Online Services

Birzeit University Library offers full text journals by subscription in a number of DataBases, which are:

EBSCO Science Direct ebrary BioOne Cambridge Journals Project MUSE Project EUCLID JSTOR Oxford Journals Ciaonet Questia Westlaw International
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series One SAGE Institute of Physics Journals Emerald ProQuest CINAHL Plus HINARI

EBSCO
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Academic Search Premier: ASP: Full text of over 3000 journals, and abstracts and indexing of over 4,000 in almost every area of academic study, including education, humanities, social sciences and technology.
Business Source Premier :Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Computer Source :Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Science Direct
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  • Science Direct is the essential information resource for millions of scientists around the world.
  • Science Direct is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
  • A rich journals collection is supplemented by relevant abstract databases to expand literature searches further and a growing program of online reference works.
ebrary
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Academic Complete, a growing eBook collection that spans all academic subject areas.

To view the books online you need to install the library reader if it is not already installed.
BioOne
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free access till January, 2010
  • BioOne is a unique, full- text database of high-impact, peer reviewed journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. It covers about 123 journals and one book.
  • Dates of Coverage: Some journals are covered back to 1998, with the majority being covered from 2000.
Cambridge Journals    HOW TO USE IT

free access till January, 2010
Over 230 titles spanning over 32 subject areas, ranging from Agriculture, Archaeology and Anthropology, Nutrition, to Psychology and Cognitive Science, Religion and Social Studies.
Project MUSE
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The full texts of more than 281 scholarly journals in the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Mathematics.
Project EUCLID
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A specialized database in Mathematics, statistics and computer Science.
JSTOR
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An archival database that offers articles from journals available on the database from the first issue until four years back. It covers almost all topics but basically the social sciences and humanities.
Oxford Journals
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contact library staff for user name and password
Oxford University database for full text Journals
Ciaonet
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contact library staff for user name and password
Colombia University Database for full text Journals, Books and other materials.
Questia
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contact library staff for user name and password
The full texts database offers articles from journals available on the database .
Westlaw International Lawyers and legal professionals in more than 60 countries worldwide turn to Westlaw International for legal, news and business information every day.
Westlaw International delivers content from internationally renowned and trusted sources via the latest and most intelligent online technology.
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series One Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 - offers the widest range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.
Additional value has been added to this Series 1 by the expansion from the original 562 TNA records to over 17,000, thus substantially improving access to over 137,000 pages documenting the politics, administration, wars and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate, the Independence of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
HINARI A scientific Database concentrating on environmental & health topics.
Sage Publications
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SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
Institute of Physics Journals
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A collection of 58 journals in physics and mathematics
Emerald
  
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Emerald Ďáíá

Subject Coverage: Management, Engineering, Computer Science and Library and Information Management.
Our subscription is to the Emerald Management Xtra (125 journals at the heart of the management discipline + 15 titles in Engineering).
ProQuest

ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as CSA™, UMI®, Chadwyck-Healey™, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.
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CINAHL Plus

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) Free access till 2015 It's one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature and database search tools.
Academic Onefile journals Free access till 15/05/2009 The database includes 13.000 Academic journals covering topics from Science, technology and medecine to the social sciences and humanities.

Other databases with free access:

Wiley InterScience

free access till
end of May 2009


Wiley InterScience incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell Synergy to provide access to over 3 million articles across 1400 journals. This massive archive, combined with some 7000 OnlineBooks and major reference works—plus industry leading databases such as The Cochrane Library, and the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals—make Wiley InterScience one of the world's premiere resources for advanced research.
Civil Engineering

free access till
end of May 2009


The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is the world’s longest established professional engineering body. Thomas Telford Ltd. is the knowledge business of the ICE, publishing authoritative journals featuring new research and practical case-studies from across civil engineering.
CINAHL: Nursing and allied sciences

free access till
30 April 2009


Nursing and allied sciences; it's through EBSCO Host
PsycArticles and PsycBooks

free access till
30 April 2009


it's a database in psychology (articles and books)
Professional Engineering Publishing

free access till
31 January 2009


Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd is a world-leading provider of journals, magazines, electronic products and publishing services. Wholly-owned by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, we bring not only reputation but high quality to all that we do, whether our own products or those for others. This website should be a key resource for all those interested in engineering.
United Nations
Audiovisual Library of International Law


The Audiovisual Library of International Law is a unique multi-media resource which is a core instrument for promoting a greater understanding of the essential role of the United Nations in the field of international law and the creation of a culture that is conducive to the rule of law.
Encyclopaedia Islamica

usre name:islamica
password:freeview


free access till
31 March 2009
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the fi rst of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian D??irat al-Ma??rif-i Buzurg-i Isl?m?, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world
Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia is an extensive reference work covering literature and philosophy published in English.

It is collectively owned by its >2000 contributors nearly all of whom are established scholars, many of considerable distinction. It currently offers over 5000 completed profiles with an average length of 2000 words. It adds 60-90 new articles each month, around 900 each year. It also offers a bibliography of 22,000 primary works.
UNESCO-EOLSS Virtual library of 20 encyclopedias from UNESCO
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is a peer-refereed scientific journal published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland, online quarterly at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph. All rights reserved
AIDS Reviews Journal
Free access till the end of December, 2007
AIDS Reviews is a specialized journal published quarterly and covers timely and important topics on the different areas of HIV/AIDS research including clinical aspects, therapy, drug resistance, virology, evolution, immunology, pathogenesis, diagnostics, epidemiology, opportunistic infections and prevention. The journal is internationally recognized and is indexed in: Current Contents, Medline, PubMed, Index Medicus, BIOSIS and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica.
Open Access Resources of full text journals & documents
The Open Access movement aims to make research articles in all academic fields freely available online. This is done through the development of Open Access repositories and Open Access Journals.
DynaMed
Free access till the end of February 2009
It is a medical information database with nearly 2,000 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point-of-care, providing best available evidence and updated daily.
Oxford Reference Online
free access till
31/03/2010
The multi-award winning Oxford Reference Online includes the full text of over 130 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books from across the subject spectrum - everything from the social sciences and humanities to science and medicine, and business and computing. It also includes: an encyclopaedia; dictionaries of English, style guides and thesauri; French/English, Spanish/English, Italian/English and German/English dictionaries; and dictionaries of quotations.
Oxford English Dictionary
free access till
31/03/2010
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the ultimate authority on the English language. The largest dictionary of any language in the world, it charts the meaning and evolution of over 600,000 words over the last 1500 years
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): The directory contains information about 1100 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. Almost 300 titles are also searchable at article level. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified
HighWire HighWire A large archive containing science based, free, full text journals. Over 15 million articles from over 4,500 Pub Med journals, including 770,015 free full text articles from 710 High Wire-hosted journals
Intute Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, professional and trade publications, and Society journals are covered. All sites are also listed in the EEVL catalogue of Internet Resources.
TechXtra Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, thesis & dissertations and more!
Global Development Network(GDN) Collections of free online journals and documents
The list provides links to databases that provide access to free online journals or documents. Some databases link to both journals that provide full text access and those that provide access to abstracts or table of contents.
Arabic Journals Free full text scholarly Arabic journals, in Arabic or bilingual
university of leiden this a site from the university of leiden and it allows some free articles downloads
IJEDICT The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content.


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