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Databases & Indexes

The Library provides access to databases and indexes by IP authentication, thus they are available only on the SQU campus.. For help please E-mail hosaini or call #1519.

Databases (A)
 

ABI/INFORM  a combination of three fulltext databases covering: business, finance, economics, management, trade and industry and many other related majors. It covers more than 2.500 fulltext journals, magazines and newsletters. (Click here and learn how to use this service)

Accessscience A reference service contains : McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, Scientists Biographies, Science News, bibliographies, web sites, learning resources and study guides, illustrations, animations, and image galleries and much more. (Click here and learn how to use this database)


Agricola (Agricultural Online Access) database, citations to agricultural literature acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions, and subfiles of related subjects, such as food and nutrition, agricultural economics, parasitology, etc., supplied by information centers.
(Click here and learn how to use this database)

ASFA Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) covers all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Subjects include biology; ecology; fisheries; aquaculture; oceanography; limnology; resources and commerce; pollution; biotechnology; marine technology and engineering; marine meteorology and climatology; and non-living resources (oil, gas, minerals, chemicals). (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Databases (B)

Biological Abstracts Biological Abstracts®, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains nearly 9.5 million archival records from as far back as 1926, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. (Click here and learn how to use this service)

Business Source Premier (EbscoHost)-- Designed specifically for business schools and libraries, contains 2,804 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, and international business. (Click here and learn how to use this service)

Databases (C)

CAB Abstracts : CAB Abstracts (1990 to Present) covers the significant research and development literature in fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, as well as the management and conservation of natural resources. This database offers abstracts and indexing for journals, serial publications, conference proceedings, books, theses, annual reports, patents & standards and dates back to 1990. Coverage is international in scope. (Click here and learn how to use this service)

CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. (Click here and learn how to use this service)

Compendex via Engineering Village 2 -- Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with 7.5 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1969. (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Databases (D)

Dissertation Abstracts : the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. Full Text !!

Databases (E)

Engineering Village 2 -- Provides links to websites related to various areas of engineering, and connects with EI Compendex, which provides indexing for engineering journals and conference proceedings from 1970 onward. (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Eric : Education Databases 1966- (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Databases (G)

GeoRef : GeoRef is the CD-ROM version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. The database is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies, and annual subject and author indexes. (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Databases (I)

Index to Theses : A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland. This This database covers theses accepted from 1970 to 2003 covering all of volumes 21 to 51 and parts 1 to 4 of volume 52 of the equivalent print publication Index to Theses.

IOP : Institute of Physics journals. The library has subscribed in the complete  package: the current and entire journals archive back to 1874. See list of journals.

Databases (J)

JCR Web Science Edition 2005 : 5.900 journals
JCR Web Social Sciences Edition 2005
: 1.700 journals

The Journal Citation Reports could be used to get the most frequently cited journals, highest impact factor and largest journals in a field.

Databases (L)

LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts under license from Sociological Abstracts LLC, provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts LLC.  (Click here and learn how to use this database)

LISA : Library and Information Science, Archives, and Online Information Retrieval     1969- curent .(Click here and learn how to use this database)

LISA (Arabic) : Indexes and Abstracts of Arabic periodicals in Library and Information Science.

LISTA : Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. (Click here and learn how to use this service)
 
Databases (M)

MathSci+ :   is the Mathematical Sciences database produced by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The database contains information from the printed publications Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), both published by the AMS. Mathematical Reviews, published monthly, provides reviews and abstracts of the mathematical research literature of the world. Current Mathematical Publications, published tri-weekly, contains advance announcements of new articles, books, and proceedings to be reviewed in MR. It provides a comprehensive coverage of international research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines. The database contains full bibliographic references, with signed reviews or abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and proceedings papers. Literature coverage includes approximately 2,000 journals, conference proceedings and proceedings papers, books or chapters, advanced-level textbooks, and published dissertations. (Click here and learn how to use this database)

MathSciNet: MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. It also provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.
 

Medline : Medical Database 1996- (Click here and learn how to use this database)

Databases (O)

Oceanic Abstracts : Oceanography, marine and brackish-water environment           1981-current. (Click here and learn how to use this database)


Databases (P)

Physical Review : access to the journals of the American Physical Society, the current and the archive too.

PsycINFO : 1806-  It contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. (Click here and learn how to use this database)


Databases (S)

ScinceFinder (access is restricted to chemistry department) Click here and learn how to use this database).  Need help call #1519 

Scopus   Access: Within campus and remote. Click here and learn how to use this database)
 

Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place.

  • More coverage of scientific, technical, medical and social science literature (14,000 titles) than any other database.
  • Full text links directly from the results list. ( depends on institution subscriptions)
  • Abstracts back to 1966, a full 10-year reference backfile by 2005, and daily updates.
  • Innovative tools to help you refine your search to relevant results.
  • Alerts for you to keep abreast of your research topic.

         (Click here and learn how to use this database)

 Scirus : Scientific search engine (free)


Databases (W)

Water Resources Abstracts : Includes abstracts of current and earlier pertinent journal articles, monographs, reports and other publication formats. These documents cover water resources as treated in the life, physical, and social sciences and the related engineering and legal aspects of the characteristics, supply condition, conservation, control, use, or management of water resources.               (Click here and learn how to use this database)

 
Databases (Z)

Zoo Records : Zoological Record on Compact Disc (ZR on CD), published by BIOSIS, and jointly with the Zoological Society of London until 2003, is the world's most comprehensive index to zoological literature. Records cover every aspect of zoology, including biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, genetics, etc. Over 4,500 international serials plus approximately 1,500 non-serial publications are currently monitored, including professional journals, magazines, newsletters, monographs, books, reviews, and conference proceedings. (Click here and learn how to use this database)