack of access to the physical stacks of books. The offer has received a positive response from end users, libraries, and the publishing […]

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Ministry of Health Guidelines on Home Based Isolation and Care for COVID-19 Patients

Image from WHO On 10th June 2020, the Ministry of Health, Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), Dr. Rashid Aman during the daily COVID -19 briefing at Afya House announced that the government has developed Guidelines on Home Based Isolation and Care for COVI-19 Patients. The guidelines cover aspects such as eligibility, procedures for the care, referral […]

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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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Kenyatta University Mapping COVID-19 Spreading Patterns

Image from WHO The geospatial knowledge community in Kenyatta University is consolidating various data sets to develop solutions that can help to understand the impacts of COVID-19. The Hub project comprises a team of volunteers, including former and current students, staff members and technical support team from our partners under the leadership of Professor Simon […]

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Keeping you updated on publishing: Open peer review

Image from Clipart Library Open peer review although not a novel trend is a topic of current debate.  The process allows authors and reviewers to know each other’s identity. In other models, reviewers’ feedback and authors’ responses are published as part of the final version of the article. Other approaches to implementation include post publication […]

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