The Khalifa University staff, students and faculty have multiple options for Interlibrary Loan that significantly expand the number of materials available to them.
To request a book or an article we don't have in our collection please fill this request form:
Interlibrary Loan Request Form
If you have any questions regarding your request, send an email to ill@ku.ac.ae
Knovel contains over 1,800 full-text science books from various publishers. Some titles have interactive features. Topics include earth sciences, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering, oil and gas engineering. Nanotechnology collection has been recently added.
Knovel requires each user to create their personal log-in to access this collection of eBooks.
Offering comprehensive coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines,books are now fully integrated with journals, book series, handbooks and reference works on ScienceDirect. Spanning subject collections within the science and technology disciplines, the ScienceDirect eBooks Frontlist collection is an increasingly significant source of relevant, quality content.
You will find books and other material of interest and relevance to Petroleum Geosciences in different areas throughout the Library. Listed below are popular terms that are used in the study of Geosciences subjects. Note that some words are related and are found near each other on the shelves.
Dynamic Structural Geology
GIS Geographical Information System
Mathematical Modeling & 3D Visualization
Petrophysics
Reservoir Characterization
Rock Properties
Well Logs
To check your library account and renew library materials you checked out please go to:
To search for books, refrence books, DVD, software and other items available in the Petroleum Institute libraries please go to the Library Catalog:
Encyclopedia of Earth Science by 
Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes by 
Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks by 
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science by 
Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology by 
A Dictionary of Geography by Books and other material of interest and relevance to Physical Chemistry can be found in different areas throughout the Library. Listed below are important Library of Congress Call Number (LCCN) areas that are used in the study of Chemistry. A brief outline that explains the LCCN and subject headings is available from the PI Library website (http://www.pi.ac.ae/library/images/documents/lcc.pdf). A more detailed list is available from the Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco.
G1 – 922 Geography/Earth Sciences
Theses, dissertations and student projects in the Petroleum Institute (coming soon!)
Theses and dissertations from other institutions:
EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts
1861 to date, with abstracts from July 1980. Covers over 2,700,000 titles.
This database has a US-bias and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research in the US.
Australasian Digital Theses Program
A distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. Full text of some theses is available.
The access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. Full text electronic versions of numerous Canadian theses and dissertations are available.
Access to over 100,000 full-text research theses from various European countries
