Donation of books by Department of Optometry and Visual Science on behalf of Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) to the College of Science Library received by the College Librarian, Dr. Richard Bruce Lamptey.
Bring your own device facility for training and the students/staff use to access the E-library resources. it provides seemless kutsnets access.
Collection
The Library materials are classified according to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme: Under this scheme, various subject fields within the sciences are classified as follows:
Q Science (General)
QA Mathematics
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
QD Chemistry
QE Geology
QH Natural History (General)
Biology (General)
QK Botany
QL Zoology
QM Human Anatomy
QP Physiology
QR Microbiology
And many others.
Online Databases
Subscriptions to the following online resources are also paid for, and can be accessed within the KNUST Network:
1. EBSCO Host Publications - http://search.epnet.com
Subject: -all subjects-abstracts, full text and reviews.
2. Emerald - www.emeraldinsight.com
Subject: -Management, Library and information management, engineering, computer science-full text and abstracts
3. Mary Ann Liebert – www.liebertonline.com
Subject- Biomedical research, clinical medicine, surgery, law and science
4. Multilingual Matters - www.multilingual.matters.com
Subject: - language journals
5. National Academic Press - www.nap.edu
6. Beech Tree Publications - https://www.ingentaconnect.com
Subject: -Public policy for science and technology Research Environmental, social, health and other impacts. Three international, peer-reviewed academic journals
7. Gale Thompson Learning
a) Expanded Academic ASAP: - http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5019.xls
Subjects: -economics, topics in business and finance, anthropology, archaeology, computing and computers, education art, literature, music, history international relations, law sociology, philosophy, religion
b) Health and Wellness Resource Center- http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5117.xls
Subjects:-various topics in medicine and health STDs and AIDS psychology and mental health nursing includes the BMJ and JAMA
8. Blackwell Publishing - www.blackwell-synergy.com
Over 800 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines
9. American Physical Society - http://publish.aps.org
Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and ten journals produced by the American Physical Society. Subjects: - Physics, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter and materials physics, Nuclear physics particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Statistical, non-linear, and soft matter physics, accelerators and beams, physics education research
10. Annual Reviews - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org
Subjects: - Biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences
11. Oxford University Press - www.oup.co.uk
Subject: All subjects
12. Cochrane Library (John Wiley and Sons) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Subject: - All branches of medicine and healthcare, especially evidence-based medicine clinical trials
13. Royal Society for Chemistry - http://www.rsc.org
RSC Journals Archive
14. AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)-www.aginternetwork.org
Subject: - Agriculture and related fields-full text and abstracts
15. HINARI (Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative)-www.healthinternetwork.net
Subject: - Medical, biomedical sciences, health and related fields-full text and abstracts
16. ELDIS (Electronic Development Information System) – www.eldis.org
17. INASP (Directory of Free and Open Access Online Resources) - www.inasp.info/peri/free
Subject: - Multidisciplinary
18. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - www.doaj.org
Subject: Multidisciplinary
19. Scientific Electronic Online (SciLEO) - http://www.scielo.org
SciELO is a collection of journals published within Latin America and Spain, available free online. There are 5 country collections and a Public Health Collection.
21. TEEAL - www.teeal.org
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library is a comprehensive full-text collection of core journals in the field of over 140 agricultural and related sciences. It is CD-based. Full text available at INSTI-CSIR, Accra.
22. Science and Technology Information System (SIST)-
Central SIST - sist-prototype.sist-sciencesdev.net
Ghana SIST - www.sist-sciencesghana.org.gh
Subject: Multidisciplinary
24. World Bank Publications - www.worldbank.org
25. Beech Tree Publishing - http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Public policy for science and technology Research Environmental, social, health and other impact
26. JSTOR - www.jstor.org
27. Institute of Physics (IOP) - http://journals.iop.org.
28. British Medical Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries
29.OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) - www.oaresciences.org