Closed Access

The University of Benin library spends a lot of funds to subscribe to a wide range of electronic databases with rich and scholarly information resources to enhance the teaching, learning, and research of staff and students. For easy access to these databases, please click on the database and input the username or password where necessary for each of the databases and search.

Kindly send an email with your UNIBEN email ([email protected]) to [email protected] to request a password for any of the e-databases.

What is a database?

A database is an electronic index to journal or magazine articles, containing citations, abstracts, and often either the full text of the articles or links to the full text.

Currently, the e-databases subscribed to by the library are:


Hinari is one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature

Science Direct is an electronic database that provides access to a large bibliographic database of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier. It hosts over 18 million pieces of content from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books of this publisher. 

In order to access Science Direct through University of Benin kindly click and download the step-by-step guide on how to register and access the database.

Scopus is Elsevier‘s abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It covers three types of sources: book series, journals, and trade journals. All journals covered in the Scopus database are reviewed for sufficiently high quality each year according to four types of numerical quality measure for each title; those are h-Index, CiteScore, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) and SNIP (source normalized impact per paper). Scopus also allows patent searches in a dedicated patent database Lexis-Nexis, albeit with a limited functionality.
Journals listed in Scopus are considered to be meeting the requirement for peer review quality established by several research grant agencies for their grant recipients and by degree accreditation boards in numerous countries.
Access scopus with your University of Benin email address.

EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide. With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast.

ProQuest is committed to providing all its users with a fully accessible experience for research, teaching, and learning. It makes every effort to ensure that the platforms, including Ebook Central – can be used by everyone. Ebook Central is continually designed and developed to meet Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act for features and functions.

Access the full Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT 2.4 & WCAG) for Ebook Central.

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. It explores millions of high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more.
Sage journals is a home for leading authors, editors and societies. It has published more than 1,000 journals, from a wide range of disciplines.
Explore 4,841,000+ of quality peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints. TAYLOR AND FRANCIS AND ROUTLEDGE is a very large multidisciplinary database covering a very wide area. Search and explore the millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis and Routledge imprints.

Wiley Online Library hosts over 22,000+ ebooks, 1,600+ Journals, 250+ Reference Works. Read and download books and journals for offline reading in a device of your choice

IOP – Institute of Physics publishes peer-review journals, conference proceedings and books covering a wide range of physical sciences and related disciplines. Around half of these are published jointly with or on behalf of a society or research organisation that have chosen IOP Publishing as their publishing partner.
The home of academic research from Oxford University Press. Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press (OUP)’s platform for research. It offers a single point of entry for access to scholarly and academic books and journals. It serves the diverse and changing research needs of students, researchers, professors, and practitioners and seek ongoing feedback from these communities
AGORA is an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food and agriculture
ARDI gives access to scientific and technical information
OARE collects information resources on environment, including ecology, geography, energy and more.
GOALI focuses on law and social sciences, including politics, economics, philosophy, history and more.
Heineonline is a premier online research platform that provides more than 202 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more. Composed of fully searchable image-based PDFs and available at an affordable price, the wealth of material allows academic institutions, government agencies, law firms, court systems, corporations, and other organizations access to authoritative, true-to-print digital material without the hassle or cost of using multiple research databases.
Legalpedia is set up to provide relevant and cutting-edge technology to the Nigerian Legal Profession by reducing, to the barest minimum, the use of manual methods within the courtroom, the judges’ chambers, court registries, and in Law Firms. It provides access to a wide range of legal materials, including case law, statutes, rules of court, and legal commentaries.

The Nigerian Weekly Law Reports (NWLR), as the name implies, is published on a weekly basis. Its maiden edition was released on Tuesday, 1st October 1985  with the aim to make the laws of Nigeria available to all and sundry as quickly as possible. The decisions of the courts which constitute a fundamental part of our laws must be made more  readily accessible with a view to ensuring that the learned men at the Bar and on the Bench are more learned and the entire spectrum of the Administration of Justice more JUST.”