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The following electronic resources 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.


  • Palgrave Macmillan Journals (see SpringerLink)

    • Subject: Multidisciplinary, Business, Social Sciences, Humanities
    • Coverage: 2007-present
    • Update: Weekly
    • Availability: Full text

    Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher, serving learning and scholarship in the academic and professional worlds. It focuses on Business, Social Sciences and Humanities. LAU Libraries subscribe to around 60 titles in the following disciplines: Business & Management; Economics; Finance; Information Systems & Technology; Marketing; Office for National Statistics; Political Science & International Studies; and Social & Cultural Studies 

    Palgrave titles are available through SpringerLink platform

  • Professional Development Collection (EBSCOHost)

    • Subject: Education
    • Coverage: 1965-present
    • Availability: Full text + abstract + citation

    Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. It is a comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

  • Project MUSE

    • Subject: Multidisciplinary
    • Coverage: 1993-present
    • Update: Monthly
    • Availability: Full text

    Project MUSE provides online access to the full text of over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. MUSE journals cover many different subject areas including literature, history, political science, economics, education, film, philosophy, religion, women’s studies, and many more.

  • ProQuest Central

    • Subject: Multidisciplinary, Business
    • Coverage: 1971-present
    • Update: Monthly
    • Availability: Full text + abstract + citation

    One of the world’s most comprehensive collections of digital information. Covering over 5,500 journals and comprising thirty smaller databases, including ABI/INFORM® Global, Pharmaceutical News Index, ProQuest Accounting & Tax Database™, ProQuest Asian Business™, ProQuest Banking Information Source™, ProQuest Career & Technical Education™, ProQuest Computing™, ProQuest Education Complete™, ProQuest European Business™, ProQuest Newsstand™, ProQuest Religion™, ProQuest Telecommunications ™, and Academic Research Library™.

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text (PQDTFT)

    • Subject: Bibliography, Thesis, Dissertations,
    • Coverage: 1861-present
    • Update: Monthly
    • Availability: Full text + abstract

    PQDT Full Text provides instant access to over 1.2 million PDF doctoral and masters dissertations on the ProQuest platform all cross-searchable with your other ProQuest journal and newspaper subscriptions. A database used by over 70% of the world’s leading research universities in the world. With scholarly research content in every discipline, PQDT Full Text supports all departments and disciplines, safe in the knowledge we will be adding new PDFs on an ongoing basis.

    • All top ranking USA research universities, as defined by the Carnegie Foundation, work with UMI
    • Includes works by authors from more than 1,700 graduate schools and universities the world over
    • 700 active university partners publish on UMI
    • 40% of PhDs from the world’s top universities are published in PQDT

  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

    • Subject: Nursing, Health Sciences
    • Update: Current
    • Availability: Citation + Abstract + Full text

    ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source™ provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations in nursing and related fields.

     
  • ProQuest One Academic(new)

    • Subject: Multidisciplinary
    • Coverage: Varies par product
    • Update: Monthly
    • Availability: Full text + abstract + citation
    ProQuest One Academic provides scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
     
  • PsycARTICLES (EBSCOHost)

    • Subject: Psychology
    • Coverage: 1985-present
    • Update: Monthly
    • Availability: Full text

    PsycARTICLES, published by the American Psychological Association, is recognized worldwide as a leading full-text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines.

    PsycARTICLES on EBSCOHost platform

     

  • PubMed(OA)

    • Subject: Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing
    • Coverage: 1946-present
    • Update: Daily
    • Availability: Citation + Abstract + Full text link

    PubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.