Open Access resources are digital materials made available online free of charge. The term refers mostly to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles that scholars willingly publish without licensing restrictions, i.e. without expectation of payment. [Find out more about O.A.].
Open Access resources on the LAU Libraries pages are identified by the icon shown above (or by the acronym “OA” in the absence of images).
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Full textArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
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.
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.
Multidiscipline 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.
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.
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.
MultidisciplineThis 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.
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.
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.
Health and 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.
Health and Medicine Current Full textThe Global Library of Women's Medicine, is a unique web library incorporating a vast range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women's medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by over 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. In addition, there are innovative features freely available to registered users, that are aimed at medical professionals, including surgical videos, specialist colour atlases of visual medicine, comprehensive guidance to laboratory tests and the significance of their results,- and even an option to provide doctors with selected patient information handouts.
Life Science 1995–present Current 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.
Social Sciences 1919–Present Full-text + CitationMonthlyLabordoc, the ILO Library's database, contains references and full text access to the world's literature on the world of work. It covers all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods and the work-related aspects of economic and social development, human rights and technological change. Much of the collection focuses on developing and transition countries, and a special effort is made to acquire material published in developing countries. There is a strong focus on empirical literature, although some material on labor economics, gender economics and welfare economics is included. Labordoc covers all of the publications by the ILO, whether published in Geneva or in the field, since 1919 and in all languages - including non-Roman scripts. It provides comprehensive coverage of material published by major research centers, international and regional organizations, labor administrations and non-governmental organizations, as well as providing references to articles selected regularly from over 500 journals. Approximately 500 new records are added each month.
Library & 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.
Medicine/Pharmacy Current Citation + abstract + full text linkDaily, Quarterly and annually according to types of dataMedlinePlus directs you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also contains extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive tutorials, the latest health news, and surgery videos.
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.
Medicine/Pharmacy Current Citation + Abstract + Full text linkGateway is "One-stop shopping" for an increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It’s targeted to the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is here, or how best to search for it. A single interface that searches in multiple retrieval systems, Gateway provides a single address, look, and feel.
Resources included are: MEDLINE®/PubMed®, NLM Catalog -- catalog information for books, serial titles, audiovisuals, Bookshelf -- full text biomedical books, TOXLINE® Subset -- toxicology citations, DART® -- Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, Meeting abstracts on HIV/AIDS, health services research, and space life sciences, MedlinePlus® -- consumer health information, ClinicalTrials.gov -- information for the public about clinical trials, DIRLINE® -- Directory of Health Organizations, Genetics Home Reference™ -- consumer information for genetic conditions, Household Products Database, HSRProj -- health services research projects, OMIM -- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, HSDB® -- Hazardous Substances Data Bank, IRIS -- Integrated Risk Information System,ITER -- International Toxicity Estimates for Risk, GENE-TOX -- Genetic Toxicology (Mutagenicity), CCRIS -- Chemical, arcinogenesis Research Information System, Profiles in Science® -- archives of several prominent biomedical scientists, Document delivery through Loansome Doc®, UMLS® Metathesaurus.
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.
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.
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.
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Medicine/Pharmacy 1950-Present Citation + abstract + full text linkDailyPubMed is service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE (PubMed primary component) and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. MEDLINE is part of the Entrez series of databases provided by NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and may also be searched via the NLM Gateway. Approximately 5,200 journals (published in the United States and more than 80 other countries), are selected and indexed for MEDLINE.
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.
Education 2007-Present Abstract+citationShamaa is an open access bibliographic database on Education in the Arab countries. It indexes books, articles, thesis and dissertations in Arabic, French and English.
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.
Business It 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.