Godfrey Okoye University
Library
Online Resources
As of 1 November, 2017
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This business database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Accounting, Tax & Bankimg Collection
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This database brings together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources, including thousands of working papers, on curent news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax and banking issues.
www.africaeducation.org/adl/Default.htm
A public library of more than 8,000 books free to anyone living in Africa. You must register online (again, for free) to use this resource.
A collection of 434 peer-reviewed journals across the curriculum published in Africa. You must register online (for free) to use this resource.
AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
User name: N1E359
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A library of more than 3,000 online journals in Agriculture and related fields (including economics, health science, etc.) made available to developing countries through the Food and Agriculture Organization.
ARDI: Access to Research for Development
User name: N1E359
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Choose ARDI
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A library of more than 2000 major online scientific and technical journals made available to developing courntries through the World Intellectual Property Organization. Also a number of important reference works.
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Choose Arts and Humanities Database
This database provides access to more than 400 selected titles in the arts, as well as related fields.
Asian & European Business Collection
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Choose Asian & European Business Collection
This database includes a number of academic journals, newspapers, newswires and magazines on companies, economies and markets across Europe and Asia, as well as international trade and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
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Choose Biology Database.
This database provides access to almost 400 titles, more than 300 in full text, covering a wide range of biology topics, including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.
Business Market Research Collection
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The Business Market Research Collection provides company, industry and geopolitical macroeconomic market research from three sources:
Hoover’s Company Profiles, which offers information on 40,000 global public and non-public companies, including location, summary financials, competitors, officers and more
- OxResearch, which features succinct articles covering significant economic and political developments of major significance from a network of over 1,000 facuty at Oxford and beyone
- Snapshots Series, which includes market research overviews on over 40 industries and 40 countries to 2008
See also ABI/INFORM.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
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This database provides high-quality indexing for over 1,800 publications and full text for more than 700, covering Canadian agriculture, business, economics, education, government & politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences and more.
Canadian Newsstreaminformation
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This database provides access to Canadian news content from more than 360 sources with archives back to the 1970s. Content is updated daily.
Career & Technical Education Database
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This database provides indexing for 790 titles covering vocation education, with full text for more than 700. Topicsa covered includegricuture, computer science, building trades, autho mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and phtocotography
http://www.cenbank.org/Documents/
The CBN publishes any of its key documents, including regulations, circulars and periodicals like the Economic & Financial Review online for free.
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Choose Computing Database.
This database provides access to more than 430 titles, most in full text, covering a wide range of topics in computer science, with a large number of titles available back to the 1990s.
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Choose Continental Europe Database
A multidisciplinary collection of more than 300 ongoing full-text journals, this database features content that is locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many countries across Europe. Subjects covered include business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A listing of open access (free) online journals across the disciplines published worldwide. Some will be of higher quality than others.
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Choose East and South Asia Database
A multidisciplinary collection of more than 200 ongoing full-text journals, this database features content that is locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in countries of East and South Asia. Subjects covered include business, science, technology, engineering social sciences, political science, law and humanities.
East Europe, Central Europe Database
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A multidisciplinary collection of more than 6000 ongoing, full-text journals, this database features content that is locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in countries of East and Central Europe. Subjects covered include business, science, technology, engineeringmedical, social sciences, education, arts, literature, history and others..
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Choose Education Database
This database includes over 1,000 full-text ournals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education at all levels, including special education, home schooling, adult education and related topics.
Free online courses offered by Havard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), three of the leading universities in the United States.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Index)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/basic.jsp
Maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, it is the world’s largest database of information on education. In August 2012 the management discovered that some documents revealed sensitive personal information about individuals and stopped access to full text of most documents, leaving only the abstracts. Work is continuing to resolve the problem and restore access.
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Choose Family Health Database
This database provides extensive coverage back to 1988 of a large range of public health subjects. Includes full text coverage of major medical journals, such as Lancet.
A large collection of books, largely in popular culture, downloadable for free
http://www.icast.org.in/ejournal/ejournal.php
A collection of more than 700 free e-journals from around the world across the curriculum.
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Choose Global Breaking News
This is an aggregated ful-text news database with very timely access to the best newswire content available globally. Updatd three times per day it is a continually growing archive of news content that may not be captured by print or online sources.
A constantly growing collection of ebooks, some with full text, many with preview information.
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Choose Health & Medical Collection
This is a comprehensive medication information resource for researchers, students and healthcare professionals including medical core medical journals, reference ebooks, instructional videos, dissertations and working papers.
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Choose Health Management Database
This database provides access to over 800 journals and almost 5,000 dissertations on a wide range of topics related to health (and other) management.
Hinari: Access to Research in Health Programme
User name: N1E359
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A library of online databases, full-text journals and other resources made available to developing countries through the World Health Organisation. Includes the U.S. PubMed database (see below).
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This database provides full-text access to more than 400 scholarly journalsournals published in India. Major subject areas include business, medical, science, technology, engineering and social sciences.
A directory of online sources on academic information maintainted by the University of California at Riverside Library.
Available to any computer connecting to the internet through the university or its library. No user name or password needed.
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Choose International Newsstream
This database provides up-to-date news content from outside the U.S. and Canada, with archives going back decades. It includes newspapers, newswires, transcripts and digital-only news sites in full-text format. Includes more than 800 of the world’s top news sources,
https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin
User name: godfreyokoye
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Full backfiles of more than 1,500 core journals across the curriculum; also includes certain archival collections.
Plants.jstor.org
For access: log into JSTOR as above. Then, in a new tab, open the JSTOR Global Plants site.
Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.
Latin America & Iberia Database
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This database provides access to more than 500 scholarly journals published in the Spanish and Portuguese countries of the Americas and Europe. Subjects covered include business, medical, science, technology, engineering, social science, education, arts, anthropology, law and humanities.
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Choose Library Science Database.
This database provides full-text access to more than 150 top journals in Library and Information Science.
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Choose Linguistics Database.
This database comprises two sources: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, which provides information on the international scholarly literiature in linguistics and languages; and Linguistics Database, which provides full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many covered by LLBA.
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Choose Middle East & Africa Database.
This database provides access to more than 300 current, full-text scholarly journals from countries in the Middle East and Africa. Subjects covered include business, science, thecnology, engineering, social sciences, education and humanities.
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Choose Military Database.
This database provides full-text access tomore than 500 titles covering topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight.
http://www.nigerianvirtuallibrary.com
User name: GOU
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A collection of journals and other resources across the curriculum maintained by the National Universities Commission (NUC)
Nursing & Allied Health Database
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Choose Nursing & Allied Health Database
This database provides access to core ebooks and journals and instructional materials in nursing and related subjexcts.
OARE: Online Access to Research in the Environment
User name: N1E359
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Note: We are currently negotiating access to OARE. Also, once you get into the database, you must remove AGORA from your browser cache before entering another dabase from Research4You.
An international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme to provide access to online journals in subjects in many disciplines related to the environment to developing countries.
A collections of more than 700 peer-reviewed open-access journals in science.
The site for the group of universities throughout the world that post for free on the web all the materials created by professors for their students and posted on course websites, such as lecture notes, additinal essays, etc. The best-known pioneer in this area is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose materials are available at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://openhumanitiespress.org/index.html
A collection ofpeer-reviewed books and journals in the humanities made freely avaialbe from time of publication.
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Choose Political Science Databsse.
This database provides access to more than 400 leading journals in political science and international relations, with full text for many of the core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
More than 40,000 free ebooks, downloadable or readable online.
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This is a collection of 40 databases bringing together journals scholarly resources from around the world in disciplines across the curriculum.
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Choose Psychology Database.
This database provides full-text access to a large number of scholarly journals and dissertations in psychology and psychoanalysis.
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Choose Public Health Database.
This database includes over 500 international full-text journals, as well as videos, reports, etc., covering a wide range of topics related to public health.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s search engine for access to the U.S. National Library of Medicine database of references and abstracts of publications (books, journal articles, etc.) on the life sciences and medical topics
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s open access library of online journals in the life sciences and medicine.
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Choose Religion Database.
This database provides full-text access to more than 250 full-text international journals on the belief systems of the world.
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Choose Research Library.
This is a very broad database providing access to a more than 6,000 academic titles, 75% in full text, across the curriculum.
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Choose Science Database.
This database provides access to a large number of scholarly journals in the natural sciences and mathematics.
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Choose Social Science Database.
This database provides full-text access to more than 1,000 journals and related literature in a wide range of social sciences.
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Choose Sociology Database.
This database provides full-text access to more than 300 journals and related literaturein sociology and social work.
Springer is one of the major publishers of high-impact science books and journals. To their commercial publications, they have added a group on open access books and journals.
Struggles for Freedom—Southern Africa
aluka.org.struggles
Open the JSTOR site as above, then in a new tab go to the Aluka Struggles for Freedom site.
This database allows you to experience the phenomenal independence movements of southern African nations through this digitized collection of thousands of documents and other primary sources.
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Telecommunications Database.
This database provides access to more than 140 journals, with more than 115 in full text, on telecommunications technology and the industry. Topics covered include computer appllcations, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio and television.
Turkey Database
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Choose Turkey Database.
This multidisciplinary database provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journals published in Turkey. Subjects covered include business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science and humanities.
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Choose UK & Ireland Database.
This database provides access to more than 360 current, full-text juournals published in the British Isles. Subjects covered include business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, educationa dn humanities.
Searchable and downloadable data from 34 databases of statistical data collected by the United Nations and its agencies since the beginning of each organization, with links to the national statistical agencies of all member countries, including Nigeria.
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Choose US Newsstream.
This database provides access to both current and archival U.S. news content, including newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs and news sites. Included are top U.S. newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
An online encyclopedia created and maintained by volunteer users. Often has excellent current information in science and technology as well as general information on a wide variety of subjects, including much that is available only in highly specialized publications. Although often a good place to start, because it has no editorial control, it is not acceptable as the sole source of information for academic writing.
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country
Country by country information about World Bank operations, including full text of many research reports about the country. The address for the Nigeria page is
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria
Log onto JSTOR as above, then open a new tab for Aluka’s World Heritage Sites database.
This database allows you to explore the archaeology, history and culture of Africa
through its heritage sites and landscapes.