Daatabase NameSubject StrengthKey Users
CoreIt contains the world’s largest collection of open access research papersMultiple subjects
Access to Scientific and Socioeconomic Information in Africa (ASKIA)
It defines a framework for bringing together scientific and socio-economic information for the African community, including scientists, researchers, academics, students, economists a including Open Access literature, scientific and socio-economic commercial databases, online journals and other resources. The federated search will provide a one stop access to knowledge of different types ranging from bibliographic data, statistical data, events and news, etc and, policy-makersSchool of science and business
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languagesMultiple users
Data World Bank

Subject strengths: Agriculture & Rural Development, Health, Aid Effectiveness, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Labor & Social Protection, Economic Policy & External Debt, Poverty, Education, Private Sector, Energy & Mining, Public Sector, Environment, Science & Technology, Financial Sector, Social Development, Gender; and Urban DevelopmentMultiple subjects
EAC Documents & Publication
The links provides access to Documents and Publications generated within EAC.Multiple subjects
IFRA Press Archive
IFRA has built up a press review of East African newspapers since the late 1970’s. The collection has more
than 50,000 press cuttings classified thematically by National and international politics, economy and agriculture
Media and Journalism
Kenya Open Data
This site makes public government data accessible to the people of Kenya. High quality national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public service locations are just a taste of what’s to come. The information here is key to improving transparency, unlocking social and economic value, and building Government in Kenya.School of science
KIPPRA
Publications by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA).School of social sciences
UN Women
This executive brief is a synthesis of key findings and recommendations from a multi country analytical study by UN Women on child marriage in Africa covering ten countries selected due to their comparatively higher prevalence of child marriage in the continent and globally.School of social sciences
African Health OER Network
Health Education ResourcesSchool of health sciences
Africa Information Ethics

Information Ethics ResourcesSchool of informatics
CAB Direct
CAB Direct is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. It contains the following datasets: Aquaculture Compendium Animal Health & Production Compendium Crop Protection Compendium Forestry CompendiumSchool of agriculture
Data World Bank
Subject strengths: Agriculture & Rural Development, Health, Aid Effectiveness, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Labor & Social Protection, Economic Policy & External Debt, Poverty, Education, Private Sector, Energy & Mining, Public Sector, Environment, Science & Technology, Financial Sector, Social Development, Gender; and Urban Development.Multiple subjects
Directory of Open Access Books
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an open access licence. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.Multiple subjects
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.Multiple subjects
ERIC
Bibliographic records of education literature, plus a growing collection of full text resourcesSchool of education
Google Books
Millions of multidisciplinary great books to reviewMultiple subjects
Research4Life, is a platform and website dedicated to making peer-reviewed knowledge public to students and researchers in lower income countriesMultiple Subjects