ABI/INFORM Complete-(PQ Central)
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ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database that delivers over 6,800 journals. It
covers key disciplines like accounting, economics, finance, information technology, management,
marketing, risk management, and supply chain.
Al Manhal
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Al Manhal is the leading database that provides a unique opportunity to QNL users to access
Arabic electronic content and full-text searchable electronic databases of peer-reviewed and
copyright protected Arabic publications. QNL users will be able to navigate and access thousands
of electronic publications from the Arab world's leading universities, research centers and scientific
societies.
American Film Institute Catalog
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The American Film Institute Catalog is a premier resource for studying American motion pictures.
The database includes all films produced in the United States from 1892 to 1973. It also includes
records for the Institute’s Top Ten Films for the years 2000 to 2007.
Annual Register
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The Annual Register is a detailed chronicle of events from 1758 to today. It is a digitized version of
the classic 240+ volume reference work. Every year, a new volume is published describing the
events of the past year. Topics covered include world politics, scientific discoveries, obituaries,
and more.
ARTbibliographies Modern
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ARTbibliographies Modern is a specialized bibliography available for the study of modern and
contemporary art with full abstracts and indexing from the late 1960s onwards. It covers painting,
sculpture, photography, video, and more.
Arts and Humanities Full Text
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Arts and Humanities Full Text includes peer-reviewed, trade, and consumer titles relevant to the
fields of applied arts and cultural studies. Subject strengths are art, design, photography,
archaeology, architecture, interior design, modern languages and literatures, and cultural studies.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index Abstracts
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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts covers health, social services, psychology,
sociology, economics, politics, and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA currently contains records
from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries.
ASTM
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The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is a vast collection of industry-leading
standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering
disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and
safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar
engineering.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a citation database that indexes more than 2,500
periodicals published worldwide on architecture and design, city or urban planning, archaeology,
interior design, and historic preservation.
Biology Journals- (PQ Central)
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The Biology Journals in PQ Central includes 410 titles with more than 360 available in full text. It
covers a wide range of biology-related topics such as biological chemistry, biophysics, botany,
cytology and histology, environmental studies, microbiology, microscopy, and zoology.
Cambridge University Press Journals
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It covers over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science.
The database also includes perpetual access to all backfiles.
Computing- (PQ Central)
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The Computing in PQ Central includes 510 titles with over 400 available in full text. It delivers
information on product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, ecommerce, website development, intranets and extranets, and technology management from
scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles.
CREDO
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This online database has 597 selected titles from 80+ publishers. Credo Reference authoritative
content covers various major subject areas which include arts, medicine, psychology, history,
technology, and literature. It offers a mixed collection of reference resources such as general and
subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases,
and more. Its platform aggregates content to provide researchers with a cross-searchable learning
experience via its signature concept map.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
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DAAI is a leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news, and reviews
published in design and applied arts periodicals. It covers disciplines including ceramics, graphic
design, fashion, interior design, architecture, web design, animation, and more.
Digital National Security Archive
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The Digital National Security Archive contains declassified United States government documents,
including 38 collections consisting of meticulously indexed documents. It is compiled by top
scholars and experts, and covers the most critical world events.
Early English Books Online
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) covers the first books published in English through the 17th
Century. It contains titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's
Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.
ebrary
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Ebrary offers eBooks from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas including business,
computers, engineering, fine arts, history, literature, medicine, and religion.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Full Text
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ERIC provides access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records indexed since 1996. The
education database contains records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching
guides, conference papers, and books.
elibrary
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For primary through secondary school age children, eLibrary contains images, videos, eBooks,
and full-text articles from a variety of magazines and journals.
Encyclopædia Britannica Academic Edition
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Encyclopædia Britannica Academic Edition contains the online version of the standard
encyclopedia, plus full-text journal and magazine articles, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, and an Arabic Translation Tool.
Encyclopedia of the Qur'an - (BRILL)
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The Encyclopedia of the Qur'an is an online dictionary covering all Qur’?nic terms, concepts,
personalities, place names, and cultural history which are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, and gives
an explanation for each entry. It also gives entries for verses from the Qur’an, and allows to search
by terms in each verse.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures - (BRILL)
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This is an interdisciplinary reference tool that covers research on gender studies and the Islamic
world. It also provides primary sources and secondary sources under each entry.
Family Health- (PQ Central)
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Family Health in PQ Central includes general medical journals that cover an enormous range of
subjects of value in the public library context – from sports injuries to women’s health, from food to
nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Full Text
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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost
academic and popular film journals. It contains article citations from more than 345 periodicals.
There are links from the FIAF index records to the full-text of the article within the database where
available.
Health and Medical Complete- (PQ Central)
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Health and Medical Complete in PQ Central combines the clinical research titles available in
ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. It
provides in-depth coverage from over 1,950 publications with over 1,660 available in full text.
Health Management- (PQ Central)
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Health Management in PQ Central is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field
of health administration. The content provides relevant information on a wide range of topics,
including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management,
ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
Hoover's Company Profiles- (PQ Central)
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Hoover’s Company Profiles provides company and industry information with a comprehensive
overview of more than 50,000 companies.
IEEE / IET Electronic Library
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IEEE Xplore provides Web access to 3.1 million full-text documents from some of the world's
most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Index Islamicus
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This is an abstract and index database that covers literature on Islam. It includes more than
415,000 records. The materials cited in the index include books, journals, conference proceedings,
monographs, and book reviews.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMP) provides indexing and abstracts for over
470 international music periodicals from over 30 countries. The database currently includes over
900,000 records, mostly after 1996.
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
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International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270
international periodicals. The database includes over 500,000 records, the majority of which index
articles after 1998.
JSTOR
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The JSTOR archive includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences. The entire back runs of journals (from volume 1, issue 1) are provided
with an embargo for the most recent 3 years.
Medline with Full-Text
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Medline with Full Text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It is a
comprehensive source of full text articles from 1,470 journal titles indexed in MEDLINE.
Military Collection- (PQ Central)
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Military Collection in PQ Central covers topics across all government and military branches
including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space
fight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes over 600 titles, with more than 410
available in full text.
Nature
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Nature is an online scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed research in all fields of science
and technology. Archive access dates back to January 1997.
Naxos Music Library
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Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music with over 170,000 tracks,
including classical, jazz, and world music. It also includes information on the different works with
biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's database.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
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Naxos Music Library Jazz (NMLJ) offers a selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz. It
includes famous jazz legends and newly selected titles from leading independent labels that are
added every month.
Naxos Spoken Word Library
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Naxos Spoken Word Library contains audio recordings of the world's greatest literature including
classic novels, plays, and poetry.
Naxos Video Library
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Naxos Video Library is a streaming video library of classical music performances, operas, ballets,
live concerts, and documentaries.
Nursing and Allied Health Source- (PQ Central)
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Nursing and Allied Health Source in PQ Central provides users with reliable healthcare information
in nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. It is designed
to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health
programs at academic institutions.
OneClickDigital
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OneClickdigital is an English only digital audio-book database that allows users to download
audio-books to any iPod, iPhone, iPad, or computer running a Windows or Macintosh operating
system. The collection of approximately 6,100 items includes genres such as popular general
fiction, literary fiction, science fiction, classic fiction, mystery, biography, and creative non-fiction.
After you sign in to your Qatar National Library account, you will be redirected to
the OneClickDigital website. The first time you arrive on the site, you will need to create an
account. Here is a video to help you sign in and use the site. Once in the site, click HELP to learn
more about how to use the service.
You will need to download OneClickdigital Media Manager to listen to the audiobooks, clickhere to
download.
OverDrive
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OverDrive provides popular eBooks for most devices available, including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad,
Android, Kindle, and Nook.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies
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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies is an authoritative research guide with annotated
bibliography and high-end encyclopedia that covers a wide variety of subjects in Islamic Studies.
Oxford Reference Library
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The Oxford Reference Library provides access to Oxford Research Library Encyclopedia of
Archaeology in the Near East, Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, and Encyclopedia
of Ancient Egypt. This database is a comprehensive reference tool that covers large number of
full-text records.
Oxford University Press Journals
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This provides easy access for more than 230 academic and research journals in Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Science. It allows users to search by title of journal or article. The database
also offers perpetual access for all previous issues.
Periodicals Archive Online
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Periodicals Archive Online provides access to international, scholarly literature in the areas of
humanities and social sciences from 1802 to 2000.
Periodicals Index Online
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Periodicals Index Online is a leading multidisciplinary index to the arts, humanities, and social
sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, and most other European languages. Over 30% of the content indexed is from nonEnglish scholarly titles.
Pharmaceutical News Index- (PQ Central)
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Pharmaceutical News Index in PQ Central gives researchers access to the latest information on
medical technology, research, and legislative developments in the pharmaceutical, healthcare,
biotechnology, medical devices, and cosmetic industries.
Pivot
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An indispensable source of information on funding opportunities. The database provides access
to a directory of sponsors, scholarships, fellowships, research assistantships, and grants
proposals. As a tool for QNL users, it quickly and easily brings together people with specific
interests with funding opportunities in those areas.
PQ Central
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PQ Central is a vast aggregated full-text database, with thousands of periodical titles and millions
of full-text articles available. It serves as a central resource for researchers at all levels.
Primary Sources MEMO 1: Pioneer Orientalists - (BRILL)
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Primary Sources MEMO 1: Pioneer Orientalists provides rare, digitized Arabic manuscripts from
the Leiden University Library. Pioneer Orientalists has rich Arabic content with over 300 digitized
volumes in full color, resulting in over 500 Arabic texts. It can be searched in English or with Arabic
transliteration.
ProQuest
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This link points to a search page that will simultaneously search most Proquest products.
PQ Central
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ProQuest Central is a vast aggregated full-text database, with thousands of periodical titles and
millions of full-text articles available. It serves as a central resource for researchers at all levels.
Proquest Entrepreneurship
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ProQuest Entrepreneurship delivers a unique and powerful database collection - designed to arm
entrepreneurs with vital resources for developing and researching their ideas while providing
valuable insight to help progress and grow their product or service.
ProQuest Medical Library
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This database is a comprehensive collection of journals covering clinical and biomedical literature.
Proquest MEDLINE® with Full Text
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Users in academic, corporate and hospital libraries can find definitive healthcare information in
MEDLINE with Full Text. this exciting resource combines the well know MeSH Medical Subject
Headings, abstracts and indexing from the the U.S. National Library of Medicine with the full text of
thousands of articles from ProQuest.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - Full Text
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses – Full Text is the official digital dissertations archive for the
Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes over 1 million full
text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format and nearly 3 million searchable
citations from around the world from 1743 to the present day.
ProQuest Entrepreneurship
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ProQuest Entrepreneurship delivers vital resources on entrepreneurial information such as video
clips, business plans, market research, start-up plans and templates, journal and magazine
contents, business cases, working papers, conference proceedings, full text dissertations, blogs,
and company profiles.
ProQuest Environmental Science Collection
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Environmental Science Collection database includes discipline-oriented bibliographic abstracts
and over 1,100 full-text journals published worldwide. It also includes over 4,000 full-text
government reports, and over 1.2 million digitized pages from over 1,700 U.S. Environmental
Impact Statements.
ProQuest Medical Library
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ProQuest Medical Library has over 1,250 titles, with more than 1,120 medical titles in full text with
abstracts and indexing from the well-known MEDLINE database. It also includes charts, diagrams,
graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to medical research.
ProQuest Natural Sciences Collection
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The Natural Science Collection includes discipline oriented bibliographic abstracts databases and
full-text scholarly and trade journals, magazines, reports, books, conference proceedings, and
news materials relevant to the field of natural sciences.
ProQuest Pharma Collection
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Pharma Collection offers access to over 2,650 scholarly full text journals. It is a comprehensive
database that covers not only medical, clinical, and scientific titles, but also other topics valuable
to all pharmaceutical company employees, from human resources to research and development,
and from marketing to finance.
ProQuest Public Health
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Public Health database delivers core public health literature with access to over 750 publications
with over 520 in full text. It contains journals, newspaper articles, reports, trade publications, and
more published in 1972 to present.
ProQuest Sociology Collection
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ProQuest Sociology Collection provides access to more than 300 full-text journals in sociology and
social work. It includes many core titles like Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
ProQuest Technology Collection
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The Technology Collection includes 5 discipline-oriented bibliographic abstracts databases and
full-text scholarly and trade journals, magazines, reports, books, conference proceedings, and
news materials relevant to the fields of technology and engineering. It contains contents published
from 1962 to present.
RefWorks
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One of the leading citation tools. It allows users to create an account, save, and organize their
search and research materials in a specific citation style such as the Modern Language
Association (MLA) and American Psychological Association (APA). The “Write-N-Cite” plug in for
Microsoft Office (available for Windows and Mac) enables users to cite their sources directly from
their paper without switching to any other application. By using the “RefGrab-it” tool, users can cite
any online source by importing it to their RefWorks account. It is as simple as importing the source
easily, with one click right from their internet browser.
Research Library- (PQ Central)
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ProQuest Research Library is a general database with a mix of scholarly journals, trade
publications, magazines, and newspapers. The database includes more than 5,000 titles starting
from 1971.
Safari Tech Books
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Safari Tech Books Online provides access to more than 21,000 digital books and videos on topics
ranging from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business
strategy published by over 100 publishers.
SAGE Premier
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It is an interdisciplinary database provides full text for more than 645 journals in Humanities, Social
Sciences, and Science. It allows users to search by title of journals or by subject. The database
also offers perpetual access for all previous issues.
Science Journals- (PQ Central)
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Science Journals in PQ Central is a definitive resource for researchers studying both the applied
and general sciences. It contains publications dating back to 1986 with more than 1,200
documents available in full text.
SIRS Discoverer
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SIRS Discoverer is a general reference resource for beginning learners and researchers. It is
aimed towards students in the primary and preparatory grades. SIRS Discoverer helps students
with the skills of research, writing, and language.
SIRS Researcher
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SIRS Researcher is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles
exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles
and graphics are selected from over 1,600 international publications.
Snapshots Series- (PQ Central)
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Snapshots Series is a source of market research data, offering worldwide market data for a broad
range of industries and regions. It includes over 8,800 market reports across 43 industries in 40
countries.
SpringerLink
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A large collection of scientific, technical and medical eBooks and journals. Searchers will see
everything provided by the vendor, however, only those ebooks that do not show "show summary"
are available full text. The library is unable to purchase individual articles and chapters at this
time.
Taylor and Francis Journal Library
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Taylor and Francis Online Journal Library consists of 2 databases, the Science & Technology
Library (ST Library) and the Social Science and Humanities Library (SSH Library). It has a broad
multidisciplinary collection with access to over 1500 titles covering 19 broad subjects.
Vogue Archives
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Vogue Archives provides access to every issue of Vogue from 1892 to today. It contains covers,
advertisements, features, photographs, and illustrations in their original context.
Wiley Online Library
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Wiley Online Library has a broad multi-disciplinary collection of online journals, with access to over
4 million articles from 1500 titles covering 17 broad subjects, including: agriculture, aquaculture &
food science; architecture & planning; art & applied arts; business, economics, finance &
accounting; chemistry; computer science & information technology; earth & environment;
humanities; law & criminology; life sciences; mathematics & statistics; medicine; nursing, dentistry
& healthcare; physical sciences & engineering; psychology; social & behavioral sciences; and,
veterinary medicine. It includes many peer-reviewed primary research and survey journals that are
ranked at the forefront of their field.
Zinio
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Zinio provides access to the full version of several hundred popular magazines, from .NET
(computers) to Zamoof! (kids education). You can have as many magazine subscriptions from the
library as you like and read them on your computer or by using a Zinio App.
After you sign in to your Qatar National Library account, you will be redirected to the Zinio. The
first time you arrive on the site, you will need to create an account. Here is a user guide to help
you sign in and use the site. Once in the site, click HELP to learn how to use the service.
Note: When you go to the commercial website as the last step, you will be able to search and
shop all of Zinio’s products, including those that you may purchase. Please note that the library
does not control access to magazines other than those provided for free for you via our
subscription. The library suggests you enable “safe search” mode in order help prevent
inadvertent access to materials you may not wish to view.