ebooks

The following e-books are available 24 hours, on the university’s intranet or by logging in from any off-campus connection.

Note: Use of many of these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the LAU community. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, copying or distributing of information (including for use in course packs), and removing or altering copyright notices. Acceptable use forbids downloading contents of entire issues of a given journal title. Tampering with any software or code used to display and/or run the resources is strictly prohibited. Misuse of these resources violates the terms of LAU’s license agreements and could result in termination of the resource to the entire campus community.

• AccessMedicine

  • Sciences
  • Current
  • Daily
  • Full text

  McGraw-Hill’s AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.

  N.B. "USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONFIRM THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON ANY OF THE ACCESSMEDICINE SITES, WlTH OTHER SOURCES. FOR EXAMPLE, AND IN PARTICULAR, USERS ARE ADVISED TO CHECK THE PRODUCT INFORMATION SHEET INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE OF EACH DRUG THEY PLAN TO ADMINISTER TO BE CERTAIN THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ANY OF THE ACCESSMEDICINE SITES IS ACCURATE AND THAT CHANGES HAVE NOT BEEN MADE IN THE RECOMMENDED DOSE OR IN THE CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION".

• AccessScience

  • Sciences, Technology
  • Current
  • Daily
  • Full text

  McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience is an online gateway to library of science and technology information. Updated daily, AccessScience delivers the latest content of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and other related information.

  This database contains more than 8,500 articles written for students, researchers, and the general public. More than 5,000 contributors are the leading figures in their fields—including 35 Nobel Prize winners. It also includes late breaking news, biographies of famous scientists, a Student Center, tutorials, and much more—all brought to life by 13,000 high-quality illustrations and rich media content.

• Columbia Gazetteer of the World

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  This database serves as a unique guide to the ways in which names offer insight into the political, cultural, religious, and aesthetic meanings that people ascribe to particular environments, and in which the values of places change. The dynamism of the world system since World War II is graphically illustrated by changed names for both renewed and pre-existing places.

• Credo Reference

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of over 250 reference books. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology, languages, technology, business, economics & finance, biography, literature and many more. Search each title individually or search across the entire collection. Credo also contains a helpful crossword solver, and useful conversion calculators. Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more.

• ebrary

  • Multidisciplinary
  • Varies by title
  • Full text

  The Ebrary Academic Complete Collection is a book database that offers full-text online access to over 70,613 authoritative titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Subjects include: Business and Economics; Career & General Education; Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences; Humanities; Science, Medicine & Allied Health; Social & Behavioral Sciences. Ebrary is delivered via the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)(tm) featuring the ebrary Reader(tm).

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  A reference site for students, educators, and parents which includes the complete encyclopædia, with more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by professional editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions with pronunciation guides and word histories from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Plus, the Encyclopædia Britannica Intermediate which offers over 38,000 articles and 4,000 images, illustrations, maps and flags. This site can also be used to search an internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

• Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition

  • Agriculture, Nutrition, Food Science
  • 2003-present
  • Current
  • Full text

  This database is an expanded and updated version of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition (1993). Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia covers the fields of food science, food technology, and nutrition.

• Encyclopedia of Journalism

  • Journalism, Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  Encyclopedia of Journalism, published by Sage Publications, Inc., is composed of six-volumes that cover all significant dimensions of journalism, including print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and international perspectives; history; technology; legal issues and court cases; ownership; and economics. Available through Sage Reference Online Platform.

• Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance

  • Finance, Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  The Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance is a major reference work designed to provide a comprehensive coverage of essential topics related to the quantitative modeling of financial markets, with authoritative contributions from leading academics and professionals.

• The Europa World of Learning

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Data revised and updated throughout the year
  • Full text

  The World of Learning is a directory that covers over 30,000 academic institutions worldwide and more than 200,000 individuals in the academic sphere.

  It provides data and contact details on: universities and colleges, research institutes, museums and galleries, learned societies, libraries and archives, scholarly publications, 500+ international organizations concerned with higher education and scholarship, and more.

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • Psychology, Sociology
  • Current
  • Full text

  This database covers all aspects of social and behavioral disciplines. Available via the Science Direct platform, the encyclopedia contains 4,000 articles, 150 biographies and 90,000 bibliographic references.

• Literature Criticism Online

  • Literature
  • Current
  • Full text

  Literature Criticism Online contains scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
  
  Titles available for LAU users are:

  1. 20th century Literary criticism –start volume #236
  2. Short story criticism –start volume #138
  3. Drama criticism–start volume #39
  4. Contemporary Literary criticism –start volume #290
  5. 19th century Literary criticism –start volume #227
  6. Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800–start volume #178
  7. Shakespearean criticism–start volume #131

• Oxford English Dictionary Online

  • Reference

  It is the largest and most prestigious English online dictionary in the world. Oxford English Dictionary explores the meaning and evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years with speed and ease.

• Oxford Islamic Studies Online

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  Oxford Islamic Studies Online is a comprehensive, authoritative database from Oxford University Press. It cross-searches the full text of Oxford’s books and encyclopedias in Islamic Studies, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 volumes, 2009), the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, and The Islamic World: Past and Present, and more.

• Oxford Reference Online

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Full text

  A giant online database which includes a variety of library acclaimed dictionaries and reference works across the subject spectrum.

• SpringerLink

  • Multidisciplinary
  • 1997-present
  • Daily
  • Citation + Abstract + Full text

  SpringerLink is one of the world’s leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. LAU has access to the full text of more than 1,300 Springer and Kluwer journals, and about 13,000 e-books covering the years 2005-2008 via SpringerLink. Subjects covered are: Architecture, Design and Arts, Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy.

• World Who’sWho

  • Reference
  • Current
  • Regularly
  • Full text

  The World Who’s Who brings together current and hard-to-find biographical information on almost 60,000 prominent individuals, in all fields, throughout the world. Heads of state, key ministers, politicians, diplomats and religious leaders, the famous and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, literature, fashion, sport and a host of other professions have been carefully selected by the Europa Biographical Reference team of editors.