Social Sciences

Great Zimbabwe University Library is increasingly making available scholarly Online Databases to the user community via the Library website. Currently the University community has full text access to over 160,000 eBooks and 20,000 eJournal titles.

 

Electronic Books Collection

 

Ebook Central

Ebook Central is an online digital library of full texts of over 17,000 scholarly e-books. It is an online database collection that combines scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade and professional publishers. It also includes government documents. Additionally, Ebook Central offers a wide variety of content across many subject areas, especially in business and social science. Ebook Central continues to add quality eBooks and other authoritative titles to their selection from the world’s leading academic and professional publishers.

 

EBSCO Host
Over 10,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 16,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source Nursing Academic; Health Source Consumer Edition; Medline.

 

Free Book Centre

This portal focuses primarily on academic material. Free Book Centre contains links to thousands of free online technical books and other subject areas, which include: Computer Science, Arts, Religion, Church Administration, Languages, Fiction and Cooking.

 

Google Books

This search tool contains an extensive list of material from the Google Library Project and Partner Programmes covering Arts, Religion, Church Administration and Languages. Google books has a keyword search key plus several search tools (limit) options. Search results will include full-text e-books and also chapters/sections of a book on that topic. Links (citations) can be stored in a personal Google Account.

 

NCBI Bookshelf 

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare. Access is via keyword search or Browse Titles or New Releases. In the keyword search tool, other access options (limits) include Subjects, Types and Publishers. Search results contain the PDFs of books, collections, databases, documentations and reports.

 

Project MUSE Books

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

 

Electronic Journals Collection

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritizing and synthesizing the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.

British Psychological Press

11 international peer-reviewed journals offer the latest original research to psychology academics and professionals worldwide, and help to advance and disseminate psychological knowledge in line with the British Psychological Society’s primary objectives.

African Portal

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).

Directory of Open Access Resources (OpenDOAR)

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

 

Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Access to the world’s widest range of Management, Library and Information Science Journals.

 

Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search

Search the 5,007,869 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive:

 

IMF eLibrary

 

JSTOR
Access to fulltime-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines

 

OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development provides access to 18 source OECD Books, 24 Source OECD Periodicals, Source OECD Statistics (large range of topics from Agriculture), IEA Statistics (including Energy Prices and Taxes World Energy Statistics and Balances etc). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is the world’s largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Environmental issues

Oxford University Press
Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.

Nature and Palgrave MacMillan Journals
Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of 75 peer-reviewed e-journals.

Policy Press
The Policy Press publishes three highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy and is a leading specialist social science publisher committed to journals that will have an impact on research, learning, policy and practice at an international level

Project MUSE Journals

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

Sage Online Journals
Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM.

Symposium Journals
Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals

Taylor and Francis eBestseller packages 

Access over 66,000 ebooks from across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment and Law.

Wiley-Blackwell Synergy Content: 
Wiley is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to over 3 million articles across 1400 journals.

Wiley InterScience
Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

World Bank Publications

  • Africa Development Indicators is the premier data source on the African economy. It contains over 1,400 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries
  • Global Economic Monitor is a “one-stop shop” portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators
  • Global Development Finance Online offers external debt and financial flow data for over 129 countries
  • World Development Indicators is the premier data source on the global economy
  • World Bank E-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.

eReference Tools

Encyclopaedia Britannica

  • Oxford Reference Online – Oxford Reference Online includes over 1.4 million entries across 27 subject areas, everything from architecture to zoology. It offers the very best in quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by top academics and experts. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.
  • Oxford English Dictionary Online – Oxford English Dictionary Online provides you with unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words (past and present) from across the English-speaking world.
  • Dictionary.Com 
  • Cambridge Online Dictionary  – The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English.
  • Encyclopaedia.Com  – Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
  • Wikipedia

NOTE: Use of these resources is strictly limited to research purposes in not-for-profit institutions throughout Zimbabwe and is not for commercial gain. GZU Library will not be held liable for any violation of this regulation.