Open Access Library

Welcome to our Open Access Library, a vast collection of resources that support both student learning and staff research. Open Access Library content is free and open to the general public. The following is a list of on-line books and journals that are available for download or to read on-line:


1 | National Council for Higher Education - Regulations

 

This resource contains the following items:-


Acts of Parliament:

An Act provides for the establishment of a government institution, its functions and administration and to streamline the establishment, administration and standards. The National Council for Higher Education, closely relates to the following laws.


Statutory Instruments

Statutory Instruments are Guidelines that Operationalise the functions of NCHE as stated in the Universities and other tertiary Institutions Act, 2001 as Amended.

 

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2 | African Studies

 

Hosted by Columbia University Libraries is a collection of internet resources on Africa; the site also hosts a comprehensive portal for United Nations Agencies on Africa, a useful collection of official documentation on institutional development.

 

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3 | Bioline International

 

Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. By providing a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals (currently from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela), BI helps to reduce the global knowledge divide by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide.

 

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4 | DIES National Multiplication Trainings (NMT) Workshop 1 Presentations: November 2021

 

DIES National Multiplication Trainings (NMT) Workshop 1 Presentations: November 2021

 

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5 | DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

 

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

 

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6 | DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

 

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.

 

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7 | ERIC - The Education Resources Information Center

 

The Education Resources Information Center is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education.

 

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8 | External quality assurance: options for higher education managers: IIEP training modules

 

This material was developed for decision-makers and managers in government departments such as ministries of education, buffer organizations of higher education and quality assurance agencies whose task it is to design or develop the national framework for external quality assurance. These modules are intended to provide support for their decisions related to external quality assurance, while discussing those options and their implications which have been successfully tested in a variety of countries. Accessible to all, the modules are designed to be used in various learning situations, from independent study to face-to-face training.

 

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9 | HAQAA2 DISSEMINATION AND CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOP FOR HEIs IN UGANDA

 

HAQAA2 DISSEMINATION AND CAPACITY-BUILDING WORKSHOP FOR HEIs IN UGANDA: 20TH -22ND June 2022, ENTEBBE : Day 1 and Day 2 Presentations

 

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10 | Inter University Council for East Africa - Publications, QA Policy, Tools and Documents

 

This is a general is a collection of intellectual output of the Inter University Council for East Africa, including scholarly articles and books, electronic polices and manuals, conference proceedings, technical reports and digitised library collections. It is the official Institutional Repository (IR) of Inter University Council for East Africa.

 

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11 | International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

 

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is an open, double-blind peer reviewed electronic journal published in May and November each year by the Faculty Center at Georgia Southern University. The journal is an international forum for research and information about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education.

 

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12 | International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

 

The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (ISSN 1812-9129) provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction. IJTLHE provides broad coverage of higher education pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) across diverse content areas, educational institutions, and levels of instructional expertise.

 

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13 | JSTOR - Open

 

JSTOR is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals.

 

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14 | London School of Economics - Centre for International Development

 

The Centre for International Development at the London School of Economics hosts an excellent selection of working papers on development.

 

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15 | Manual for the Conception, Planning and Realisation of Graduate Surveys for Quality Management at Higher Education Institutions

 

This manual has been developed by academics of the University of Duisburg-Essen under the DIES (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies) Programme conducted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). The project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).


Document By Stammen, Karl-Heinz:

Manual for the Conception, Planning and Realisation of Graduate Surveys for Quality Management at Higher Education Institutions.

 

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16 | National Academies Press

 

National Academies Press offers hundreds of books which can be downloaded as pdf for free by the chapter or the entire book. Topics include: Agriculture, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Conflict and Security Issues, Education, Energy, Environmental Studies, Food & Nutrition, Industry and Labor.

 

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17 | National Council for Higher Education Publications

 

The NCHE Publications Page provides a platform for supporting the development and improvement of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) through access to information. The collection reflects our core priority areas of Higher Education Management, Higher Education Regulation &General Areas of National Interest.

 

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18 | Open Research Online

 

Open Research Online is the UK Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs. It is an Open Access resource that can be searched and browsed freely by members of the public.

 

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19 | Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

 

PESTLHE offers an opportunity for those involved in University learning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scholarly practice that report on small-scale practitioner research and case studies of practice that involve reflection, critique, implications for future practice and are informed by relevant literature, with a focus on enhancement of student learning. This publication thus offers a forum to develop and share scholarly informed practice in Higher Education through either works in progress or more detailed accounts of scholarly practice. The journal will be published twice a year (April and November). SPECIAL EDITIONS WILL OCCUR ON A BESPOKSE BASIS

 

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20 | The World Bank e-Library

 

The World Bank e-Library covers more than 20 disciplines related to poverty, development, and social science. The e-Library offers a variety of tools and added functionality, saving users valuable time. Special tools and conveniences include personalization and exporting to citation software. One can browse content by subject, region, country, and type of publication.

 

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21 | Training on Internal Quality Assurance (TrainIQA Modules)

 

About TrainIQA

The Training on Internal Quality Assurance and its book series has been jointly developed by University of Duisburg-Essen and University of Potsdam with the support of experts and organisations from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. It comprises five Modules which are designed to support quality managers and institutions to setup and enhance their internal quality management systems. The training and parts of it have been implemented within various international settings.

Book Series

Each Module of TrainIQA is accompanied by a course book. The five books are published in a series edited by Solveig Randhahn and Frank Niedermeier and are freely downloadable as e-publications in english and french language. They can can also be ordered as paperback in book stores online and around the world.


 

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22 | UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

 

As the only specialized organization with the mandate to support educational policy, planning and management, IIEP plays a unique role within the United Nations system. 

It was established in 1963 as an integral part of UNESCO. The Institute is fully aligned with the objectives of the organization and contributes to its education planning. It develops the capacities of education actors to plan and manage their systems through its programmes of training, technical assistance, policy research and knowledge sharing.

 

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23 | UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning Publications

 

The International Institute for Educational Planning is an arm of UNESCO created in 1963 in Paris, France. It develops the capacities of education actors to plan and manage their education systems through its programmes of training, technical assistance, policy research and knowledge sharing.

 

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