The Fiji National University (FNU) Library Digital Library provides students, researchers, academic staff, and other authorized users with convenient access to a wide range of electronic information resources to support teaching, learning, research, and academic development. The Digital Library brings together subscribed databases, e-books, e-journals, open-access resources, regional publications, research tools, and other electronic resources in one central location.
The FNU Library subscribes to a broad range of electronic databases covering disciplines across health and medical sciences, nursing, dentistry, education, engineering, science and technology, business, economics, law, social sciences, humanities, agriculture, and other areas of study. The current E-Databases/Regional Publications listing includes resources such as Access Engineering, ASTM Compass, CINAHL Plus, CINAHL Ultimate, Cambridge Core, ClinicalKey Student, Dentistry & Oral Science Sources, Dynamed, EBSCOhost, Emerald Insight, HeinOnline, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IMF eLibrary, IOP Science, JSTOR, JoVE, LexisNexis NZ Legal, MEDLINE Ultimate, Nature Publishing Group Journals, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Journals, ProQuest Central, ProQuest eBook Central, Research4Life resources, SAGE Premier Journals, SAGE Research Methods, ScienceDirect, SciVal, Scopus, Taylor & Francis Online, The Cochrane Library, UpToDate Online, and Wiley Online Library.
The library’s databases align with FNU’s strategic priorities, particularly Priority Area 2: Educational Excellence & Student-Affirming Experiences in TVET and Higher Education, and Strategic Priority Area 3: Research, Innovation, Social and Technological Development.
Access Engineering is an interactive digital scholarly platform providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with interdisciplinary engineering resources and teaching and learning tools. It offers engineering handbooks, textbooks, reference materials, instructional videos, interactive graphs, downloadable tables, and spreadsheet calculators. The platform covers disciplines including mechanical, chemical, civil, electrical, and electronic engineering.
Alexander Street is a comprehensive video subscription service for libraries, offering approximately 85,274 curated collections across diverse subject areas. Key areas include Social Sciences, American History, Education, Business and Economics, Anthropology, Media Studies, Nursing, Counselling and Therapy, Psychology, and Film. It also provides specialized content in Fashion Studies, Environmental Studies, Music and Performing Arts, and other disciplines.
ASTM Digital Library is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals, books, technical papers, conference proceedings, and other engineering resources. It covers disciplines including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil, and solar engineering. Key resources include 11 journals, 1,640 Selected Technical Papers (STPs) with over 29,000 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings, 146 books, 80 ASTM Manuals, 42 ASTM Data Series, 12 Monographs, and 12 Technical Reports.
CINAHL Ultimate provides access to nursing and allied health research literature, including scholarly journals and evidence-based information covering patient care, nursing practice, healthcare education and related health disciplines.
Cambridge Core is a multidisciplinary scholarly platform providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with access to peer-reviewed literature and full-text academic resources. It covers a broad range of disciplines, including arts and humanities, sciences, engineering, medicine, law, business, social sciences, and education.
The FNU Library has subscribed to Clinical Key Student Medicine, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, a medical educational and comprehensive clinical learning database published by Elsevier. It provides access to an extensive collection of hundreds of medical textbooks, clinical reference materials, summaries, case studies, thousands of images, and videos, assessment questions, and evidence-based medical information covering medicine, surgery, dentistry, physiotherapy, rehabilitation sciences, anatomy, pharmacology, pathology, diagnostic imaging, clinical procedures, and healthcare practice.
FNU Library subscribes to ClinicalKey Student Nursing, a digital learning platform by Elsevier providing evidence-based nursing resources for students and educators. It offers nursing textbooks, peer-reviewed journals, clinical skills modules and videos, anatomy resources, assessment tools, case studies, and study materials. The platform supports key nursing disciplines, including medical-surgical nursing, mental health, community health, maternal and child health, critical care, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, and evidence-based practice.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source is a specialized database from EBSCOhost designed primarily for research in dentistry, oral health, and related disciplines. It provides access to scholarly literature covering areas such as dentistry and dental medicine, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dental hygiene, dental nursing, oral pathology, orthodontics, periodontology, prosthodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, community and preventative dentistry, dental materials and technology and oral health education and research.
Dynamed database developed by the EBSCO Information Service. The database offers access to thousands of evidence-based clinical topics covering 35 healthcare specialties, which is supported by thousands of clinical guidelines, hundreds of clinical calculators and thousands of drug information topics.
The EBSCOhost Super Package is a multidisciplinary database, it provides comprehensive coverage of journals, newspapers, eBooks, reports, and trade publications, supporting institutional goals in digital innovation, research excellence, and student centered services.
These are the databases including Academic Search Complete, Agricola, Art Complete, Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre Plus eBook Subscription (EBSCOhost), Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus, Business Source Complete, CINAHL Ultimate (CINAHL Plus), Communication & Mass Media Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, E-Journals, eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCO eClassics Collection (EBSCOhost), Education Research Complete, Energy & Power Source, Environment Complete, ERIC, Food Science Source, GreenFILE, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, Humanities International Complete, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text, MasterFILE Premier, MasterFILE Premier Reference eBook Subscription (EBSCOhost), MEDLINE, MEDLINE Ultimate, Newspaper Source Plus, Regional Business News, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Teacher Reference Center, Vocational Studies Complete and Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide in the package.
EBSCO MEDLINE provides bibliographic information and abstracts from biomedical and health sciences literature. It supports academic research in medicine, nursing, public health and related clinical fields.
Edward Elgar is a multidisciplinary academic resource offering over 1,523 monographs, 20 journals, 377 handbooks, 19 encyclopedias, 22 reference works and dictionaries, 6 legal commentaries, 81 research reviews, and 4 business case studies. Elgar Online provides high-quality scholarly content across law, business, economics, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies. It supports digital innovation, excellence, and student-centered learning and services.
Emerald Insight Digital Library is a multidisciplinary resource providing access to high-quality journals, books, case studies, and open-access content. Its collection includes 1,523 monograph books, 20 journals, 377 handbooks, 19 encyclopedias, 22 reference works and dictionaries, 6 legal commentaries, 81 research reviews, and 4 business case studies. It also provides peer-reviewed teaching case studies with teaching notes to support classroom learning and discussion.
European Respiratory Society (ERS) Publications is an international resource supporting physicians, healthcare professionals, scientists, and experts in respiratory medicine. It provides peer-reviewed journals, including the European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research, European Respiratory Review, and Breathe. The collection also includes the ERS Monograph and ERS Handbook series, published to high standards of quality and publication ethics.
HeinOnline is a comprehensive legal and historical database covering slavery, civil rights, social justice, and related topics in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes 5,133 titles on Civil Rights and Social Justice, 989 on Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, 1,006 on LGBTQ+ Rights, 319 on the Open Society Justice Initiative, and 2,432 on Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. Subject coverage includes constitutional law, civil rights, history, human rights, labour law, political science, and sociology.
Full-text access to IEEE Journals, transactions, and magazines dedicated to advancing technology through Engineering.
The IMF eLibrary is a leading resource for global economic and financial research, offering approximately 28,283 items across books, analytical papers, reports, manuals, and periodicals. Its content covers Business and Economics (27,484), Social Science (2,868), Political Science (1,825), Health and Fitness (888), Law (404), Computers (432), Nature (1,051), Medical (132), Science (86), Technology and Engineering (70), and Transportation (2). It provides authoritative insights into international economics, finance, and policy.
IOPscience is an online service for journal and ebook content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
JoVE is a leading provider of scientific videos supporting research, teaching, and learning for FNU students, researchers, and staff. It offers video-based resources covering research, education, and business, including demonstrations of experiments, research methods, and scientific technologies. Its educational and instructional videos support understanding complex concepts and STEM subjects while promoting blended learning and flipped classroom approaches.
LexisNexis is a digital library platform with full-text access to literature covering legal and business solutions from LexisNexis New Zealand, powered by trusted data, analytics, and AI assistance. The database offers a wide range of content types including Legal Research (database of case law, legislation, and legal precedents), AI integration, compliance tools (comprehensive risk and compliance management solutions, including compliance registers and alerts), and resource hubs (guidance notes, checklists, and forms across legal topics).
MEDLINE Ultimate supports medical, nursing, biomedical and healthcare research by providing access to scholarly literature and medical information across numerous health-related disciplines.
Nature Publishing Group Journals is an online portfolio of scholarly journals providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with access to full-text literature. The journals cover a broad range of subject areas, including biological sciences, business and commerce, earth and environmental sciences, health sciences, humanities, physical sciences, scientific community and society, and social sciences. Authors may publish their research through open access (OA) or subscription models.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a digital reference platform providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with information on the meaning, history, and usage of more than 500,000 words and phrases from across the English-speaking world. It includes glossaries, abbreviations, pronunciation guides, word frequency information, the Historical Thesaurus, word stories, word lists, and World Englishes. The OED also provides resources on the history and development of the English language.
Oxford Journals is a digital multidisciplinary scholarly research database providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with full-text access to scholarly literature across a broad range of subject areas, including arts and humanities, medicine and health, social sciences, law, science, and mathematics. The database provides access to journals, articles, books, reference resources, and open access collections from Oxford University Press (OUP). Support and guidance are also available to assist authors with publishing through OUP.
Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers database provides 200 open-access peer-reviewed medical journals that include 4,157 articles that relate to current research and advances in child neurology and related fields. Published research commentaries and expert-reviewed summaries are offered covering pediatric neurology, epilepsy, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, child brain disorders, and neurological conditions affecting infants, children, and adolescents.
ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database providing access to journals, newspapers, dissertations, books, trade publications, and other scholarly resources. Its collection includes approximately 294,546 publications, comprising 265,550 books, 15,718 scholarly journals, 3,211 trade journals, 3,090 reports, 2,160 newspapers, 1,484 magazines, 1,441 blogs, podcasts and websites, and 677 other sources. These resources support teaching, learning, research, and access to diverse academic and professional information across disciplines.
ProQuest eBook Central is a digital scholarly e-book platform providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with access to full-text multidisciplinary resources. Subject coverage includes biomedical sciences, computer science, data science, health professions, law, linguistics, psychology and behavioral sciences, religion, and other related areas. Content types include e-books, serial titles, and preprints. ProQuest eBook Central provides tools to help users discover and use relevant e-books and chapters.
Research4Life is a comprehensive digital platform that provides access to a wide range of scholarly literature, databases, training materials, and research resources across health, agriculture, environment, development, innovation, law, and social sciences. Through its five core programmes (HINARI, AGORA, OARE, ARDI, and GOALI).
The resources available through Research4Life include A-Z ILO Databases, African Journals Online, AfricanLII, AIMS, BioOne, BLDS Index to Development Studies, CAB Abstracts, ChinaLawInfo PKULaw Database, CiteSeerX, CNKI Express, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Embase, Environmental Index, Environmental Science Collection, FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts), Gazettes Africa, Global Health, Global Index Medicus, HAL, ILO Research Repository, IMEMR (Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region), IMSEAR (Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region), Informit Health Collection, IRIS (WHO Digital Publications), JBI Best Practice Resources, Labordoc, Law Archive, Lens.org Patents, Lens.org PatSeq, Lens.org Scholarly Works, LILACS (Latin America and the Caribbean), LLMC Database, Meteorological Monographs, NATLEX, NORMLEX, Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD), OECD iLibrary, Open Research Library, Oxford Academic, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Web of Knowledge Special Edition – Current Contents, and Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM).
The FNU Library has subscribed to the HINARI (Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative) database, a digital research database coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the Research4Life partnership. HINARI provides access to a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed journals, e-books, research reports, and other scholarly resources in health and medical sciences.
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is a digital research database coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with major academic publishers. It provides FNU students, academic staff, and researchers with access to peer-reviewed journals, e-books, research reports, and other scholarly resources. Its coverage includes agriculture, crop and animal science, fisheries, forestry, food science, environmental management, rural development, biotechnology, and sustainable agriculture.
The FNU Library has subscribed to the ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) database, coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) through the Research4Life partnership. ARDI provides access to major scientific and technical journals, books, and reference resources that support innovation, research, and technological development. Subject coverage includes engineering, information technology, biotechnology, applied sciences, intellectual property, chemistry, environmental technology, and industrial research.
The FNU Library has subscribed to the OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) database, a digital information resource coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) under the Research4Life partnership. OARE provides access to a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, e-books, databases, and scholarly publications covering environmental and related sciences.
The FNU Library has subscribed to the GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) database, coordinated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) under the Research4Life initiative. GOALI provides access to peer-reviewed journals, books, legal publications, and databases covering law and social sciences. Subject areas include international law, labor law, human rights, public policy, governance, social justice, economics, and legal studies. The database supports legal education, policy research, and professional practice by providing reliable and authoritative information resources.
The FNU Library has subscribed to SAGE Premier Journals, one of the largest interdisciplinary journal collections available through SAGE Publications. The collection provides access to more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals covering education, business, social sciences, health sciences, engineering, psychology, communication studies, criminology, politics, and related disciplines.
The FNU Library has subscribed to SAGE Research Methods, an innovative online platform designed to support the teaching and learning of research methodology across all disciplines. The database provides access to books, reference materials, datasets, case studies, videos, tutorials, and practical tools that guide users through every stage of the research process.
Science Direct (Health and Life Science Collection) a digital library that provides FNU students, research scholars, and staff with full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (including open access content) covering subject areas classified under categories including physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
ScienceDirect (Physical Science Collection) is a digital library that provides FNU students, researchers, and staff with full-text access to peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including open access content. The collection covers subject areas including physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It provides a wide range of content types, including journals, review and research articles, books, textbooks, handbooks, reference works, book series, open-access content, and open-archive materials.
SciVal provides access to the research performance of institutions and countries worldwide. It allows users to visualize research outputs, benchmark performance against peers, identify collaboration opportunities, and analyze emerging research trends. SciVal supports evidence-based decision-making and strategic research planning.
Scopus, managed by Elsevier, is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database providing FNU students, researchers, and staff with scholarly metadata, abstracts, citation information, research metrics, author profiles, and analytical tools. It covers four broad subject areas: life sciences, physical sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. Scopus supports research discovery and analysis through citation overviews, search and results analysis, author and affiliation profiles, Researcher Discovery, citation and publication metrics, and journal and source analysis tools.
The FNU Library provides access to Taylor & Francis Online, a multidisciplinary academic publishing platform offering high-quality peer-reviewed journals across a wide range of subject areas. These include agriculture, engineering, health sciences, education, environmental sciences, social sciences, humanities, and business studies.
The FNU Library provides access to TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library), a comprehensive digital collection developed by Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library. TEEAL offers full-text access to high-quality scholarly literature in agriculture and related sciences, including crop production, animal science, food science, forestry, environmental science, soil science, agricultural economics, rural development, and natural resource management. The database contains peer-reviewed journals and research publications that support teaching, learning, and research in agriculture and sustainable development.
The Cochrane Library database developed by Cochrane and published by Wiley. The healthcare trusted evidence-based database offers access to thousands of high-quality, reliable and up-to-date systematic reviews, hundreds of evidence-based summaries and millions of clinical trial records covering medicine, nursing, public health, allied health, dentistry, mental health and other healthcare disciplines.
The New England Journal of Medicine publishes medical research, clinical studies, reviews and educational content for healthcare professionals, researchers and students. Selected research and other content are available through open access.
The FNU Library provides access to The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Publications, a valuable collection of research reports, policy papers, scholarly publications, and evidence-based resources produced by the New York Academy of Medicine. The Academy is dedicated to advancing public health, health equity, and medical knowledge through research, education, and policy development.
The FNU Library has subscribed to the Therapeutic Guidelines eTG Complete database, an evidence-based clinical decision support resource widely used by healthcare professionals, educators, researchers, and students. The database provides current and practical guidance for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of a wide range of medical conditions and healthcare issues.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute provides access to its publications, treatment guidelines, and educational materials for healthcare professionals, researchers, students, and the public.
The FNU Library has subscribed to UpToDate Online, an evidence-based clinical decision support resource developed by Wolters Kluwer. UpToDate provides healthcare professionals, academic staff, and students with access to expert-reviewed medical information, clinical recommendations, treatment guidelines, and drug reference resources.
The FNU Library provides access to Wiley Online Library, one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary research platforms. Wiley Online Library offers access to peer-reviewed journals, e-books, reference works, and scholarly resources across a broad range of subject areas, including agriculture, health sciences, engineering, education, business, social sciences, environmental sciences, and humanities.
The Fiji Bureau of Statistics provides official statistical information on Fiji, including population and demographic statistics, economic indicators, household data, employment, trade and other information supporting research, education, policy development and national planning.
The Reserve Bank of Fiji provides publications covering monetary policy, financial sector developments, economic performance, financial stability, economic research and statistical information. These publications support academic research, policy analysis and understanding of Fiji’s economy.
MOE Textbooks Fiji provides access to educational textbooks and curriculum-related learning resources through the Fiji Ministry of Education. These materials support teaching, learning and educational development for students and educators in Fiji.