HU Library and Information Services – Local E- Resources

36 major academic International and Local E-resources in HU Library and Information Services

 No Resource Name URL Subject Strength Authentication
1 ASCE Journals Online                                 ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 32 journals encompassing more than 48,000 full-text papers published since 1983 – that’s over 408,000 pages! Approximately 4000 new papers will be added each year. http://ascelibrary.org/
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Architectural Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Construction
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Energy
  • Engineering Mechanics ….
IP based
2 American Chemical Society Journals and Magazines

The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. Access is to over 35

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html
  • Agriculture
  • Biochemical Research Methods
  • Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology&
    • Food Science & Technology
    • Materials Science
    • Pharmacology & Pharmacy …
IP based
3 American Physical SocietyAccess to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society http://publish.aps.org/browse.html
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Crystallography
  • Energy and Fuels
  • Chemical Engineering…
  • Food Science & Technology
  • Materials Science
IP based
4  Canadian Science Publishing (operating as NRC Research Press)
Full text of 16 online peer-reviewed journals in a broad range of scientific disciplines with back files dating back to 2001 in most cases.
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com • botany
• cell biology
• chemistry• microbiology
• physics
• sport science
 IP based
5  EBSCO Host Research Databases
Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline.
http://search.ebscohost.com  • Good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities
• Strong business coverage
• Strong nursing, medicine and allied health coverage
• Dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from peer-reviewed content
 IP based
6  EUP Journals Online
Edinburgh University Press publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
http://www.euppublishing.com  • Literary Studies
• Philosophy
• Historical Studies
• African Studies
• Linguistics
 IP based
7 Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center
Expanded Academic: Unparalleled in its depth and scope, this premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic subject — from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies.Health and Wellness Resource Center: For access to authoritative health and medical information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of medical information to academic, medical and public libraries.
http://www.gale.cengage.com  • economics, topics in business and finance
• anthropology, archeology
• computing and computers• various topics in medicine and health
• STDs and AIDS
 IP based
8  HST – The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection
Specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading authorities on biomedical and life sciences for researchers and university faculty members.
http://www.hstalks.com  Biomedicine and life sciences  IP based
9  IET Digital Library
Over 20 Research journals and letters in electrical and electronic engineering
http://www.theiet.org  • Electrical and electronic engineering
• Telecommunications
• Computing
• Power
 IP based
10  JSTOR
An archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. The archive contains over 800 important scholarly journals of high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching in 50 disciplines
http://www.jstor.org  • Economics
• History
• Political Science
• Language & Literature
• Art & Art History
• Music
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Education
 IP based
11  OUP – Oxford Journals
Oxford Journals publishes journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines.
Organizations that qualify for the free Developing Countries Oxford Online Collection offer will obtain access to over 200 titles.
http://www.oxfordjournals.org  • Biological Sciences
• Medicine
• Public Health and Epidemiology
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Law
 IP based
12 Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed e-journals
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/index.html  • business and management
• economics
• education
• information systems and technology
• political science and international studies
• social and cultural studies
 IP based
13  Royal College of Physicians
Clinical Medicine journal is read by leading physicians in hospitals across the world. It features articles covering original research, current issues, ethics, law, clinical governance and audit, and also reports on prestigious College lectures and conferences.
http://www.clinmed.rcpjournal.org  • Clinical medicine
• Public Health
 IP based
14  Royal Society for Chemistry – RSC Journals Archive
Scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals and books
http://www.pubs.rsc.org  • Biology
• Biophysics
• chemical science
• Materials
• medicinal drug discovery
• Physics
 IP based
15  Royal Society for Chemistry – RSC Journals Online
37 full text journals spanning all branches of chemistry, plus a range of key databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and catalysed reactions, organic synthesis and natural products plus its online series of specialist periodical reports, and a range of key databases.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the leading organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences and is one of world’s leading chemistry publishers. Supported by a network of 45,000 members worldwide and an internationally acclaimed publishing business, RSC activities span education and training, conferences and science policy and the promotion of the chemical sciences to the public.
http://www.pubs.rsc.org  • All branches of chemistry including traditional fields (organic, inorganic, analytical chemistry) plus newer developments and cross-disciplinary studies such as natural products and green chemistry
• Databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and catalysed reactions, organic synthesis and natural products
 IP based
16 Sage Online JournalsOver 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and science, techology and medicine (STM) http://www.sagepub.com  • Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Scientific, Technical and Medical
 IP based
17 Springer eJournalsSpringer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies. Springer’s eJournals cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics http://link.springer.com  • Engineering
• Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Medicine
• Physics and Astronomy
 IP based & Basic Subscription
18  Taylor & Francis Journals
Provides online access to the best reference titles in the agricultural sciences in eight easily searchable resources. Featuring over 6,700 pages of printed content, these online titles allow you to explore more than 1,900 total entries from acclaimed works.
http://www.tandfonline.com  • Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering
• Animal Science
• Pest Management
• Plant and Crop Science
• Soil Science
• Water Science
 IP based
19  University of California Press
Access to 33 Journals of the University of California Press.
http://www.ucpressjournals.com  • Area Studies
• History of Science
• Human research and BioEthics
 IP based
20  ARDI
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program is coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization together with its partners in the publishing industry. ARDI seeks to reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level. Currently, 17 publishers provide access to nearly 10,000 journals, books, and reference works for 107 developing countries through ARDI
http://www.research4life.org  • Currently, 17 publishers provide access to nearly 10,000 journals, books, and reference works for 107 developing countries through ARDI.  Request Library
21  OARE
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. Over 4,150 peer reviewed titles (as of 10/2011) owned and published by over 350 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies.
http://www.research4life.org  • Environmental science research
• Enviormental Sciences
• Biological & Physical Science
• Social Sciences
 Request Library
22  AGORA
access to more than 3000 journals from the world’s leading academic publishers
http://www.research4life.org  • Agriculture
• Biological Sciences
• Environmental Sciences
• social sciences
 Request Library
23  HINARI
More than 150 publisher partners are offering more than 37,000 information resources
http://www.research4life.org  • Health Sciences
• biomedical and related social sciences
 Request Library
24  IMF e-Library
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools
http://www.elibrary.imf.org  • Macroeconomics
• Globalization
• Development
• trade and aid
• technical assistance
• demographics,
• emerging markets
• policy advice
• poverty reduction, and so much more
 IP based
25  Bioone
Provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.
http://www.bioone.org  • global warming
• stem cell research
• Ecology
• biodiversity conservation….
 IP based
26  Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.
http://www.annualreviews.org  • Biomedical/life sciences
• physical sciences
• computer science
• physics, chemistry
• social sciences
• economics,
• Sociology
• psychology,
• law
 IP based
27  Cambridge Journals
provides access to 171 journals dating between
1827 & 1996.
http://www.journals.cambridge.org  • Agriculture
• Archaeology
• Anthropology
• Nutrition
 IP based
28 Royal Society journals http://www.rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series A http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings of the Royal Society series A http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings of the Royal Society series B http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org Journal of the Royal Society Interface http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org Interface Focus
http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org
Notes & Records of the Royal Society
 • physical and biological sciences  IP based
29  CABI
over 187,000 full text journal articles, reports etc in various disciplines
http://www.cabdirect.org  • Crop Protection Compendium
• Animal Health and Production Compendium
• Aquaculture Compendium
• Forestry Compendium
 IP based
31 Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.
http://www.cochranelibrary.com  • Allergy & intolerance
• Blood disorders
• Cancer
• Child health
• Complementary & alternative medicine
• Consumer & communication strategies• Gynaecology
• Health & safety at work
• Heart & circulation
• Infectious disease
 IP based
32  AIP Scitation
AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). AIP Publishing’s mission is to support the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities in the fields of the physical and related sciences on its own behalf, on behalf of Member Societies of AIP, and on behalf of other publishing partners to help them proactively advance their missions. AIP Publishing’s portfolio comprises 19 highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals, including the flagship journals Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics, in addition to the AIP Conference Proceedings.
http://scitation.aip.org  Acoustics
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Atomic and molecular physics
• Biological physics
• Condensed matter physic
• Energy• Nanotechnology
• Nuclear physics
• Optics and optical physics
• Particle physics
• Physical chemistry
 IP based
33 IOPscienceIOP Publishing is the publishing company of the Institute of Physics. It provides publications through which scientific research is distributed worldwide, including journals, community websites, magazines, conference proceedings and books. https://myiopscience.iop.org/signin username:eiflethiopiapassword:i