Both the NGU library and EKB provide students and faculty with access to a wide range of electronic resources. Many of these databases and electronic journals are available off-campus
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Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)

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Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) is a project that aims to collect and distribute information about open access resources and other networked information in the Middle East and Islamic studies. It focuses on providing access to open access journals, digitized manuscripts, and other scholarly resources related to the Middle East and Islamic studies. The project is not a publisher but rather a platform that aggregates and disseminates information about open access resources in this field. It serves as a valuable tool for researchers and scholars interested in the Middle East and Islamic studies to discover relevant open access materials.

Africa Development Indicators

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Africa Development Indicators was a primary World Bank collection of development indicators on Africa, compiled from officially-recognized international sources which presents the most current and accurate global development data available and includes national, regional, and global estimates.

Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP)

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ASJP is an electronic publishing platform for Algerian scientific journals developed and managed by CERIST. ASJP is providing a search in 182 779 articles in 755 journals that are relevant to many scientific fields such as (Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Arts and Humanities -Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology - Business, Management, and Accounting - Chemical Engineering - Chemistry - Computer Science - Decision Sciences - Dentistry - Earth and Planetary Sciences - Economics, Econometrics, and Finance - Energy - Engineering - Environmental Science - Health Professions - Immunology and Microbiology - Materials Science - Mathematics - Medicine - Neurosciences - Nursing - Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Pharmaceutics - Physics and Astronomy - Psychology - Social Sciences - Veterinary - Physical and Sports Science and Technology - Islamic sciences - Administrative Sciences and Public Management)

Arabic Collections Online (ACO)

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Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a digital collection of public domain Arabic language content that is open to the public, ACO now gives digital access to 17,262 volumes covering 10,148 subjects from prestigious research libraries' vast Arabic collections, This mass digitization project, which was funded with support from NYU Abu Dhabi and is currently supported by major grants from Arcadia, a charitable fund founded by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and Carnegie Corporation of New York aims to feature up to 23,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions' library collections. These institutions are donating published volumes from their Arabic language libraries in a variety of subjects, including literature, business, science, and more.

Architecture

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Architecture is a high-quality open access journal that is committed to publishing the best research in the field of architecture. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning about the latest advances in the field and in contributing to the advancement of knowledge in architecture.

Architecture and Engineering

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The Journal publishes academic papers on topical issues of architecture, urban planning, geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, and land transportation equipment and technology in construction. All papers submitted are subject to double-blind peer review.

Art and Architecture Journal

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Art and Architecture Journal is an Open Access Journal Issued by Faculty of Fine Arts- Luxor University, The journal is issued in English, Italian, French, and Arabic languages, the journal follows a double-blind peer-review process, Biannual (two issues per year). Journal publishes papers concerned with Islamic Art and Architecture, Ancient Art and Architecture, and Art and Architecture Conservation.

arXiv

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arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,127,356 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

B.C. Open Collection

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The B.C. Open Collection is a curated selection of open educational resources (OER) that can be accessed by educators in B.C. and beyond to use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or on other teaching and learning platforms. All materials are openly licensed. This means they are free to use, customize, and share.

BASE

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BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 340 million documents from more than 11,000 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.

BioMed Central (BMC)

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BioMed Central is a prominent open-access publisher of scientific and medical research. BMC provides free and unrestricted access to a wide range of peer-reviewed journals covering various fields within biomedicine and related disciplines. The organization is known for its commitment to open science and accessibility of research findings.

Britannica Academic

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Fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information combining the insightful Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, primary sources and many other research tools. It provides a variety of reliable sources that students need to consult to conduct thorough research, all written to provide balanced, global perspectives and insights. Also, all content is complete with citations required to deliver academically rigorous essays.

Britannica Dictionary

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the Britannica Group, worldwide leaders in education, knowledge, and information for more than 250 years. Under Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster imprimaturs, people all over the world — students, teachers, researchers, and casual learners —can access reliable, lively, and relevant school curricula, and trustworthy information on subjects ranging from language and science, history and the arts, and much more.

Buildings

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Buildings is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on building science, building engineering and architecture published monthly online by MDPI. The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) is affiliated with Buildings and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

Cambridge Dictionary

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Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionaries Online began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge in 1999 — and today, Cambridge Dictionary is still growing.

ChemSpider

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ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 100 million structures, properties, and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from hundreds of high-quality data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Class Central

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Class Central is a listing of online courses which aggregate courses from many providers to make it easy to find the best courses on almost any subject, wherever they exist. It focus primarily on free (or free to audit) courses from universities, offered through massive open online course (MOOC) platforms.

ClinicalTrials

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ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, health care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The Web site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Computer Language Encyclopedia

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The Computer Language Encyclopedia founded in 1978 by husband-wife team Alan Freedman and Irma Morrison, is a comprehensive reference that covers every important computer concept and product. With over 30,000 entries and 10,000 charts, diagrams, and photos, it provides quick summaries, glossaries, and relevant information on various topics. From historical origins to current trends, this encyclopedia serves as an educational guide, highlighting the evolution of computing technology and essential programming languages. Additionally, it adds a touch of humor and entertainment with witty entries and showcases innovative inventions in the tech world.

Core

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CORE aims to aggregate all open access research and facilitate unrestricted access to research. It allows users to check more than 66 million open access articles.

DBLP: computer science bibliography

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The DBLP computer science bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Originally created at the University of Trier in 1993, DBLP is now operated and further developed by Schloss Dagstuhl.

Dictionary.com

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Dictionary.com is the world’s leading digital dictionary. Which provide millions of English definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and word origins. Dictionary.com’s main, proprietary source is the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, which is continually updated by a team of experienced lexicographers and supplemented with trusted, established sources including American Heritage and Harper Collins to support a range of language needs.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase the discoverability of open access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open access books to DOAB. DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. It runs on the open-source DSpace 6 platform. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility, and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records into their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogs, helping scholars and students discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer-reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.

Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®)

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The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.

Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®)

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The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.

Dryad

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Dryad is an international open-access repository of research data, especially data underlying scientific and medical publications (mainly of evolutionary, genetic, and ecology biology). Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. The scientific, educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to provide the infrastructure for and promote the re-use of scholarly research data.

EBSCO Essentials

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EBSCO Essentials is a platform that provides users with a starting point to search EBSCO content and connect to their libraries. It is a free resource that offers millions of authoritative journals, textbooks, eBooks, government reports, and more. Users can create a free EBSCO Essentials account and get access to more in-depth scholarly resources, including those from their library if they sign up with a known school email address. The platform allows users to search EBSCO resources and gain access to full-text materials available via Open Access (OA), while also being able to create personal accounts to save searches. The site is designed to help users who are conducting research online find better results by making it easier for those users to affiliate with and authenticate into libraries and institutions. EBSCO Essentials is a streamlined way for end-users to more easily discover and utilize the tremendous resources available through their libraries.

EconBiz

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EconBiz is a search portal for economics and business studies literature. It is a free resource that provides access to millions of publications, including articles, working papers, books, and more.

Egyptian Conferences = المؤتمرات المصرية

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Egyptian Conferences has been designed and developed with the objective of enabling professional and timely execution of all processes involved in a scientific conference. Almost all of the processes of scientific conferences or congresses, workshops, scientific contests, and any scientific event are covered.It covers all steps and activities in such events. It mainly addresses both scientific and operational aspects.

Egyptian Conferences = المؤتمرات المصرية

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Egyptian Conferences has been designed and developed with the objective of enabling professional and timely execution of all processes involved in a scientific conference. Almost all of the processes of scientific conferences or congresses, workshops, scientific contests, and any scientific event are covered.It covers all steps and activities in such events. It mainly addresses both scientific and operational aspects.

Egyptian Journals = الدوريات المصرية

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"Egyptian Journals" is a collection of high-quality academic journals that publish original research across a wide range of subjects. These journals cover fields like agriculture, archaeology, arts, science, business, computers, dentistry, economics, education, engineering, humanities, law, literature, media, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical education, social work, special education, tourism, veterinary medicine, and Arabic studies. The journals are published by various institutions, including universities, research centers, and professional associations, and are easily accessible via the Egyptian Knowledge Bank.

El-Shami Library, Information and Archival Terminology

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This online glossary provides useful information about the library, information, and archival concepts. The emphasis of this site is on: library, information, and archival terminology in both Arabic and English. These terms are certainly of interest to you. I am making an effort to present you with the English, as well as the Arabic versions of the terms. The terms are cross-referenced and linked to the related internet sites as appropriate.

Encyclopedia.com

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Encyclopedia.com offers free access to over 300,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. It takes a great care in constantly updating our content with the latest from our partners.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics

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The Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki is an open access resource designed specifically for the mathematics community. The original articles are from the online Encyclopedia of Mathematics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002. With more than 8,000 entries, illuminating nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics, it was the most up-to-date graduate-level reference work in the field of mathematics.
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Figshare

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Figshare is an online open access repository that allows researchers to preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos . It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data

Figshare

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Figshare is an online open access repository that allows researchers to preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos . It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data

Figshare

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Figshare is an online open access repository that allows researchers to preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos . It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)

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FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact any of the vocabulary you might expect to find in a computer dictionary.

Gallica

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Gallica is a major digital library provided by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) that offers free access to a vast collection of digitalized documents, including books, manuscripts, maps, prints, photographs, and more The library aims to provide access to a comprehensive and diverse range of French written heritage and its influence on Europe and worldwide.Some of the fields of interest represented in Gallica include history, literature, sciences, philosophy, law, economics, and politics. The collection primarily focuses on French-speaking culture, but it also includes some foreign classics in their original language or in a translated version

Global Wind Atlas

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The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world and then perform preliminary calculations. The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides freely downloadable datasets based on the latest input data and modelling methodologies. Users can additionally download high-resolution maps of the wind resource potential, for use in GIS tools, at the global, country, and first-administrative unit (State/Province/Etc.) level.

HathiTrust Digita Library

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HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO)

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Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. The University of Hong Kong Libraries, with a rich collection of Hong Kong journals, developed this database with the objectives of facilitating efficient information retrieval and preserving archival materials. Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. Currently, more than 491,290 images from over 60 titles will be accessible on the database. More titles with permission granted for digitizing their full text will be included to the database. New issues of the titles will also be added as soon as being received. Scholars doing research on Hong Kong will find this an invaluable resource.

ILOSTAT: The leading source of labour statistics

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ILOSTAT is the statistical database of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which is a specialized agency of the United Nations. ILOSTAT provides data on a wide range of labor and employment indicators, including: employment and unemployment rates, wages and earnings, working hours and conditions, labor productivity, occupational safety and health, social protection, Industrial relations. This data is collected from over 200 countries and territories, and is available in a variety of formats, including tables, graphs, and maps.

Intech Open

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IntechOpen is an open access publisher that provides a platform for researchers to publish their scientific research. It offers a wide range of open access books and open science journals, with a focus on increasing the visibility and dissemination of scientific research.

Interior Design Journal = مجلة التصميم الدولية

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multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal, issued by the Scientific Association of Designers, an officially accredited society, in conjunction with the Faculty of Applied Arts, Badr University in Cairo BUC and Designers Syndicate. The journal is devoted to publishing state of the art research work in different fields of design, including product design, industrial design, interior design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, media design, textile and textile printing design and other design-related fields. The journal is also concerned with all technologies related to all fields of design.

International Financial Statistics (IFS)

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International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.

International Journal of Dentistry

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International Journal of Dentistry is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles and review articles in all areas of dentistry, including periodontal diseases, dental implants, oral pathology, as well as oral and maxillofacial surgery.

International Journal of Design and Fashion

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International Journal of Design and Fashion Studies is an Open Access Journal that Issued by Faculty of Fine Arts, Luxor University with Art and Design Center. The journal issued in English and Italian languages, the journal follows a double-blind peer-review process, Biannual (two issues per year).

Journal of African Trade

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The Journal of African Trade is the official publication of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), with publishing services provided by Digital Commons on behalf of Afreximbank. The peer review process is overseen by Afreximbank. The journal aims to publish high-quality research that tests, advances, and develops models, frameworks, and concepts in the broad fields of international trade and trade finance, economic growth and development, and international finance. The Journal of African Trade is an open access publication, meaning all articles are freely and permanently available to read, download, copy, and distribute. Articles are published under the (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted reuse with proper attribution. There are no publication fees for authors; all open access costs are fully covered by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
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Journal of Architecture

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Journal of Architectural is an open-access journal proposed to combine the various zones of Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering around the world. The objective of this journal is to combine theory and practice in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering, and advancement. It will give a stage to academicians, analysts, and specialists to share their experience and answer for issues in various areas, which distributes top-level work It contains articles on structure building, geotechnics, development, designing, building mechanics and building materials, structural designing, building construction, hydro specialized building, seismic tremors, water assets, and pressure-driven structures, development of construction material, Geology, Geotechnical, and Geospatial building. Construction Engineering deals with arranging, planning, evaluating, regulating, supervising, developing, executing, and maintenance of constructions like buildings, roads, streets, bridges, and dams and Modern inventive, natural methodology, and Innovation.

Journal of Art & Architecture Research Studies (JAARS) = مجلة الفنون والعمارة للدراسات البحثية

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Publishes specialized scientific research in the fields of: 1- Architecture (Sustainable design, Urban planning, Modern Building, Conservation-Restoration & Renovation, Housing, Integrated Urban Energy, Smart Cities, City Branding, Responsive Architecture, and Regenerative architecture). 2 -Décor (Interior Architecture and Scenography). 3- Visual arts (Painting, Murals, Graphics, Animation and Book Art, Sculpture). 4- History of Art and civilization. 5- Related Interdisciplinary studies. 6- Articles and researches extracted from theses, book reviews, and conference reports.

Journal of Plastic Art and Art education = مجلة الفنون التشكيلية والتربية الفنية

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A refereed specialized scientific journal issued semi-annually by the Faculty of Art Education - Minia University, and it serves as a new vital source for the dissemination of original research in the fields of fine art, whether in art education or fine or applied arts. It also publishes reports of local, Arab and international seminars, conferences and discussions. Reviews of new art books and summaries of university theses in the fields of fine art and art education.

LAW.COM ( Legal Dictionary)

Description
LAW.COM ( LEGAL DICTIONARY) is a website that provides a legal dictionary with definitions of legal terms in plain English ؛ the website allows users to search for the definition of a legal term by entering a word or phrase in the search bar

MHRA - Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

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The MHRA products website allows you to find patient information leaflets (PILs) for medicines, summaries of product characteristics (SPCs) for medicines, and public assessment reports (PARs) for marketing authorisations for medicines. PILs are provided with all medicines and contain important information on how to use the medicine safely and effectively. SPCs are more technical documents that contain detailed information about the medicinal product's properties. PARs are scientific reports that are published when a marketing authorisation is granted for a new medicine. The MHRA products website is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the medicines they are taking or considering taking. It is also a useful resource for healthcare professionals.

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)

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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an open access scientific journal publisher. Founded as a chemical sample archive by Shu-Kun Lin, it now publishes over 380 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals and is constantly expanding its portfolio. MDPI publishes over 85 journals with high impact in their respective fields. MDPI has published the research of over 330,000 individual authors and has offices in Beijing, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Nanjing (China), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Manchester (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Cluj and Bucharest (Romania), Toronto (Canada), Kraków (Poland), Singapore (Singapore), and Bangkok (Thailand).

My Science Work

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Individual members who want to access and share research can use the comprehensive platform www.mysciencework.com. It improves data dissemination from the Polaris platforms and serves a community of 500,000 members by providing over 30 million scientific publications from over 2,500 repositories and publisher databases. A variety of collaborative tools enable fruitful scientific exchanges.

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

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OSTI is the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information's major search tool for scientific, technology, and engineering research and development outcomes, as well as the organization's information hub. It combines OSTI's home page and SciTech Connect, our now-defunct major search tool.

OneLook Dictionary

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This website is a search engine for English words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition, we'll shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define that word. If you don't know the right word to use, we'll help you find it. No word is too obscure: More than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

OnlineCourses.com

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There are over 500 accredited free online college classes available, giving you access to research-based academic resources from some of the world's greatest universities. These resources might help you learn more about a wide range of academic subjects. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the free courses listed (MOOCs). A MOOC, by definition, allows any interested learner to engage in the course. Although some advanced courses would ask learners to have finished other coursework or have a particular degree of understanding in a relevant topic, there are no prerequisites or other qualifiers separating an interested student from the material.

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS)

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ODLIS began in 1994 at the Ruth Haas Library as a four-page printed handout titled Library Lingo, aimed at undergraduates who were not fluent in English and English-speaking students who were unfamiliar with basic library terminology. The text expanded and converted to HTML format in 1996 for use on the WCSU Libraries Homepage as Hypertext Library Lingo: a Glossary of Library Terminology. Many more hypertext links were added in 1997, and the format improved in response to user feedback. Several hundred terms and definitions were added during the summer of 1999, and a generic version was created, removing all references to specific conditions and practices at the Ruth Haas Library.

Open Access Library (OALib)

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The Open Access Library (OALib) consists of the following components: • the Search Engine, which is based on a database of Open Access (OA) article metadata; • the Repository with its own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and post-prints, all housed in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories. • the Journal with OALib Articles, • the Index with metadata entries of external OA journal articles, OALib now houses links and metadata for 5,706,237 open access papers from a variety of academic subjects. You can download all full-text articles from your search results for free.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,234,995 theses and dissertation

Open Book Publishers

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Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more.

Open Educational Resources Common (OER COMMON)

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The site provides resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing as a network for teaching and learning materials. To provide a single point of access to the most delicate quality information worldwide, OER Commons has formed relationships with over 500 key content partners. Users can search over 42,000 approved and fully indexed OER, ensuring that resources are relevant and easy to find. These resources are available for educational use because they are "open," and many of them have Creative Commons licenses that allow them to be repurposed, edited, and adapted for various local settings.

Open Research Library (ORL)

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The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone. Libraries investing in the Open Research Library contribute to the development of a dedicated infrastructure for the global research community, while participating libraries have the opportunity to benefit from a set of exclusive services.
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Paperity

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Paperity is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access scholarly articles. It provides a centralized platform for researchers and academics to access a vast collection of open access articles from various disciplines. Paperity aims to enhance the visibility and accessibility of scholarly research by offering a comprehensive database of freely available papers.

PubChem

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PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

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The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is an open-access scientific publisher. PLOS publishes a variety of peer-reviewed journals that cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, medicine, genetics, and more. The organization is known for its commitment to open access, making scientific research freely available to the public.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

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The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is an open-access scientific publisher. PLOS publishes a variety of peer-reviewed journals that cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, medicine, genetics, and more. The organization is known for its commitment to open access, making scientific research freely available to the public.

PubMed

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PubMed is a free database that makes it easier to find and retrieve biomedical and life science publications to improve global and personal health. The PubMed database contains over 33 million citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are frequently provided when available from other sources. For biomedical literature, PubMed has around 34 million citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text information from PubMed Central and publisher websites.

QScience

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QScience.com is the innovative and collaborative, peer-reviewed, online publishing platform from Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press). It offers a fast and transparent Open Access scholarly publishing process, which is centered on the author, bringing their research to a global audience.

Radiopaedia

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Radiopaedia is a rapidly growing, open-edit radiology resource, compiled by radiologists and other health professionals from across the globe. Radiopaedia’s mission is to create the best radiology reference the world has ever seen and to make it available for free, forever, for all.

Reference for Business

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Reference for Business is a comprehensive and easily accessible reference source for entrepreneurs, providing practical information that can be applied to their own businesses. The website offers various resources, including the Encyclopedia of Small Business, Business Biographies, Business Plans, and the Encyclopedia of American Industries.

Research in Art Education and The Arts = بحوث في التربية والفنون

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"Research in Art Education and Arts" is a scientific journal published by the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. The first issue of the journal was published in July 2000, and it is published quarterly (three issues per year). The journal relies on the peer review system in the evaluation of published research and adopts international standards and codes in artistic practices, authorship, evaluation, and scientific publication, which guarantee it a decent academic level. The journal specializes in publishing multidisciplinary research in art education. The journal defines the scope of art education research not only in terms of the role of arts in all its branches in education of all types and stages, but also the role of arts in general in supporting society to absorb the culture of its era and its tools, and to add a human touch to what it imposes of science and technology and what it proposes of new values and concepts that reshape the culture of contemporary society.

RP Photonics Encyclopedia

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The RP Photonics Encyclopedia is a large scientifically founded encyclopedia on optics and photonics, provided by RP Photonics. The whole photonics community – scientific researchers as well as industrial professionals worldwide

Saylor Academy Open Textbooks

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Saylor Academy Open Textbooks is an online platform that offers a collection of free, full-length textbooks in various subjects, including economics, business, and other academic disciplines, The textbooks are available under open licenses, allowing users to access, use, revise, and share them without any restrictions ؛The platform is designed to provide cost-free alternatives to traditional college textbooks, aiming to save students money and promote the use of open educational resources .

Scholarpedia

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Scholarpedia is an open-access, peer-reviewed encyclopedia authored and maintained by scholarly experts from all over the world. Scholarpedia is based on Wikipedia and tries to supplement it by giving in-depth scholarly treatment of themes in mathematics and science, such as physical, biological, behavioral, and social sciences.

Shuaa = شعاع (Oman Research Repository)

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Oman Research Repository (Shuaa) is a digital repository that collects, preserves, and disseminates Omani research outputs. It is a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and anyone interested in learning more about Oman's research landscape. The repository is open access, which means that anyone can access and download its contents for free.

Smithsonian

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Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

SpringerOpen

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SpringerOpen, which was launched in June 2010, is a collection of Springer's 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access publications in all fields of research. We increased our open access book offering in August 2012, in response to the growing demand for open access and the success of the journals. They are published under the name and added to our existing open-access journal repertoire. Upon publication, SpringerOpen journals and books are made freely and permanently available online. They go through rigorous peer review, author, and production services to ensure the work's quality and consistency.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

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SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is an open-access preprint server that provides a platform for authors to showcase their research papers in the digital library, speeding up the dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers and early-stage research.

Sustainability

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Sustainability is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings, published semimonthly online by MDPI. The Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) and Urban Land Institute (ULI) are affiliated with Sustainability and their members receive discounts on the article processing charges.

Symbols

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Symbols is a one-of-a-kind online encyclopedia that organizes everything there is to know about symbols, signs, flags, and glyphs into categories including culture, country, religion, and more. Browse our collection of symbols by category, alphabetically, or by keyword.

TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online )

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TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online) is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities. The consultation of theses is opened and allows the user to construct searches on the complete text of the files by author, advisor, title, keywords, university and department of publication, year of defense, etc.

TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online )

Description
TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online) is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities. The consultation of theses is opened and allows the user to construct searches on the complete text of the files by author, advisor, title, keywords, university and department of publication, year of defense, etc.

The Egyptian Journal Of Hospital Medicine EJHM

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An open-access journal covering all aspects of medicine including clinical trials in different areas of treatment, diagnostic, measurements-focused, observational, prognostic, and qualitative studies, as well as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, and search.

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, it is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The Free Dictionary

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All of TheFreeDictionary's reference databases are included in the default search (all dictionaries and encyclopedias). Your initial search results will be based on whatever tab (dictionary or encyclopedia) is currently selected. The display results will come from Wikipedia if the Wikipedia tab is selected. If you're on the homepage, the search results will come from the Dictionary/Thesaurus tab.

The Journal of Arts and Applied Sciences = مجلة الفنون والعلوم التطبيقية

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The Journal of Arts and Applied Sciences is a periodical leading peer-reviewed international journal. It originated in January 2014, issued regularly every three months (January- April - July - October) every year. Exceptional issues might be published in a certain subject specially by faculty members, researchers, and specialists in research and artistic centers inside or outside Egypt. All manuscripts must be prepared in English or Arabic, and are subjected to a fair peer-review process. The Journal contributes in the field of scientific research to open access of papers while retaining the intellectual property rights of authors, originality, and creativity of scientific research.

The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib)

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The Economic and Library Liberty (Econlib) is devoted to the advancement of economics, markets, and liberty research. It provides a one-of-a-kind collection of tools for students, instructors, researchers, and economic thinkers. Liberty Fund, Inc., a private educational foundation founded to support the study of the goal of a society of free and responsible individuals, hosts the website. The Foundation plans directs, and funds its educational initiatives, to encourage debate and reflection on long-term issues related to the formation and preservation of such a society.

The Met

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All images of public-domain works in The Met collection are available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). So whether you're an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 375,000 images of artworks from our collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.
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UNESDOC Digital Library

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With over 350,000 papers dating back to 1945, the UNESCO Digital Library is the custodian of UNESCO's institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information - sharing). It contains the UNESCO Library's collections, the UNESCO Archives, and other documentation centres in UNESCO's Field Offices and Institutes. The UNESCO Digital Library's goal is to share information and pass it on to future generations.

VADS

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VADS provides a national collection of over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections across the UK, which are freely available for non-commercial use in education. The images cover the broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media. VADS is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).

WebMD

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WebMD is a leading online health information platform that provides valuable and reliable medical information to the public. The platform was launched in 1996 and has since become one of the most popular and comprehensive health websites.

WikEM

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The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki is the largest and most popular open-access reference resource for emergency medicine in the world. Its much-praised content is freely accessible via the internet and mobile applications. Join their contributor group if you are a medical professional and want to share your valuable information with the rest of the world.

Wolfram MathWorld

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MathWorld is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of Wolfram Research's commitment to education and educational outreach.

World Bank Open Data

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The Development Data Group of the World Bank manages statistical and data activities while also maintaining several macros, financial, and sector databases. The group is guided by professional standards in the gathering, compilation, and dissemination of data, and works closely with the Bank's regions and Global Practices to ensure that all data users may have trust in the quality and integrity of the data produced.

World Development Indicators (WDI)

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The World Development Indicators (WDI) are a set of economic, social, and environmental indicators based on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partners. With data dating back to 1960, the database covers over 900 indicators for 210 economies. For country/group series, certain year ranges can be set.

World History Encyclopedia

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Encyclopedia of World History is a non-profit educational company established in 2009 by Jan van der Kraben. The organization publishes and maintains articles, photos, videos, podcasts, and interactive educational tools related to history.

YourDictionary

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YourDictionary is a trustworthy, easy-to-understand guide to everything you need to know about words and language. YourDictionary helps you find the correct definition or synonym, as well as to answer your questions about language, literature, and culture, whether you're a student or a lifelong learner.

zbMATH

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zbMATH Open now has 4.2 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts from over 3,000 journals and book series, as well as 190,000 volumes. Because of the integration of the "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik" database, its coverage extends from the 18th century to the current day. The database contains about one million profiles of identifiable writers linked to multiple platforms, the swMATH mathematical software database, around 35 million references, and links to full-text platforms and Q&A communities like MathOverflow.

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