Hassan Abbas Sharbatly e-Library

The Alfaisal University Hassan Abbas Sharbatly e-Library is accessed using highly developed computer labs furnished with the latest technological materials. The growth of electronic resources in the library will continue to support the library with up-to-date references from the most professional societies & publishers.

The myriad of resources available in the Hassan Abbas Sharbatly e-Library have been made possible by the generous support of the Sharbatly family and The Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Foundation. Their generous contributions are very much appreciated and will assist Alfaisal University in taking its place as one of the pre-eminent institutions of its kind in the country, the region, and internationally.

Online Full Text Databases:

Alfaisal Library Online Catalog
Academic Onefile
Academic Search Premier
This is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text articles from over 4,500 journals including over 3,700 peer-reviewed journals. More than 100 journals offer PDF back files to 1975.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is purported to be the industry’s most-used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals with half being peer-reviewed.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science
Stat!Ref
http://iopscience.iop.org/
The Institute of Physics online journals
UpTodate -- the largest clinical community in the world dedicated to synthesizing knowledge for clinicians and patients. With more than 430 journals reviewed, UpToDate provides the medical community with up-to-date information about the significant clinical changes in the health care fields.
Instructions: Once connected simply type your search topic in the search box.
World Book Encyclopedia – a reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.

Database Trials:

Sage Publication Health and Nursing titles – Electronic access to the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies.
Sage Journals Online -- SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
MDConsult – a leading medical database combining medical texts, articles from clinical journals, peer-reviewed clinical guidelines, patient education handouts, integrated MEDLINE searches and a comprehensive drug database. MDConsult has daily summaries of important development in medicine, review of new clinical trials with expert summaries and commentaries on the trials, and access to current therapy reviews from leading specialists on current trends in medicine, patient care and analysis.

Contact the library staff to get the login information:-

Thomas L. Williams
Professor and University Librarian
Email: TWilliams@alfaisal.edu
Tel.: +966-1-215-7840

Daniel Donohue
Director of Library Systems and Senior Librarian
Tel.: +966-1-215-7840

Mohammed Nashbat
UPP librarian
Email: mnashbat@alfaisal.edu, mnashbat@upp.edu.sa
Tel.: +966 1 8125537

e-Resources:

http://www.freebooks4doctors.com
Electronic Medical Books
http://www.pubmed.nl
A bibliographic database listing journal articles in medicine and other health sciences.
http://www.hlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial
A tutorial explaining the best methods to search and get excellent results from Pubmed.
Muslim Philosophy
History of Muslim philosophy
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
This site offers several thousand books including most of the classics.
Rosetta Stone Language-Learning
Hong Kong University Thesis