Library Services
IAU’s campus library exists primarily to serve the scholarly and research needs of our faculty and students. The library contains mainly specialized holdings in subject areas relevant to our course offerings such as business, management, and English.
Library Hours
IAU's library hours change from time to time. Check here to find updated hours for our campus library.
IAU Online Library
Access millions of resources to support your academic studies. LIRN login details are in your syllabus + IAUonline.
Library Guides
Library guides are tools specifically designed to help find resources from different subject areas. They can assist in locating books from the IAU catalog, articles from academic journals, databases, and other online resources.
Library Catalog
Explore IAU's Library Catalog, a listing of books found on campus. Though under development, access is available upon request.
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Textbook List
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Library Tutorials
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Public Libraries
5 public libraries are within 5 miles of IAU!
Free Resources
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Library Hours
The campus library is located at the IAU Los Angeles Main Campus at 3440 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1000, Los Angeles, CA 90010.
Library Tutorials
LIRNSearch Introduction
Information Literacy
IAU Online Library
Through LIRN, IAU’s Online Library provides students with millions of peer-reviewed and full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, podcasts, audio, and video resources to support their academic studies from various academic databases, eLibrary, Open Access Resources, and more. The online library and other resources are more than sufficient to meet the instructional needs for undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors. It allows students to meet their program objectives. Login details are found in your syllabus + IAUonline.
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ProQuest
ABI/INFORM Collection
The ABI/INFORM Collection is comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
ABI/ INFORM Global
Core scholarly content including thousands of full-text scholarly journals, periodicals, dissertations, and collections of working papers, as well as content from The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and other major business presses.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Applied content including market research reports, journals, magazines, and periodicals relevant to trade and industry
ABI/INFROM Dateline
The most streamlined version, containing regional business news and wire feeds. For more resources and even better value, consider ProQuest’s Business Premium Collection.
Entrepreneurship Database
The Entrepreneurship Database provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business. It contains a diverse collection of resources including journals, industry reports, video clips, “how to” books, templated forms, business plan samples, and more from top publishers.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
As the official repository of the Library of Congress, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses provides researchers with unmatched search and reference link functionality that delivers results from across the globe that can meet the expectations of today’s research community.
Gale Cengage
Gale Business Insights: Global
A unique source for international business intelligence, offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies and in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research and the ability to compare global economies, countries, and industries.
Gale General OneFile
A large general interest periodical resource. It includes reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals. Millions of articles are available.
Gale OneFile: Business
Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art Gale OneFile platform.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
A comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.
Gale Business: DemographicsNow
This tool connects users with a wealth of highly detailed demographic data on more than 24 million U.S. businesses and 206 million consumers—making it ideal for gaining consumer and market insight.
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory
Offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
The Economist Historical Archive
The definitive source for business and policy leaders, opinion shapers, and decision makers. Accordingly, this collection proves the ideal historical resource for researching cutting-edge ideas in a convenient format. Gale's digital technology delivers fully searchable news, supplements, advertisements, and letters that let researchers compare political and economic trends across continents and conduct credible research into the great events of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Open Access Databases
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 18% of which comes from sponsors and 82% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
ERIC
Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. Includes bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) for more than 1.4 million items indexed since 1966, including: journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education related materials. Currently, more than 650 journals are indexed in ERIC either comprehensively (full content) or selectively (articles that are education-related). Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Medline Plus
Use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
Merck Manual
First published in 1899 as a small reference book for physicians and pharmacists, The Manual grew in size and scope to become one of the most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As the Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information of the day to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers.
Merck Veterinary Manual
For over 50 years, The Merck Veterinary Manual has been a trusted source of animal health information for students and practicing veterinarians. It contains authoritative guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of animal disorders and diseases. More than 1100 full-color images, audio examples, videos, and links to related information enhance the expansive coverage of companion, production, exotic, and laboratory animals.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Free Resources
PDQT Open
With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Public Libraries
There are 5 public libraries within a 5 mile radius of IAU's campuses. These libraries are open to the public and may be used as ancillary resources. Please find their contact information below.
Libraries located near IAU's Los Angeles Main Campus:
- Pio Pico - Koreatown Branch Library
694 S. Oxford Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 368-7647 - Wilshire Branch Library
149 N. Saint Andrews Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90004
(323) 957-4550
Libraries located near Orange County Satellite Campus:
- Irvine Heritage Park Library
14361 Yale Avenue, Irvine, CA 92604
(949) 936-4040 - Irvine Katie Wheeler Library
13109 Old Myford Rd., Irvine, CA 92602
(714) 669-8753 - Tustin Library
345 E. Main Street, Tustin, CA 92780
(714) 544-7725
Libraries located near San Diego Satellite Campus:
- California Western School of Law Library
290 Cedar St., San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 525-1418 - Copley Library
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 260-4799 - MCRD San Diego Library
3704 Hochmuth Ave., San Diego, CA 92140
(619) 524-1849 - Mission Hills - Hillcrest/Knox Library
215 W Washington St., San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 692-4910 - Mission Valley Library
2123 Fenton Pkwy., San Diego, CA 92108
(858) 573-5007 - Museum of Man Scientific Library
1350 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 239-2001