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Electronic Journals and Full contents Articles

The University of Zimbabwe Library now provides access to a number of journals and periodicals that are available electronically via the World Wide Web. Since this effort is still very much in its infancy in both the publishing and library world, there is no single, unified access to these resources.

Trial Sites For Electronic Journal Articles

Source Description
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. CAB Direct provides a convenient, single point of access to all of your information requirements in applied life sciences covered in CABI databases. There are over 8 million bibliographic records, over 85,000 full text articles, plus authoritative reviews, news articles and reports on CAB Direct!.
Username and password are required for the trail of the site. These are available in the main library upon request
Oxford Reference Online The Core Collection contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.The Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This adds up to an additional 140,000 entries. The trial runs until the 15th of September 2010.

CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICES

British Library - Inside Web Discovery/bibliographic tool enabling searching of Table of Contents of 20,000 leading research journals.
CAB CD and CAB-Health Available online and as CD-ROM, through Silverplatter.
Symposium Journals Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals

Online Journals and Databases

Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Access to all issues of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA); Back to Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1929.
African Journals Online(AJOL) Assists all those who need access to research and information on Africa by offering free access to Tables of Contents and abstracts of over 70 journals in all disciplines, together with links to full contents where available and document delivery service.
Africa Virtual University (AVU) Provides links to thousands of full contents electronic journals in all subject areas.
AGORA The AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) site provides a access to over 400 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries. To gain access obtain the username and password from the Library or Faculty Office.

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Publishes 12 journals, two magazines, and a conference proceedings series. Their Scitation platform hosts over 1.5 million articles from more than 25 scholarly publishers.

American Physical Society (APS)

Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and 11 journals produced by the American Physical Society.

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritizing and synthesizing the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.

Beech Tree Publishing

Two international, peer-reviewed academic journals on Public policy for science and technology and Research evaluation.
BioOne Provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals
Blackwell Publishing eJournals Full contents Electronic Journals in all subject areas
British Psychological Society 11 international peer-reviewed journals offer the latest original research to psychology academics and professionals worldwide, and help to advance and disseminate psychological knowledge in line with the Society's primary objectives.
Cochrane Library An internationally acclaimed database of regularly updated evidence-based medical systematic reviews.
EBSCO Host Research Databases Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline and has good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities and a dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from peer-reviewed content.

Edinburgh University Press

Over 30 full-text electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

Emerald Management Xtra 140 features 140, and Emerald Engineering 15, peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the worlds top 300 management journals.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Selected titles from the E-book reference collection.

Geological Society

The Lyell Collection is an electronic collection of new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEE) The IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The subjects covered include: Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science & Architecture, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering, Remote Sensing, and Artificial Intelligence.
JSTOR We have access to the following Collections: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences IV, Arts & Sciences Complement, Biological Sciences, and General Science
MCB/Emerald Provides access to the world's widest range - over 100 titles of management and library & information services journal.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

64 authoritative publications in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.

NPG - Nature

Nature Publishes 79 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

NPG - Palgrave Macmillan Journals

Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of over 60 peer-reviewed e-journals in the field of Business, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Is the world's largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues.
Optical Society of America (OSA) 15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected OSA meeting content.

Policy Press Journals

The Policy Press publishes three highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy. Policy Press is a leading specialist social science publisher committed to journals that will have an impact on research, learning, policy and practice at an international level.

Royal College of Physicians

Full text access to “Clinical Medicine”, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians, London

Royal Society

Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running continuously published journal in the world.

Royal Society of Chemistry

As this is an archive collection, publications are all over one year old. RSC Journals Archive Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004
Taylor & Francis Online Journals Over 1300 titles in the humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.
University of California Press Access to 8 Journals of the University of California Press
University of Chicago Press The Journals Division publishes journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields.
Wiley-Blackwell – InterScience Access to the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. Access can also be through Cochrane Library
Wiley-Blackwell - Synergy Over 840 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines.
World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF) Database An electronic data source on the external debt and financial flow of data.

World Bank Publications This is a package of electronic databases that includes: World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators (WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online
World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) An electronic data source on the global economy
World Bank – Global Economic Monitor Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a "one-stop shop" portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators
World Bank: Africa Development Indicators Africa Development Indicators is the premier data source on the African economy. It contains over 1,400 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries.

Document Delivery

African Journals Online(AJOL) Assists all those who need access to research and information on Africa by offering free access to Tables of Contents and abstracts of over 70 journals in all disciplines, together with links to full contents where available and document delivery service.

British Library Direct

Provides free table of contents searching from 5 years of data for over 20 000 journals.
British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) Users can obtain a copy for research or private study of any article in the 260,000 journal titles held by The British Library or the 400,000 conference proceedings. The BLDSC service also features a core collection of 20,000 of the world's leading peer-reviewed and learned journals.

Other free Online Resources

BioMedical Central Over 100 Open Access Journals covering all areas of Biology & Medicine
Emarald Engineering It offers comprehensive and focused information for enginners
BMJ Journals Online A convenient gateway to a large collection of research, information and knowlege from one of the world's most influencial medical publishers.
Electronic Journal Library Access to online articles and scholarly journals.
EOLSS The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) presents a comprehensive, authoritative, and integrated body of knowledge of life support systems.
Directory Of Open Access Journals(DOAJ) This service covers free, full contents, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.The aim of DOAJ is to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 808 journals in the directory.
Free Medical Journals 1400 Free Medical Journals
Free Online Resources Free online journals and databases.
HealthNet Provides for online access to Health information.
HINARI Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative. HINARI provides the latest and best information on public health: more than 2,000 scientific publications, one of the world's largest collections of biomedical literature
IOP Electronic Journals Provides access to the Journal of Physics from the Institute of Physics
SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online (ScuELO) presently includes journals from Brazil, Chile and Cuba.
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