Online Resources

Children & YA
Proquest CultureGrams
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
ProQuest Research Companion
ProQuest Research Companion is ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
E- Books & Audio Books
OverDrive
OverDrive offers borrowing ebooks and audiobooks through public libraries worldwide.
provides a variety of general and popualar books in many languages, Arabic, English, French and others.
Overdrive also availble through Libby, OverDrive website
ProQuest Public Library - Ebook Central
Offers digital books in English for researchers, general public and children; in all disciplined. can be searched through the main portal of Maktaba digital library or by through Ebook central only.
General - Arabic databases
Dar Al Mandhumah
Almandumah is the largest online database for Arabic scholarly output. It provides access to thousands of journals, magazines,
conference papers, statistical reports and provides full text access to about 70,000 dissertations from all the Arab countries.
• Dar Al Mandhumah - Dissertations |
• Dar Al Mandhumah - Edusearch |
• Dar Al Mandhumah - Human index |
e-Marefa
e-Marefa is an integrated database of full text and comprehensive metadata of over 700,000 journals, research papers, theses and dissertations, conference papers, statistical reports, and e-books, which has produced 22 specialized databases covering all disciplines.
General - English databases
EBSCOhost Research Platform
EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide.
With quality databases and search features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast.
• Education Sources |
• Academic Source Ultimate |
• Teacher Reference Center |
• Legal Collection |
• Health Business Elite |
• Food Science Sources |
• Health Source: Consumer Editions |
• Sustainability Reference Center |
• Patient Education Reference Center |
• Life Magazine Archive |
• Bloomberg Business Week Archive |
• Architectural Digest Archive |
• The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) |
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) |
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection |
• Science Reference Center |
ProQuest databases
ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks.
• ProQuest Central |
• ProQuest Public Library - Ebook Central |
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global |
Taylor & Francis Collections
The site gives online access to all journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge, with a powerful search that makes it simple to discover the most relevant research for our readers.
Newspaper
PressReader HotSpot
PressReader connects you to the world’s best newspapers and magazines...
with unlimited access to more than 7,000 of titles from around the world.
And allow you to download your favorite publications onto your own device and keep them for later reading.
Specialized Resources
Al Muhamoon Al Arab
Specialized Online database for all subjects related to laws and regulations in UAE.