The Faculty Library has been in existence since the inception of the Faculty of Social Sciences and has played an essential role in the pedagogical and research activities of the Faculty. It started as a small library, then housed in a classroom and has since grown, expanded and responded to the country's human resource and development needs. There are three libraries in the Faculty, one at the Department of Economics, one at the Old Social Sciences Building serving departments of English and Modern Languages and another at the New Faculty Building serving the Departments of History and Political Studies, Sociology and Social Work, Geography and Rural Development and Religious Studies.
Together the Libraries provide materials on social sciences-related programmes in print and electronic format to the Faculty to support teaching, learning and research in realising its educational mandate.
Physical Collection/Print Resources
The Library's print resources include textbooks, periodicals/journals and theses. Information about the resources can be accessed anywhere with internet connectivity via this web address: libcat.knust.edu.gh. The books have been organised/arranged on the shelves using the Library of Congress Classification Scheme (LC). Books can be located in the Library by their class numbers as follows:
A -- General Works
B -- Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
C -- Auxiliary Sciences of History
D -- World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc.
E -- History of The Americas
F -- History of The Americas
G -- Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
H -- Social Sciences
J -- Political Science
P -- Language and Literature
Online Resources
There is a wide range of online resources subscribed to by the KNUST Library. These resources provide users access to electronic journals, databases, books etc. The resources can be accessed on-campus within the KNUST network using the address, https://library.knust.edu.gh/online-databases and off-campus with user credentials. To access KNUST E-resources off campus, Staff should log in to ocl.knust.edu.gh with their university email address and password and students with their Students' ID and password.
Below are some multidisciplinary and specialised databases available to users in the Faculty.
Annual Reviews - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org
Subjects: - Biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences
Directory of open access books (DOAB) - https://www.doabooks.org/
Subjects: Multidisciplinary
Directory of open access journals (DOAJ) – https://doaj.org/
Subjects: Multidisciplinary
Digital commons network - https://network.bepress.com/
Subjects: Multidisciplinary
EBSCO HOST – http://search.epnet.com
Subject: Multidisciplinary
JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org
Subject: Multidisciplinary
Oxford University Press - www.oup.co.uk
Subject: Multidisciplinary
Project Muse- http://muse.jhu.edu
Subject: Social sciences and humanities.
SAGE online journals - http://www.sagepub.com/journalsIndex.nav
Subject: Multidisciplinary
ScienceDirect - http://www.sciencedirect.com
Subject: Multidisciplinary
Social Science Research Network:- https://www.ssrn.com
Subject: Social sciences and humanities.
University of Chicago Press -http:// www.journals.uchicago.edu
Subject: - Economics, Political Science, Languages, History, Education, Law, Philosophy, Zoology, Theology, Geology, Anthropology etc.
Wiley Online Library/Blackwell - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Subject: Multidisciplinary
E-books
Pro Quest e-library: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/knust
Vital Source: https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com
Baobab e-library: https://koha.baobab-ebooks.com
KNUST Space: (Access to postgraduate theses) http://ir.knust.edu.gh/
Library Spaces
Reading Room
Discussion Room
Library opening hours
The opening hours of the Library are as follows:
During Semester
Monday – Friday: 9:00AM – 5:00PM
During Vacation
Monday – Friday: 9:00AM – 5:00PM
The Library is closed on Sundays and on all public holidays
For assistance, please contact
Mrs. Anna Owusu Ansah
Faculty Librarian
Email: hassanann2002@yahoo.com