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Daily Abstract + citation + full textThe world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Sciences Current Daily Full textMcGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions.Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
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Sciences/Technology Current Daily Full textMcGraw-Hill's AccessScience is an online gateway to library of science and technology information. Updated daily, AccessScience delivers the latest content of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and other related information.
This database contains more than 8,500 articles written for students, researchers, and the general public. More than 5,000 contributors are the leading figures in their fields—including 35 Nobel Prize winners. It also includes late breaking news, biographies of famous scientists, a Student Center, tutorials, and much more—all brought to life by 13,000 high-quality illustrations and rich media content.
Computer Science/Engineering Current Full textIt is the full-text repository of papers published by ACM and by other publishers that have co-publishing or co-marketing agreements with ACM. It contains citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
Legislation 1921-present Full textProvides access to the complete collection of Lebanese legislation from 1921 to the present. It is a CD-ROM database available from the premises of the LAU Libraries (Beirut and Byblos) only.
Concrete technology Abstract + citationThe Online MCP contains all of the ACI documents you need to answer your questions about code requirements, specifications, tolerances, concrete proportions, construction methods, evaluations of test results, materials and properties construction practices, inspection, and pavements use of concrete buildings, bridges and special structures precast concrete, masonry, etc. The Online MCP includes over 4,600 pages and 180 of the most used documents on concrete technology.
Engineering/Civil Engineering 1995-present Monthly Full textThis database provides access to the full text of over 20 ASCE journals back to January 1999, as well as to a link to the Civil Engineering Database which includes over 80,000 bibliographic and abstracted records.
Engineering/Mechanical Engineering 2000-present Monthly Full textThis database contains the full text of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ASME International conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year, and sets many industrial and manufacturing standards.
Medicine/Pharmacy 1992-present Full text + abstractThis database provides access to the full text of the ASM journals back to 1995 and to the abstracts only back to 1992, as well as links to outside but related databases, i.e., Medline, PubMed, GenBank, etc.
Newspaper 1988-present Quarterly Full textThis database provides access to the full text of the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar (HTML format).
Newspaper 1933-present Quarterly Full textThis database provides access to the full text of the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar (TIF format).
Note: To browse this database with Internet Explorer (Windows), please make the following adjustments: Under Tools, press Internet Options, select the Security tab, select Local Intranet, press Custom Level, enable Download Unsigned ActiveX Control, press OK twice.
Engineering Current Full textThe online version provides full-text access to all 11,000+ ASTM standards addressing areas like metals, petroleum, construction, rubber, the environment and more. Access to the database is ID- and password- controlled. For those interested in downloading any ASTM standard, please fell free to contact Mrs. Marie-Therese Mitri at the Byblos Library, ext. 2273.
Sciences 1996-present Annually Full textFounded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 32 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
With the Reviews in Advance, articles will begin to appear up to 7 months prior to the publication date of the print volume.
Art Full text + imagesThe Art Museum Image Gallery is an online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Works from major European, American, and Canadian artists in the collections of member museums are included. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The database includes over 90,000 works of art.
N.B.: H.W. Wilson has launched the Art Museum Gallery to replace The AMICO Library.
Art/Humanities/Social Sciences Pre-history - present ImagesARTstor is a digital library of over 500,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to manage image groups for research and pedagogical purposes. Each image is accompanied with metadata, making the image findable and putting the image in its context. Content in the ARTstor Digital Library covers time spans from pre-history to the present and is representative of world-wide visual materials and traditions.
N.B. "Before entering the ARTstor Digital Library, you will need to set your browser's pop-up blocker to accept pop-up windows from www.artstor.org. If you choose not to do so, you will not be able to fully open the images".
Sciences Current Full textArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
Business/Finance 16 years of bank data Varies by types of data Full textBANKSCOPE provides up to 16 years of detailed financial information on over 13.000 public and private banks worldwide. Each bank report contains detailed consolidated and/or unconsolidated balance sheet and income statement. Data comes from seven sources with Fitch Ratings being the major data provider. The database also provides: company and country risk ratings and reports, ratios, ownership information, graphs, peer comparison, security and price information, and more.
Art Ancient times-present Full text + imagesWilson’s largest biography database has combined the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). Biography Reference Bank provides links to every article focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database. It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images!
Biomedical Current Full textBioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the full text of over 100 peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
Multidisciplinary Current Full textBlackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds the content for most of Blackwell’s journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies, i.e., Business and Society Review, Child Development, The Muslim World, International Affairs, and Journal of Sociolinguistics.
Business 1922-present Daily Full textDesigned specifically for business schools and libraries, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world’s 10,000 largest companies.
Multidisciplinary Current Weekly Full textThis database includes articles/theses available in any of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries institutional repositories.
Pharmacy Current Full textThe Center is a consumer watchdog in America’s healthcare system. CDER’s best-known job is to evaluate new drugs before they can be sold. The Center’s review of new drug applications not only prevents quackery, but it provides doctors and patients with the information they need to use medicines wisely. The Center makes sure that safe and effective drugs are available to improve the health of consumers. CDER ensures that prescription and over-the-counter drugs, both brand name and generic, work correctly and that the health benefits outweigh known risks.
Education 1995-present Full textA major source of information for college and university faculty members and administrators. Access requires a username and password, which you can request by emailing houeida.charara@lau.edu.lb.
Medicine Quarterly Full textThe Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. It is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
Sciences Current Full textCogprints is an electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and many other areas of computer science.
Reference Current Full textThis database serves as a unique guide to the ways in which names offer insight into the political, cultural, religious, and aesthetic meanings that people ascribe to particular environments, and in which the values of places change. The dynamism of the world system since World War II is graphically illustrated by changed names for both renewed and pre-existing places.
International Affairs 1991-present Monthly Full textColumbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Communication/Mass Media 1995-present Weekly Full text + abstract + citationCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 301 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core"). In addition, CMMC features over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database..
MultidisciplinaryCUFTS is an open source journal finder also called link resolver. It includes a knowledge base of over 280 electronic resources with 289,000 journal title records.
MultidisciplinaryThis service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1,135 journals in the directory. Currently 296 journals are searchable at article level. To date 50,478 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Bibliography 1861-present Monthly Full record + abstractAvailable under ProQuest 5000 International.
Multidisciplinary Varies by title Full textThe Ebrary Academic Complete Collection is a book database that offers full-text online access to over 30,000 authoritative titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Subjects include: Business and Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; Social & Behavioral Sciences. Ebrary is delivered via the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)(tm) featuring the ebrary Reader(tm).
MathematicsHosted by the European Mathematical Society, this rich database provides a number of books and conference proceedings, in addition to a wealth of journals online.
Business/Management/Library and Information Science 1994-present Full textA powerful business and management research tool that provides instant access to over 40,000 full text articles from over one hundred Emerald titles going back to 1994. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles.
Reference Current Full textA reference site for students, educators, and parents which includes the complete encyclopædia, with more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by professional editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions with pronunciation guides and word histories from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Plus, the Encyclopædia Britannica Intermediate which offers over 38,000 articles and 4,000 images, illustrations, maps and flags. This site can also be used to search an internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Agriculture/Nutrition/Food Science 2003-present Current Full textThis database is an expanded and updated version of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition (1993). Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia covers the fields of food science, food technology, and nutrition.
Energy 1948-present Monthly Full text + abstract + citationContains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
Education 1966-present Monthly Citation + abstractERIC is the world"s largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database is updated monthly with the latest citations available, and provides access to ERIC Document citations and ERIC Journal citations from 1966 to the present.
Multidisciplinary 1980-present Daily Full text + abstract + citationPlease enter the following password "lau" if needed then click on proceed.
This resource offers balanced, full text coverage of every academic discipline from advertising and microbiology to history, political science, and art history. It also incorporates many interdisciplinary journals, international news magazines and the New York Times.
Indexed/Full-text: 3,000/1,900
Medicine Current Abstract + full textThis site provides free access to selected medical journals published in English and other languages such as French, German, and Spanish. Browsable by subject, alphabetically and by language.
Bibliography Current Full bibliographic recordOne of the most comprehensive databases of U.S., Canadian, and U.K. books, audio, and video. Over 5 million titles including more than 165,000 worldwide publishers and distributors listings, along with direct links to their websites and e-mails.
Finance 1970-present Full-TextGlobal Development Finance (GDF) is a statistical database, produced by the World Bank Group. GDF Online offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.The GDF Online subscription also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).
Medicine/Pharmacy 1996-present Daily Full textThis multisource reference for health and wellness provides access to hundreds of thousands of full-text articles from respoected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; several authoritative full-text reference books; newsletters; more than 725 full-text health pamphlets; newspaper articles; more than 1,800 full-text topical overviews from clinical reference systems, and much more.
Indexed/Full Text: 320/2,770
Life Science 1995-present Full textHighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 850,000 online fulltext articles.
Hospitality Management/Tourism 1965-present Bimonthly Citation + Abstract + Full textHospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 700,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 340 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.
Tourism 1965-present Daily Abstract + full text linkHospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive index contains more than 490,000 records from 500 international titles collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe, and Asia. Publications include Hotel & Motel Management, Journal of Leisure Research, Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurants & Institutions, and many more. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.
Computer Engineering/Computer Science 1995-present Weekly Full textAvailable under IEEE Xplore.
Engineering 1950-present Full textThis database provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE standards.
Islamic and Middle East Studies 1906-2000 Annual CitationThe Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library. The Unit was established in 1983 to continue the compilations and publications of the Index Islamicus bibliography and to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have been part of the curriculum at Cambridge University since the early 17th century. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications, with some going back to 1906.
Psychology/Sociology Current Full textThis database covers all aspects of social and behavioral disciplines. Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia contains 4,000 articles, 150 biographies and 90,000 bibliographic references.
International Finance-Statistics 1945-present MonthlyIFS Online is the principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund. The IFS Online provides subscribers with the same data coverage as the IFS Browser product. It contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.
The Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables, as presented in the monthly printed copy of IFS, are available as selection options. The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.
Journal Evaluation/Multidisciplinary 1997-present Annual Full RecordThe Journal Citation Reports is an essential, comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations. The JCR is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences. JCR Web shows the relationship between citing and cited journals in a clear, easy-to-use framework.
Multidisciplinary/Economics/Education/Political Sciences 1800- Monthly Full textOriginally published by the “Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies.” The JSTOR database is unique because it provides online access to the complete backfiles of 594 core scholarly journals (in digitized format) of several academic disciplines, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Over 4 million pages are now available and new titles are added constantly. However, JSTOR does not include current journal issues. There is a gap of about 2 to 5 years between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. This is JSTOR's agreement with publishers referred to as a “moving wall”.
Business Current Full textKompass is a very large source for information about companies all over the world. This database provides information for over 1.6 companies worldwide, 50,000 product and service codes, 23 million product and service references, 744,000 trade and brand names, and about 3,2 million executives’ names in over 70 countries.
Library and Information Science 1965-present CitationLISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
English Language/Literature 1963-present Monthly Full text + citation(No description available.)
Mathematics/Education 1976-present Monthly Citation + abstractIt is the world’s largest and most up-to-date database in the fields of mathematics and computer science education from preschool level to university teaching and teacher training. MATHDI includes articles from over 500 international journals, as well as references to textbooks, teaching aids, reports, dissertations, conference papers and curricula.
Full-text/Bibliographic records: 90,000+
Mathematics 1940-present Citation + abstractIt is the Mathematical Science database produced by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The database provides comprehensive coverage of international research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology and other disciplines. It contains full bibliographic references, with signed reviews or abstracts, of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and proceedings papers, in a ddition to information from the printed publications Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), both published by AMS. Literature coverage includes approximately 2,000 journals, conference proceedings and proceedings papers, books or chapters, advanced-level textbooks, and published dissertations.
Medicine/Pharmacy 1997-present Full text + abstract + citationA division of the world's leading health science publisher Elsevier, MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals.
Medicine/Pharmacy 1966-present Citation + abstract + full text linkNLM’s website for quality, uptodate, and totally private consumer health information. Health Topics are the core of MEDLINEplus. The Health Topics link to clinical trials; health information from NIH and other sources; and relevant Medline searches. Also included are: drug information from the US Pharmacopeia; the adam.com medical encyclopedia; dictionaries for easy-to-read medical definitions; directories of libraries, hospitals, doctors/dentists or other health professionals or facilities; and the Publications/News section for textbooks, newsletters, and health news sources.
Multidisciplinary Current Citation + Abstract + Full text linkMetaPress provides access to hundreds of thousands of articles from hundreds of journals, newsletters and other professional and academic publications.
English Language/Literature 1963-present Monthly Citation + abstractThe MLA International Bibliography, from the Modern Language Association of America, is the fundamental research tool for the humanities. The database indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore, from over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings.
Number of records: 1.3 million+
Newspaper Current Daily Full textThis innovative, full-text newspaper database lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section, etc. The LAU Libraries subscribe to four titles from a growing list of more than 30 newspapers from around the world, i.e., The New York Times, Washington Times, Financial Times, Herald Tribune, etc.
Newspaper 1851-2001 One year added annually Full textAvailable under ProQuest 5000 International.
Art ImagesNYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Documents 1946-present Full textThis database is the electronic repository for official documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents is accessible in PDF format in all official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). Documents are stored in two databases: United Nations documentation, with comprehensive coverage beginning in 1993 and selected earlier coverage, and United Nations resolutions, which includes the official records version of resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
Multidisciplinary Weekly Full text + abstract + citationOAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service providing free access to academically-oriented digital resources such as electronic books, theses, onlin e journals, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mpeg, quicktime), reference texts (e.g., dictionaries). It includes about 5,381,107 records from 475 institutions.
ReferenceIt is the largest and most prestigious English online dictionary in the world. Oxford English Dictionary explores the meaning and evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years with speed and ease.
Reference Current Full textA giant online database which includes a variety of library acclaimed dictionaries and reference works across the subject spectrum.
Multidisciplinary 1993-present Monthly Full textProject MUSE provides online access to the full text of over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. MUSE journals cover many different subject areas including literature, history, political science, economics, education, film, philosophy, religion, women’s studies, and many more.
Multidisciplinary 1971-present Monthly Full text + abstract + citationOne of the world’s most comprehensive collections of digital information. Covering over 5,500 journals and comprising sixteen smaller databases, including ABI/INFORM® Global, Pharmaceutical News Index, ProQuest Accounting & Tax Database™, ProQuest Asian Business™, ProQuest Banking Information Source™, ProQuest Career & Technical Education™, ProQuest Computing™, ProQuest Education Complete™, ProQuest European Business™, ProQuest Newsstand™, ProQuest Religion™, ProQuest Telecommunications ™, and Academic Research Library™.
Psychology 1985-present Monthly Full textPsycArticles, published by the American Psychological Association, is recognized worldwide as a leading full-text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Research toolRefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing your papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
Business Current Full textRegional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain’s New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.
Economics Current Full textResearch Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. It consists of over 200,000 free items.
Multidisciplinary 1999-present Monthly Full textSage Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books and electronic media for scholarly, educational and professional markets. The SAGE Journals Online provides articles text of journals published by SAGE and participating societies in the following subject areas: life science, medicine, physical science and social science.
Sciences 1993-present Full text + abstractThe only comprehensive web information source for world’s scientific, technical and medical research. ScienceDirect offers access to over 1,500 journals (full text), most from 1996 forward and some from 1993 forward. Users may navigate across 40 million records with links to 10,000 journal titles covering all fields of science.
Multidisciplinary 1997-present Daily Citation + Abstract + Full textSpringerLink is one of the world’s leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. LAU has access to the full text of more than 1,300 Springer and Kluwer journals via SpringerLink. Subjects covered are: Architecture, Design and Arts, Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy.
Education Current Full textTaking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
Bibliography 1998-2002 Full textThis portals allows to access for free the full-text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002.
Language and Literature 1994-present Full textAccess to the Archive of TLS will provide you new items, book reviews, etc. It contains the TLS in full from October 1994 and is fully searchable. To access the fulltext materials, click on “TLS Archive.” Access requires a username and password, which you can request by emailing houeida.charara@lau.edu.lb.
Bibliography Current Full bibliographic recordIt is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. This directory is considered the premier serials source with nearly 250,000 serials, periodicals, annuals, and newspapers worldwide. Reviews, e-mail addresses, and URLs are available as well.
BusinessIt is the electronic business and knowledge network of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization that seeks to foster worldwide cooperation and partnership towards increasing development growth. Note that your membership entitles you to participate actively to the network and to publish your own business, technology and knowledge opportunities.
Newspaper 1986-present Daily Full textAvailable under ProQuest 5000 International
Art 1994-present Monthly Full text + abstractArt Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Subject coverage includes Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video, etc.
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