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American Institute of Physics 

AIP publishes 12 journals, 2 magazines, and a conference proceedings series. AIP’s citation platform hosts over 2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 earned society publishers.  Subject Strengths: Applied and multidisciplinary physics

American Physical society   

14 leading peer-reviewed research journals in Physics including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review, and Reviews of Modern Physics.

American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers 

ASABE Technical Library includes a range of content including journals, textbook materials, monographs, standards and proceedings as well as the important reference work-inprogress, Design Topics. Strengths: engineering, Agricultural health and safety, Power and machinery, Soil and water, Food and process engineering, Structures and environment, Information and electrical technologies, Biological engineering, Forest engineering.

American Society of Civil Engineers 

ASCE Journals Online provides unprecedented access to 33 Peer-reviewed journals with more than 60,000 full-text papers and a 31-Year archive from 1983 to the present. Subject strengths: Environmental Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction, Earthquake Engineering, Energy, Engineering Mechanics, Resources Engineering, Coastline and Port Engineering, Pipelines, Structural Engineering, Transportation and Development, Sustainable Engineering.  

Annual Reviews 

A broad range of disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics.

Brill  

Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.

British Institute of Radiology 

Access to Journal of Radiology (BJR), BJR/case reports and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology(DMFR)

The Animal Health & Production Compendium

The Animal Health and Production Compendium (AHPC) is a comprehensive, encyclopaedic resource for information on animal health and production. It brings together a wide range of different types of science-based information to support sound decision-making in animal husbandry and food production worldwide. It is comprised of information sourced from experts, edited and compiled by an independent scientific organization, and resourced by a diverse international Development Consortium

Aquaculture Compendium 

The Aquaculture Compendium (AC) is an encyclopaedic, mixed media resource that brings together a wide range of different types of science-based information to support sound decision-making in aquaculture and aquatic resource management worldwide. It is comprised of information sourced from experts, and edited and compiled by an independent scientific organization

Crop Protection Compendium

The Crop Protection Compendium (CPC) is an encyclopaedic resource that brings together a wide range of different types of science-based information on all aspects of crop protection. It comprises detailed datasheets on pests, diseases, weeds, host crops and natural enemies that have been sourced from experts, edited by an independent scientific organization, and enhanced with data from specialist organizations, images, maps, a bibliographic database and full text articles.

Forestry Compendium 

The Forestry Compendium is a unique global compilation of knowledge on forestry. It has a comprehensive, worldwide coverage on tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal tree species of major economic importance, and lesser-known species of local importance. It also covers in detail many of the pests that damage these trees. It is a reference tool, which provides a basis for informed selection of woody species for a variety of uses, including for trials in plantation, agroforestry and natural forest systems.

Horticulture Compendium  

Over 250 detailed horticulture crop datasheets, prepared by experts and independently verified ; Concise data on over 700 pest species of horticulture crops; 500 Country datasheets ; 38 peer-reviewed key topic chapters of overarching interest and independently verified; More than 1,000 images − for ease of identification and teaching; A subset of the latest two years’ research on crop management and storage from CAB Abstracts, updated weekly, with full text of selected journal and conference articles ;Interactive, multilingual glossary with over 1,000 terms.

Invasive Species Compendium 

Invasive species are a major threat to the global economy and the environment, costing billions of dollars to control each year. The Invasive Species Compendium is an online, comprehensive encyclopaedic reference work covering recognition, biology, distribution, impact and management of the world’s invasive plants and animals.

Cambridge University Press

Full text of over 323 Cambridge University Press Online Journals. Subject Strengths: Politics, Linguistics, Social Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Science, Medicine.

EBSCO Host Research Databases 

Good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities, Strong business coverage, Strong nursing, medicine and allied health coverage.

Edinburgh University Press

A collection of 45 journals and an archive of content published before 2000 across 24 journals.  Content coverage extends as far back as 1936, across 380 volumes in over 78,000 pages.

Emerald Collections Countrywide 

Peer reviewed journal articles in 6 broad subject collections including Accounting, Finance and Economics; Business, Management and Strategy; Human Resources Management, Learning and Organization; Information and Knowledge Management; Marketing; and Public policy and Environmental Management.

Geological Society 

Collection is an electronic resource containing new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality. Subject Strengths: Agricultural engineering, Agricultural health and safety, Power and machinery, Soil and water, Food and process engineering, Structures and environment, Information and electrical technologies, Biological engineering, Forest engineering.

IET Digital Library 

The IET Digital Library is a global repository of science, engineering and technology focused content produced by the world’s leading International scientific organization and thought leader – the IET. Online access to the IET Digital Library unlocks an unsurpassed body of work of more than 150,000 technical papers and around 6,000 eBook chapters from 1994 onwards for all IET journals, magazines, conference publications and seminar digests. Approximately 450 new documents are added to the IET Digital Library each month and this number will increase as we introduce ‘article by article’ publishing, ensuring that articles are available to subscribers at the earliest opportunity, without having to wait for the fully published journal issue to be made available online.

Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) 

A wide array of content and information about Operations Research and Analytics to meet the needs and interests of researchers, practitioners, students, business leaders, policy-makers, and the public. Includes 16 highly-regarded, scholarly peer-reviewed journals

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 

A collection of IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools providing access to information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

 

Mary Ann Liebert

Authoritative peer-reviewed journals, books, and trade publications in cutting-edge fields such as biotechnology, biomedical research, medicine and surgery, public health research and policy, technology and engineering, law, environmental research and policy, and other specialized disciplines. A collection of  over 90 peer-reviewed journals, leading trade magazines, and specialized newsletters, in addition to society membership management and conferences.

Optical Society of America (OSA)

OSA Publishing’s Digital Library offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This cutting-edge repository includes content from OSA’s prestigious journals and co-publications. OSA journal content offers the highest number of article citations (40%) than any other publisher in the Optics category of the 2017 Journal Citation Report. With more than 370,000 articles from 19 publications, as well as conference papers across nearly 700 meetings, OSA Publishing covers a breadth of disciplines.

Sage Research  and case studies

SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. Includes tools such as the Methods Map to help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics provides a Digital Library covering a wide range of Research Areas: Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

Applied Geometry, Applied Mathematics Education, Classical Applied Mathematics, Computational Science & Numerical Analysis, Control and Systems Theory, Data Science, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computing

Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves, Financial Mathematics and Engineering, Geosciences and, Mathematics of Planet Earth, Imaging Science, Life Sciences

Linear Algebra, Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science Optimization, Uncertainty Quantification.

University of California

UC Press provides open access—free, immediate, and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work in a wide range of disciplines: Ancient World

Anthropology, Art, Communication, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Film & Media Studies, Food & Wine, History, Music, Psychology, Religion and Sociology.

University of Chicago Press 

An eJournal Library for the University of Chicago provides access to it’s digital collection to support the University’s commitment to research and teaching in sciences, social sciences and humanities to help solve the world’s problems. Subject Strengths: Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, Life and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences 

World Bank

The World Bank e-library provides full and immediate access to all academic research and scholarship published by the World Bank – the majority of which is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

OUP- American National Biography

Over 19,000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.

Oxford Art Online

The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.

Oxford Investment Claims

Investment Claims (IC) is an acclaimed service for both practitioners and academic users. It includes an extensive collection of materials and analysis on international investment law and arbitration, including hundreds of awards and decisions, BITs, monographs, and more.

Oxford Music Online 

The gateway to Grove Music Online, with access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe

Oxford Biblical Studies Online 

A comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. An integration of authoritative scholarly texts and reference works with tools that provide ease of research into the background, context, and issues related to the Bible. a valuable resource not only for college students, scholars, and clergy, but also anyone in need of an authoritative, ecumenical, and up-to-date information.

Oxford Competition Law 

Provides a suite of fully interlinked competition analysis, peer reviewed case reports and source materials – the ideal resource for assisting with case preparation.includes enhanced online versions of Oxford University Press’ key commentaries in EU competition law: Bellamy & Child: European Union Law of Competition, Faull & Nikpay on The EU Law of Competition, and Whish & Bailey’s Competition Law.

Oxford Constitutions of the World 

Contains fully-translated English-language versions of all the world’s constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual jurisdictional commentaries, and supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical versions of constitutions, and amendment Acts/Laws.

Oxford English Dictionary 

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English Language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over 600000 words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 3 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books

Oxford Islamic Studies Online 

Reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito. Over 5,000 A–Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines

 Oxford Legal Research Library

Includes four collections: International Commercial Arbitration; International Commercial Law; Financial and Banking Law; Private International Law

Oxford Medicine Online 

Over 1,000 books available, many of which include exclusive digital tools such as videos to further enrich your learning and practice

Oxford Public International Law 

A comprehensive, single location providing integrated access across Oxford’s international law services. Includes Oxford Reports on International Law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law, Oxford Historical Treaties, and Oxford International Organizations.

Oxford  Reference

The premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopaedias

HST – Libraries in a Digital Age 

A series of lectures from reputable Professors around the world addressing the issue libraries relevance in the digital era.

HST – The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC)

Over 2500  animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies for medical schools, business schools universities and commercial enterprises specially prepared by renowned world experts        in the fields of biomedical and life sciences

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