IRINGA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Electronic Resources

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1. Databases, E-Books and Journals
2. International and Local News
3. IUCo Dissertations, Theses and Research Papers
4. Links to Popular Search Engines

• AJOL

African Journal Online (AJOL) provides Tables of Contents and abstracts of over 200 African journals with document delivery. No username and password required to access this database.



• BARTLEBY

A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. It links to multiple online dictionaries, thesauruses, yearbooks.



• BULB Information Service

BUBL LINK Catalogue: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. No password required



• BUSINESS ENGLISH

Glossaries, acronyms, vocabulary, explanations, definitions, and other fundamentals of various industries such as accounting, advertising, banking, economics, management, law, real estate.



• Cambridge University Press

This database has over 180 leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities.

• CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

Detailed, up to date statistics on all countries



• COL Knowledge Finder

The COL knowledge finder indexes about one million documents on education and development from selected websites related to education and development. The contents of this virtual library include documents from around the world and aims to support and enhance the work of learners, educators, administrators and policy makers. No username and password required.



• COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sixth Edition

Online version of a short entry encyclopedia, year 2000 edition.



• CREATIVE QUOTATIONS

The database has 50,000 quotations (and bio info) for 3,000+ famous people. This is a great research tool for students, teachers and quote lovers.



• DICTIONARY OF UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

Links to units of measurement including all systems of weights and measures, both metric and non-metric



• Duke University Press

The database provides access to more than thirty periodicals that span a stimulating range of disciplines within the humanities and sciences.



• EBSCO Host Databases

Over 10,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 17,000 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.



• The Elements of Style

Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.



• Emerald Publishing Group Databases

Emerald is a leading English language publisher of academic and professional literature in management, library services and engineering.



• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & ECONOMICS

The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics is an ambitious reference work that attempts to survey the whole law and economics literature in nearly 5,000 pages. Most entries contain two elements: a review of the literature, written by an authority in the field, and a quasi complete bibliography.



• HOWSTUFFWORKS

Multi-media explanations about how products and processes work, including technology, biology, automotive engineering, travel, time, money. Search by keyword, browse by topic.



• INTERNET LIVING SWAHILI DICTIONARY

The Kamusi Project currently includes the following dictionaries: English-Swahili Dictionary, Swahili-English Dictionary, Swahili Specialized, vocabularies and Russian-Swahili-Russian Dictionaries (compiled by Dmitri Polikanov)



• INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY

Annotated links to full text reference and other online resources compiled by the University of Michigan School of Public Information.



• Intute

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in this database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 115111 records.No password required to access the database.



• ISLAMIC LAW

This database is a Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, provides links to full text documents and articles. You may access without login name and password.



• LEXICOOL

Lexicool is primarily a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. It is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages. It is a Bi- and Multi-Lingual translation for 60 languages including English, Swahili, French, Greek, and Hebrew.



• LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - LAW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - NATIONS OF THE WORLD

The database has a Very comprehensive list of legal resources available for most countries on the web, for free. No Constitution for Zanzibar - it can be found at Special Reserve. This is the site US legislators use when they need information.



• MARKETING VIRTUAL LIBRARY

This is an Online marketing textbook with links to full text articles and training modules for profit and non-profit organizations.



• MATHEMATICS VIRTUAL LIBRARY

The database contains a collection of mathematics resources maintained by Florida State University Department of Mathematics. It has an online mathematics texts and extensive full text material on teaching mathematics at all levels.






• NEW YORK UNIVERSITY OF LAW, FOREIGN COLLECTIONS BY JURISDICTION

Links to other collections - not many English speaking Africa resources, but some useful dictionaries are found here.



• OARE Database

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature.



• ONELOOK DICTIONARY

Includes over 5,000,000 words in 963 dictionaries.



• PortalLivRe!

Nuclear Information Center (Brazil) maintains a portal to ease the identification and access to free journals available on the Internet. It is the Portal LivRe! (Free!), nowadays registering 2,525 free journals. There is a multi-lingual search interface allowing the use of Portuguese, English and Spanish. No User name and password required.



• PROJECT WITTENBERG

Full text of writings of Martin Luther and other early Lutherans, concordances, and hymnals.



• ROGET'S THESAURUS

The database contains complete dictionary look up, encyclopedias, almanacs web directory, thesaurus etc. It has language resources such as grammar, usage, etc. It has also a translator feature that translates texts instantly.



• The Royal Society Publishing

The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth dedicated to promoting excellence in science. The Society plays an influential role in national and international science policy and supports developments in science engineering and technology in a wide range of ways.



• SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.



• Tanzaia On - Line

Tanzania Online is a gateway to information on development issues in Tanzania. It is a UNDP/UN, Government of Tanzania and Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) initiative to address problems faced by Government officials, policy makers, private sector, civil society, donor community, researchers and academicians accessing information on development issues in Tanzania. No Pass word required.



• Thomson Gale Databases

General research database that covers subject areas from art and literature to economics and the sciences.



• Wiley InterScience

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



• Wikipedia free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that any one can edit. It has about 1,793 articles in English.



• WILSONWEB

Wilsonweb database provides access to applied science, business, education, humanities and legal periodicals full texts.



• WORLD LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE

WLII is a free, independent and non-profit legal research facility made up of an international group of participants. Exhaustive list of web resources available for British, Australian and European law and legislation. A couple of databases for South African law available here.



• YENZA Database

Yenza is a guide to using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It has very useful research information and some are full text. No Password required.



• UNESCO-EOLSS ON-LINE

The EOLSS is an integrated compendium of Sixteen Encyclopedias, regarded as the largest on-line publication carrying knowledge for our times. It is a virtual dynamic library equivalent to about 200 volumes in size with contributions from thousands of scholars from over 100 countries and edited by about 300 subject experts.



• OTHER ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SHELF

The database has very useful research tools. It includes Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Quotations, Directories, Maps, Miscellaneous references and Style/Citation manuals

This database contains the collection of the electronic researches, dissertations and thesis of IUCo students and academic staff. The database is searchable using of the authors' names, titles of the works and year of completion of the work. The researches are in the PDF.