Resource Center

The Statistical Resource Center (SRC) is an ideal one stop information centre that aims at providing information on which policies and decisions are based for purposes of National Development. The SRC houses information materials for both the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and National Population Council We are located on the ground floor of Statistics House, Plot 9 , Colville Street, Kampala.

Opening Hours (Monday to Friday only):

  • Morning: 9am to 1pm
  • Afternoon : 2pm to 5pm

We are closed Weekends and Public Holidays

The SRC collection is made up of statistical year books, annual reports, journals, magazines, monographs, newsletters, government publications and reference books.

The SRC is spacious, well furnished and has a good reading ambience that is ideal for quiet study and research purposes.

Our services

  • Act as a referral point for the technical aspects in statistics production.
  • Provide information services.
  • Offer statistical current awareness services.
  • We also offer selective dissemination of information services.

Our Publications

Our information materials cover subject areas such as Population , Population and Development, Official Statistics, Family Planning, Gender, Reproductive Health, Poverty, Key Economic Indicators, National Accounts, Backgrounds to the National Budget, Trade, Livestock, Agriculture to mention but a few. Visit our On-line Catalogue and get acquitted to our information collection.

Consortium of Uganda Universities Libraries (CUUL) subscribed databases for 2023

Uganda Bureau of Statistics is a member of CUUL. Access e-books and published journal from the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries.. Click here to access the list of online publications and journals . Please note that this link(s) can only be accessed  at the UBOS resource Centre. List Of Databases Accessible To CUUL Members For The Year 2023 | EIFL Licensed eResources 2021-2026

  1. MyLoft - MyLoft stands for “My Library On Finger Tips.” It provides reliable access to  subscribed e-Resources and web articles. Allows  to access, download, organize, share and read offline all of your e-content, anytime, anywhere.
  2. CUUL subscribed resources
  • EBSCOhost - https://research.ebsco.com/ -  It's a multidisciplinary database cutting across different disciplines
  • Emerald - https://www.emerald.com/insight - Access to Accounting, Finance, and Economics,Business, Management, Strategy, Human Resource, Learning, and Organization Studies, Information and Knowledge Management Library and Information Sciences eJournal collection
  • Taylor & Francis - https://www.tandfonline.com/ - Access to Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science & Technology Library Science
  • Research4Life - https://portal.research4life.org/
    • Access to Hinari - Health Inter-Network Access to Research Initiative.
    • AGORA - Access to Global Online Research on Agriculture program
    • ARDI - Access to Research for Development and Innovation
    • GOALI - Global Online Access to Legal Information
    • OARE - Online Access to Research in the Environment

EIFL resources

  • ACM - https://dl.acm.org/ - ACM Digital Library (DL), including ACM’s entire publication portfolio of approximately 70 journals, seven magazines, 200 annual conference proceedings, newsletters, websites, and multimedia files. Also included is the integrated Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive abstract & citation database tracking bibliometrics for more than three million publication records. Access to the historical archive of all ACM Publications dating back to each publication’s first issue or volume is included. The agreement does not include ACM books. Computing, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Database Systems, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Networks, Information Systems, Internet, Mobile and Multimedia Technologies
  • ASTM - https://www.astm.org/ - ASTM Compass Complete is a vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical information produced by the American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM International). It is an essential resource for any technical university, library or research and development centre. Students with a knowledge and understanding of standards have a real advantage over those who do not. Standards are the foundation of most of the industry sectors they will be joining when they begin their careers. Used by over 2,000 universities worldwide including 90% of The Times Higher Education's Top 100 universities it is a key resource for undergraduate students, professors/teaching staff, post graduates and researchers.
  • De Gruyter - https://www.degruyter.com/ - The De Gruyter Journals Collection provides access to over 300 journals covering all areas of scientific research. The collection includes highly cited journals that are published in collaboration with influential scholarly and professional societies such as the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,  Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, American Energy Society, German Mathematical Society, European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, European Optical Society, and Societas Linguistica Europaea. Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Classical Studies, History, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Medicine, Law, Library and Information Science, Library Reference, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Judaism, Religion, Politics, Economics, Sociology
  • IOP Science Extra - https://iopscience.iop.org/ - Physics, Astronomy, astrophysics, Atomic and molecular physics, Biomedical engineering, Condensed matter, Education, Environment and energy, Instrumentation, measurement, Materials, Mathematics and computation, Medical physics and biophysics, Optics and photonics, Particle and nuclear physics, Biosciences, Plasmas, Quantum science. IOP Science Extra is available through the IOP Science platform, which also includes access to all IOP open-access journals. IOPscience
  • Open Edition Journals - https://www.openedition.org/ - OpenEdition Freemium for Journals is a bundle of 184 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. The journals are available in HTML, PDF, and ePUB, allowing perpetual access (archival rights).
  • Oxford University Press - https://global.oup.com/academic/ - Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. In addition to publishing over 4,600 new books each year, Oxford University Press is a major provider of online information to libraries, institutions, and individuals worldwide. Oxford University Press produces online editions of many of its most acclaimed scholarly and reference works including dictionaries, encyclopedias, general reference material and monographs in a wide range of subject areas.
  • Royal Society Journals - https://royalsociety.org/journals/ - The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, which has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The Royal Society Journals Collection comprises eight high-impact hybrid journals in the physical and biological sciences: Biological sciences, physical, mathematical and engineering sciences, cross-disciplinary subjects. In addition, the Royal Society publishes two fully Open Access journals Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science.
  • Scite - https://scite.ai/ - scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations – citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contradicting evidence. It includes over 900M citation statements for how methods, arguments, results, claims, datasets, and more are being used. Scite is used by researchers from dozens of countries and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact the SRC through:

  • Tel: 256 414 706 072 or 256 414 706 082
  • Email us: src@ubos.org
  • Post Box: 7186, Kampala.

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