On-line Journals & Databases as at January 2008

An initiative to provide free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environment and social sciences. Currently AGORA provides access to over 600 journals from the world’s leading academic publishers.

URL: www.aginternetwork.org
Contact the IRC in order to access this resource

Annual Reviews publications operate as high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising the primary research literature in 33 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.

URL: www.annualreviews.org

Two international, peer-reviewed academic journals

URL: www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech

Online journals databases featuring over 600 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

URL: www.blackwell-synergy.com

Over 200 Leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities.

URL: http://journals.cambridge.org

An internationally acclaimed database of regularly updated evidence-based medical systematic reviews.

URL: www.thecochranelibrary.com

Products include the following databases: ERIC, Medline (enhanced), Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source Plus MasterFILE.

URL: http://search.epnet.com

Access to over 100 titles of management and library information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science.

URL: www.emeraldinsight.com

Includes Academic ASAP an entry-level general research database that covers subject areas from art and literature to economics and the sciences with over 1200 journal titles, close to 700 titles of which are available in full text.

Database menu URL: http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/icipe Direct URL for Academic ASAP: http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/icipe?db=AIM Direct URL for Health and Wellness Resource Centre: http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/icipe?db=HWRC

The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative, provides the lastest best information on public health, over 2000 scientific publication of biomedical literature.

URL: www.healthinternetwork.net

URL: www.cabi-publishing.org/ijt

An online archive of Scholarly journal literature. The archive currently includes over 600 scholarly journals in 42 disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database.

URL: www.jstor.org/

55 Authoritative publications in the most exciting and promising arrears of biomedical research, clinical medicine, surgery, law and science.

URL: www.liebertonline.com

Publishes over 30 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

URL: www.nature.com

OARE is an initiative to provide free or low cost access to one of the world’s largest collections of the environmental science literature and database search tools.

URL: https://oare-sweb.who.int

Is the world’s largest think-tank, renowned for its latest reports and figures published by the intergovernmental organisation on a broad range of Socio-economic subjects areas including: agriculture, development, Education, Environment, migration, trade and transport.

URL: www.sourceoecd.org

Access to over 120 journals in all fields of science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Includes some of the World's society journals.

URL: www.oupjournals.org/online

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://publishing.royalsociety.org/

36 full text journals, a range of key databases and a series of specialist periodical reports. Royal Society of Chemistry Archive: Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC ( and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.

URL: www.rsc.org

Access is provided to over 400 titles the SpringerLink service (selected titles).

URL: http://springerLink.com

Over 1200 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.

URL: www.informaworld.com

Access to journals of the University of California Press.

URL: www.ucpressjournals.com

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

Access to the full text of over 500 leading scientific , technical, medical, and professional journals.

URL: www.interscience.wiley.com

CAB Abstracts, Global Health Database and CAB Compendia

The URLs are as follows:

CAB Abstracts and Global Health: www.cabdirect.org
Global Health only: www.cabdirect.org/globalhealth
Animal Health and Production Compendium: www.cabicompendium.org/ahpc
Aquaculture Compendium: www.cabicompendium.org/ac
Crop Protection Compendium: www.cabicompendium.org/cpc
Forestry Compendium: www.cabicompendium.org/fc

• African Journals Online
• British Library Document Supply Centre (BLSDC)(contact the library for this service)