| Daatabase Name | Subject Strength | Key Users |
Core | It contains the world’s largest collection of open access research papers | Multiple 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-makers | School of science and business |
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages | Multiple 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 Development | Multiple 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 Resources | School of health sciences |
Africa Information Ethics | Information Ethics Resources | School 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 Compendium | School 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 resources | School of education |
Google Books | Millions of multidisciplinary great books to review | Multiple subjects |
 | Research4Life, is a platform and website dedicated to making peer-reviewed knowledge public to students and researchers in lower income countries | Multiple Subjects |
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LIBRARIAN’S MESSAGE
Mr Joel Nakitare
AG. University Librarian
At Rongo University library, we are reinventing our resources, services and systems to what a world class library can and aspire to be. We are doing this as a way of anticipating and adapting to the changing needs of students and faculty.Currently, the library provides access to about 10,000 volumes of print resources, about 35,000 electronic journals and books. We are committed to support all teaching and research activities in RU through delivery of high quality services to all customers.I invite you who share our passion for lifelong learning to join the library in achieving her vision: To be a world class repository of knowledge. Your continuous feedback is essential in helping us reinvent a library for the future.
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