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About COS eLib
COS eLib is a digital library consisting of electronic documents, many of which are found within COSTECH (Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology). COS eLib is maintained and updated at COSTECH. It consists of collections of abstracts of various types of research publications, Tanzania journals, journal extracts, open access articles and others. It seeks to play the role of a conservatory and information support utility that strives to serve users, which include scientists, students, researches and others, within COSTECH and the larger research community in the country. The digital library presents a new way of disseminating research information in a manner that can be accessed globally. If you would like to contribute your publications to COS eLib or require information, questions, comments or queries regarding COS eLib and its collections, please Contact Us.
Below is a list of other useful online E-resources:
 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 | |
| URL: http://scitation.aip.org/JASA | |
| African Journals Online (AJOL) | |
| Abstracts of over 250 African-published journals, with access to some full text online, and a document delivery service. | |
| URL: www.ajol.info | |
| American Chemical Society | |
| The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. Access is to over 35 high quality, high impact journals. | |
| URL: http://pubs.acs.org/search/advanced | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.aip.org/pubs/ | |
| American Physical Society APS | |
| Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and 11 journals produced by the American Physical Society. | |
| URL: http://publish.aps.org/search/ | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers | |
| Access to 32 journals encompassing more than 48,000 full-text papers published since 1983 - that's over 408,000 pages! Approximately 4000 new papers will be added each year. | |
| URL: http://ascelibrary.org/ | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/ | |
| ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) | |
| The ARDI program is coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) together with its partners in the publishing industry with the aim to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries. Currently, 12 publishers provide access to over 200 journals for 107 developing countries through the ARDI program. | |
| URL: http://www.wipo.int/ardi/ | |
| arXiv.org | |
| Open access to 742,795 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. | |
| URL: http://arxiv.org/ | |
| BioMed Central | |
| BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. | |
| URL: www.eifl.net/bioone/ | |
| BioOne | |
| Access to 166 high-impact research journals from over 125 not-for-profit society publishers covering biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/bioone/ | |
| CABI: Global Health Database | |
| Global Health is available through PERii through the internet-based CAB Direct Service. All current content from 1973 to present is included within PERii. | |
| URL: http://www.cabdirect.org/ | |
| Cambridge University Press | |
| Over 230 leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities. | |
| URL: http://journals.cambridge.org | |
| CERN Document Server | |
| Over 430000 bibliographic records and 170000 fulltext documents about CERN and high-energy physics. | |
| URL: http://weblib.cern.ch/ | |
| Cogprints | |
| Cogprints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. | |
| URL: http://cogprints.org/ | |
| De Gruyter LIS Books | |
| Subject based package of 45 e-books, predominantly IFLA publications. | |
| URL: http://www.reference-global.com/ | |
| De Gruyter LIS Journals | |
| Subject based package of 4 journals. | |
| URL: http://www.reference-global.com/ | |
| DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) | |
| Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages. | |
| URL: http://www.doaj.org/ | |
| Edinburgh University Press | |
| Over 30 full-text electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. | |
| URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/ | |
| Emerald Group Publishing Ltd | |
| Emerald Management, features 140 Business and Management journals and Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection, features 19 Engineering journals. All of which are peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the world's top 300 management journals. | |
| URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ | |
| Free and Open Access Links: Subject Specific | |
| Llinks to information about subject specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and subject specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries. | |
| URL: http://www.inasp.info/ | |
| Gale Cengage Learning: Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center | |
| Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center: General research database that covers subject areas from art and literature to economics and the sciences. | |
| URLs: | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.lyellcollection.org/ | |
| Geosciences Open Access Journal | |
| Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263), an international scientific open access journal on all interdisciplinary aspects of the Earth and Planetary Sciences, is published by MDPI online quarterly. | |
| URL: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences | |
| HighWire | |
| HighWire Press partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of 1694 journals, reference works, books, and proceedings. | |
| URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu/ | |
| HINARI - Research in Health | |
| HINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. | |
| URL: http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ | |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | |
| 12 scholarly journals in the field, plus acess to the archive of Interactive Transactions of OR/MS. | |
| URL: http://journals.informs.org/ | |
| Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) | |
| Access the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL), which provides access to nearly 2 million full-text documents in electrical engineering and computer science. | |
| URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp | |
| International Forestry Review | |
| A peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research. | |
| URL: http://www.cfa-international.org/IFR.html | |
| JSTOR | |
| Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines. | |
| URLs: | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.liebertonline.com/ | |
| New England Journal of Medicine | |
| Weekly medical journal that publishes medical research findings, review articles, case reports, and editorial opinion of importance to the biomedical science and clinical practice. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/new-england-journal-of-medicine/ | |
| NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) | |
| The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. | |
| URL: http://www.ndltd.org/ | |
| NPG - Nature | |
| Publishes 79 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. | |
| URL: http://www.nature.com/ | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/index.html | |
| OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) | |
| OCLC WorldShare provides a Web-based platform for collective innovation with shared services, integrated applications and a streamlined approach to managing library workflows. Together with WorldCat, WorldShare helps the world's libraries connect in new ways to operate, innovate and collaborate at Webscale. | |
| URL: http://www.oclc.org/default.htm | |
| OECD | |
| OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) 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. | |
| URL: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/ | |
| OSA (Optical Society of America) | |
| 15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected OSA meeting content. | |
| URL: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ | |
| Oxford English Dictionary Online | |
| Access to the largest dictionary of English in the world which traces the usage of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/oxford-english-dictionary-online/ | |
| Oxford Journals (OUP) | |
| Over 200 leading titles in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. | |
| URL: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ | |
| Oxford Journals Collection | |
| Access to 238 high quality online journals in medicine, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, law, the humanities and social sciences. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/oxford-journals-collection/ | |
| Oxford Reference Online | |
| Offers cross-searchable access to the full text of over 200 dictionaries and reference books covering a broad range of subject areas, plus more than 16,000 illustrations. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/oxford-reference-online/ | |
| PLoS (Public Library of Science) | |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. | |
| URL: http://www.plos.org/ | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp | |
| Project Gutenberg | |
| Project Gutenberg offers over 38,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. | |
| URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ | |
| Royal College of Physicians | |
| Full text access to Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians, London | |
| URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rcop/cm | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Archive | |
| Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. | |
| URL: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/DigitalArchive/available.asp | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Online | |
| Online Journals Database (chemistry); plus 4 key abstracting databases plus a series of specialist online periodical reports. | |
| URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/ | |
| Royal Society Journals Collection | |
| Access to nine high-impact titles in the physical and biological sciences, including Philosophical Transactions A and B, and Proceedings A and B. | |
| URL: http://www.eifl.net/royal-society-journals-collection/ | |
| Sage Publications | |
| Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM. | |
| URL: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsIndex.nav | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://www.symposium-journals.co.uk/ | |
| Taylor & Francis Online Journals | |
| More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences. | |
| URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/ | |
| The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR | |
| OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. | |
| URL: http://www.opendoar.org/ | |
| 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. | |
| URL: www.journals.uchicago.edu | |
| Wiley Online Library (formerly InterScience) | |
| Access to the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. | |
| URLs: | |
| Wiley Online Library (formerly Synergy) | |
| Over 840 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines. | |
| URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ | |
| WorldWideScience.org | |
| WorldWideScience.org is a global science gatewayaccelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. | |
| URL: http://worldwidescience.org/ | |
| World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF) Database | |
| An electronic data source on the external debt and financial flow data. | |
| URL: http://data.worldbank.org/ | |
| World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) Online Database | |
| An electronic data source on the global economy. | |
| URL: http://data.worldbank.org/ | |
| 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. | |
| URL: http://data.worldbank.org/ | |