Libraries

Official Hours

Mondays – Thursdays
  • 9am – 8pm
Fridays
  • 9am – 12:30pm
  • 3pm – 8pm

Locations

  • MDI Campus
  • Faculty of Law
  • School of Journalism
  • College of Education
  • Faculty of Agriculture
  • Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences

Useful Online Resources

Multidisciplinary

Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

URL: https://scholar.google.com/

Subject: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics

Description: Open access to +1,600,000 e-prints.

URL: https://arxiv.org/

An online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

URL: https://doaj.org

An online directory that indexes and provides access to peer-reviewed open access books.

URL: https://www.doabooks.org

Agricultural Sciences

AGRICultural OnLine Access, a database produced by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), consists of two subsets of records. The first contains citations for journal articles that include abstracts. The second consists of bibliographic records describing monographs, serials, audiovisual materials and online content from around the world. AGRICOLA includes but is not limited to resources available in the library. The database contains 5,200,000+ records and includes printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

URL: https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

Biology

A preprint repository for the biological sciences.

URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/

Education Sciences

ERIC indexes education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature.

URL: https://eric.ed.gov/

Medicine

PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Astrology

The Astrophysics Data System is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources.

URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/