ADUN Library subscribes to the following Databases to help students and staff easily discover millions of scholarly works cutting across a wide variety of subjects:
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ProQuest is a key partner for content holders of all types, preserving and enabling access to their rich and varied information. Those partnerships have built a growing content collection that now encompasses 90,000 authoritative sources, 6 billion digital pages and spans six centuries. It includes the world’s largest collection of dissertations and theses; more than 450,000 eBooks, etc |
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EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast. It gives uses access to over full-text articles and abstracts of articles in magazines, journals and newspapers. |
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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. |
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HeinOnline is a premier online database that bridges an important research gap in history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals, as well as all essential government documents, legal history, constitutions, world trials, classic treatises and much more! HeinOnline is a legal research database, |
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LEGALPEDIA |
Legalpedia is a Legal Research Tool that helps you save time and grants instant access to the largest repository of Nigerian Legal Resources from anywhere in the world. Legalpedia grants users access to over 13,000 judgments both from the Supreme Court & Court of Appeal, Summaries of Judgments, each with information about the Area of Law, Summary of Facts, Issues, Ratio and more spanning a period of over 5 decades till date |
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Research4Life is the collective name for five programmes—Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI, and GOALI— that provides low-income and middle-income countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed publications online. Research4Life provides access to over 140,000 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information fore researchers in more than 10,000 institutions. |
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- Once you click on any of the databases above, you will be required to enter a username and password. Only Registered Library Users are given this login details (Username and Password) to access the University Library Databases.
- The Login details to the databases are boldly displayed in strategic areas of the e-Library.
- This page is updated periodically with useful database links and recommended database search strategies. Click on the SUBSCRIBE button to receive an email notification.
Other recommended open-source databases include:
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
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DOAB is an Open Access books where Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. |
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The open library is a valuable resource center where different E-books and other information resources can be accessed. The database cut across Arts, Fantasy, Biographies, Science, Social Science and Literature |
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B-ok.xyz is part of Z-Library project with the world's largest e-book library having over 3.5million books and 73.5million articles. |
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Booksc is part of Z-Library project with the world's largest e-book library having over 3.5million books and 73.5million articles. |
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B-ok.cc is part of Z-Library project with the world's largest e-book library having over 3.5million books and 73.5million articles. |
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Bookboon is an open website where users can download free e-books and textbooks on any field of study. |
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Library Genesis is a community forum where you can make searches on scientific Articles, Fictions, Comics, Magazines, Standards, and LibGen(Sci-Tech) |
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Bookfi is an Electronic library having one of the most popular Multi-lingual online libraries in the world. It has more than 2.2 million books. |
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PDF Drive |
PDF Drive is an online PDF search engine that lets you search, preview and download PDFs. There are over 75 million eBooks, magazines, articles, and more that are indexed and discoverable directly on PDF Drive. |
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IntechOpen |
IntechOpen is a global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Its a database that provides a collaborative environment for peer-reviewed scientific content and book publishing of academic research, giving scientific thinking its home |
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Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health. All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
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https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals |
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Humanities is an available site for every researcher and academicians in Art and Humanities to further their research by getting other researchers work |
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SCI-HUB is an available site for every researcher and academicians to further there research by getting other researchers work. |
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Open Access Theses and Dissertations
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OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,729,889 theses and dissertations |
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African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. It has been difficult for African researchers to access the work of other African academics. In partnership with hundreds of journals from all over the continent, AJOL works to change this, so that African-origin research output is available to Africans and to the rest of the world. |
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With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to meeting these goals by driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. The program is free for authors and participating institutions with the desired end of making significant open-access content more readily discoverable to end-users within and beyond academic institutions.
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Wiley Open Access journals are supported by a network of authoritative journals and societies as well as internationally renowned editorial board members. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences. |
https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-science/open-access/browse-journals.html |
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The goal of the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE) is to disseminate peer reviewed original research results in the field of IT, Computing, Computer sciences & related applications.
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors and 60% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ.
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California Community Colleges (CCC), the California State University (CSU), and the University of California (UC) Intersegmental Council of Academic Senates (ICAS) establish the California Open Education Resource Council with the goal of making higher education in California more affordable by providing faculty and students access to free and lower-cost instructional materials.
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Genocide Studies International is peer reviewed, comparative in nature, and includes articles and reviews as well as regular features to engage and immerse readers in current news and activities in the field of genocide and human rights studies. GSI is a forum for the academic study and understanding of the phenomena of genocide and the gross violation of human rights and various approaches to preventing them.
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This free research database provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. |
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MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. MEDLINE also covers much of the literature in biology and biochemistry, as well as fields such as molecular evolution. |
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Open Access Initiative is committed to make genuine and reliable contributions to the scientific community without restricting the access of published content. This publisher hosts over 700+ leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals and organizes over 3000 International Conferences all over the world. |
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A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 220 peer-reviewed journals. |
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The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work. |
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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) COVID-19 collection |
a collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary. |
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compartmentalized into clinical information, research/drug discovery, public health and patient resources. |
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center |
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As a leading publisher of trusted science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences research, Taylor & Francis is committed to helping public health authorities, researchers, clinicians and the general public contain and manage the spread of COVID-19. This microsite provides links and references to all relevant COVID-19 research articles, book chapters and information that can be freely accessed on Taylor & Francis Online and Taylor & Francis ebooks in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research into COVID-19. |
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F1000Research
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This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. |
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Open resource of over 51,000 scholarly articles, including over 40,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community |
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content about the outbreak as it appears in Cell Press journals |
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Journal of America Medical Association (JAMA) COVID-19 research collection and other resources |
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Patient Education: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). The Basics |
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https://officialncdc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/af031914c6bc41dea15dd4f718e008b5 |
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https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters |
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https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public |
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