Tumaini University Makumira Dar es Salaam College (TUDARCo) - Library

Services

ONLINE JOURNALS
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
A programme of INASP - the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications - AJOL promotes the awareness and use of African-published journals in the sciences, medicine, agriculture, humanities and social sciences by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs) and abstracts on the Internet, links to full text (if available) plus document delivery of paper articles, subsidised (to less developed countries). AJOL already includes 200 journals published in Africa. Journals are accepted on the basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication.

BUBL Information Service
A national (UK oriented) information service for the higher education community. Links to over 10,000 quality Internet resources covering all subject areas, and sub-divided by type. Search or browse. Excellent for tracking down UK institutions.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Developed by Lund University Libraries and supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute (http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/) along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, (http://www.arl.org/sparc), the directory contains information on open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. There are now 1148 journals in the directory of which 310 journals are searchable on article level with 54661articles are included in the DOAJ service. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.

E-LIS
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related disciplines. It offers free access to "e-prints in library and information science" research papers.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."

Information Literacy - Sources of Information
From Sköde University Library in Sweden, this is a valuable and substantial collection of Web sites and resources devoted to information literacy, including information literacy education, instruction, tutorials, standards, models, programmes, and more. Links are grouped by Web sites, articles/conference papers/monographs, bibliographies, and mailing lists and discussion forums.

Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
Hosted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, this is a useful shortcut bringing together links to 38 of the principal, high-quality subject gateways, together with 10 multi-subject gateways