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Electronic Resources

The University Library has the following Electronic Resources:

e-Books

Al-Manhal

Website: https://platform.almanhal.com/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: eBooks
  • Subscription ends: 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects:  Business & Economics, Law, Political & International Relations Science, Educational Science, Social Science, Islamic Studies, Language & Literature, History, Geography & Biographies.

Overview:

Al Manhal is an “Arabic electronic content service provider”. They provide “full-text searchable electronic databases of peer-reviewed and copyright-protected Arabic publications”.

EBSCO

Website: https://search.ebscohost.com

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Aggregated full text /bibliographic database
  • Subscription ends: 28 Feb 2025
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

The EBSCO Publishing Premier Package includes cross-searchable access to eight major databases: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Computer Science, Consumer Health Info – Arabic, DynaMed, ERIC, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Access is via EBSCOhost.

e-Journals

ACM Digital Library

Link: http://dl.acm.org

About the e-Resource:
Type: Journal
Subscription:  Till Feb. 2024
Subjects:  Computer Science

Overview:
The ACM community is as diverse as the sub-fields that comprise computer science, from educators and researchers in academia to practitioners in project management, industrial research, and software development, engineering, and application design.

EBSCO

Website: https://search.epnet.com

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Aggregated full text /bibliographic database
  • Subscription: 28 Feb. 2025
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

The EBSCO Publishing Premier Package includes cross-searchable access to eight major databases: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Computer Science, Consumer Health Info – Arabic, DynaMed, ERIC, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Access is via EBSCOhost.

E-Marefa

Website:https://search.e-marefa.net/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals
  • Subscription ends: 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

Full & Unlimited access to the Academic Journals Database; 1750 Journals and about 250,000 articles on E-Marefa. The Academic journals published in the Arab world in Arabic, English and French which are issued by universities, research centers or Arab academic associations.

JSTOR

Website: https://www.JSTOR.org

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals
  • Subscription: till 31 Dec. 2029 (covered by BU MICAD program)
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals in more than 50 disciplines.

MSP

Website: https://msp.org/

About the e-Resource:

Type: Journals

Subscription: Till 31 Dec 2025

Subjects: Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Overview:

MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers) is focused on developing software for publishing, and on assisting and creating top-level scientific-research publications. We publish about 20,000 research pages per year, and we strive to offer the highest quality at the lowest sustainable prices.

We are a scholar-led nonprofit publisher. Without shareholders to pay or a society to fund, every dollar that MSP earns is kept invested in our mission: to serve the math community through high-quality publishing at low prices, and help others do the same. Every page we publish is a page controlled by the math community, not a large commercial interest.

Research4Life (HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI)

New Link: https://portal.research4life.org/

Website: https://www.research4life.org/

Please note: The above link is for the login portal of the four programs

Research4Life is the collective name for the four programs – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – that provides access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.

HINARI

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals
  • Subscription: till 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects: biomedical and social sciences

Overview:

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) is a global partnership managed by World Health Organization in association with the world’s leading science and medicine publishers and Yale University to provide free or low-cost online journal access to institutions in developing countries in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals.

AGORA

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: eBooks, Journals
  • Subscription: till 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects: agriculture, fisheries, food, nutrition, veterinary science and related biological, environmental and social sciences

Overview:

AGORA provides access up to 5,200 journals, up to 4,200 e-books, and up to 20 other information resources.

OARE

Online Access to Research in the Environment

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: e-Books, Journals
  • Subscription: till 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects: chemistry, biotechnology

Overview:

OARE provides access to over  2,500 institutions access to up to 5,500  journals, up to 14,000 e-books, and up to 40 other information resources in a wide range of disciplines contributing to our understanding of the natural environment, including environmental toxicology and pollution, zoology, botany, ecology, environmental chemistry, geology, hydrology, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, geography, environmental economics, environmental law and policy, conservation policy and planning, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, energy, and many other disciplines.

ARDI

Access to Research for Development and Innovation

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals
  • Subscription ends: 31 Dec. 2024
  • Subjects: Science

Overview:

The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program provides online access to major scientific and technical journals.

Databases

International Monetary Fund

Website: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Database
  • Subscription: till Dec. 2017
  • Subjects: Business & Management, Social Sciences

Overview:

The IMF eLibrary provides publications in PDF format. It covers independent analysis on the financial crisis, development, macroeconomics, poverty reduction, trade, globalization, and much more.

IMF Videos:

Website: https://www.imf.org/external/mmedia

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Website: https://www.oed.com/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Dictionary
  • Subscription: till Dec. 2016 (through EIFL)
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

The Oxford English Dictionary Online is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Reference Online

Website: https://www.oxfordreference.com

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: References
  • Subscription: till Dec. 2016 (through EIFL)
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

Oxford Quick Reference is a core foundation of 135+ academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content.

Open Access

Arabic Collections Online (ACO)

Website: https://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/

About the e-Resource:

Type: e-Books (Open Access)

Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

“Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. NYU and the partner institutions are contributing all types of material—literature, business, science, and more—from their Arabic language collections. ACO will provide digital access to printed books drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries.”

arXiv

Website: https://arxiv.org/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals (Open Access)
  • Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Overview:

arXiv is a repository of electronic preprints, known as e-prints, of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online. It offers open access to 790,158 e-prints.

ASH Image Bank

Website: https://imagebank.hematology.org/default.aspx

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Images (Open Access)
  • Subjects: Science

Overview:

ASH Image Bank is a Web-based image library that offers a comprehensive, growing collection of images relating to a wide range of hematology topics.

Asian Development Bank

Open Access Repository (OAR)

Website: https://openaccess.adb.org/

About the e-Resource:

Type: e-Books / e-journals (Open Access)

Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Overview:

ADB has made all its economic and development research on Asia and the Pacific available under open access. The ADB Open Access Repository (OAR) will include the complete current and back catalog of ADB research—well over 5,000 publications—dating back to 1966.

BASE

Website:  https://www.base-search.net

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections.
  • Subscription: Open access
  • Subjects: Multidisciplinary

 Overview:

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

Bioline International

Website: https://www.bioline.org.br/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals (Open Access)
  • Subjects: Bioscience

Overview:

Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity.

BioMed Central

Website: https://www.biomedcentral.com/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Journals (Open Access)
  • Subjects: Biological sciences, Nursing

Overview:

BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-reviewed open access journals.

The Company of Biologists Journals

  1. Journal of Development https://journals.biologists.com/dev
  2.  Journal of Cell Science https://journals.biologists.com/jcs
  3. Journal of Experimental Biology https://journals.biologists.com/jeb

Dirasat

Website:  https://journals.ju.edu.jo/DirasatHum/index

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: English and Arabic articles
  • Subscription: Open access
  • Subjects: Human and Social Sciences

Overview:

Dirasat is an international peer-refereed research journal published in seven specialized series by the Deanship of Academic Research, University of Jordan. Issues of Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences are published tri-annually. Articles submitted are reviewed according to the highest standards by scientists specialized in their fields. The articles are written in Arabic or English.

Doab

Website: https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=about&uiLanguage=en

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Aggregated full text
  • Subscription: Open access
  • Subjects: Humanities, law and social sciences

Overview:

DOAB is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB contains the metadata of ‘free to share’ e-books and provides direct links to the full text of the publications on the websites of the publishers.

Eligible Open Access Journals

https://www.eifl.net/taxonomy/term/1229?utm_source=apc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apcs20212nd.

Open Text Book Library

Website: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: We define an open textbook as one that has an open license that makes it free for anyone to use and change. It can be print or digital.
  • Subscription:Open access
  • Subjects:Multidisciplinary

Overview:

Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.

PDF: Search Engine

Website:  https://pdf-downloads.net/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: e-books and online materials
  • Subscription: Open access
  • Subjects: Medicine, engineering, commerce, science, political issues and arts.

Overview:

An online library whose services are available to the people without any time limit and charges. In many countries people rely on search engines for education and getting knowledge and information form books.

Sci-Hub Arbia

Website:  https://sci-hub.ar.nf/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Access to research, full thesis, and books,
  • Subscription: Open access
  • Subjects:Multidisciplinary

Overview:

Sci.Hub is a site to download reference papers and journal articles for free. Just search keywords or titles or paste the DOI of the journal article you want, and Sci-Hub will fetch the full PDF for you for free. The site provides free access, journal articles and academic journals. If your goal is to access knowledge, these sci-hub mirrors are for you.

UN-iLibrary

Website:  https://www.un-ilibrary.org/

About the e-Resource:

  • Type: Complete publications or even their components – chapters and articles
  • Subscription:Open access
  • Subjects:Multidisciplinary

Overview:

The United Nations iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. Initially launched in 2015, the UN iLibrary was updated in December 2020 to incorporate new features such as an interface in all six official UN languages and a search feature by Sustainable Development Goals.

Website Resources

Cultural Heritage

Digital Archives sites

ebooks online

Library

Nursing

Palestine

  • Al-ayyam daily newspaper al-ayyam.com
  • Al-Hayyat al-Jadedah Online alhayat-j.com
  • Al-Haq (defending Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) alhaq.org
  • Amnesty International    amnesty.org
  • Applied research Institute – Jerusalem arij.org
  • Arabic Media Internet Network – AMIN amin.org
  • B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories   btselem.org
  • BADIL (Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights) badil.org
  • Behind the Wall (Friends Boys School, Ramallah) lifebehindthewall.com
  • Defence for Children International Palestine Section dci-pal.org
  • Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem by Issa Nakhleh (Internet Edition) palestine-encyclopedia.com
  • Forced Migration Review (Magazine on refuge and internal displacement issues) fmreview.org
  • Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME) (Organization promoting sustainable development and peace building through environmental awareness) foeme.org
  • Jerusalem Media & Communication Center jmce.org
  • International Monetary Fund Resident Representative office for West Bank and Gaza imf.org/wbg
  • LAW – The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment lawsociety.org
  • OCHA-oPt (united Nation office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territory ochaopt.org
  • Palestine Mapping Center – PalMap palmap.org
  • Palestine Monitor palestinemonitor.org
  • Palestine News Agency – WAFA wafa.pna.net
  • Palestine Wildlife Society – PWLS wildlife-pal.org
  • Palestinian Academic Society for Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem – PASSIA passia.org
  • Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics pcbs.gov.ps
  • Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR) pecdar.org
  • Palestinian Initiative for the Promation of Global Dialogue and Democracy – MIFTAH miftah.org
  • The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG)   phrmg.org
  • The World Bank in West Bank and Gaza worldbank.org/ps
    البنك الدولي في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة

Psychology

  • American Psychological Association (the largest scientific and professional organization for psychology in the United States apa.org

Publishers’ Websites

Research

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