Learning Resources Center

Explore Knowledge at the BAC Library

About the Learning Resources Center

       The BAC Learning Resources Center (LRC, Library) provides the best possible resources to the right reader at the right time. The LRC contributes to and supports the College as it builds an internationally reputable research institution. Establishing itself as a knowledge hub, it provides access to a wide variety of information resources. The Learning Resources Center has a rich collection of print and electronic resources that includes books, journals, databases, e-Books, e-Journals, and Audio-Visual Materials (CDs/DVDs) which provide innovative, responsive, and effective services to user demands within the academic community. The Learning Resources Center is completely automated with RFID-based technology and with KOHA library automation software.

Goals

  • Ensure all users have high-quality resources to support the research at BAC and fulfill community needs.
  • Offer the right information to the right reader at the right time
  • Provide prompt and precise information access needed by users
  • Deliver the freedom of access to information and resources

LRC Resources

The LRC has the following resources

  • Printed Books
  • Online Databases
  • e-Books
  • e-Journals
  • Audio-Visual Materials (CDs and DVDs)
  • Newspapers and Magazines
  • Student Project Reports

LRC Services

  • Library Orientation: The LRC conducts an orientation program at the beginning of each academic year for new students and faculty.
  • Reference Services: Provides user assistance to search, retrieve and efficiently use LRC and other resources.
  • E-Resources: The LRC has subscribed to various online databases, that cover, e-books and e-Journals, professional development collections, current news, etc.
  • Circulation Services: Circulation services provide issue, return, renewal, and reservation for LRC resources. They also give ready reference services to users.
  • Desktop Computers: The Library provides desktop computers for access to all online resources subscribed to by the Library.
  • OPAC: Library patrons can find out about the availability of Library resources that include books, journals, and other resources through the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).
  • Inter-Library Loan: The Library will have agreements with other colleges and universities for access to their Library databases or other academic materials based on Library user requests.
  • Reprographics Service: Print, photocopy, and scanning services are available to LRC users.

LRC User Conduct

The following policies apply to all LRC users.

Library patrons must show consideration for others and should behave in a manner that does not inconvenience, offend, or limit the rights of other patrons for access to library materials and services. Patrons should behave in a way that does not interfere with or prevent Library staff from providing services.

If an appropriate Code of Conduct is not observed, disciplinary action will be taken against the offender. The following minimum standards of conduct must be observed in the Library:

  • Maintain absolute silence 
  • Food is not permitted 
  • Cell phones are not permitted 
  • Only bottled water is permitted
  • All activities must be conducted quietly to avoid disturbing other patrons.
  • Headphones must be used on any device that produces sound.
  • Online gaming is not permitted on any computer 
  • Patrons are required to show valid identification upon the request of the Library or security staff

Circulation Policy

Member Details
No. of Books
Duration
Faculty
10
4 Months
Staff
3
1 Month
Student
4
2 Weeks

Operating Hours

DAYS
HOURS
Monday to Thursday
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Friday
8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Closed

Dr. Mahammad Gulam Ghouse Pasha

Library Manager

Ph.D, Library and Information Science

The LRC Manager and staff welcome your questions and are available for assistance.

  • Please call: +971 6 764 6333, Ext:214
  • Email: mahammad.p@acuq.ae
  • Energy3D: A simulation-based engineering tool for designing green buildings and power stations that harness renewable energy to achieve sustainable development.
  • Flowsquare: Two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for unsteady, non-reactive/reactive flows. The aim of this software is to provide a handy CFD environment so that more people can get to know what CFD is like and simulate flows for their educational and/or academic interests.
  • GNU Radio: A free and open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment.
  • LogicSim: Design and simulate digital logic circuits with logic gates like AND, OR, FlipFlop, etc.
  • Open Simulation Interface: A generic interface for the environmental perception of automated driving functions in virtual scenarios.
  • Reactor Lab: A desktop app that provides simulations of a variety of chemical reactors. The Lab is useful in teaching Chemical Reaction Engineering. Students can actively learn about chemical reactions and reactors by performing experiments and analyzing data – quickly, safely, and inexpensively.
  • SimSE: An educational software engineering simulation environment whose goal is to bridge the gap between the large amount of conceptual software engineering knowledge given to students in lectures and the comparably small amount of this they actually get to put into practice in an associated “toy” software engineering project.
  • Verilator: Verilog/System Verilog simulator.
  • Virtual Labs: Collection of virtual labs in engineering.
  • Virtual Labs: Provides users with the results of an experiment by one of the following methods: modeling physical phenomenon through a set of equations and simulations to yield the result of a particular experiment.

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 711 textbooks, with more being added all the time.

MERLOT contains links to freely available online textbooks from a variety of sources. MERLOT is a project of the California State University System. Search instructions: (Filter “material type” by “open textbook”).

The BC Open Textbook project is a publisher of open textbooks coordinated by BC Campus launched in October 2012. Titles are published under Creative Commons licenses, available in multiple digital formats including e-book and print-on-demand.

OpenStax specializes in creating materials for general education courses like Business, Humanities, Science, etc. All textbooks have been peer-reviewed and vetted by the higher education community

College textbooks for many subjects. Students can purchase books in multiple formats for less than traditional texts.
Subject areas include: Business, Humanities, Mathematics, Sciences, and Social Sciences.

DOAB is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB contains the metadata of ‘free to share’ e-books and provides direct links to the full text of the publications on the websites of the publishers

A growing collection of openly licensed textbooks in a wide variety of topics.

Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes, which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.

More than 4,800 peer-reviewed Open Access books in Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

A multi-institutional collaboration to develop open-access texts for higher education funded by the National Science Foundation. Covers a variety of subjects including chemistry, biology, geosciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, social sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture, photosciences, and the humanities.

Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.

More than 6,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

Springer offers authors the option to publish their books and chapters open access – making your research freely available to anyone with internet access.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Books are published across all subject areas, our strengths are in Society & Social Sciences and Humanities.We have also built collections in subject specific areas and collections for universities and funders who have a large amount of book content to open access.

A free PDF version of each title is available to download from OUP website. This version is free to read and share according to the terms of the Creative Commons publication license, provided that the author is properly cited

Open Access eBooks provides a common platform for publishing the latest scientific work and acquiring knowledge on the latest scientific happenings in different areas of science, technology, and medicine.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

The site is a project of the Internet Archive and is intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. There are over 1,000,000 free eBook titles available. Most of the titles are public domain, but you can also find here a growing lending library of over 200,000 contemporary eBooks.

European eBook publisher with 1000+ textbooks freely available to download. E-books are primarily in business/economics, engineering/natural sciences, and IT.

This is a popular catalog of public domain eBooks, sourced from Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. The books are available in a vast number of different file formats, so if you are looking for less popular ones, like Plucker or FictionBook2, Manybooks is a good destination to explore. Currently, there are almost 30,000 titles in Manybooks.

Open access book portfolio across a total of 30 subject areas.

A collection of open access books across the disciplines.

  1. Journals – Scientific Research Publishing (scirp.org)

Engineering

Computer Science & Communications

3.     Springer Open Access Journals

The Open Environmental Engineering Journal

The Open Environmental Engineering Journal is an Open Access online journal, which publishes Research Articles, Reviews, and Letters in the field of all areas of environmental engineering aiming at providing the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field.

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Advances in Mechanical Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of mechanical engineering.

The Open Ocean Engineering Journal

The Open Ocean Engineering Journal is an Open Access online journal, which publishes Research articles, reviews, letters and guest edited single topic issues in the field of Ocean Engineering, aiming at providing the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field.

Modern Mechanical Engineering Modern Mechanical Engineering

Modern Mechanical Engineering (MME) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in mechanical engineering. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of mechanical engineering.

Materials Sciences and Applications

Materials Sciences and Applications (MSA) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in materials. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of materials sciences and applications.

Advances in Civil Engineering

Advances in Civil Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of civil engineering.

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