Vision
A global hub for information, research and learning.
Mission
Facilitate education, research and innovation critical to economic and human development.
Opening Hours
Monday – Friday (9:00 am – 4:30 pm) | Public Holidays - Closed
Services
Online resources | Library Catalogue | Ask the Librarian
Objectives
- Facilitate teaching, learning and cutting-edge research.
- Serve the university community and beyond.
- Provide a warm inviting environment for learning and research. The university library purposes to be a place where everyone feels comfortable and welcome regardless of who they are. It is a learning space for everyone.
- Promote quality higher education as a tool for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
- Avail cutting edge information tools for research and learning. The library is to provide information services on 24/7-hour basis.
- The library is to guide and participate in archiving and preservation of university information resources.
- Train its users in information literacy as a mechanism for upholding efficiency in its services and promote lifelong learning.
Law Resources
UTAMU has access to the following electronic law resources.
GOALI
Academic and peer-reviewed journals, publications and databases on law and social sciences. GOALI offers access to up to 16,000 resources, including books and peer-reviewed journals from 70 publishers, and the offering keeps growing.
NATLEX
Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation.
LAWArXIV
Legal scholarship covering the following:
| Commercial Law | Computer Law |
| Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law |
| Contracts | Criminal Law |
| Intellectual Property Law | International Law |
| Law and Society | Legal Education |
| Science and Technology Law |
JSTOR
Covering back issues in law including criminology and criminal justice dating as far back as 1910 (journals) and recent text books too.
African Legal Information Institute
AfricanLII is a programme of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit at the Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town. The institute helps individuals, organizations, and governments build and maintain sustainable access to law portals, and reach the people of Africa and beyond.
Digital Content
Access anytime, anywhere
FREE BOOK CENTRE
Links to thousands of free online technical books. Which Includes core Computer science, networking, programming languages, systems programming books, Business, Law, Engineering, among others. Go ahead and check it out.
CORE
Your gateway to academic open access content in all disciplines. Check it out for your research need!
OPEN ED TEXTBOOKS
Covering various subjects – including sciences and arts/humanities.
Google Scholar
For all your academic research needs.
Libhub
A quick search for books or journal articles.
SEARCH SPECIFIC DATABASES
Electronic books
Edward Elgar Online
Covers Business Management, Development Studies, Economics & Finance, Innovation & Technology, Law, Politics & Public Policy, Sustainable, Development Goals, Urban & Regional Studies
Intech
More than 4000 open access books and 7 open access journals of technology, economic and management, medical sciences.
Free Tech Books
Covers free textbooks in Computer Science plus lecture notes.
Electronic Journals
Directory of Open access journals
Covers all subject areas.
MDPI Journals
Covers over 223 journal titles in the natural and social sciences, check it out.
Social Science Research Network - SSRN
Covering over 50 disciplines including applied and life sciences. About 800,000 papers are available.
Arxiv
Provides access to 1,721,117 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science plus economics.
Springer Open
Over 200 journals covering both humanities and life sciences
JSTOR
Providing access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Jstor is a good source for back issues, check it out!
OpenEdition Freemium
Open edition covers digital resources in the humanities and social sciences mainly in English and French among other languages. Please choose the language of your choice while on this platform. Subjects range from arts and humanities, to education, social work, linguistics, management, e.t.c
Scientific Research
Covers various disciplines in the sciences and arts.
Research for life databases
Home of HINARI, ARDI, OARE AGORA and much more…Please ask for login details if you are off campus.
Hindawi
Open access journals covering various disciplines
Science Publishing Group (Science PG)
Open access journals and books in the sciences including economics, management and other sciences
Science Direct Open
Covers about 900 books and journals in science and technology.
Taylor and Francis Open
Thousands of articles in various academic disciplines. Remember to select the open option in your output on your left.
Thesis / Dissertations
Ethos – Electronic Thesis online Service
Search over 500,000 doctoral theses from various universities within the United Kingdom covering various subjects.
Other Reference Databases
ILO STAT – International Labor Organization
Covers labor statistics globally and surveys.
