Online Resources
The library’s extensive Online Resources consist of subscriptions to:
- digital book collections
- online periodicals databases
- direct subscriptions to on-line journals (mostly in Applied Linguistics)
- online dictionary
Only University faculty, staff and students, and non-University users with a valid Library card, have access to these resources. University users can also access these resources from their home computers; those who have problems accessing these resources should contact the IT Support Center.
Digital Books
The University provides faculty and students with access to two main collections of digital books: a large collection of academic titles in a broad range of fields [eBrary] and a more specialized collection of information technology digital books [Books24x7–ITPro]:
Search eBrary
The Library of the Hellenic American University subscribes to Ebrary, one of the largest online collections of electronic books that provides:
- 60,000 books from over 180 publishing companies
- More than 4,000 books in the areas of Management, Business, Marketing and Economics
- Advanced search and study tools
Search Books24x7–ITPro
Books 24X7-ITPro provides both broad and deep coverage of over 100 different technology topics with more than 6000 books on:
- Business and Culture
- Databases
- Enterprise Computing
- Hardware
- Networks & Protocols
- Programming Languages
- Security, Telecommunications
- Certification and Compliance
- Over 100 different technology topics
- Desktop & Office Applications
- Graphic Design & Multimedia
- IBM Technologies
- Operating Systems
- Software Engineering and
- Web Programming & Development
Books 24X7 - Well-BeingEssentials is the definitive resource to address the work-life and health concerns of the entire enterprise. Well-Being Essentials recognizes that work/life balance is a key factor in the overall health of employees so the range of titles extends from health maintenance to personal happiness to financial stability:
- Weight loss,
- Personal Finance,
- Emotional Well-Being,
- Relationships,
- Health Challenges,
- Stress Management,
- Career transitions,
- Work-Life balance,
- Healthy eating,
- Adoption,
- Parenting,
- Fitness,
- Grief & Loss,
- Substance Abuse,
- Career Development, etc.
Periodicals’ Databases
The Library subscribes to a number of services that provide access to online periodicals databases. It also has direct subscriptions to a range of on-line journals. The following lists the periodicals databases to which the Library is subscribed, by subject area(s) and the subscription service. Clicking on the “Service” will bring you to the provider’s Search page.
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Service Database Subject Areas |
Description |
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Academic Search Complete Most academic subject areas |
Academic Search Complete, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Thesis Database Most academic subject areas |
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world with over 60,000 titles added every year. |
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Business Source Complete Business and Management |
Peer-reviewed, business related journals. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. |
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Regional Business News Business and Management |
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all USA areas. |
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Springer Computer Science Archives Information Technology |
Offers access to more than 100 computer science journal titles in more than 2,939 volumes dating from 1971 to 1996 regarding various computer science disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication and Networks, Computer Hardware, Computer Imaging and Graphics, Database Management and Information Retrieval, Information Security and Cryptology, Information Systems, Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction. |
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Psychology |
Comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. |
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SocIndex Sociology |
Comprehensive and high quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. |
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Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) Education |
Full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. |
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PsycINFO Social Sciences /Psychology |
A database that provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. |
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PsycARTICLES Social Sciences /Psychology |
A database of full-text articles from most of the 63 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. |
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EJS E-Journals Multi-disciplinary abstracts database |
Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Electronic Journals Service (EJS), as well as usage of Links in EBSCO. EJS journals allow search and retrieval of citations, abstracts, and full text. These titles are scientific, technological, or medical in nature, and users have the option to search over 2,700 additional titles. |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Library Science |
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. |
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Emerald Management Xtra Business and Management |
EMERALD Management Xtra provides access to 150 full text journals and reviews from the top 300 management journals. It is the largest, most comprehensive collection of peer reviewed management journals and online support for librarians, students, faculty and researchers. |
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Project MUSE Humanities and Social Sciences |
A unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 380 high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies. |
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Research Starters™ - Sociology Sociology |
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. |
On-line Journals in Applied Linguistics
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics reviews research in key areas in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, covering the topic by means of critical summaries, overviews and bibliographic citations. Every fourth or fifth issue surveys applied linguistics broadly, offering timely essays on language learning and pedagogy, discourse analysis, teaching innovations, second language acquisition, computer-assisted instruction, language use in professional contexts, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language assessment, to name just a few of the areas reviewed. It provides over 500 new citations each year.
- Critical Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change.
- Discourse & Society is an International Journal for the Study of Discourse and Communication in their Social, Political and Cultural Contexts. It stimulates a problem-oriented and critical approach and pays particular attention to the political implications of discourse and communication.
- Discourse Studies is a multidisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law.
- ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language. It seeks to bridge the gap between the everyday practical concerns of ELT professionals and related disciplines such as education, linguistics, psychology, and sociology that may offer significant insights.
- International Journal of Applied Linguistics publishes articles that focus on the mediation between expertise about language and experience of language. The journal seeks to develop an awareness of the way language works, how it affects peoples' lives, and what interventions are desirable and feasible to make in differing domains of language use and learning.
- Journal of Sociolinguistics promotes sociolinguistics as a thoroughly linguistic and thoroughly social-scientific endeavour. The journal is concerned with language in all its dimensions, macro and micro, as formal features or abstract discourses, as situated talk or written text. Data in published articles represent a wide range of languages, regions and situations - from Alune to Xhosa, from Cameroun to Canada, from bulletin boards to dating ads.
- Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare is an indispensable resource for all those directly involved in, or concerned with, the organization, delivery, management and marketing of healthcare services, at a strategic and operational level. The Journal’s content is international in scope and addresses the diverse range of disciplines that healthcare services management and marketing draws upon.
- Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and semiotics. It is concerned with fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second, and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations.
- Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with language and discourse as aspects of social life. The journal publishes empirical articles of general theoretical, comparative or methodological interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related fields. Language in Society aims to strengthen international scholarship and interdisciplinary conversation and cooperation among researchers interested in language and society by publishing work of high quality which speaks to a wide audience. In addition to original articles, the journal publishes reviews and notices of the latest important books in the field as well as occasional theme and discussion sections.
- Language Testing Journal provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information between people working in the fields of first and second language testing and assessment. This includes researchers and practitioners in EFL and ESL testing, and assessment in child language acquisition and language pathology.
- Monitor Newsletter is the newsletter of the Mid-America Chapter of the ATA (American Translator’s Association). ATA is a professional association with 9,500 members in more than 70 countries, including, among others, translators, interpreters, teachers, universities, corporate or institutional organizations. ATA offers a variety of programs, benefits and support services.
- Modern Language Journal is a refereed publication dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language. This journal publishes documented essays, quantitative and qualitative research studies, response articles, and editorials that challenge paradigms of language learning and teaching. This journal also offers a professional calendar of events and news, a listing of relevant articles in other journals, an annual survey of doctoral degrees in all areas concerning foreign and second languages, and reviews of scholarly books, textbooks, videotapes, and software.
- Proteus is the newsletter of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, USA . NAJIT is a professional association that was first chartered as a non-profit organization under New York State laws, and incorporated as the Court Interpreters and Translators Association, Inc. (CITA) in 1978.
- ReCALL, is a journal that has primary focus on the use of technologies for language learning and teaching, including all relevant aspects of research and development. ReCALL aims to appeal to researchers and practitioners in the area of computer-assisted and technology-enhanced language learning, normally but not exclusively operating in universities. It is also of interest to language teachers in secondary and tertiary education who may be considering the introduction of technologies into their teaching practice.
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA), is a refereed journal of international scope devoted to the scientific discussion of issues in second and foreign language acquisition of any language.
- Target promotes the scholarly study of translational phenomena from a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international point of view.
- TESOL Quarterly is no longer available : soon available TESOL journal - ONLINE INCL TESOL QUARTERLY ONLINE
- The Interpreter and Translation Trainer (ITT), is a refereed international journal that seeks to address issues relating to the education and training of professional translators and interpreters, and of those working in other forms of interlingual and intercultural mediation. ITT aims to provide a specialized forum for trainers, educators, researchers and professionals sharing an interest in the training of translators and/or interpreters from diverse theoretical and applied approaches, encouraging critical reflection on the many issues involved, including: curricular design; syllabus design; translator/translation competence(s); teaching and learning approaches, methods and techniques; teaching and learning resources; assessment and accreditation, amongst others.
- The Translator (print only) is a refereed international journal that publishes articles on a variety of issues related to translation and interpreting as acts of intercultural communication. It aims to provide a meeting point for existing as well as future approaches and to stimulate interaction between various groups who share a common concern for translation as a profession and translation studies as a discipline. It puts equal emphasis on rigour and readability and is not restricted in scope to any particular school of thought or academic group.
- Translation and Literature (print only) is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on English Literature in its foreign relations. It embraces responses to all other literatures in the work of English writers, including reception of classical texts; historical and contemporary translation of works in modern languages; history and theory of literary translation, adaptation, and imitation.
It is indexed in the Arts and Humanities bibliographies and bibliographical databases including the Modern Language Association of America International Bibliography.
Online Dictionary
A comprehensive dictionary of the English language, meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
