Fulltext & Index Databases

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A-Z EBSCO Journals: Provides links to all the EBSCO e-journal titles with full-text availability.

ABI/INFORM Global (PROQUEST): Premier worldwide business periodicals.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (PROQUEST): Publications to help study and compare specific trades and industries.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO):  Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.

AccessEngineering (McGraw-Hill): Provides electronic access to over 280 books in the major areas of engineering such as: biomedical, chemical, civil, communications, construction, electrical, energy, environmental, green/sustainable, industrial, material science, mechanical, nanotechnology, and optical engineering.

AccessMedicine (McGraw-Hill): Full text, graphics, images and illustrations of the most recent editions of medical reference books from McGraw-Hill, including access to USMLEasy, an online testing service to help prepare students for Step 1 and Step 2 USMLE exams.

AccessScience (McGraw-Hill): Science reference materials with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more. Containing full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications.

AccessSurgery (McGraw-Hill): Is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.

An-Nahar Archives Online: Provides access to the bibliographic citations database of An-Nahar Newspaper (1985 - Present) to be able to order articles on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs: political, economic, military, sports, social, educational, medical, …

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3. Username and password sent to UOB Webmail.

4. Carry out your search and locate the required article.

5. Order the article through the Document Delivery Services (ILL-DDS) in the Atef Danial Library.

Annual Reviews: Analytic reviews in 32 disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.

Art Full-Text (H.W.Wilson) or Art Full-Text (EBSCO): Is a bibliographic database providing full text for an international array of peer-selected publications (since 1997), covering the visual arts and related subjects. 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.

ATLA (The American Theological Library Association) Religion Database (EBSCO): Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Coverage areas include: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics. Languages covered: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and other. The records include: journal article records, essay records from multi-author works, and book reviews.

BMJ Learning: An interactive website designed for general practitioners, hospital doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals to support their personal development, learning and CME (Continuing Medical Education) needs.

You must register on the site individually to access the modules so that you can save your work and track your progress with learning modules online.

BMJ Publishing Group Journals: A broad range of medical specialties and more than 20 titles

Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Business Search Interface - Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Provides direct links to company/industry profiles, market research reports, country reports, SWOT analyses, business videos, and more through the Browse links on the right side of the page, plus links to the information found in Business Source Complete.

Choice Reviews Online (the internet version of the monthly print magazine, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries). Directed toward academic librarians and faculty as a resource for collection development and scholarly research. It covers more than 50 sub-disciplines spanning the humanities, science and technology, and the social and behavioral sciences from 1988 to present.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (Columbia University): A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.

CINAHL with Full-Text: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO): A comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals indexed in CINAHL with full-text coverage dating back to 1981.

Dissertation Abstracts Database (PROQUEST): Bibliographic information for doctoral dissertations and master's theses of authors from over 1,000 U.S. graduate schools and universities since 1861.

You can order dissertations directly online with your credit card.

dgMarket: Is an electronic marketplace for government procurement information such as tender notices, contract awards, and bidding documents. Username and password required, contact E-Resources Librarian (ext. 4077). NOTE: This account allows single use access, meaning one user at a time. So if you are unable to log on at one point, try again later.

Dynamed (EBSCO): Point-of-care reference designed to provide the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. HELP: Dynamed - Presentation

On Mobile devices: On iPhone or iPod touch / On BlackBerry device

ebrary (ebrary): A growing collection of more that 60,000 full-text digital books and authoritative content (multidisciplinary) from over 200 leading academic publishers. Full text content can be viewed, searched and printed (5 pages at each command).

If facing problems, please contact HELP DESK or call ext. 4357)

Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE GROUP): Multi-disciplinary database.

ERIC (EBSCO) Provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. This database contains more than 1.3 million citations and more than 323,000 full-text documents going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database.

GreenFILE (EBSCO) A research database of scholarly general interest titles, as well as government document reports, focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond; offering a perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.

Global Issues in Context (GALE GROUP) A resource that offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source, statistical information and multimedia material, including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (GALE GROUP): An integrated electronic database with instant access to authoritative health information, including full-text medical encyclopedias, health and medical journals, thousands of pamphlets, streaming videos, and health articles from more than 3,000 general interest publications covering health care, diet, and fitness topics.

IEL: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (Available on Main Campus only): Archives of publications (journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE/IEE Standards) from 1988

Infotrac Custom Newspapers (GALE GROUP): More than 100 major newspapers of U.S. and European coverage. Four different titles will be made available on a bi-weekly basis.

IngentaConnect: Bibliographic records to online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers and full-text access to journals subscribed to by the UOB Libraries.

International Financial Statistics (IFS) (IMF): Serves as a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance: current information for the analysis of international financial data, including inflation, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and more. Approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications: IMF publications: financial, economic and country reports, surveys, even new publications, such as the World Economic Outlook .

Journal Citation Reports: Allows the evaluation and comparison of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences, showing the most frequently cited journals and the highest impact journals in a field. Available in Science Edition 2008 & 2009 and Social Sciences Edition 2008 & 2009.

JSTOR: (short for Journal Storage) is a journal archive which holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, the so-called "moving wall" between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCO): Bibliographic database on subjects such as librarianship and information management and more.

Literature Resource Center (LRC) (GALE GROUP): Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, also available the Scribner Writer's Series, Twayne World, US, and English.

MDConsult (ELSEVIER): Medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Medline: 1948 till present (OVID): Bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 medical and biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography (GALE GROUP): Bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present; it also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

MultiData Online (MSI): Three databases: General News / Book Reviews / Table of Contents of specialized Arabic periodicals.

Nature Magazine (NPG): A weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology.  Articles are available from 1997-2007. 

New England Journal of Medicine: A weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

OVID Journals (OVID): Search and/or Browse all 2793 journals available through OVID.

PsycARTICLES (APA): A full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.

Sage Premier (SAGE): Provides access to more than 500 high-quality scholarly full text journals from the first issue of 1999 onward. Coverage is strong in the fields of communication studies, criminology, education, health sciences, management & organization studies, materials science, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies.

SciVerse: ScienceDirect (ELSEVIER): Provides full text access to Elsevier ScienceDirect "Freedom Collection," approximately 2240 Elsevier titles from 2008-present. Does not include some health sciences, society presses, or Cell Press titles.

Science Magazine Online: Access to an archive (1997 to present) of recent articles from one of the best known a peer-reviewed journals for scientific news, commentary and cutting-edge research of scientific research.

Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase: Is a comprehensive collection (20,000+) of downloadable medical illustrations and animations. Contains medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia for 24 body systems/regions and 20 medical specialties. Contains also non-English content with illustrations translated into additional languages (in total, 13 non-English languages).

Shamaa: Is a bibliographic citations database covering publications dealing with the subject of education in the Arab States. It contains records of books, articles, theses and dissertations in Arabic, French and English starting from 2007; some records have abstracts as well.

SpringerLink (SPRINGER): More than 1200 peer-reviewed full text STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) journals from Springer-Verlag publishers. Subjects covered include Architecture and Design, Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy... The green boxes indicates that the full text of the article can be viewed online.

Teacher Reference Center TRC: Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians (EBSCO): Coverage on key education topics: trade journals, periodicals, and books.

United Nations Official Document System (ODS): Official United Nations documentation.

UOB Medical journals: 351 full-text journals of the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins collection.

Wall Street Journal (PROQUEST)

Reference Sources

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Columbia Gazetteer of the World - Online  (Columbia University): Geographical places and features.

Credo Reference: an online collection of over 500 high-quality reference books: encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles covering a range of subject matters, such as art, business, literature, and science. It includes Almanacs, Biography and Genealogy, Dictionaries and Thesauri, Encyclopedias, Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers, Multi-Subject material, Quotations, Speeches and Transcripts and Statistics and Datasets.

Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed., 5v, 2004 (GALE GROUP): Ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Encyclopedia of Communication and Information 3v, 2002 (GALE GROUP): Spectrum of communication, from careers to information technologies.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture 3v, 2003 (GALE GROUP): Food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines

Encyclopedia of Islam (BRILL): “…[it is] an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities.” [Publisher’s site]

Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition 2^nd ed. (ELSEVIER): Fields of food science, food technology, and nutrition.

Encyclopedia of Population 2v, 2003 (GALE GROUP): Demographic topics both in the core field and in neighboring disciplines, includes: rapid demographic expansion in poor countries; low fertility rates and problems of old-age support.

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion 2v, 2003 (GALE GROUP): Interactions, contradictions, and tensions between science and religion: historically and in contemporary life.

Encyclopédie Universalis: French online encyclopedia. Access to 33000 encyclopedia articles, 2400 illustrations, 6700 authors, 520 videos and 800 minutes of sound and music.

Environmental Encyclopedia 3rd ed., 2v, 2003 (GALE GROUP): In-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues.

Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce 2v, 2002 (GALE GROUP): World of Internet commerce and the concerns of those who want to join the ranks of the Internet business community.

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002 (GALE GROUP): Topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases ..., as well as the roles of all major health professionals.

Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology 2nd ed., 2001 (GALE GROUP): Spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms, landmark case studies and experiments.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GALE GROUP): Access to a variety of Thomson Gale reference material.

International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers 4th ed., 4v, 2000 (GALE GROUP): Legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists: detailed essays and commentary by experts.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 (ELSEVIER): Historic, ethical, biographical, conceptual, institutional, and theoretical elements of social science disciplines and intersecting fields.

International Who's Who (Taylor & Francis): Outlines the lives and achievements of some 18,500 distinguished people from around the world. “Entries are taken from across the world and from a broad sweep of professions, to include the leading figures from the worlds of science, medicine, business, finance, politics, international affairs, diplomacy, law, art, music, entertainment and fashion, to name but a few. There is also a separate section that details reigning royal families.” [Publisher’s site]

Kompass: Information about companies and their services. Password required, contact E-Resources Librarian (ext. 4077)

Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Oxford University Press): Brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world.

Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press): More than 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books.

Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students 4v, 2004 (GALE GROUP): Renaissance-era topics: world history, art, literature, economics, and science.

Testing & Education Reference Center (GALE GROUP): Information on colleges and universities, as well as on-line practice tests and test prep eBooks.

World of Learning (Taylor & Francis): Provides contact details for over 30 000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries worldwide: names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email and internet addresses, as well as contact information for over 200,000 faculty, staff and officials. Updated yearly.