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We are pleased to inform you that the e-Library now provides access to the following electronic resources:

  • Subscribed Journals

  • Open Access Resources

  • Pdf Drive

  • Learning Modules

We encourage all students and staff to make full use of these valuable academic materials for research and study purposes by following the link provided below.

For assistance or further information, please contact the page administrator at đź“§ info@mcte.edu.et.

Subscribed Journals

  • African Journals Online (AJOL)Tables of contents and abstracts of over 430 African journals with 90% of articles having their full text available for download.
  • Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
    The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of up to 6,100 key journals and 5,800 books to 2,900 institutions in more than 100 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the four programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE and ARDI.
  • American Astronomical Society
    The Society publishes three scholarly journals that are available through PERI: The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal (including The Astrophysical Journal Letters), and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
  • American Chemical Society
    The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. Access is to over 35 high quality, high impact journals.
  • American Institute of  Physics
    AIP publishes 12 journals,2 magazines,and a conference proceedings series.AIP’s Scitation platform hosts over2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publicationsfor 28 earned society publisher.
  • American Physical Society APS
    Access  to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.
  • American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
    ASABE Technical Library includes a range of content including journals, textbook materials, monographs, standards and proceedings as well as the important reference work-in-progress, Design Topics.
  • American Society of Civil Engineers
    ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 32 journals encompassing more than 48,000 full-text papers published since 1983 – that’s over 408,000 pages!Approximately 4000 new papers will be added each year.
  • Annual  Reviews
    Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life,Physical and Social Sciences. The authoritative and comprehensive review articles are written by leading scholars who are dedicated to helping scientists, students and researchers around the world prioritise and navigate the vast amount of primary research literature and data that is available to them. Year after year, Annual Reviews publications earn the highest Impact Factors according to the ISI® Journal Citation Reports (JCR®).
  • Brill
    Brill is an important publisher of journals, with nearly 200 titles in various subject fields. Nearly all our titles are available in print and online formats. Our E-Journals are available through our new platform booksandjournals.brillonline.com.
  • British Institute of Radiology
    The BIR is developing a specialised online collection to support study, continuous professional development and research. You will find resources for:  Medical Images including Primal Pictures–interactive 3D images and other resources for medical images. Databases include MEDLINE with access to some full text articles for medical journals and CINAHL Plus with access to some full text articles for nursing and allied health journals.
  • Cambridge  University Press Journals Online (CJO)
    Over 230 leading titles in Linguistics,Politics,Medicine,Science,Technology,Social Science and Humanities.
  • Canadian Science Publishing (was NRC Press)
    Canadian Science Publishing is an independent, not-for-profit scholarly publisher dedicated to serving the needs of researchers and their communities. Our goal is to be an innovative leader in scholarly publishing in Canada and around the world.
  • Cochrane Library (Web)
    The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
  • De Gruyter Online Journals (inc LIS)
    De Gruyter’s subject areas cover pretty much every field that a researcher could possibly work in ranging from ancient studies to linguistics, and from mathematics to cytology. Today, the De Gruyter group publishes over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, social sciences, STM and law, more than 700 subscription based or Open Access journals, and a variety of digital products.
  • Duke University Press
    Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University. It publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 academic journals, as well as five electronic collections. The company publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences but is also particularly well known for its mathematics journals.
  • EBSCO EconLit
    EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 480 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance.
  • EBSCO Host Research Databases
    Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 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.
  • EBSCO Medline with full text upgrade
    This database provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. Many journals are available with no embargo, allowing doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers to access to the information as soon as it is published.
  • EBSCO NISC
    EBSCO  NISC, through PERii provides access to the four databases all with relevance to Africa.
  • Edinburgh University Press
    Edinburgh University Press publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Emerald Insight
    Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education and engineering. Emerald manages a portfolio of nearly 300 journals, more than 2,500 books and over 1,500 teaching cases.
  • Gale Cengage Learning: Expanded Academic Resource Center
    Expanded Academic: Unparalleled in its depth and scope, this premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic subject — from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies.
  • Gale Cengage Learning:Health & Wellness Resource  Center
    Health and Wellness Resource Center: For access to authoritative health and medical information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information to academic, medical and public libraries.
  • Geological  Society
    The Lyell Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal,Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London.It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality.
  • Greenleaf Online Library (GOL)
    The Greenleaf Online Library (GOL) is the full archive of material published by Greenleaf Publishing, including books, case collections and journals. Each chapter or article is individually tagged with its own metadata.
  • GSE Research & Greenleaf Publishing: Sustainable Organization Library (SOL)
    The Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) contains more than 10,000 individually searchable chapters, case studies and journal papers drawn from more than 800 book and journal volumes, published by the leading independent sustainability publisher, Greenleaf Publishing, and a number of partner organizations.
  •  Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks)
    Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks) is a leading provider of specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies for medical schools, business schools universities and commercial enterprises in over 60 countries around the world. Based in London, UK, HSTalks publishes two highly regarded collections (The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection and The Business & Management Collection). They are both available on annual subscription with licences granting unlimited access 24 hours a day every day of the year.
  • Hinari Access to Research for Health programme
    Hinari Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 15,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 47,000 e-books, up to 100 other information resources are now available to health institutions in more than 100 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.
  • HST – Libraries in a Digital Age
    The collection contains over 2,000 specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities including Nobel Laureates. It is highly regarded by faculty, post-docs and other research staff, graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It is constantly updated and extended. All lectures are suitable for inclusion in courses and as additional learning material including in blended learning and flipped classroom programmes, and may be included in Moodle, Blackboard and other Online Learning Environments.
  • HST – The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    INFORMS publishes 12 scholarly journals,including a journal for the practice of OR/MS (Interfaces),as well as an on-line open access journal (INFORMS Transactions on Education).
  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Digital Library
    Over 20 Research journals and letters in electrical and electronic engineering.
  • Institute of Physics(IOP) Publishing
    IOP publishes over 60 of the world’s most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences, all available online through IOP publishing.
  • International Forestry  Review
    The International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research. It is published four times per year. Themed editions are a regular feature and attract a wide audience.
  •  International Monetary Fund
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. Our overarching aims are to preserve a record of scholarship for posterity and to advance research and teaching in cost-effective ways. We operate a research platform that deploys information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. We collaborate with organizations that can help us achieve our objectives and maximize the benefits for the scholarly community.
  • Liebert Online
    Publishing integrated media content in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research, clinical medicine and surgery, engineering and technology, environmental studies and policy, law and economics, and public health.
  • Liverpool University Press
    Liverpool University Press (LUP) is a UK academic publisher of books and journals in the arts & humanities — literature, languages, history and visual culture.
  • Nature Publishing Group
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes journals and online databases across the life,physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology,and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.
  • Optical Society of America (OSA)
    Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional association in optics and photonics, home to accomplished science, engineering, and business leaders from all over the world.
  • Oxford Journals (OUP)
    Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines. Organizations that qualify for the free Developing Countries Oxford Online Collection offer will obtain access to over 200 titles.
  • Policy Press Journals
    The Policy Press publishes four highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy. Policy Press 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
    Project MUSE provides online access to almost 500 full-text journals from 140 non-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Royal College of Physicians
    Clinical Medicine journal is read by leading physicians in hospitals across the world. It features articles covering original research, current issues, ethics, law, clinical governance and audit, and also reports on prestigious College lectures and conferences.
  • Royal Society
    Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running continuously published journal in the world.
  • Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals  Archive
    Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.
  • The Royal Society of Medicine Journals Collection
    The Royal Society of Medicine Journals, published by SAGE, range in scope from primary research to clinical practice, covering topics from experimental medicine to venous disease. The flagship Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) is one of the most widely read and enjoyed general medical periodicals, providing insight into a broad spectrum of issues facing medical professionals.
  • Sage Publications
    Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM.
  • Sage Publications – IMechE (was PEP)
    18 journals representing the best in mechanical engineering. Also available is the IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996.
  • SPIE Digital Library
    The SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 270,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
  • SPringer Lecture Notes  Series
    The Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), includes its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). The series publishes new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching – quickly, informally, and at a high level.
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.
  • Taylor & Francis Online Journals
    More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.
  • University of California
  • University of Chicago  Press
    The University of Chicago Press publishes nearly fifty scholarly journals, many on behalf of some of the world’s most prestigious societies, and several that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields. The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences.
  • Wiley Online Library (formerly Inter Science)
    Wiley InterScience® is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. This package provides access to over 350 journals.
  • Wiley Online Library (formerly Synergy)
    Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
  • World Bank e-library
    The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Bank’s full-text collection of books, reports/working papers, journals and other documents on social and economic development. It is the most comprehensive collections in the area and it brings together, in PDF format, a fully indexed and cross-searchable database of 6,000+ titles, as well as every new title as it becomes available in print. In addition, subscribers have access to information not available in print. eLibrary is fully searchable by subject, region, keyword, title, author, abstract, or year of publication.
  • World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF) Database
    Global Development Finance (GDF) Online offers external debt and financial flow data for over 129 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System. Time series includes over 200 indicators from 1970 through 2017. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates,and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.
  • World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) Online Database
    World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the premier data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for 854 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
  • World Bank – Global Economic  Monitor
    Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-today developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a “one-stop shop” portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators. Global Economic Monitor features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries.
  • World Bank: Africa Development  Indicators
    Africa Development Indicators provides the most comprehensive collection of data on Africa available. It contains data for over 1,400 statistical indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources,infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators

Open Access Resourses

  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
    Database of open access journals covering all scientific and scholarly subjects.  Primarily used to identify open access journal titles and forty percent of them are searchable at the article level.  Journals can be browsed by title or by broad subject area.  Articles are searchable by article author or title, ISSN, journal title, abstract, or key words.  Full-text is not searchable but is fully accessible.  To be included in the DOAJ, journals must use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access and must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control.
  • ElgarOnline
    Edward Elgar Publishing online books and journals. Elgaronline includes all new Edward Elgar Publishing scholarly monographs, journals, original reference books and handbooks, covering the social sciences and law.  Designed with the help of librarians for academic libraries. Elgaronline features 2600 scholarly ebook titles with a further 300 titles added annually.
  • Ethiopian Journal Online
    Ethiopian Journal Online comprises Prominent Scholarly Journals Published in Ethiopia. You can view and download articles.
  • Public Library of Science
    The Public Library of Science (PLOS) was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit organization to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. We strive to bring scientists together and to share their work as rapidly and as widely as possible, to advance science and to benefit society as a whole. We are constantly looking for ways to use emerging technology and new ideas to open up scientific communication to make it faster, more efficient, more connected and more useful.
  •  BioMed Central
    We are an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals. Our journals span all areas of biology, medicine and health, including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Malaria Journal and BMC Infectious Diseases.
  • Hindawi Publishing Corporation
    Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the world’s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science. Hindawi’s journals are indexed in the leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and Chemical Abstracts.
  • Bioline International
    It 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 BI helps to reduce the global knowledge divide by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide.
  • The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR
    OpenDOAR provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.
  • Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
    It is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003. To date, over 3,000 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered in ROAR.
  • Connexions
    OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes. There are tens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
    MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
  • The African Virtual University’s (AVU) Open Educational Resources (OER) portal
    The Portal was launched in January 2011 and hosts more than 200 textbooks of Mathematics, Sciences and Teacher Education as well as 91 videos. As at June 2011, the AVU OER resources were viewed or downloaded 200,000 times in 142 countries worldwide, including 41 African countries.
  • Open Education News blog
    Open Education News provides readers with a daily dose of the most relevant open education and open educational resources news from around the world.
  • China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
    China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a consortium of universities. It is is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities.
  • Flat World Knowledge (FWK)
    Flat World Knowledge produces and gives away open source textbooks in a way student believe to be financially sustainable. It offers free online textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential solution; open source textbooks have also been explored.
  • The Global Text Project?
    The Global Text Project publishes electronic texts for students in the developing world. It also maintains a database of links to books for such students.
  • Jorum
    Jorum is the UK’s largest repository for discovering and sharing Open Educational Resources for higher and further education and the Skills sector.
  • Multimedia Educational Resource for learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
    MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
  • Open Educational Resources
    Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
  • OER Commons
    Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME’s)  OER initiatives aim to grow a sustainable culture of sharing and continuous improvement among educators at all levels. In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, its digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization’s pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation. OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners. Diving into OER Commons is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other educators and learners, at the forefront of a new educational era.
  • OER Handbook
    The purpose of this handbook is to provide a guide for those who are just getting started in the creation of open educational resources (OER). Significant progress has been made by many in the open education movement to help acclimatize novices.
  • Issue Lab
    First started in 2006 as a searchable, browseable website set up to collect and share the social sector’s knowledge, IssueLab became a service of Foundation Center in 2012. Since then, IssueLab’s mission has grown beyond the “simple” collection and distribution of knowledge products, to include the support of social sector organizations in adopting the practical and necessary steps to openly publishing what they fund and produce.
  • OpenLearn
    OpenLearn gives you free access to learning materials from The Open University. It has content which stretches back to 1999, when The Open University created Open2.net, providing free online learning to support broadcast collaborations with the BBC.
  • OpenUCT
    OpenUCT is the open access institutional repository of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It makes available and digitally preserves the scholarly outputs produced at UCT, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, technical and research reports, and open educational resources. These resources are organised into collections that are mapped against the university’s organisational structure. The repository has been developed in line with international interoperability and metadata standards using DSpace open source software, and is indexed by all major search engines. It was launched in Jul14.
  • VideoLectures
    VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users’ comments.
  • Excel-easy.com 
    Excel Easy offers you a tutorial on how to use Excel.  You can find related examples and features (300 Examples) on the excel easy website.
  • International Institute for Primary Health Care Ethiopia
    The IIfPHC-E-Resource Center is building a global hub of resources relating to primary health care (PHC) to share knowledge, information and promising practices. To this end, the Resource Center serves as an online repository of learning and resource sharing in primary health care. The Resource Center has pulled together key resources and is comprised of various websites and webpages to increase knowledge and to inform healthcare professionals, health program designers and implementers, policymakers, researchers, managers and anyone else working in, or interested in primary health care.