List of Library Databases (ENGL 111 level)
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The CUP subscription includes all current Cambridge online journals and a 10-year back file. The collection has broad subject coverage ranging from business to molecular biology and politics.
Full-text access to all 2012 and 2013 books.
Covers physics, astronomy, energy, engineering, computer science, materials science, math, environmental science, chemistry, and chemical engineering.
Online journals and archive from 1995 to date
Subject include the Science Direct subscription includes all Elsevier journal articles from 1995 to date. Subjects include Engineering, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics, Biochemistry and Health Sciences, as well as Business, Economics and Social Sciences.
A collection of academic journals covering engineering, business, management, health and social care, knowledge management, logistic and environmental management.
Engineering Case Studies Online
A collection of videos and text material on engineering failures and successes from Alexander Street Press. Case studies include documentaries, accident reports, lectures, interviews on incidents such as flight crashes, bridge collapses, nuclear plant failures, automobile design flaws, and the like.
Gale Global Issues in Context (GIC)
Collections of newspaper articles, podcasts, videos and other resources on global issues such as climate change, obesity, terrorism, etc.
Provides full-text access to all IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) transaction journals, conference proceedings, and standards.
Archival (not current) journals in the Arts and Sciences Collections.
The Nature subscription includes all Nature-branded journals for the previous 4 years plus the current year. It also includes Scientific American in pdf format. Nature journals cover biotechnology, chemistry, climate change, energy, genetics, geoscience, medicine, nanotechnology, neuroscience, photonics, and physics. Note that in Ebsco Academic Search Complete, earlier years for some Nature titles are available, as well as Scientific American back to 2005 (html format only). Nature does not provide a way to search subscribed material only. See list of titles included and excluded at http://libguides.kustar.ac.ae/content.php?pid=689022
Full-text access to all books from 2005-2014
Subjects include behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material science Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering Humanities, Social Science & Law Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, Professional and Applied computing.
e-Journal Core Collection 1997 to date
The Springer e-Journal Core Collectionincludes around 1342 journal titles with access starting in 1997.
Taylor and Francis Online Journals
Access to 1589 journals in science, technology, social sciences, and humanities.
Databases hold a wide variety of articles, reports and other items which will prove invaluable to you in your university career. There is a degree of variation in how you search different databases and the information below describes the most common searching tools. Most databases have a help option which will give you information specific to the particular database you are searching.