Electronic books

Research for Life

You will access publications from AGORA (Enabling the developing world to access agriculture research)ARDI (Research for Innovation)GOALI (Enabling the developing world to access legal research)HINARI (Enabling the developing world to access health research, and OARE (Enabling the developing world to access environment research )

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British Library for Development Studies Digital Library

Full-text copies of developing country research from the shelves of the British Library for Development Studies(BLDS). These publications have been made available online to a global audience through partnership agreements between BLDS and research institutes in Africa and Asia.

Aeronautics E-Books

 Looking for documents providing history and context for the work done in aeronautics research? Wondering what resources are available for your business in science and technology information?\r\n\r\nThis section provides links to a variety of reference materials related to aeronautics research at NASA.

Africa Portal Library

 The Africa Portal is an online resource that seeks to broaden the availability, accessibility and use of policy research on issues critical to the future of Africa. It is a collaborative project between the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). The Africa Portal offers a range of features including a Digital Library and an Experts Directory. The library holds over 5000 digital documents including research reports, occasional papers and policy briefs. The entire repository is open access, equipped with a sophisticated search function and available for free, full-text download. The material for the library has been provided by Content Partners of the Africa Portal who benefit from wider dissemination of their research to a global community.

Agriculture OER Repositories

 A List of existing Agriculture OER repositories, It includes journals such as Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AgEcon Search, Global Agricultural Research Archive, MIT Open Courseware in Economics, The Rice Knowledge (RKB) and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) among others.

ArXiv

 ArXiv is an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant archive of electronic preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and non-linear sciences. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.

College Open Textbooks

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, a collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.

Computer, Information Technology e-books

This site lists online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes  available over the Internet. Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.

Directory of Open Access Books

 The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)

OpenDOAR is a global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies.

DiVA

Centralized archive of a joint group of Scandinavian universities. Includes full-text theses, dissertations and other academic publications.

E-Books Directory

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.\r\nYou can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory\r\nbelow and download anything you need.

General E-Book Library

This is an online digital library of full texts of over 2,500,000 scholarly e-books. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from various professional publishers.

E-Book Library

PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 78,250,984 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don't forget to bookmark and share the love!

ERIC - Education Resources Information Clearinghouse:

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

Open Knowledge Repository

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Since its launch in 2012, millions of publications have been downloaded from the OKR, and nearly half of its users are in developing countries. The OKR was named one of ALA RUSA’s “Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2013” The World Bank also received the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) “Open Access Innovator” award in 2012 for the OKR.

Federal Energy regulatory commission eLibrary

 Reliable, Efficient and Sustainable Energy documents. Assist learners in obtaining reliable, efficient and sustainable energy resources.

Free e-books Library

BookZZ is one of the largest online libraries in the world. We aim to make literature accessible for everyone. Our site contains over 2 569 000 books.

HighWire

 Hosted by Stanford University, contains articles from a vast range of journals. Many recent articles are free while others are available after 12 months. Find there Journals on computer science, mathematics, engineering, statistics, management, economics and many others

InTechOpen

Read, download & share more free eBooks and Journals on the following subject areas: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities

Joint Research Centre Repository

The JRC Publications Repository is an online service giving access to data about research publications produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. This service is established to assist with central storage, management and search to our research publications. Where possible we will endeavour to provide access to a full-text publication.

Jorum

The UK's largest repository for discovering and sharing Open Educational Resources for HE, FE and Skills.

NCBI Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network at NCBI, Bookshelf enables users to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and spurs discovery of related information.

OAPEN:

 The OAPEN Foundation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to Open Access publishing of academic books. OAPEN provides a platform for the full text dissemination of Open Access books and provides services to publishers and libraries. OAPEN builds a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences, and develops services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.

Open Textbook Library

 Open Text Book is a registry of textbooks and related materials which are open, that is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute.

SciTech Connect

SciTech Connect is a portal to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia and data information. SciTech Connect is a consolidation of two core DOE search engines, the Information Bridge and the Energy Citations Database. SciTech Connect incorporates all of the R&D information from these two products into one search interface. SciTech Connect was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to increase access to science, technology, and engineering research information from DOE and its predecessor agencies.

SNV Biogas database

This library hosts an extensive choice of domestic biogas reports from around the world domestic biogas.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open access repository of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks including Economics, Financial Economics and Legal Scholarship. The SSRN eLibrary database contains abstracts for scholarly articles, working papers and forthcoming papers, as well as over 390,000 downloadable full-text documents. EUI working papers in Economics and Law are also included in the SSRN eLibrary.

Virtual Library on Capacity Development

 This Library Contains open access Online knowledge resources for capacity development

Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository

 Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: Sharing Scientific and Scholarly Research related to Agriculture, Food, and Environment.

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum publishes a comprehensive series of reports which examine in detail the broad range of global issues it seeks to address with stakeholders as part of its mission of improving the state of the world. Besides reports on its key events and standalone publications such as the Global Competitiveness Report, the Global Risks Report and the Global Gender Gap Report, the Forum produces landmark titles covering the environment, education, individual industries and technologies.

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Nile University is a Private University, with the aim of promoting quality education, academic excellence, professional practice, and integral growth and development.

Vision

A Center for quality education, and entergral growth and development

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Nile University is located in Arua District in the North West of Uganda 5km from Arua on the Arua – Moyo road on a 32.1 acre piece of land.

The University is open to both male and female students.