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Academic Search Ultimate

A comprehensive database with a coverage of more than 10,000 academic journals from multiple publishers. Its broad subject coverage includes the sciences and engineering, the arts, social sciences, and humanities.

ACM Digital Library

Full-text access to the journals of the Association of Computing Machinery.

ACS (American Chemical Society)

Access to core ACS journals from 1996 to present in catalysis, chemical biology, analytical chemistry, environment, nano, crystals, materials, and more.

AIP (American Institute of Physics)

The library has access to select titles from AIP back to volume 1 for each title: Applied Physics Letters, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, Physics Today, Review of Scientific Instruments, and open access journals: AIP Advances, APL Materials, APL Photonics, and Structural Dynamics.

Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate:

Provides coverage of applied sciences and computing by combining databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson. It has full text for 1,200 journals, with content from numerous leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.

APS (American Physical Society) Journals with PROLA archive

Full-text access to all the APS journals.

arXiv.org

A highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Scientific Advisory Board and the arXiv Member Advisory Board, and with the help of numerous subject moderators.

ASCE Library (American Society of Civil Engineers)

ASCE Library provides full-text access to all ASCE journals and conference proceedings. Subjects include structural, geotechnical, transportation, aerospace, environmental, energy, hydrologic, and hydraulic engineering as well as urban planning, infrastructure, construction management, and nano- and micromechanics.

ASME Digital Library (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

ASME Digital Library searches the society's transaction journals, conference proceedings, and e-books. Khalifa University has full-text access only to the 25 transaction journals starting in 2000. Older journal articles and conference papers must be ordered individually.

ASTM Compass

ASTM Compass® is a collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information, including aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science and solar engineering disciplines.

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Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination includes more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques. Note: OSCE Clinical Skills Videos not included in this subscription. Access is available via computer, smartphone, or tablet device. Browser compatibility includes Windows PC: IE 9, Firefox (latest version), Chrome (latest version). Mac: Safari (latest version), Firefox (latest version). Android and IOS devices: latest version of native browser.

Business Source Elite

Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for more than 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). More than 10,150 substantial company profiles from MarketLine are also included.

Britannica Online

Online and multimedia version of Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations. Also included are the World Atlas, and World Data Analyst Online, a program with current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world, which makes for easy historical and cross-national comparisons.

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Cambridge University Press

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.

Clinical Key

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

ClinicalKey gives you full text access at the point of care to selected medical texts, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, videos, images and more. The database gives access to daily updated information within more than 30 medical and surgical specialties. A presentation maker and print, save and e- mail functions makes it easy to store selected information and share with others

CultureGrams

CultureGrams is a reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world. It provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

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De Gruyter 2019 eJournal Collection (Trial Database)

More than 900 journals covering all areas of scientific research.

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Ebook Central

ProQuest Ebook Central is your resource for ebooks providing breadth and depth of authoritative academic content.

EBSCO

  • Academic Search Ultimate: Indexes and abstracts articles in over 11,900 journals with full-text for 7,900 journal titles. Its broad subject coverage includes the sciences and engineering, the arts, social sciences, and humanities.
  • Applied Science & Technology Source: Provides coverage of applied sciences and computing by combining databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson. It has full text for 1,200 journals, with content from numerous leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.
  • Business Source Elite: Offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for more than 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). More than 10,150 substantial company profiles from MarketLine are also included.
  • Engineering Source: Offers more than 3000 full-text titles in engineering, computer science and related areas.
  • ERIC: Provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
  • GeoRef: Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains bibliographic records for geosciences literature from around the world. Library has enabled full text linking to available resources
  • GreenFILE: Covers global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Includes full-text.
  • INSPEC: Created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, this leading bibliographic database provides abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. Library has enabled full text linking to available resources.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Indexes journals, books, reports and proceedings in library sciences, online retrieval, information management.
  • Regional Business News: Provides full-text for 108 business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canada. Full-text coverage dating back to 1990.

EBSCO Academic eBooks Collection

This collection offers more than 180,000 e-books from multiple publishers on a wide variety of subjects.

EBSCO Engineering eBooks Collection

This collection offers more than 6,000 e-books from multiple publishers on a wide variety of subjects.

Emerald Insight

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Peer-reviewed journal titles in the fields of health care, accounting, management, marketing economics, and other business/business-related areas.

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.

Engineering Source

Offers more than 3000 full-text titles in engineering, computer science and related areas.

ERIC

Provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

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GCC Statistical Centre

Established in 2011, the Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (“GCC-Stat”) provides a common official pool of statistics and data for the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council or (“GCC”) in both English and Arabic. The site also contains the GCC Statistical Bulletin.

GeoRef

Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains bibliographic records for geosciences literature from around the world. Library has enabled full text linking to available resources.

GeoScience World

A comprehensive Internet resource for research across the geosciences, built on a database of peer-reviewed journals and integrated with GeoRef.

GreenFILE

Covers global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Includes full-text.

 

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Harvard Business Review

The Abu Dhabi Library has a print subscription to Harvard Business Review. Online issues are available through Ebsco’s Business Source Elite database from 1985 to the present.

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IEEE Xplore Digital Library

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.

INFORMS (Trial Database)

INFORMS offers a wide array of content and information about Operations Research and Analytics.

INSPEC

Created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, this leading bibliographic database provides abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. Library has enabled full text linking to available resources

IOPScience (Institute of Physics)

The IOP Publishing subscription offers access to 70 journals in all fields of physics including Applied Physics; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics; Biophysics & Biomedical Physics; Condensed Matter; Earth Science; High Energy & Plasma Physics; Instrumentation & Measurement; Materials Science & Nanotechnology; Mathematical & Computational Physics. Dates ranges for the subscribed titles are available here. IOP Publishing also offers free titles, listed here. The library’s subscription does not include online books.

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Journal Citation Report

Journal Citation Reports gives a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading scientific and scholarly journals. By analyzing citation references, Journal Citation Reports measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

JoVE

Educational video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. General Laboratory Techniques

JSTOR

Archival (not current) journals in the Arts and Sciences Collections.

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Knovel

Knovel is a unique database combining full-text books and reference books with interactive analytic tools embedded in some of the resources. The subscription includes aerospace, biochemistry, chemistry, computer hardware, material properties data, metals, nanotechnology, optics, plastics, project management, and these engineering disciplines: chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, transportation.

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Lecturio

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Lecturio is a medical learning management tool provides education material in the field of Medical Science, Clinical Science and Pre-Med. Lecturio also provides approximately 1500 USMLE like questions.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

Indexes journals, books, reports and proceedings in library sciences, online retrieval, information management.

Lippincott Health Library: Basic and Anatomic Sciences

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Lippincott Health Library Basic and Anatomical Sciences Premium Collections contains over 50 medical and basic science textbooks such as Bate's Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking.

Lynda.com

Lynda.com provides an online library of over 200,000 high-quality video tutorials and courses on topics relating to computing, business, management, marketing, education, elearning, design, web development, animation, and audio.

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MathScinet

MathScinet (Abstract-only) offers reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature dating back to the early 1800s.

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Nature Journals

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

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OnePetro

Published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), OnePetro is the premier online source for technical literature regarding the oil and gas exploration and production industry. OnePetro has input from 20 publishers, with access to over 180,000 items. OnePetro.org is the definitive resource on upstream oil and gas.

 

Optics InfoBase

Access the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content via OSA's Digital Library, Optics InfoBase.

Ovid Journals

Offers a growing list of more than 150 journals covering the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Journals@Ovid operates like a database (in that indexes and searches across hundreds of journals) but it is also containing the full-text of all the content it indexes.

Oxford Reference Library

230+ in-depth, specialized titles from Oxford University Press’s award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, and a selection of partner publishers’ scholarly works .

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PLoS

Public Library of Science. Open access (free) journals in biology and medicine.

Primal Pictures (Anatomy TV)

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Primal Pictures interactive 3D graphics of the human body includes features such as a 3D Atlas, a 3D Real Time rotating anatomy study tool, Functional Anatomy, Imaging, Therapy, introductions to Clinical Specialties with case studies and much more. A study guide, student quizzes, saving/sharing and notes functions are in addition available for best possible learning support. NML's Primal Pictures subscription also includes apps for mobile access to study tools for all parts of the human anatomy.

ProQuest Central

Multidisciplinary database that provides access to over 19,000 periodical titles, and covers over 160 subjects areas including business, science & technology, health & medicine, literature & language, society & culture, the arts, history, news, social sciences and more.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

The database consists of PH.D and Masters Dissertations and theses – over 3 million theses abstracts, with approximately half in full text.

PubMeD @ KU

PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to free full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. PubMed does not provide access to the subscribed full text articles. However, the special Khalifa University PubMed link (PubMed@KU) connects PubMed records to KU's library subscriptions and inter-library loan services (to request articles we do not own). Each PubMed record abstract page should have a Full text @ Khalifa University link in the upper right corner of the screen. Clicking this link will connect PubMed to the library's resources/ Inter-library Loan page.

PubMed Central

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

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New RefWorks

RefWorks is a powerful online research management tool used by more than 1,200 research organizations worldwide. This writing and collaboration solution is designed to help researchers easily gather, organize, store, share information, and instantly generate citations and bibliographies

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Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online is a collection of over 24,000 full-text books and videos relating to information technology and business.

Science Direct

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.

Science Journals Online

AAAS publishes six respected peer-reviewed journals.

  • Science, the premier global science weekly
  • Science Signaling, the leading journal of cell signaling and regulatory biology
  • Science Translational Medicine, integrating medicine, engineering and science to promote human health
  • Science Advances, an innovative and high-quality open access journal for all the sciences
  • Science Immunology, research articles that report critical advances in all areas of immunological research, including important new tools and techniques
  • Science Robotics, original, peer-reviewed, science- or engineering-based research articles that advance the field of robotics

SciVal

Offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 8,500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide.

Scopus

Index (not full-text) for 20,000 journals, conference papers, patents and other resources in physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences and social sciences back to 1996 and arts and humanities back to 2002. For more detail on coverage, click here.

Springer

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.

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Taylor and Francis Online Journals

Access to 1589 journals in science, technology, social sciences, and humanities.

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UpToDate

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Evidence-based point of care resource. Free mobile app is available for iPhones, iPads, Androids, and Windows 8 devices

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Web of Science

Web of Science (WoS) indexes over 11,000 important journals and conferences in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. In addition to searching by topic or author, WoS is useful for finding articles citing a known author, and for expanding a search to articles citing the same references. WoS includes Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for identifying a journal’s impact factor (importance based on how frequently its articles are cited). WoS does not include full-text but links to full-text if the library subscribes to the item.

Wiley Digital Archives

Wiley Digital Archives comprised of unique or rare historical primary sources, digitized from leading societies, libraries, and archives around the world.

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Academic Search Ultimate

A comprehensive database with a coverage of more than 10,000 academic journals from multiple publishers. Its broad subject coverage includes the sciences and engineering, the arts, social sciences, and humanities.

Access Medicine

Access Medicine is an online collection of key medical reference texts that provide authoritative and current medical data. Medical news, updates, patient education information, a diagnostic tool, and an integrated drug database with information about dosages, trade names, and pricing are also part of this resource. Searching is available across the entire suite of basic sciences and clinical texts.

Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination includes more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques. Note: OSCE Clinical Skills Videos not included in this subscription. Access is available via computer, smartphone, or tablet device. Browser compatibility includes Windows PC: IE 9, Firefox (latest version), Chrome (latest version). Mac: Safari (latest version), Firefox (latest version). Android and IOS devices: latest version of native browser.

Cambridge University Press

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.

Clinical Key

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

ClinicalKey gives you full text access at the point of care to selected medical texts, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, videos, images and more. The database gives access to daily updated information within more than 30 medical and surgical specialties. A presentation maker and print, save and e- mail functions makes it easy to store selected information and share with others

Ebook Central

ProQuest Ebook Central is your resource for ebooks providing breadth and depth of authoritative academic content.

EBSCO Academic eBooks Collection

This collection offers more than 180,000 e-books from multiple publishers on a wide variety of subjects.

Emerald Insight

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Peer-reviewed journal titles in the fields of health care, accounting, management, marketing economics, and other business/business-related areas.

JoVE

Educational video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. General Laboratory Techniques

Lecturio

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Lecturio is a medical learning management tool provides education material in the field of Medical Science, Clinical Science and Pre-Med. Lecturio also provides approximately 1500 USMLE like questions.

Lippincott Health Library: Basic and Anatomic Sciences

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Lippincott Health Library Basic and Anatomical Sciences Premium Collections contains over 50 medical and basic science textbooks such as Bate's Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking.

Nature Journals

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

Ovid Journals

Offers a growing list of more than 150 journals covering the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Journals@Ovid operates like a database (in that indexes and searches across hundreds of journals) but it is also containing the full-text of all the content it indexes.

Primal Pictures (Anatomy TV)

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Primal Pictures interactive 3D graphics of the human body includes features such as a 3D Atlas, a 3D Real Time rotating anatomy study tool, Functional Anatomy, Imaging, Therapy, introductions to Clinical Specialties with case studies and much more. A study guide, student quizzes, saving/sharing and notes functions are in addition available for best possible learning support. NML's Primal Pictures subscription also includes apps for mobile access to study tools for all parts of the human anatomy.

ProQuest Central

Multidisciplinary database that provides access to over 19,000 periodical titles, and covers over 160 subjects areas including business, science & technology, health & medicine, literature & language, society & culture, the arts, history, news, social sciences and more.

PubMeD @ KU

PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to free full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. PubMed does not provide access to the subscribed full text articles. However, the special Khalifa University PubMed link (PubMed@KU) connects PubMed records to KU's library subscriptions and inter-library loan services (to request articles we do not own). Each PubMed record abstract page should have a Full text @ Khalifa University link in the upper right corner of the screen. Clicking this link will connect PubMed to the library's resources/ Inter-library Loan page.

Science Direct

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.

Scopus

Index (not full-text) for 20,000 journals, conference papers, patents and other resources in physical sciences, health sciences, life sciences and social sciences back to 1996 and arts and humanities back to 2002. For more detail on coverage, click here.

Springer

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.

UpToDate

Full access will begin on 1 September 2019

Evidence-based point of care resource. Free mobile app is available for iPhones, iPads, Androids, and Windows 8 devices

Web of Science

Web of Science (WoS) indexes over 11,000 important journals and conferences in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. In addition to searching by topic or author, WoS is useful for finding articles citing a known author, and for expanding a search to articles citing the same references. WoS includes Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for identifying a journal’s impact factor (importance based on how frequently its articles are cited). WoS does not include full-text but links to full-text if the library subscribes to the item.


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