Alumni
XJTLU Library is committed to providing to all alumni of XJTLU a quality library service. Alumni include students graduated from XJTLU or current 2+2 students who are studying at the University of Liverpool.
Visiting | Use the valid Alumni QR Code to visit the Library. |
Library Catalogue (OPAC) | Search items in Library Catalogue with Internet access. Visit the Guide for more details about using the Catalogue. |
Electronic Resources | Walk-in access to the Library’s electronic resources. |
Restricted Remote Access to Electronic Resources | Remotely access alternative electronic resources by using the resources list for alumni as below. You must access the licensed electronic resources with alumni account using the links on the resources list for alumni. |
LiVE | Log in LiVE, an online equivalent of Information Literacy modules for self-learning. |
Reference Service | Contact a librarian for reference services via LibAnswers, and email of askalibrarian@xjtlu.edu.cn. |
Electronic Resources for Alumni
Library Databases
Research Tool
Note: If you encounter any permission issues while accessing the three resource mentioned above, please contact askalibrarian@xjtlu.edu.cn using your alumni email.
Open Access Resources
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is an online search tool for open access resources and documents. Hosted at the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, BASE harvests its data from open access scholarly repositories.
The UK’s national thesis service which provides access to over 475,000 downloadable doctoral theses.
Directory of Open Access Books(DOAB)
A finding aid for thousands of peer-reviewed open access books from many academic publishers.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An index and search engine that provides direct links to journals and journal articles that are open to all. It contains free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
Over 8 million titles (including books & journals) 2.5 million of which are in the public domain.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 800 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.6 million theses and dissertations.
Project Gutenberg
Over 49,000 free books available in a variety of downloadable formats.
PubMed Central (PMC)
Repository of articles produced with the support of NIH research grants and made publically available within 12 months of publication. Note: Not all titles and articles are available in full text.
Real-time publication that takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention.
Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA is large-scale digital public library in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage.
The Social Science Open Access Repository contains both pre- and post-print articles from a wide range of the social sciences. It has both English and foreign language publications.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A free online encyclopedia of philosophy from “abduction” to “zombies.” Note: No articles are available here.
It contains Agricultural & Applied Economics working papers, conference papers, and journal articles.
It includes Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics e-prints (articles & papers).
A pioneer in open access, BioMed Central, now owned by Springer Verlag, publishes over 60 open access journals as well as additional "toll-access" journals.
A peer-reviewed Cell Biology journal also indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, CABI, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform across science and medicine.
Open Repository of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-OR)
An open access repository for research papers under fully or partially NSFC-funded projects.
PLos One contains peer-reviewed scientific and medical research articles from journals in biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, and neglected tropical diseases.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Commonly called the Astrophysics Data System, this is a digital portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics.