E-Resources

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.

The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the full-text of all ACM publications (journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books). It also includes the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database on the field of computing. 

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

AIAA‘s eight active technical journals feature original research papers spanning the spectrum of aerospace science and technology.

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.

Full-text searchable databases of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

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.

Full-text access to all the APS journals.

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 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 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® 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.

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 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.

The press publishes scholarly books, academic journals, reference works, textbooks, and digital products that support learning and research.

CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive full-text database for nursing and allied health research.

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

Consists of 4 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR); Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE); Cochrane controlled trials register (CCTR); and Cochrane review methodology database (CRMD).

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.

Access to over 75,000 articles, journals and innovative research from multi -disciplinary fields of geoscience, geophysics, engineering and more.

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

• 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.

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

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

Full-text resources available from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.

e-Marefa Database is A Leading & Integrated Arab Database of full text & comprehensive metadata that contains around 2,200,000 records including: (academic journals, articles, theses and dissertations, e-books & book reviews, statistical reports, research abstracts, conference proceedings,…etc.) and covering all disciplines & fields.

Embase is one of the largest databases for researching biomedical literature and includes citations from around the world. It also provides information on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic sciences. It offers indexing with Emtree for subject terms, and it allows you to build searches using the PICO framework. Embase includes 32 million records from 8,500+ journals.

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

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

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.

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

MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a prominent publisher of Open Access scientific journals. It publishes 386 OA journals on a wide range of topics. All its journals are peer-reviewed and OA. MDPI is the largest OA publisher in the world and the fifth largest publisher overall, in terms of journal paper output.

Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.

MEDLINE Ultimate is the full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, providing medical professionals and researcher’s access to 2,500 active full-text journals, including numerous top biomedical publications.

The Nature subscription includes all Nature-branded journals. 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. 

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.

Optica offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. The repository includes content from 19 prestigious publications, co-publications, and papers from more than 835 events, including associated videos. The journal content offers the highest number of article citations (37%) of any publisher in the Optics category of the 2022 Journal Citation Reports. With more than 400,000 journal articles, conference papers, and videos to search, discover, and access, Optica represents the full range of research in the field from around the globe.

O'Reilly Books (formerly Safari Books Online) is a collection of over 24,000 full-text books and videos relating to information technology and business.

Be sure to check out the Steps to access O'Reilly Online for important information on this resource.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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® (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).

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

RSC Gold a comprehensive package from Royal society of chemistry which provides access to 51 full text journals/magazines/literature alerting services including back files since 2008.

Published by Elsevier, Reaxys combines over a billion chemistry data points with AI to support innovation in drug discovery, chemical R&D and academia