A-Z Databases

A multidisciplinary database, covering a wide array of subject areas ranging from astronomy, biomedicine, engineering, health, and literacy to mathematics, women’s studies, zoology and more. The database includes magazines, peer reviewed and scholarly journals, trade publications, newspapers, reports, books and videos.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1890 – present

A comprehensive video collection published by Alexander Street video from ProQuest. The collection includes documentaries, feature films, interviews, performances, skills-based training videos, demonstrations, and more. Academic Video Online covers a wide range of topics from anthropology to zoology including art, business, media studies, education, music, dance, theater and much more.
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Regularly updated online collection of the most current clinical anesthesiology resources (books, multimedia, case studies, drug Information, practice guidelines and interactive self-assessment) from the basics to specialty-specific content— optimized for viewing on any device.
Availability: Full-text and videos
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This comprehensive online emergency medicine resource provides quick diagnosis and treatment answers for a broad spectrum of complaints encountered in the ED, ranging from neurologic and pediatric emergencies, to poisoning and trauma – specifically designed for optimized viewing on any device. This database from McGraw-Hill offers books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, interactive self-assessment, patient education, and a clerkship corner.
Availability: Full-text and videos
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Full-text database providing access to engineering books and reference works. It covers various engineering topics (bio, chemical, civil, electrical, petroleum, mechanical…) and comprises interactive graphs and tables, instructional videos, maps, and global engineering news.

Date Coverage: Current
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Limitations: 45 users at a time

A reference resource from McGraw-Hill that provides clinical and educational content from leading books.
It has access to more than 65 medical titles in medicine, updated content, images and illustrations, case files, interactive self-assessment, time-saving diagnostic, etc.

Date Coverage: Current
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Limitations: 45 users at a time

Regularly updated online collection of the most current neurology resources (books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, review questions and a clerkship corner) from the basics to specialty-specific content— optimized for viewing on any device.
Availability: Full-text and videos
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This database from McGraw-Hill Medical offers a new approach to obstetrics and gynecology reference and research – all in one place. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online ObGyn resource covers the entire spectrum of obstetrics and gynecology–for viewing on any device. It includes books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, review questions and a clerkship corner.
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Online resource from McGraw-Hill, providing a broad range of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine. It offers books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, guidelines, board review, patient education, and a clerkship corner.
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A collection of online books from McGraw-Hill medical designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. It allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, search across leading pharmacy online references. Sample titles are ‘Basic & Clinical Pharmacology’ and ‘Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists.’ Access Pharmacy includes more than 150 drug-therapy cases with Q&A, drug interaction animation, instructional videos, care plans, diagnostics test, pharmacotherapy news and more.

This online resource is devoted exclusively to the study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy – with groundbreaking content for today’s PT. This database from McGraw-Hill offers books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, self-assessment tools and a unique cadaver dissection tool.
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This resource from McGraw-Hill introduces a whole new dimension to surgical education and clinical practice. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online surgery resource enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries – all in one place. This database offers books, multimedia, case studies, drug information, interactive self-assessment, patient education, and a clerkship corner.
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A collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the field of computing and information technology. The database includes the complete collection of ACM’s publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles. All journals are accessible from volume one, issue one.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: All from v.1

An essential reference work, examining the lives of Christian saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. Contains prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, and more.

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Date coverage: 1643-1940

Produced by the National Agricultural Library, Agricola is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, and containing citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, dissertations, government documents, reports, patents.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1700-

AIP provides the global physical sciences community with a comprehensive collection of highly cited peer-reviewed scientific information coming from journals and conference proceedings.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1999 to present

Al-Ahram (الأهرام, “The Pyramids”) is one of the most prominent Arabic newspapers in the Middle East, including its legacy as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential national daily. Al-Ahram Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1875 to 2014, with additional years’ worth of content added on a regular basis.
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Date Coverage: 1876 – Present

Arabic database providing access to full-text searchable publications from the Arab world’s leading publishers, universities and research centers. Covers a wide range of topics: business, history, geography, Islamic studies, language and literature, political science, social sciences, science and technology. Includes books, journals, strategic studies, dissertations and videos.

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Date Coverage: 1973 to present

Al Sharekh Archives is an Arabic digitization initiative focusing on the content of literary journals. The Archives provide online access to the content of 228 Arabic literary journals, from 23 Arab countries, dating from the early Arab renaissance (al Nahda) in the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twenty-first century. Among the journals are Al-Muqtataf, Al-Muqtabas, Al-Hilal, Al-Adib, Al-Ustadh, Al-Mashriq, Al-Jamaa and others.
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Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), this database provides access to the full-text of leading scientific journals in the field of pediatrics such as Pediatrics, Hospital Pediatrics, and Pediatrics in Review.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

The database provides full-text access to the journals of the AACR, covering the entire spectrum of cancer research from molecules to medicine and from proteomics to prevention. Journals are Cancer Discovery; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention; Cancer Prevention Research; Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Research; and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Provides access to ACI Structural Journal and ACI Materials Journal and technical documents. The ACI website allows users to browse the Concrete Industry magazine, ACI handbooks and manuals, technical documents including standards, list of resources and programs for educators and researchers and more.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 2012 to present

Collection of full-text journals published by the American Economic Association.
Journals are accessible from volume one, issue one and covers broad economic topics.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Full-text scholarly journals covering research in the earth and space sciences, from the initial journal publication dates to present. Topics covered include Atmospheric Science; Climate change; Engineering and Applied Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Geology and Geophysics; Hydrology, Cryosphere, and Earth Surface.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Collection of full-text journals published by the American Heart Association. It provides research in the fields of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular medicine and covers Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

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Date coverage: All from vol. 1

Covers the publications of The American Hebrew (1879-1902; 1922), The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1903-1922) and The Jewish Messenger (1857-1902)”

Collection of full-text journals published by the American Mathematical Society as well as publications and services freely available. Journals are accessible from volume one, issue one. Covers pure and applied mathematics topics.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

AMS e-books provides full-text access to online books published by the American Mathematical Society, one of the world’s leading publishers of mathematical literature.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Collection of digitized images of the pages of over 1,000 American magazines and journals published from 1740 to 1940 on various topics. The collection contains labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically significant titles. Contents include America’s first scientific journal, medical repository, popular magazines, and professional journals.

Availability: Full-text images
Data Coverage: 1740-1940

Collection of physical review journals published by the American Physical Society (APS), including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review E, Physical Review Special Topics, Physics.

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Date Coverage: All from v. 1

Published by the American Physiological Society (APS), this database contains full-text of 15 highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals examining major physiological systems from the cellular and molecular to the organ and system level.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Provides full-text access to the contents of 11 journals published by the American Society for Microbiology including Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Virology, etc.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Collection of journals and conference proceedings published by ASCE. The Library includes all 33 ASCE journals from 1983 to present as well as ASCE conference proceeding from 2000 to present. Technical and professional interest areas include: aerospace, architecture, computing in civil engineering, construction, energy, engineering mechanics, hydraulic, and transportation.

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Date Coverage: 1983 to present

The collection provides full-text access to the publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, journals, conference proceeding, and book codes for mechanical devices.

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Date Coverage: 1960 to present

An-Nahar Premium offers a selection of exclusive content, opinions, editorials, and obituaries. It covers the most important Lebanese, Arab and international news pertaining to political, economic, social and cultural fields.
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Date Coverage: 2012 to present

Published by CAB International, AHPC is an interactive and comprehensive encyclopaedia focusing on animal diseases, their pathogens and vectors, as well as animal husbandry, genetics and nutrition of livestock and poultry species and breeds. This compendium includes datasheets, bibliographic records, images, and a glossary.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1700s to present

Offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews of primary research literature in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Coverage of significant developments is provided in volumes for 52 focused disciplines within those broad areas, including biochemistry, biology, economics, marine science, medicine, nutrition, physics, public health, psychology, and sociology.

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Date Coverage: All from v. 1

Published by the American Oil Chemists’ Society, AOCS methods are the most comprehensive collection of analytical testing methods advancing the science and technology of oils, fats, proteins, surfactants, and related materials.

Collection of full-text electronic handbooks published by the American Psychological Association.

The library is providing a one-stop shop for both overviews and in-depth analyses of a variety of sub-fields within psychology.

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Date Coverage: Varies

A psychology database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and other publishers.
Subjects covered include behavioral sciences and therapies, biomedical sciences and health, nursing, psychiatry, sociology, theory, personality and more.

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Date Coverage: 1894 to present

Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology.
This database, provided by the American Psychology Association (APA) covers the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, etc…

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1887 to present

APA PsycTests indexes a wide variety of test types and instruments including aptitude tests, personality scales and cognitive functioning measures.

Published by CAB International, Aquaculture Compendium is an interactive and comprehensive encyclopedia covering all aspects of aquaculture including aquatic animal and plant production, biodiversity, food security and safety, poverty alleviation, etc. This compendium includes datasheets, case studies, bibliographic database, images, and an interactive glossary.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1800s to present

Full-text database of original materials from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1. The database provides access to over 137,000 pages documenting the politics, administration, wars and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate, the Independence of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Date Coverage: 1917-1970

Digital collections of Arabic language newspapers published in North and South America from the late 1880s to the mid-1900s. Sample titles are al-Akhlak, al-Bayan, al-Funun, al-Hoda, Kawkab Amirka, and Mira’at al-Gharb. The database is browsable and full text searchable in Arabic. First-time users must create a personal account. Founded by Khayrallah Center at North Carolina University.

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Date Coverage: 1894-1960

Coverage: 2015-present

An Arabic digital library funded by New York University, Abu Dhabi and partner institutions: Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, and the American University of Beirut. Provides full-text access to books in the public domain drawn from Arabic collections of prominent libraries. Subjects covered: fiction, poetry, literature, culture and society, history, and Arabic language.

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Date Coverage: Books in the public domain

A bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE. It offers authoritative information about African authors, the texts they wrote in Arabic, the manuscripts in which these texts are found, and the locations of these manuscripts, together with bibliographical references to the literature.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1994

A multidisciplinary full-text database covering a wide range of topics. The database contains academic journals, magazines, trade publications, conference papers and industry profiles published in or about the Arab World. Nearly 160 scholarly full-text titles are available in Arabic.

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Date Coverage: 1974 – Present

A comprehensive resource for art information offering full-text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications including journals, dissertations and art reproductions. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1972 to present

Image database containing over 2 million high-quality images in all areas of the arts. Features works of art from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Covers many time periods and culture, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, fashion and other forms of visual culture. Users can view, enlarge, download, and compare images.

Date Coverage: Varies
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Created by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico and launched in 1991, arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Areas covered include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.

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Date Coverage: 1991 to present

As-Safir is a leading Lebanese newspaper established in 1974. The newspaper stopped publication on December 31, 2016. As-Safir newspaper archives include political, cultural, and other news, in addition to interviews, reports, and more content. It is searchable by keyword, title, author, photographer, location and more. You must create a personal to access full text content.
Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1974-2016

Produced in partnership with FAO, the Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) database is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world’s literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects. The overall objective of ASFA is to disseminate information on aquatic sciences and fisheries to the world community, bearing in mind the special interests of developing countries in this field.
Below are the included databases in ASFA:
• Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources
• Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources
• Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
• Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Aquaculture Abstracts
• Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
• Oceanic Abstracts
Coverage: 1971 – Current

Full text database offering access to records from Associated Press bureaus in Ankara, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Includes wire reports, photographs, and internal communications. Most covered topics are military operations, civil and global wars, diplomacy, refugees, cultural clashes, and terrorism.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1967-2005

Full-text access to journals, technical papers, standards and data series from ASTM.
The Digital Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1931 to present

The Atlantic is one of the United States oldest and most prestigious monthly magazines covering major issues in politics, foreign affairs, the economy and cultural trends.
Coverage: May 2014 – Present

A repository where one can find different datasets generated by AUB faculty members or acquired by the University Library upon the request of AUB research community. The repository holds a wide range of datasets from different disciplines and in different formats. Each dataset has its own access license: some of the datasets are openly accessible to all, others are accessible only by a request to the authors, and some datasets are only accessible to AUB community through username and password. AUB research community is invited to submit reusable research data to this repository in response to funding agencies and increase their research visibility as AUB databank is indexed by all search engines.

Contact scholarworks@aub.edu.lb for more information on how to use or submit a dataset”.

Developed by AUB’s LDEM Department, this database focuses on native, naturalized, and ecologically suitable plant species for the Middle East. The database may be searched by name (common or scientific) or by criteria such as geographical location, climate, and plant type. It contains a rich image gallery and a helpful glossary.

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Date Coverage: Varies

AUB’s Nature Conservation Center Plant Database is a culmination of more than ten years of effort in research by experts in agriculture, biology, chemistry, economics, medicine, nutrition and other fields. It provides information (taxonomy, cultivation, nutritional facts, location, nomenclature, experiments, etc.) about native plants that may be searched by scientific name or common name (English, Arabic, and French).

Published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, this database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. It also includes publications of professional associations, plus state and regional periodicals.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1800s to present

Coverage: 1967-1996

The Banker, from the Financial Times, has been providing global financial intelligence and has built a reputation for objective and incisive reporting on major breaking events. Delivering data and analysis vital to the banking and finance sectors.

Coverage: August 2016 – Present

A collection of 18 volumes of head-to-toe and systems videos for learning physical assessment, with a range of patient profiles.

Each video shows a step by step physical examination. User may watch a full volume or view chapter-by-chapter.

Availability: Streaming videos
Date Coverage: Current

The BBED is a platform that brings together a collection of maps, documents, and surveyed indicators about actors (e.g., builder, developer, landowner) as well as spatial (e.g., vacancy, floors, parking) and environmental characteristics (e.g., water, greenery, infrastructure lines).

Coverage: Updated regularly.

Two bibliographic databases BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) and RILA (Répertoire International de la Littérature de l’Art) published by Getty Research Institute. The database covers European and American visual arts material. Indexes books, conference papers, dissertations and journal articles.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1975-2007

A biographical index listing over 627,000 articles, book citations, interviews, profiles of history makers, obituaries, letters, diaries, and memoirs. Includes notable information on artists, business people, politicians, scientists, writers and others. Topics covered range from art history, architecture, graphic arts, to industrial design, folk art, non-western art and much more.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1946 – 1983

Provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology. All journals are accessible from volume one, issue one.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

A full-text online aggregation of various peer-reviewed research journals covering the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences published by scientific societies, institutions, museums, and presses.

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Date Coverage: 1965 to present

BIOSIS Citation Index is an expansive index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. It indexes journal articles, meetings, patents, and books.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 2010 to present

Bloomberg Businessweek delivers the business information you need with timely perspectives on the most important issues of today and insights on the global economy complex.

Coverage: April 2015 – Present

Bloomberg Businessweek delivers the business information you need with timely perspectives on the most important issues of today and insights on the global economy complex.

Coverage: April 2015 – Present

The magazine gives readers unparalleled access to the most influential people in global business and finance. Bloomberg Markets takes readers inside professional investing; profiling key players in business and finance, tracking firms on the cutting edge and reporting on the latest investment strategies and their impact to the global economy.

Coverage: September 2014 – Present

eBook collections in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Collections available include: African studies, biblical studies, fashion, philosophy, theology, classical studies, film and media, law, Middle East, politics, art, linguistics, religious studies, education, history, literary studies, and sociology.
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A digital library that provides access to specialized philosophy collections: Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury 20th Century French Thought, and Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. Content set includes access to primary texts in translation, newly-digitized modern sources, secondary literature eBooks, exclusive articles and encyclopedia entries.
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A peer reviewed journal that provides a collection of case reports in all disciplines for health care professionals and researchers. This is the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 11,000 articles from over 70 countries. Full-text articles can be browsed by medical specialty, type of case, presence of images and/or video content, currency and viewer popularity.

A collection of 33 full-text journals published by the British Medical Association and covering public health and medical topics. All are accessible from volume one, issue one.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Comprehensive reference work describing and analyzing the multi-faceted roles of religions, historically and in contemporary societies. This dictionary covers a wide range of theologies, religions and religious phenomena on a global scale.
Entries are organized in thematic fields including the human being, environment, society, culture, history of religion, elements of religious systems, and more.

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Date Coverage: 2006

Collection of electronic books from Brill focusing on Middle Eastern art, history, culture, language, Islamic studies, philosophy, theology, mysticism, sociology and political studies.

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Date Coverage: Complete collection

A comprehensive reference work published by BRILL that is focused on the history of early Christianity; covering texts, authors, ideas, and their reception. Subjects covered: iconographic, martyrological, ecclesiastical, Christological traditions and more.

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The database provides full text access to scholarly journal articles, covering Ancient Near East, Humanities, Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

A collection of reference works published by Brill. The collection includes, but is not limited to the following titles: Brill Dictionary of Religion; Encyclopaedia Islamica; Encyclopaedia of Islam :First edition & Second edition; Encyclopaedia of Judaism; Encyclopaedia of the Quran; Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures; and Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem between 1920 and 1944. The database contains unique materials on the relationship of Palestinians to other Arab countries, British policies, the Zionist movement in Palestine, and much more. Materials include government documents, reports and archival materials.

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Date Coverage: 1920-1944
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Hint: To access the collection, go to Explore Topics from Archives Unbound page and select “Middle Eastern Studies” and under Explore Collections select “British Mandate in Palestine …” from the list.

Digital archive of periodicals tracing the development of the periodical press in Britain from 17th century to the Victorian ‘age of periodicals’.
It consists of over 460 periodicals published from the 1680s to the 1930s.

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Date Coverage: 1681-1939

BSOL includes all British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards. It also includes ASTM, ISO and IEC standards that haven’t been adopted as British standards. BSOL also holds BSI Publicly Available Specifications, as well as BSI books.
To request a standard please contact Mr. Khaled Noubani, kn07@aub.edu.lb, ext: 2630

A multi-volume reference work offering bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. The English translation spells out all the authors’ names, which makes the translation much easier to consult.

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A multivolume reference work offering bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors.
The collection covers the original volumes of the Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, as well as the three supplement volumes, including the index.

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Date Coverage: 1937-1947

Building Types Online database is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. The database includes more than 850 international case studies from the past 30 years and thematic articles on building design, photos and architectural plans.

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Date Coverage: Varies

A collection of online books, textbooks and reference materials in business education. Included e-books come from reputable publishers. Specialized areas of interest include strategic management, human resources management, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship, finance, consumer behavior and more. Majority of works are published in 2011 or later.

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Provides videos such as corporate training, case studies, executive interviews, expert lectures, instructional films and documentaries.
The films in the collection come from CRM Learning, CARMA, Seven Dimensions, Learning Seed, Atma and others. The collection also provides access to archival video content from Bloomberg TV.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Offers access to peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in the business world. Features reports, company information and company profiles. Bloomberg.com is also searchable through Business Source Ultimate.

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A comprehensive bibliographic database for 19th-century research and studies.
The index provides records for million of documents from books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archival collections. Collections indexed include: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature; Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; and Palmer’s Index to the Times

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1770-1931
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)
Link to Full-Text options via OpenURL

Published by CAB International, CAB eBooks are divided into six core subject collections, constantly updated with the latest titles. The six subject collections comprise Agriculture; Animal & veterinary sciences; Environmental sciences; Human health, food & nutrition; Leisure & tourism; Plant sciences.

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Date Coverage: 2000 – present

Full-text, primary documents of the National Archives (UK). Includes numerous maps, on the national heritage and political development of many countries. Covers the history of the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, China and the Far East.

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An e-book purchase model that gives institutions access to an extensive online collection of books published by Cambridge University Press and their publishing partners. Covers a wide range of subjects in humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The database allows institutions to make informed decisions about which titles to own based on usage data.

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The complete collection of companions published by Cambridge University Press.
The Cambridge Companions Platform offers four collections:
The Complete Companions
The Companions to Literature and Classics
The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
The Companions to Music

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Date Coverage: Complete collection till end of 2021

An e-book collection bringing together over 260 volumes from the Cambridge Histories series. Volumes are grouped into topics and cover over 15 different subject areas, including: American history, British history, economic history, general history, history of science, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies and performing arts.

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Coverage: Complete collection till end of 2021

A Collection of 230 peer-reviewed academic journals published by Cambridge University Press and containing the latest research.

All titles are accessible from volume 1, issue 1. Subjects covered: agriculture, architecture, biology, computer science, economics, engineering, history, language, mathematics, medicine, political sciences, psychology, &much more.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Complete works of Shakespeare together with a wealth of integrated, prize-winning reference material and the entire collection of Shakespeare Survey.

Access Medicine’s Case Files Collection from McGraw-Hill Education offers the best-selling Case Files® content in an interactive format. Updated regularly, this comprehensive collection (case studies, multimedia, podcasts) helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases.

Coverage: 1834-1922

Contains full-text publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). It offers access to audio recordings of Chatham House lectures and their transcripts, in addition to briefing papers, special reports, pamphlets, conference papers, monographs, and more.

A free, web search system that provides access to the structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus contains more than 400,000 chemical records, of which over 300,000 include chemical structures. It has two versions. ChemIDplus Lite and ChemIDplus Advanced.

A bibliographical history online. It is a general online history of relations between the faiths.
It covers the period from 600 to 1500 CE, when encounters took place through the extended Mediterranean basin. The encounters are recorded in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin and other languages. It comprises introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an, Qur’an commentaries, biographies of the Prophet, Hadith and Sunni law, and of Muslims in canon law, and the main body of more than two hundred detailed entries on all the works recorded, whether surviving or lost.

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Coverage: 600-1500
Format: HTML
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)

A Bibliographical History of relations between the two faiths, as they are reflected in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. Covers all parts of the world. Published by BRILL.
Date coverage: 1500-1914.

An award-winning independent news organization, The Christian Science Monitor is the source for meaningful, balanced, and thought provoking-global news.

Coverage: October 2014 – Present

Provides daily reports on developments in higher education, information technology, distance education. In addition to weekly issues and job listings, it contains daily updates on a variety of topics of interest in higher education, and updated databases of grant opportunities.

Availability: Selected full-text
Date Coverage: 1989 to present
Print Equivalent: Chronicle of Higher Education

More than 800,000 pages of original documents amassed by Winston Churchill throughout his lifetime.
The archives contain hand-written notes, private letters, wartime speeches, telegrams, manuscripts, government transcripts and other key historical documents, as well as writings that earned Churchill the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection can be browsed by topic, people, place and period.

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Coverage: 1874-1965
Features: Indirect link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)

Publications from Church Missionary Society, South American Missionary Society and Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. Users are prompted to add exception to access the database.

The database documents missionary works from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. This online portal includes journals, letters, reports, images, maps, serialized accounts of indigenous peoples, family news including births, marriages and deaths as well as a register of missionaries detailing the movements of men, women and native clergy. Many of the titles in Church Missionary Society Periodicals evolved over time, reflecting the changing aims of the societies. Sample titles include The CMS Cleaner (continued as CMS Outlook and then Yes Magazine), The CMS Intelligencer (continued as Church Missionary Review), Ruanda Notes, and South American Missionary Society Magazine.

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Coverage: 1804 till 2009
Format: PDF
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)

CINAHL® Ultimate is the definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database – with no embargo. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU models, and research instruments.

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CiteScore metrics for journals and serials.
CiteScore metrics from Scopus are:
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Offers around 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text, searchable format, accessible from one single point of entry.
CATO includes the following titles:
Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (with indices and glossaries) edited by M.J. de Goeje and J.H. Kramers
De Goeje’s edition of al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa l-mulūk
De Goeje’s edition of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān
Origins of the Islamic State by Murgotten and Hitti, the English translation of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān

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Coverage: Varies
Format: HTML
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Provides the most current clinically relevant evidence-based answers, expert commentary, MEDLINE abstracts and select third-party journals.
It gives access to books, journals, videos, procedures, and images. (previously MDConsult)
Users are prompted to add exception to access the database.

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Coverage: Current

A comprehensive online resource for nurses offering authoritative information, helping nurses find evidence-based answers to clinical questions, provide better patient care, educate patients, and stay informed of new developments in nursing.

Users are prompted to add exception to access the database.

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Coverage: Current

Online access to evidence-based skills and procedures.
Content has been adapted from authoritative leading nursing societies such as the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Skills are reviewed and updated regularly. Over 1,300 skills are featured within specialties.

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Coverage: Current

A collection of six databases that contains different types of independent high quality evidence for health care decision making: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database:

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Coverage: 2012 to present

CPCI-S includes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in all scientific and technical fields. Subjects covered include agriculture, biochemistry, biology, computer science, engineering, environmental sciences, medicine and physics. The database is accessed via Web of Science and allows cited reference searching, results analysis, citation mapping, and the creation of citation reports.

Coverage: 1990 – Present

CPCI-SSH includes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in all fields of social sciences, arts and humanities. Subjects covered include art, economics, history, literature, management, philosophy, psychology, public health and sociology. The database is accessed via Web of Science and allows cited reference searching, results analysis, citation mapping, and the creation of citation reports.

Coverage: 1990 – Present

A collection of primary sources documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Users are prompted to add exception to access the database.The collection covers a broad sweep of history from 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan. It consists of reports, dispatches, correspondence, political summaries, economic analyses and descriptions of leading personalities. All documents are fully text-searchable.

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Coverage: 1839-1969
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)

Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings, debates, and activity of the U.S. Congress.
In addition to debates, the Congressional Record contains extensive additional reprinting of inserted materials, communications from the President and the Executive Branch, memorials, petitions, and information on legislation. The Record presents minutes-style coverage. Coverage for each day includes the proceedings of the House and the Senate, an “Extension of Remarks” section and a “Daily Digest” summary.

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Coverage: 1789 to present
How to use: Quick Start

The main sources of information for the Gnostic religion are the so-called Nag Hammadi codices, written in Coptic.
These were unearthed in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. The Coptic Gnostic Library contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. Each text has its own introduction, and full indexes are provided. The Coptic Gnostic Library is the starting point for all research into ancient Gnosticism. The Coptic Gnostic Library is an authoritative edition of many of the Coptic writings of the Gnostics from the first centuries AD. It was originally published by Brill in fourteen hardback volumes as part of the Nag Hammadi (and Manichaean) Studies series between 1975 and 1995.

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Published by CAB International, Crop Protection Compendium is a time-saving, encyclopedic, mixed-media tool that draws together information on all aspects of crop protection. It features extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies. This compendium includes datasheets, pictures, journal and conference articles, and an interactive glossary.

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Coverage: 1700s to present

Cumhuriyet (“The Republic”) is the oldest secular Turkish daily newspaper. Over the years, Cumhuriyet has stood witness to the changing landscape of Turkey’s political, social and economic environment. The newspaper has sustained its coverage of domestic and international news, providing critical documentation of Turkey’s dynamic history and its relations with the global community.
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Date Coverage: 1930-2020

A digital archive of the British newspaper, the Daily Mail. Provides full-text access to the newspaper’s backfiles, from its first issue in 1896 till the end of 2004. The newspaper focuses significantly on female audiences, providing an important insight into the attitudes, interests and opinions of women.

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Date Coverage: 1896-2004

Complete Hebrew transcription and English translation of the Biblical texts, together with high-resolution images.
The contents of this online publication is identical to that of the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts CD-ROM, published by Brill and Brigham Young University.

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Date Coverage: 2015

A multidisciplinary and multilingual collection of electronic books and textbooks from many reputable publishers. The collection covers 28 subject areas.

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Coverage: Complete collection
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A multidisciplinary and multilingual collection of full-text peer reviewed journals. Many of the journals are open access. Subjects covered include economics, law, political science, health and medicine, business, statistics and engineering.

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The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world.

Declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews of international issues.

An open-access service covering free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. It contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

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Date Coverage: Varies

fully searchable collection of primary source documents from Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the 20th C. It is based on three print series which form a record of British peacetime diplomacy since the end of the 19th C: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939 and Documents on British Policy Overseas.
Coverage: 1898 – 1990

Arabic language database providing access to academic journals and statistical reports from the Arab world. The information is published by universities, research centers, central banks, scientific associations and regional organizations. Content includes articles, theses, dissertations, reports, and statistics. Subjects covered comprise: humanities, social sciences, medicine, business, engineering, and sciences.
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Date Coverage: 1991 to present

Also known as أمهات الكتب العربية المطبوعة من المكتبة البريطانية :a digital library of pre-20th century Arabic printed books. This historical collection includes a wide range of works that were published from the 15th to 19th centuries. In addition to books printed in Arabic script, the collection includes European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European works.
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Date Coverage: 1475-1900

Topics covered include: Islamic literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, religion, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature.

Digitized collection of printed books published in UK and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
The collection includes works by famous authors such as Shakespeare, Spencer, Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. Subjects covered include English literature, language and linguistics, history, music, philosophy and religion.

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Date Coverage: 1473-1700

EEBO covers more than 30 languages from Algonquin to Welsh, and variant editions and multiple copies.
EEBO consists of facsimile images scanned as listed in the following collections:

Early English Books I, 1473-1640 (STC I, Pollard & Redgrave)
Early English Books II, 1641-1700 (STC II, Wing)
Thomason Tracts
Early English Books Tract Supplement

Digitized collection of rare books and incunabula printed in Europe or in European languages from 1450-1700. The collection is built in partnership with national and other major European libraries. The collection offers full-color, high-resolution facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. New titles are added regularly. AUB Libraries have access to 8 collections.

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Date Coverage: pre-1701

European libraries: The Royal Library (Copenhagen, Denmark), National Central Library in Florence (Florence, Italy), The National Library (The Hague, The Netherlands), Wellcome Library (London, UK), and National Library of France (Paris, France).

A collection of primary sources including Korans and Koran translations in eight languages, printed between 1537 and 1857. Among the translations, only those into German and Dutch are offered completely. Of the partial editions, only the typographically or academically most interesting ones are presented here. This early Korans collection demonstrates the impact of the holy book of Islam in Europe.

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Date Coverage: 1537-1857

It also features rare multilingual editions by Thomas Erpenius, Johann Georg Nissel and Johann Andreas Danz, all dating from the

Extensive collection of academic, professional, fiction and nonfiction electronic books from leading publishers. The collection covers a wide range of subjects including business, computer science, education, engineering, medicine, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, sciences, and social sciences. It includes classic works in literature and history from the public domain.
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Date Coverage: Varies

EconLit, the American Economic Association database, is the primary source to economic literature. Contains nearly 600 English journals and many non-English journals in economics & finance. Includes journal articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers. It covers all fields of economics including economic theory, econometrics, economic forecasting and much more.
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Date Coverage: 1969 to present

A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015. It offers full color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements, surveys, a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. The publication presents a multidisciplinary primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

Coverage: 1843-2015

A comprehensive database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties. It also covers curriculum instruction, policy, administration, and related social issues. It includes journal articles, conference papers, books and monographs.
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provides full text for more than 2,000 journals back to 1936, and includes conference papers, books and monographs back to 1972.

A database of “Al Mandumah” collection of databases providing access to articles in Arabic journals on social sciences topics.

Coverage: 1840–1927

The collection captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800.
It covers a wide range of subjects including history, geography, arts, literature, law, science, medicine, philosophy, religion and more.

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Date Coverage: 1700s

The ECS Digital Library provides searchable access to peer-reviewed technical journals, books, proceedings, and other collections published by the Electrochemical Society. All The technical scope of the collection focuses on applied areas of electrochemistry and solid-state science.

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Date Coverage: Varies by title

A collection of electronic books published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It is hosted on the Ebrary platform.
Subject areas covered include business, economics, ecology, environment, innovation and technology, management, public and social policy.

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Date Coverage: 1993 to present

A biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing articles from over 3,500 international journals and conference abstracts in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, psychiatry, and biomedical engineering / instrumentation.

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Date Coverage: 1947 to present

An online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development. Teaching cases can be used in classroom situations to stimulate learning and add practical knowledge. These Case Studies engage students through active learning; allow students to transform managerial knowledge into practice; encourage entrepreneurial thinking and critical exploration; and more.
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Date Coverage: 2004 to present

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS): Engages students through active learning and examples of real business issues. Spotlights strategic markets and business theory, allowing students to transform managerial knowledge into practice. Encourages entrepreneurial thinking and critical exploration through class activities. Gives an understanding of various issues that are faced by companies in emerging economies.

Provides full-text of more than 130 journals in the fields of management, marketing, human resources and library science.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

The encyclopedia covers all aspects of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It also cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture, as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the entire range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.

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Date Coverage: Current

A projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian “Dāirat al-Maārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī”. One unique feature of this work lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. This Brill publication is automatically updated whenever a new volume has been published.

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Date Coverage: 2008 to present

The encyclopedia offers access to 9,000 articles and reflects the first highly international collaboration of scholars in this field.

The scope of the Encyclopedia of Islam First Edition Online is philology, history, theology and law until early 20th century.

The encyclopedia was originally published in print between 1913 and 1936.

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Date Coverage: 1913-1936

The demand for an encyclopaedic work on Islam was created by the increasing (colonial) interest in Muslims and Islamic cultures during the nineteenth century.

A comprehensive reference work on the Islamic world. It contains the entire text of volume I to XII of the printed edition. It includes articles on famous Muslim personalities, tribes and dynasties, Islamic crafts, political and religious institutions, ethnography, history, monuments of the major towns and cities and much more. It contains articles, figures, drawings, genealogical tables, maps, and biographies.

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Date Coverage: 1954-2004

Covers a wider range of disciplines and methodologies than the 2nd edition with new articles reflecting the diversity of current scholarship.
The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century, attention to Muslim minorities all over the world, full attention to social science as well as humanistic perspectives.

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Date Coverage: 2007 to present

Online version of the 2nd ed. of the print Encyclopeadia. It provides a comprehensive presentation of Judaism covering the religion, its diverse history, literature, beliefs past and present, observances, practices, and place in the context of society and culture. Emphasis is placed on the classical literature of Judaism and its history. It also includes entries on American Judaism and other contemporary issues.
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Date Coverage: 2005 to present

A comprehensive multi-volume work on the Qur’an published in a Western language. This is an encyclopedic dictionary of qur’anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’anic studies. Whenever possible English language entry is used rather than transliterated terminology.
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Coverage: 2005 to present

A comprehensive encyclopedia covering all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic language.
The encyclopedia addresses both the external and the internal history of the language, as well as the structural analysis of the different varieties of the language, the interaction between varieties in mixed levels, the linguistic contacts between Arabic and other languages, and much more.

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Date Coverage: 2011

Some special features of the encyclopedia are the inclusion of dialect sketches of more than 40 dialects, linguistic profile that sketches the sociolinguistic and dialectological make-up of Arabic-speaking countries.

Authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew & general linguistics, Biblical studies and Jewish literature.
Offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language.

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Date Coverage: 2013

This encyclopedia covers the recent history of the Jews from 1750 until the 1950s, from Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas.
The encyclopedia presents the current state of international research and depict a complex portrait of Jewish life – illustrated by many maps and images.

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Online version of the Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (2nd ed.) published by Elsevier Science Direct.
A comprehensive, up-to-date and international reference source in language and linguistics. It includes 3,000 articles, 1,500 figures, 3,500 glossary definitions, Approximately 700 biographical entries, 200 language maps, supplementary audio, video and text files online, and more.
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Date Coverage: 2006

A comprehensive reference work of interdisciplinary and international biblical reception. The Encyclopedia documents the history of biblical interpretation and reception, not only in Christianity and Judaism, but also in Islam and other non-Western religious traditions and movements. Contains Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, New Testament, and historical contexts.
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Date Coverage: 2010

A reference work for scholars of Arabic science, the history of science and Islamic studies. The encyclopedia documents the history and philosophy of Arabic science from the earliest times to the present day. It is divided into three volumes covering six broad categories: astronomy, mathematics, physical sciences, technology, alchemy, and the life sciences.
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Date Coverage: 2002

A compilation of essays on women and Islamic cultures. Published by Brill, this encyclopedia crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines and also reflects the latest research on gender studies and Islamic world. It covers a wide array of topics including family issues, body, sexuality, health, education, mobility, law, politics, arts and more.

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Date Coverage: 2007

Provides biographical information on famous people who have made significant contributions to human culture and society.
It covers persons from every part of the world and from all time periods. It includes thousands of photos, a consolidated index, and more.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the national bibliographic database of education literature. Consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Covers journals and unpublished documents. Contains citations to research reports, teaching guides, conference papers, books and journal articles.

Availability: Bibliographic citations and selected full-text
Date Coverage: 1966 to present

Hints: ERIC’s EDs are available in Full Text on microfilm/ Audiovisual section / Jafet Library

Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective contains citations for over 270,000 essays in collections dating back to 1900. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film and publications from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain.

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Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps you identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. ESI surveys more than 11,000 journals from around the world to rank authors, institutions, countries, and journals in 22 broad fields based on publication and citation performance. Data covers a rolling 10-year period and includes bimonthly updates to rankings and citation counts.

A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. Topics covered include American in Literature, British and French in America, Great Britain colonies, discoveries, natural disasters, pirates, slavery, and more. Materials indexed are books, broadside and manuscripts.
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Date Coverage: 1493-1750

This collection of primary documents provides information on social conditions in Greater Syria (and Lebanon) and on efforts to spread the gospel during the 19th century.
Documenting the church’s educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board’s headquarters.

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Date Coverage: 1869-1910

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper. It includes in addition to the regular newspaper, special supplements and the Financial Times magazine. Its editorial reports, analyses of finance and industry and events of artistic and cultural significance are of high standard. Every article and advertisement printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page.

Coverage: 1888-2010

A Digital Magazine Platform, it provides access to the digital copy of a selection of magazines including: The Atlantic, The Banker, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Biblical Archaeology Review, Bloomberg Markets, The New Yorker, Newsweek Global, Christian Science Monitor Weekly, The Nation, and The New Republic.
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Provides access to abstracts of the world’s food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition literature. The database includes journals, patents, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, standards and legislation.

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Date Coverage: 1969 – present

Forbes has a unique voice in its coverage of global business stories.
Coverage: 2014 – Present

The Forbes Archive Includes indexing, abstracting and full-text for the complete archive of Forbes, beginning with its first issue in 1917 and ending with December 2000.

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Date Coverage: 1917 – 2000

Coverage: 1922 – Present

A collection of primary documents including economic analyses, annual reviews, diplomatic correspondence and dispatches, etc. The collection addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of the Middle East during the 1970s. It also covers conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution. It includes documents, essays and maps.
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Date Coverage: 1971-1981

Commercial interests are also scrutinized, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations’ economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.

Published by CAB International, Forestry Compendium is a compilation of knowledge on forestry with worldwide coverage on tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal tree species of major economic importance. This compendium includes datasheets, pictures, bibliographic records, full-text of journal and conference articles, and an interactive multilingual glossary.

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Date Coverage: 1700s to present

Fortune covers comprehensively the business field, including specific companies and business trends, tech innovation prominent business leaders, and new ideas shaping the global marketplace, and it is particularly well known for its exceptionally reliable annual rankings of companies.

Coverage: May 2014 – Present

A collection of primary documents consisting of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Beirut. Topics covered include the protection of interests of American citizens, foreign trade, shipping and immigration. Beirut post provides a unique look into the French Mandate. The collection includes unique materials on the Druse Rebellion of 1925 and other religious conflicts.
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Date Coverage: 1920-1941

Hint: To access the collection, go to ‘Available Collections from Archives Unbound’ box and select “French Mandate in The Lebanon …” from the list.

Gale Primary Sources is a universal research experience that combines Gale’s digital archives in a single cross-search interface. The platform allows the use of multiple search options and research tools to search across the variety of archives accessible to the subscribing institution. Users may select one, all, or a combination of accessible databases to search.

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A primary source compiled and written by John Gordon Lorimer (1870-1914), an official of the Indian Civil Service. The Gazetteer is an important source for the study of the modern Gulf region from the 17th to the early 20th century and was intended as handbook for British policy makers and agents in the area.

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Produced by the American Geological Institute, GeoRef is a comprehensive geosciences database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world.
Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the GeoRef database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.

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Date Coverage: 1800 to present

A collection of geosciences peer-reviewed journals from American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London, and other societies. Sample titles are: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Economic Geology, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, Geophysics, Journal of the Geological Society, and Petroleum Geoscience.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

A bibliographic abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health. It consists of journals, reports, books and conferences that contain over 3 million scientific records,

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Date coverage: 1973 – present

GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

The complete digital edition of the British historical newspaper, The Guardian (1821-2003).
The database offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Date Coverage: 1821 – 2003

HaPI is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.

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Date Coverage: 1985- present

Full-text collection of electronic books from Baghdad, published by BRILL. Comprises a resource for the study of oriental printing, Hebrew liturgical history, Judeo-Arabic literature, and the history and culture of the most ancient Jewish Diaspora community.

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Date Coverage: 1866-1969

A comprehensive database covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. It indexes articles, books, conference papers, dissertations and theses about history and related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology. Also provides access to the full text of more than 330 journals and 119 books back to 1955.
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Date Coverage: 1954- present

Print Equivalent:
Historical Abstracts: Part A, Modern History Abstracts (1450-1914)
Historical Abstracts Part B, Twentieth-Century Abstracts (1914 to the present)
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)
Link to Full-Text options via OpenURL

This Atlas was originally published by Brill in 1981. In November 2001, Brill published a new edition. This online version is the 2nd expanded edition of this atlas. The Atlas provides an overview of Islamic history from its inception up to the beginning of the twentieth century. The maps give an idea of the shape and structure of the cities as they are referred to in historical texts.

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Date Coverage: 2001

Published by Brill and authored by Fayz Muhammad Khan, better known as “Katib” (The Writer), who had full access to government archives and oral sources for more than twenty years and thus presents a picture of the country from its founding in 1747 until the end of the nineteenth century. This full text work covers in details tribe and state relations, law, gender issues, the economy, and more.

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Coverage: 2013 to present

Online company information, featuring public and non-public companies, industries, and key executives. The database provides easy access to business information, including company overview, company history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, related industry information, and historical financials.

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Date Coverage: 1986 – Present

Published by CAB International, Horticulture Compendium is an encyclopedic resource of authoritative datasheets on horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and commodity crops. It covers a global range of major horticulture crops as well as lesser-known crop species of emerging importance. Key topic chapter-like articles compliment detailed crop datasheets and explore concepts such as food safety, harvesting and post-harvesting issues. The datasheets are enhanced with data from specialist organizations, images, a bibliographic database and full text articles.

An educational database that maps learning items to the modern human resource management syllabus. It includes a mix of selected primary source documents (book chapters, case studies, videos, documents, and executive-oriented research reports.) on compensation and benefits, employee rights and relations, equal opportunity, job analysis, organizational planning, organizational review, and more.

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Date Coverage: Varies

An educational database that brings together a mix of the top applied content for HR academic programs.
The database maps 4,000 learning items to the modern human resource management syllabus. It includes a mix of selected primary source documents, including corporate training videos, instructional films, case studies, textbooks, textbook chapters, research reports, sample business documents, and self-assessments. Materials are from well-known names in human resource management and business education, including the Society of Human Resource Management, The Kellogg School of Management, and Seven Dimensions. Subjects covered include: compensation and benefits, employee rights and relations, equal opportunity, ethical, legal and social considerations, job analysis and design, organizational planning and strategy, organizational review, recruitment, selection, and placement, training and development, and much more. Majority of works are published in 2009 or later.

Provides full text access to IEEE and IET journals, magazines, transactions, conference papers, and active standards.

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Date Coverage: 1872 to present

An online archive of the world’s first illustrated newspaper. The database contains the entire run of The Illustrated London News Historical Archive from its first issue of 1842 to its last one in 2003. It is a fully searchable and browseable database that provides access to 250,000 pages and as many as three-quarters of a million illustrations. This publication presents a picture of British and world events including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science.
Coverage; 1842-2003

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a flexible research evaluation tool that helps you easily analyze trusted data to make confident decisions about your research programs and strategies.
InCites B&A allows you to analyze institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, showcase strengths, and discover areas of opportunity.

Published by Brill, this bibliographic database indexes publications on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. It Indexes journal articles, book materials, conference proceedings and book reviews.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1906- present

Indexes WHO reports and peer-reviewed health and biomedical journals from the Eastern Mediterranean, including bibliographic citations from more than 520 health and biomedical journals published in 20 countries of the Region

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: Current

A collection of seventeen scholarly journals published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

All Journals are peer reviewed and available from volume one, issue one to present.

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InfoSci-Cases (formerly IGI Teaching Case Collection) is a premier classroom solution, providing professors, students, and libraries access to over 2,100 teaching cases based on real-life situations, issues, challenges, and opportunities in one fully searchable database. It covers a wide range of subjects from business and environment technologies to medical and social technologies.

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This database covers over 25,000 peer-reviewed full-text journal articles, covering business and management, computer science and information technology, education, environmental, agricultural and physical sciences, and more.

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Date coverage: 1988 – present

Events, biographies, highlights, places and primary documents, in the first interactive platform entirely devoted to the Palestine Question.

A bibliographic database for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). It indexes core journals, monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Part of the indexed content is in languages other than English (primarily German, French, Italian and Spanish).

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International Business Online maps 4,000 learning items to the modern international business syllabus.
It includes textbooks, book chapters, case studies from well-known case providers like the Kellogg School of Management, corporate training videos, sample business documents and research reports. Primary partners are Aperian Global and Atma Global. Subjects covered include: assessing and analyzing foreign markets, economic and socioeconomic forces, ethics, sustainability, and social responsibility, foreign direct investment and international trade theories, global human resource management, global marketing, global strategy and management, international finance and accounting, international monetary system, political and legal forces. 80% of works are published in 2009 or later.

Availability: Full-text and videos
Coverage: Varies
Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software)

A comprehensive full-text reference work covering the recent changes in education as a result of legislative reforms, technological changes, altering societal demands, changing expectations, and varying economic conditions in different countries.

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Date Coverage: 2010

A comprehensive reference work exploring social and political movements as well as related topics. The encyclopedia covers a broad range of historical and modern topics from the French revolution, to the global women’s movement, to Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement, through to more recent issues such as environmentalism and the Arab Spring.

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Date Coverage: 2013

The encyclopedia covers all aspects of social and behavioral disciplines.

Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia contains 4000 articles, 150 biographies and 90,000 bibliographic references.

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Date Coverage: 2001

A digital archive of the daily newspaper, International Herald Tribune.
Provides full-text access from its first issue till 2013. It includes articles, advertisements, and market listings and covers the history of the 20th century.

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Date Coverage: 1887-2013

Online service and index for journal content published by the Institute of Physics. Contains more than 250,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. Includes links to related articles, references and citations; latest and most popular article listings; and news delivered from IOP’s community websites.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

IOS Press publishes journals in a broad range of scientific, technical and medical (STM) subject areas. The database covers the subjects: Medicine, computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, internal medicine, biochemistry & biophysics, rehabilitation & assistive technology, microbiology and virology, exercise & occupational therapy, and business and management.

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The series offers a collection of primary sources from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Subjects covered range from the siege of Kut-al-Amara and installation of King Faisal in 1921 to The USSR-Iraq Treaty of Friendship in 1972.

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Date Coverage: 1914-1974

Provided by the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research of Iraq. Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ) is a one platform where all scholarly journals published by the Iraqi universities and research institutions are indexed and discovered. All journals are peer-reviewed and open access.

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Electronic books featuring 150 titles from 1804 through 1918 profiling the beliefs, practices, theology, spirituality, and history of Islam. Content includes biographies of the prophet Muhammad, works comparing Christianity and Islam, key theological and philosophical texts (including the Quran), relevant mystical and spiritual works, and texts surveying the history of Islam.

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Date Coverage: 1804-1918

It includes fundamental tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses. Jamaevidence comprises among other things: Three Textbooks: Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis. Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience Education Guides: collection of Power Point lectures and presentations. Glossary: over 500 Evidence Based Medicine terms. Worksheets or textual instructions. Podcasts of key Evidence Based Medicine concepts and many other fields.

JAMA Network brings Journal of American Medical Association together with the following nine specialty Archives Journals.
Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology & Psychiatry (1919-1959). Multimedia features include video, audio, CME quizzes, and more.
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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Covers the following journals:
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, JCO Global Oncology, JCO Oncology Practice, JCO Precision Oncology, and Journal of Clinical Oncology

Jerusalem Post is a historical Jewish newspaper covering politics, society, and many other events of the time. The Jerusalem Post was established in 1932
as The Palestine Post. In 1952, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post. It includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1932-2008

historical newspaper providing easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1905 – 1990

A historical Jewish newspaper, founded by a group of 43 prominent Philadelphians. This newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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Date Coverage: 1887-1990

A journal evaluation tool powered by ISI Web of Knowledge. It helps in identifying the most frequently cited journals.
Users are prompted to add exception to access the database.

Availability: Ranking tables
Date Coverage:1997 to present

JSTOR, a digital library for scholars, researchers and students, provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines including business, economics, humanities, medicine, mathematics, science, and social sciences. Library’s subscription includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences, Business, Global Plants and Life Sciences.

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Date Coverage: 1665 to present

Originally titled Liber expugnationis regionum (Leiden, 1866), this book offers an account of the early conquests of the Islamic polity. It has the form of a geographical survey of the Caliphate’s territories, describing how each location came under Muslim rule.

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Date Coverage: 1866

A digital collection of engineering books selected from more than 30 leading publishers and professional associations. It contains hundreds of full text of reference works and handbooks as well as interactive tables, graphs and equations. Subjects covered include: chemical engineering, civil engineering, oil and gas engineering, environmental engineering and much more.

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Date Coverage: Varies

A collection of contemporary and classic Arabic writings. The collection comprises around 5,000 titles of early works from around 1,000 Arab thinkers, philosophers, historians, politicians, and theologians. Topics cover feminism, social theory, literature, history, Arab culture, religion, philosophy, and political thoughts. Features works by the Four Imams of the Sunni Sect, the Al Azhar Modern Sheikhs, various authors of the Modern Arab Enlightenment, and rare works by the former Egyptian royal family. Availability: Full Text.

: A collection of electronic books in Arabic. The collection ranges from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises, with titles written by Arab authors of all genres including fiction, non-fiction, popular and scholarly. The database covers the following subjects and more: fine arts, language, literature, medicine, philosophy, political sciences, religion, and social sciences. Availability: Full-text. Date Coverage: Varies.

A collection of electronic books published from 1820 to 1914. The collection provides insight into the development of Egypt and the Arab world during the period of industrialization, modernization, the end of Ottoman Empire and relations with the west. It includes more than 3000 titles in humanities and sciences, including philosophy, literature, arts, history, and politics, featuring writings from M. Abdo and G. El-Afghani. Availability: Full Text. Date Coverage: 1820 to 1914.

Le Commerce du Levant is still the only French-speaking economic periodical in Lebanon and the Middle East, along now with an English version. It offers essential economic and financial news, as well as news business opportunities in Lebanon and the region.

Coverage : Vol. 1 – Present

The English version of Le Monde, France’s leading newspaper, was launched in April 2022. This is not a full translation of the French version.
Coverage: 2024-

Le Monde, published in Paris, is a French general news media that reports on in depth international, national, economic and cultural news.
Coverage: 2024-

Le Monde Diplomatique is based in Paris under the umbrella of the French daily newspaper Le Monde. It soon acquired an international and independent reputation for its incisive monthly articles offering critical vision, in-depth analysis, and reportages.

Coverage: 1958 – Present

A bibliographic database for users interested in library science and information management.
It indexes more than 580 core journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and much more.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: Varies

A comprehensive reference resource for American and English literature. The database brings primary works, reference materials, and literary criticism together. Contains over 350,000 literary texts together with full-text journals, author biographies and other critical and reference resources.

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Date Coverage: —-

Interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory.
Coverage:
More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.

A literary intellectual magazine in the English language.

Publishes 24 issues per year. Each issue contains up to 15 reviews, literary criticism, and essays written by academics, writers, and journalists, as well as shorter art and film reviews.

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Date Coverage: 1979 to present

A textbook-multimedia package that supports both the practice and specialty-based areas of the curriculum for nurses and also medicine. The collection is a combination of core textbooks, case studies, self- assessment Q&A banks, and audio clips from the Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination and History-Taking textbook.
Availability: Full-text and video
Date Coverage: Varies

A Lebanese French-language daily newspaper. Founded in 1971, the newspaper covers politics, local and international news, finance, economics, culture, entertainment, and sports. It includes L’Orient Litteraire, the cultural supplement of L’Orient le Jour which covers all the news of books and literature in Lebanon and worldwide. The supplement is issued every first Thursday of the month.
Availability: Full-Text
Date Coverage: 1997 – Present

L’Orient Today is the English edition of L’Orient Le Jour newspaper. It supplies political, social, and economical news about Lebanon, the region and worldwide.
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Date Coverage: 2021 – Present

Covers international literature in mathematics and mathematically related research in computer science, statistics, economics, etc.
Produced by the American Mathematical Society, it provides full bibliographic information for reviews of journal articles, plus books, conference proceedings and papers.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Full text of all reviews from Mathematical Reviews from 1940-
Date Coverage: 1940 to present

A peer reviewed publication on drug information and drug facts since 1959.
The database is searchable and drugs may be browsed by disease, or by generic/brand names.

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Date Coverage: 1988 to present

A primary resource for classical music videos, Medici.tv features over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works) including concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, artists portraits or interviews, educational programs, and master classes by leading musicians.
Availability: Videos
Coverage Date: 2008 – present

A bibliographic database produced by the US National Library of Medicine.
It indexes a large number of international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1946 to present

Major bibliographic database for the biomedical literature, containing references to articles taken from more than 4600 international journals.
An electronic version of Index Medicus published by the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, USA), plus citations taken from the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1950 to present

MEDLINE Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,700 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, over 900 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection.

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Date Coverage: 1857 to current

Contains full-text information about all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, etc.
Information provided includes the name of the test author and publisher as well as scoring information and the volume of the print yearbook in which the test was first included.

Availability: Test reviews
Date Coverage: v.6 to present

A bibliographic index of materials (journal articles, dissertations, books, etc…) relating to the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. It contains more than 400,000 records, from reputable centers such as the School of Oriental and African Studies. Subject Coverage: Political and economic affairs, cultural heritage, art and humanities, sociology, religion, anthropology, and archaeology.
Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1946 to present

Rare Arabic manuscripts of Joseph Justus Scaliger, Franciscus Raphelengius, and Jacobus Golius, from the Leiden University Library. The Golius collection is particularly famous for its manuscripts on Islamic science.
The publication consists of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, with 109.517 pages, in full-color, high-definition images.

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Date Coverage: Varies

140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totaling 45,809 pages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts. Manuscripts were acquired by the great scholar Levinus Warner during his stay in Istanbul from 1644 until his death in 1665. The collection includes one autograph, 10 unique manuscripts, and 11 manuscripts with unique parts. It also includes several of Warner’s diaries with research notes in various languages.
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200 manuscripts with just over 300 works. It includes (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḥib Tāǧ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author’s death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century.
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Date Coverage: Varies

Arabic manuscripts holdings of the Oriental Collection in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

A database of Middle East newspapers published in the Middle East & about the Middle East. It includes around 30 full-text English and foreign language publications focusing on all aspects of Middle East news including current events, economics, politics, business, culture, sports and much more. Sample titles are: Aljazeera.net, The Daily Star (Beirut), Gulf Daily News and Palestine Chronicle.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1980 to present

Bibliographic information for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore.
Coverage is worldwide and includes articles chosen from over 3,500 journals, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings, and other materials.

Availability: Bibliographic citations and Full-text via Literature Resource Center
Date Coverage: 1926 to present

This IEEE e-book collection provides online access to more than 600 titles in fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, computer programming, information technology and electrical engineering.
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The original work of Ibn al-Faqīh’s “Kitāb al-buldan” is lost, but the abridged version has survived in a handful of manuscripts. Only three manuscripts were known during De Goeje’s life and he used them all for his edition, which was originally published in 1885. This edition offers geographical and historical details not found in other sources.

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Date Coverage: 1885

Streaming video of award-winning fluid mechanic visualizations by G. M. Homsy et al. Topics cover Kinematics, Dynamics, Interfacial Phenomena, Similarity and Scaling, Boundary Layers, Turbulence and Control Volumes. Includes interactive animations and virtual labs.

A collection of primary sources on Russia Muslim population and their history between 1861 and 1918. Materials published in Russia reflect the picturesque palette of life of Muslims in the Russian Empire. It presents a collection of 11 Russian language periodicals written by and about Muslims. In addition to articles, it contains translations and annotations of Muslim books, magazines, and newspapers.

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Date Coverage: Varies

The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and the country’s preeminent political journal. The Nation is produced with the highest journalistic standards, speaking with an authority that reflects the editorial vetting, fact-checking and deliberative characteristics.

Coverage: December 2015 – Present

International journals publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. These journals publish not only primary research but also reviews, critical comment, news and analysis. The collection includes Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, etc.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

A leading medical journal published by Massachusetts Medical Society. NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content for physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community.

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Date Coverage: 1990 to present

Coverage: 2024-

A scholarly reference works on economics published by Palgrave Macmillon. Written by leading figures in the field. In addition to classic and foundational articles, the dictionary includes entries on topical issues including gender and economics, recent economic crises in the European Union and beyond, health economics and the economics of the Internet.

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Date Coverage: 2018

Published by BRILL., this encyclopedia covers more than 2,000 years of history of Greco-Roman antiquity and classical tradition, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Special emphasis is given to the interaction between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic culture, and ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other hand.

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The New Republic is an American magazine that features thought-provoking unbiased coverage of news, politics, culture, and arts etc.

Coverage: October 2016 – Present

Access the archives of 20 newspapers and magazines, some go back to the 1700s and 1800s.

Newsweek publishes news and commentaries on developments in the United States and the world, it covers national and international affairs, science, sports, religion, business, medicine and the arts.

Coverage: February 2014 – Present

Near real-time access to news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Users can immediately access the full text of the web content. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.

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Date Coverage: 2013 to present

The New Yorker is an American national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture and the arts, fiction, poetry and cartoons, along with groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration.

Coverage: October 2015 – Present

A bimonthly literary intellectual magazine in the English language.

Publishes 20 issues per year. Each issue contains essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theatre, dance, and film. This online edition of the New York Review of Books provides full text access to reviews dating back to 1963.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1963 to present

The Historical New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993) offers full-page-images and article images dating back to 1851.

The full page image allows users to view the information in context as originally published.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1851-2020
Note: Use LexisNexis database for issues published after 2009

Lexis-Nexis Academic provides full-text and citation access to information in news, business, medical, and legal disciplines. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s and 10-Q’s. Research areas cover top news topics; foreign language news sources; company and industry news; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information.

Availability: Full-text
Coverage: 1975 to present

The vast majority of the titles on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (Lexis-Nexis) are available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form.

Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (Lexis-Nexis) cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information.

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Coverage: 1975 to present

Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP®) Book Collections

Digital edition of the The Observer newspaper from 1791 to 2003. The newspaper offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Date Coverage: 1791-2003

The AOAC has set the standard for analytical methods critical to processing, trading, utilizing, and evaluating fats, oils, and lipid products. The official methods and recommended practices of the AOAC contains methodology required for proficiency testing in the Laboratory Proficiency Program (LPP), as well as AOAC Laboratory Certification.

Scriver’s OMMBID from McGraw-Hill Medical is an essential online resource (books, multimedia) delivering comprehensive coverage of the genes and genetic mechanisms underlying human disease states. It is an indispensable digital reference tool that provides geneticists, researchers, students, clinicians, and fellows with cutting edge information spanning the entire field of genetics.

An online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Users are prompted to add exception to access the database. Published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Indexes articles, technical documents and conference papers. Partner publishers are 18 and include American Petroleum Institute (API), and American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

A bibliographic database indexing over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations and freely available online.
The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree.

Availability: Bibliographic citations linking to full-text
Date Coverage: 1966 to present

A portal to free, publicly-available R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, patents, multimedia, software, and data information on science, technology, and engineering from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: Varies

The database provides bibliographic citations to all journals indexed in Ovid Journals and full-text access to journals the library subscribes to.

Subjects covered include Clinical Medicine, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Health Professions, Life and Biomedical Sciences, Nursing, and Pharmacology.

Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: All from v.1

A multidisciplinary online library containing academic books published by leading US and international university presses such as American University in Cairo Press and Oxford University Press. Subject areas covered include humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: Complete collection until March 2022

The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Provides 45,000 articles on fine arts, over 13,000 art images, and 21,000 biographies of artists, architects, etc.

Availability : Full-text and images
Date Coverage: Current
Limitations: 9 simultaneous users

An authoritative research guide to selected resources in Islamic studies. The guide combines a selective annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. It provides expert guidance to the field in all its diversity and throughout its developmental stages.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: Varies

An essential reference work covering all aspects of the classical world from literature and history to religion, science, and archaeology. It provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, law, linguistics, philosophy, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity.

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Date Coverage: 2012

Collection of full-text books in clinical psychology, covering a broad range of specialty areas, disorders, and treatment modalities. It includes both new and classic titles such as professional reference books, scholarly and research works, therapist guides, and workbooks in the renowned “Treatments That Work” series.

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Provides access to all of the more than 500,000 entries in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its supplements. This source also provides tools for fast searching of words by definition, by origin and history, by quotation, first cited use and more.

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Date Coverage: Current

A collection of electronic books published by Oxford University Press. The collection brings together the world’s leading scholar to discuss research and latest thinking on a range of major topics. It contains in-depth, high level scholarly review articles and covers a wide range of subject areas such as archaeology, classical studies, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and more.

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Date Coverage: 2012 to present

A collection of over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. Includes arts and humanities; life science and medicine; mathematics and physical sciences; and social sciences journals.

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Date Coverage: All from v.1

Collection of primary material across a wide variety of subject areas, from philosophy and literature, to economics and medicine. Its content constitutes the cornerstone of research in the fields of English Literature and Classical Studies. Provides access to scholarly materials written between 1485 and 1901, including all of Shakespeare’s plays.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: Complete collection till May 2021

OSEO allows users to search the complete text of over 170 scholarly editions, read texts in the original language with a translation alongside, together with interpretive and explanatory notes.

Multidisciplinary and cross-searchable library containing the full-text of classic and newly published books from leading university presses in the areas of humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

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Date Coverage: Complete collection till March 2022

This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.

Coverage: 1914 – Current

Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and breaking news.
The database includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. Passport database provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020. Statistical data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets or in a chart style. Passport contains:
A range of consumer trends and lifestyle indicators such as disposable income availability, consumer expenditure, consumer prices, eating and drinking habits, household profiles, home ownership statistics, media access and health data.
Market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing as well as company profiles and country reports.

Availability: Statistical data and full-text
Coverage: Current

An archive of hundred of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It contains periodicals from the 17th to early 20th centuries. The periodical archive is international in scope and spread across a wide variety of subject areas including architecture, archaeology, folklore, geography, history, law, literature, religion, and women’s studies.

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Date Coverage: 1813-2002

An electronic index to articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. PIO covers a broad range of subjects including anthropology, architecture, arts, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and much more. The collection provides access, where available, to page images in the related Periodicals Archive Online (PAO).

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1665-2006

A comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy.
The database cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. It also includes complete coverage of international articles from anthologies and books written in English and other languages.

Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1940 to present

A multidisciplinary resource for applied plant science information and management offering research material on agricultural and horticultural crops. Includes journal articles, news, conference proceedings, reports, efficacy trials, and an image-based pest database.

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Date Coverage: Varies

Concise, up-to-date source of information for management of the most common perioperative conditions.
This pocket guide presents essential information that residents, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students need on the wards and in the operating room.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 2021

Database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. It covers a wide range of topics including citizen’s rights, environment, family issues, global issues, society, and much more. The database includes materials from essays, political magazines, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary documents and reference books.

Availability: Full-text
Date Coverage: 1900 to present

Provides reports from over 300 active think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank.

It indexes, abstracts, and links directly to current research on virtually every public policy issue, with international coverage from many organizations around the world, as well as in-depth coverage of U.S. domestic policy organizations.
Coverage: 1990-

Provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
The database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Sample titles are Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others.

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Date Coverage: Varies

An online collection of journals from scholarly and academic presses including John Hopkins University Press. The collection provides access to arts, humanities, and social sciences in scholarly journals that are peer-reviewed.
Subject covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and many others.

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A collection of open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

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A multidisciplinary database that supports research in more than 160 subject areas covering arts and humanities, business and management, health and medicine, science and technology, and social sciences. It includes scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, market reports and videos.

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Date Coverage: 1905 to present

A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities mainly in North America and Europe. With the new Open Access Publishing service the database provides full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

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Date Coverage: 1861 to present

A multidisciplinary collection of reference and scholarly e-books from hundreds of university presses, trade publishers, and popular presses. The content covers 16 key subject areas including: business and economics, computers and IT, education, fine arts, history, literature and linguistics, life science, medicine, political science etc…

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Date Coverage: 1999 to present

Full-text primary documents used in the development of British foreign policy such as dispatches, letters, and telegrams from British diplomatic posts to the Foreign Office and back. Subjects covered: modern history of the Middle East, establishment of Israel as a sovereign state and postwar international world politics.

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Date Coverage: 1940-1948

A collection of electronic books published by the American Pscychiatry Association. The collection includes psychiatry textbooks, the DSM library, study guides and self-assessment tools.

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A collection of journals published by the American Psychiatry Association.
The database includes the following: The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry.

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A multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.

Launched by the National Institutes of Health in 2004, PubChem is a key chemical information resource containing information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, etc. PubChem provides compound neighbouring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.

Bibliographic database that provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, including both basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice.

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Date Coverage: 1946 to present

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.

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Date Coverage: late 1700s to present

A unique finding aid which allows users to identify and localize text fragments, or even snippets, of the Qurʾān. Published by Brill, the Qurʾān Concordance consists of a typeset version of the King Fuʾād I Edition (Cairo 1924) of the text of the Qurʾān, as well as a coded representation of the Arabic script skeleton based on the earliest manuscripts.

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An international encyclopedia of religion covering a wide range of subjects in theological and biblical studies. Published by Brill, Religion Past and Present (RPP) is the online version of the updated English translation of the 4th edition of the Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. It includes all 13 volumes of the print edition and is automatically updated whenever a new volume has been published.

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Date Coverage: 2012

A primary source, covering the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. The titles reproduced here cover the whole spectrum of the European Wagner literature. The collection consists of three parts:
Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner’s Mein Leben, 1870-1880; and Mathilde Wesendonck’s Complete Published Writing.

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Date Coverage: 1851-1902

RSC Journals provides full-text access to scholarly journals in the core chemical sciences published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Subjects include analytical science, biological chemistry, catalysis, chemical biology & medicinal chemistry, environmental science, food science, general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, nanoscience, organic chemistry and physical chemistry.

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A primary source of articles, consisting of descriptions, reports, and treatises by Russian military and diplomatic staff.
Also holds translations and summaries of works originally published outside Russia, issued by the general staff of the Russian army in order to support existing and potential Russian activities on the Asian continent. Materials are in Russian language.

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Date Coverage: 1883-1914

Published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the library covers all areas of mobility and automotive engineering including aerospace, ground vehicle, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Contains technical papers, standards, reports, books, and magazines.

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An online collection of peer review journals out of which 295 titles are accessible from volume one, issue one. The database is browsable by titles and covers four primary topics: social science and humanities, health science, life and biomedical sciences, materials science and engineering.

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A collection of encyclopedias, books and videos from Sage publication.
The database allows users to search and browse titles by subject covering areas such as business, counseling, crime, education, health and social care, family studies, media, psychology, social issues and sociology.

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Date Coverage: 1965 to present

Published by Sage, the database includes over 3,000 full-text business cases, integrated with SAGE’s journal, book, video, and reference content.

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Published by Sage, this database supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. This ultimate methods library contains books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences.

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Published by SAGE, the database includes hours of fully accessible tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. Subjects covered are key concepts in research, philosophy of research, research design, data collection, writing and disseminating research, and more.

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The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. ADS maintains three bibliographic databases covering astronomy and astrophysics, physics and geophysics, and the ArXiv e-prints.

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Date Coverage: 1975 to present

A multidisciplinary database that provides full-text access to hundreds of electronic journals, plus books and reference works, published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries. 754 of the journal titles are accessible from volume 1. Subjects covered include physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

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Date Coverage: 1923 to present

The world’s leading peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on original scientific research, and containing global news, commentaries, and opinion pieces related to science and technology.

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Date Coverage: 1997 to present
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A web-based analytics solution that provides access to the research performance of over 14,000 research institutions and their associated researchers from 230 nations worldwide. SciVal allows to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze emerging research trends, and create tailored reports.
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Scopus, launched in 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivers a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes citation tracking tools.

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Date Coverage: 1823 to present

A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays, including a section of reviews, textual and critical studies, and major British performances. Books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

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Date Coverage: 1948-2021

An open access database of literature on education in Arab countries. It indexes books, peer reviewed articles, theses and dissertations, reports and conference proceedings in Arabic, English and French languages.

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Date Coverage: 2007 – present

A collection of extremely rare illustrated lithographed editions of Ferdowsi’s famous national epic of Persia, The Book of Kings. Published by BRILL, the present collection offers the complete text of a total of thirteen lithographed editions of the Shāhnāmah, including the initially published Indian edition Bombay 1262/1846 and the first Iranian edition Tehran 1265-67/1851-53.

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Date Coverage: 1846-1904

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) books are a leading source of knowledge for the applied mathematics and computational science communities.

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Date Coverage: 1960s to 2021

Collection of peer reviewed journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. These journals are a leading source of knowledge for the applied mathematics and computational science communities.

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A comprehensive, online tool for locating papers on optics, photonics, optoelectronics, and imaging. Includes over 500,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings and more than 370 eBooks from SPIE Press.

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A digitized scientific, technical and medical (STM) book collection. It comprises professional books with in-depth knowledge, reference books, and textbooks. Subjects covered include Biomedical and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics.

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An integrated platform for books, journals, and other materials published by Springer. Includes more than 173,000 titles from every scientific discipline (computer science, medicine, public health, engineering, mathematics, life sciences, etc.) and many social sciences discipline (education, history, political sciences, psychology, etc.) 481 of the journal titles are accessible from volume one.

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Date Coverage: 1832 to present

A full-text online database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences. It compiles protocols from several book series and provides access to nearly thirty years of tested, trusted, step-by-step protocols covering various subjects.

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Date Coverage: All content till the end of 2022.

Full access to the entire current portfolio of books by Dr Stephen M. Stahl on neuropsychopharmacology and mental health.

A dynamic open access reference work containing articles on people, concepts, and other topics in philosophy. The encyclopedia is maintained by Stanford University. All entries, and updates to entries, are rigorously refereed prior to publication on the Web.

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A large statistics and market research platform with an information pool for a wide range of industry such as retail, advertising, media, consumer goods, and technology. Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. It covers current market figures and forecasts for the most important consumer goods within a total of more than 200 markets.

The Times is the oldest national daily newspaper in the UK and holds an important place as the “paper of record” on public life, from politics and world affairs to business and sport. The Times and Sunday Times have unrivalled specialists in science, health, education, environment and social affairs. While their well-connected teams of political reporters provide unique insight into the workings of Westminster and Whitehall, their royal correspondents combine authority with a record of delivering scoops that are followed by media around the world.

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eBooks in all subject areas within Social Sciences, including politics, sociology, criminology, business studies, economics, built environment, urban studies, sport, tourism, and law.

Online access to over 900 peer-reviewed journals covering disciplines in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Psychology Press imprints.

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Published by Brill, The Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic.This classic edition was supervised by M.J. de Goeje and was originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Full-text historical archives of the London Daily Telegraph newspaper from 1855 to 2000. The archive provides access to both Daily and Sunday editions and offers a fundamental insight into domestic and international affairs and culture over a timespan of almost 150 years.

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Date Coverage: 1855-2000

Published by BRILL, this reference work is a comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology during the early phase of the formation of Islam (second and third centuries of the Hijra)

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The Times is the oldest national daily newspaper in the UK and holds an important place as the “paper of record” on public life, from politics and world affairs to business and sport. The Times and Sunday Times have unrivalled specialists in science, health, education, environment and social affairs. While their well-connected teams of political reporters provide unique insight into the workings of Westminster and Whitehall, their royal correspondents combine authority with a record of delivering scoops that are followed by media around the world.

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Full-text historical archive of the Times (London) newspaper as published from 1785, and covering all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, editorials, advertisements and illustrations/ photos.

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Coverage: 1785-1985
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One of the world’s leading journal for literature and ideas. TLS publishes book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems from leading writers from around the world and even cover featuring major articles on subjects from anthropology to zoology, philosophy to politics, comedy to psychology. TLS is the major English-language publication to review books published in other languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian.

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Translated Texts for Historians book series makes available full text historical sources from A.D. 300–800 translated into English. The library contains different types of writing including histories, chronicles, letters, annals, political speeches, handbooks, poems, biblical commentaries, church histories, and Christian treatises.

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Online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to Islamic religious thinkers This volume focuses on modern Islamic theology and tradition, and details Islam’s evolution from the early 1900s until the 1st decade of 2000 by examining printed works and rare documents by Muslim writers, both non-Western and Western voices.

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A primary source to the historical records of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. It contains parliamentary papers, also known as sessional papers, or blue books from the 18th century to the 21th century, with supplementary materials back to 1688. Papers cover all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed.

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Date Coverage: 1688 to 2005
Note: The microfiche collection of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is held at the Audio Visual Section – Reference Department.

This collection of primary documents sheds lights on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, Middle East, Near East, & North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program.

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Date Coverage: 1945-2009

This collection of primary documents contains Bush Presidential Records from a variety of White House offices. Documents consist of letters of correspondence, memoranda, coversheets, notes, distribution lists, newspaper articles, informational papers, published articles, and reports primarily regarding American Middle East peace policy and the United States’ role in the Middle East peace process.

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Date Coverage: 1989-1993

A bibliographic database indexing around 250,000 serials including journals published worldwide. The directory covers all subjects and includes regular and irregular publications which are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. It gives users access to serials information beyond the title level, with links to tables of contents, article abstracts, journal full-text, and document delivery.

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UNData provides access to data produced or collected by major United Nations organizations such as FAO, UNDP, ILO, UNESCO, WHO as well as estimates and projections.

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A suite of online programs that cover anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations, quizzes and more.

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Digital archive of the Wall Street Journal providing access to full-text and full-image articles from the first issue in 1889 through 2002. It includes editorials, analyses, controversial opinions, charts, stock tables, graphics, advertisement and illustrations.

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Date Coverage: 1889 – 2012
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Digital archive of the Washington Post newspaper providing access to full text from the first issue in 1889 through 1998. It includes editorials, analyses, controversial opinions, charts, stock tables, advertisement, graphics and illustrations.
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Date Coverage: 1877-2007
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The Washington Post, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C.
The Post has distinguished itself through its political reporting on the workings of the White House, Congress, and other aspects of the U.S. government.

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Web of Science, an authoritative and multidisciplinary citation database, allows searching of core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes current and retrospective coverage dating to 1900. Also features “cited reference” search capabilities.

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Date Coverage: 1900 to present

A full-text collection of primary documents published by Brill, offering a representative sample of Western travelogues in English, French, and German published until 1800. Predominantly covering the Ottoman Empire, the collection also stretches into Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, North Africa, and Iran. It includes works written by J.B. Tavernier, John Chardin, James Bruce, and many others.

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Wiley Online Library allows searching of articles from hundreds of electronic journals published by Wiley and related companies, as well as a vast and growing collection of reference works and other books. 115 of the journal titles are accessible from volume one. Content is multidisciplinary .

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Biographical database, providing short biographical information on over 6 million people from the 8th century B.C. to present.
The database compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen.

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Scientific resources for Arab women, in both Arabic and English: books, research and studies, theses, reports, documents, guides and indicators for measuring the status of women, and training guides. The library provides bibliographic data for these sources as well as lists of their contents whenever possible. It also provides the full text of some of the sources when securing intellectual property rights.