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Welcome to TU-K Library
Safeguarding Library Resources
The Director of Library, Learning Resource Services, Dr. Sarah Kibugi explains to the Vice Chancellor how the system operates and how it will be able to safeguard the library resources from theft.
Bio-metric Entrance Management System
Launching of the Library Bio-metric Entrance Management System by the Vice Chancellor of the Technical University accompanied University management
CUE Visits TUK Library
Demonstration of the different e-portals and e-resources available in the library to the Commission of University Education (CUE) commissioners
Using the OPAC
To get started, just fill in the blank on the search bar above with what you want to find and click GO. If there is something specific that you wish to find, like an author or a title, you can use the "Keyword" drop down menu to select a specific area. For even more specific searching, use the advanced search feature to help narrow in on what you are looking for.
Over 60 members of Academic Staff trained in Turnitin locally
Date: Thursday, 26th November 2020
TUK Library in Collaboration with Kenyatta University Post Modern Library Conducts a Follow-up training on Turnitin Anti plagiarism Software.Over 60 members of Academic staff were trained on 26th November 2020. Another Group will be trained on Thursday, 3rd December 2020
Turnitin training for TUK Faculty
Date: Thursday, 19th November 2020
TUK Library In Conjunction With Eiffel Conducts Turnitin Training Webinar For Academic Staff, Over 100 Participants Were Trained.
How to search for your favorite journal article/title/subject
When not sure of the Journal title or subject; one can use a keyword search using our customised Google Search Engine. To get started, just fill in the search box below with the keywords with what you want to find and click Search.
To Browse for a particular journal title, publisher or database; use the links provided below.
LIST OF ERESOURCES
Journals, databases and mixed packages |
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The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making |
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The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. |
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Publish books and journals across a range of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences. |
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Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science. |
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Covers the geosciences e-resources. It shares the courtyard with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Linnean Society of London. |
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Access to information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more. |
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Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics |
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Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more |
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Subject Strengths: research Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative, cases, videos, datasets |
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Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies |
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The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences. |
Wiley Online Library Full collection (1,360 titles)
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Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education Engineering, Law Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, Psychology, Social Sciences |
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Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection |
HST - The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC)
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Subject Strength: agriculture & environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, reproduction & development |
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science; Architecture, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence. |
PROQUEST Academic complete & Library Thing Book cover widget
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ProQuest preserves rich, vast and varied information – whether historical archives or today’s scientific breakthroughs – and packages it with digital technologies that enhance its discovery, sharing and management. |
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OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
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Project MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. |
E-duke journals scholarly collection
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African studies, anthropology, art & art history, asian studies, criticism & theory, cultural studies, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethnography, european studies, fiction & poetry, film & media studies, gender & sexuality studies, literary studies, |
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Business management, Education, Economic and finance, Geography, Innovation, Research methods, Social and sociology, Teaching methods, Urban & regional, Development studies, Environment |
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Applied mathematics, statistics, theoretical mathematics |
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HeinOnline Core Package for EIFL contains the constitutional histories for 170+ countries, a large collection of historic books and monographs on legal history. Subject coverage: Law |
Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journal
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Provides free access to MSP’s journals, open to libraries in these 29 countries: Subject coverage: Mathematics, mechanics & engineering |
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Is a bundle of 175 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. |
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Open Access Resources
Virtual University of Uganda Open Access Library
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Universal content |
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Subjects covered: biological science, business and economics, development policy,engineering, medical and health science, physical science, social science |
Directory Of Open Access Journals
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Is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. . Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities |
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Subjects covered: agricultural and food chemistry, natural products , environmental science etc. |
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Is a non-profit offering public access to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety of journals, including PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature. |
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PubMed comprises approximately 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. |
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Is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising livestock. |
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Is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences |
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Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all. |
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Physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities |
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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NCBI bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare. |
Scientific Research An Academic Publisher
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Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science & Communications. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Mathematics. |
Browsing Electronic Books
Operating Hours
| Monday to Friday | 8am - 8pm |
| Saturdays | 8am - 4pm |
| Sundays & Public Holidays | Closed |
Hot @TU-K Library
African democracy : its origins and development
Gardner Thompson.
Nairobi, Kenya
2016
The concepts of democracy and good governance have been at the centre of criticism of governments all over the world. What democracy entails, however, has never been agreed, most notably on the African continent....