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Al Manhal is a major Arabic provider of full-text electronic journals, theses and ebooks. It includes approximately 36,000 publications across a variety of subject areas, with coverage in Arabic, English, and several other languages. For more information see its website.

Al Manhal is offering 60 editors free access to all of its electronic resources for one year.

Requirements

• You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia or on your home wiki linked from your application; (see Special:Preferences)
• You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old
• You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
• You do not already have access to this resource through another library or institution

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;
• Electronically save portions of restricted content;
• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;

Approved editors will not

• Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
• Mass scrape or mass download Al Manhal content
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.
• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.
• Violate any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the Al Manhal website they are accessing.

Private and confidential information

• By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and Al Manhal. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or Al Manhal), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

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Introduction to the Al Manhal platform (Arabic)

• Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to Al Manhal resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to restricted Al Manhal pages
• Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate
• Respect the copyright of Al Manhal, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
• Cite resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by Al Manhal

Note that citation styles vary by article; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles they are working with so long as the citations are complete.

Example

{{cite journal|last1=Adekoya|first1=Helen Odunola|title=Schema Theory : A Conceptual Review|journal=Journal of Research and Development|date=2013|volume=1|issue=3|pages=1–7|doi=10.12816/0001953|url=http://platform.almanhal.com/Article/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=7848}} {{subscription needed|via=Al Manhal}}

• Adekoya, Helen Odunola (2013). "Schema Theory : A Conceptual Review". Journal of Research and Development. 1 (3): 1–7. doi:10.12816/0001953.   – via Al Manhal (subscription required)

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