Bibliography of Foreign-language Printed Bohemica 1501–1800 (BFPB)
- Type of source: bibliographic database
- Documents: books
- Format: text / image
- Specialisation: history
- Period covered: 1501–1800
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads available: no
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
The BFPB is a specialised database mapping out the production of foreign-language printed Bohemica from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The database contains:
- foreign-language printed works from printing houses in the territory of today’s Czech Republic regardless of the nationality of the author or the literary genre (only official printed works are not described)
- foreign editions of foreign-language works by authors originating from the territory of today’s Czech Republic
- foreign-language works by foreign authors published abroad if their content, place of origin, patron, etc. shows a relationship to the Czech, Moravian or Silesian environment (within the borders of today’s Czech Republic)
- the BFPB can currently be accessed in two ways:
- Bohemica from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are published in the form of scanned card indexes enabling searches by author, by anonymous headers and by printers.
- Bohemica from the eighteenth century is now available through the Clavius system which enables combined searches of records by author, title, printer/publisher, and year and place of publication. These concise records are accompanied by digitalised cards with a detailed analytical description and shelf marks of copies found.
The works of J. A. Komenský and Bohuslav Balbín are processed separately within their own bibliographies.
BioMed Central
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF / text / ePUB
- Specialisation: biology, biomedicine, medicine
- Period covered: 2000–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
BioMed Central is the most important open-access publisher and simultaneously a database offering peer-reviewed journals covering all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine.
The published titles are divided into 69 groups by subject matter. All the papers are freely available immediately after publication for on-line reading and downloading thanks to their publication under an open-access licence.
Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: social and humanitarian sciences
- Period covered: 1987–present day
- Publication language: Czech, Polish, Slovak, Russian, etc. / English abstracts
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) database was established by the academies of sciences of the countries of the Visegrad Four with the aim of creating an open-access database containing English abstracts of scientific and academic papers written largely in national languages. It contains journals in the social sciences and humanities published in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia and the Ukraine.
These papers are divided into eighteen groups by field:
- anthropology,
- archaeology,
- art and architecture,
- economics,
- education,
- ethnology,
- history,
- law and administration,
- librarianship and information science,
- the media and communication,
- other social sciences,
- philology and linguistics,
- philosophy,
- political science,
- psychology,
- sociology,
- theology,
- science.
The papers are made available in three modes according to the policy of the individual publishers:
- abstract only,
- full text,
- link to full text in an external source.
Czechoslovak Military Parachutists 1941–1945
- Type of source: encyclopaedia
- Documents: biographies
- Format: text
- Specialisation: history
- Period covered: 1941–1945
- Publication language: Czech
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads available: no
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
This database contains a list of the names of Czechoslovak military parachutists and parachute groups operating in the years 1941 to 1945. The database records contain names, photographs, membership of parachute groups and scanned counterfoils.
Digital Humanities
- Type of source: web portal
- Documents: books / online resources / projects / events
- Format: text
- Specialisation: humanities and social sciences
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads available: no
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
Digital Humanities portal provides access to information resources in humanities and social sciences, created and managed by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Currently it includes the resources of 17 institutes of CAS, both fully available online, only available in specific workplaces and resources that have not been converted to electronic version yet. The portal also includes an informative section which offers a literature overview, events, foreign portals and projects in the field of Digital Humanities.
Manuscriptorium
- Type of source: bibliographic / full-text database
- Documents: books / maps / other documents
- Format: image / text
- Specialisation: philosophy, history, linguistics, literature, religion, art
- Period covered: unknown–1800
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: Czech, English, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian
- Downloads available: no
- Off-line loans available: no
- Videotutorials (Czech/English)
Description:
Manuscriptorium is a digital library containing bibliographic records, digital images and a selection of full-text documents from historical collections – manuscripts, incunabula, prints from the Early New Age, maps, documents, etc.
Manuscriptorium provides a single interface for searches in multiple digital libraries not just in the Czech Republic, but also (thanks to participation in the project Europeana) in the collections of co-operating European institutions – libraries, archives and museums. Manuscriptorium currently makes more than five million digital images available.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Historical Book Illustration
- Type of source: database of book illustrations
- Documents: illustrations
- Format: JPG
- Focus: art
- Languages: Czech, Latin, German, French, Italian
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads possible: YES
- Off-line loans possible: NO
- Coverage: 1512–1791
Characteristics:
The database Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Historical Book Illustration contains illustrations from books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the historical collection of the LCAS. These books have been completely digitalised and the individual illustrations have been described in detail in accordance with a methodology for the purposes of bibliographic description and arranged for search purposes. The user can view these illustrations, discover the type of illustration, the principal themes and attributes of the depictions, and search and compare illustrations by means of key words and an index of characters. The user can also find out which artists created the illustrations and which graphic techniques they used. Each illustration is linked to a digitalised original of the book from which it comes, and is also linked to the specific book and verse of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Czech translation so that the user can read the story depicted in the illustration.
Space 40 (great encyclopaedia of satellites and cosmic probes)
- Type of source: encyclopaedia
- Documents: registers
- Format: text
- Specialisation: cosmonautics
- Period covered: 1957–2012
- Publication language: Czech
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads available: no
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
Space 40 is a specialised database containing an overview of all successful cosmic launches from 1957 to 2012, with a description of individual satellites and probes and a concise overview of astronauts, launch sites, booster rockets, projects and accidents. Part of the database is comprised of a statistical overview of catalogued objects divided by types of orbit and functionality and an overview of launches with a large quantity of debris. Antonín Vítek, a leading Czech expert in cosmonautics and long-term employee of the Academy of Sciences, was the figure behind the project from its beginnings until his death.
The Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Type of source: bibliographic / full-text database
- Documents: books / journals
- Format: JPG / PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1706–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: Czech / English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
Kramerius
Access: http://kramerius.lib.cas.cz
Kramerius is a collection of digitalised periodicals and monographs from the Czech Academy of Sciences and its historical precursors, largely covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along with newer publications from the holdings of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Complete bibliographic details and parts of documents that are no longer subject to copyright are freely available; image data from documents subject to copyright is available only on a reserved computer in the study of the LCAS.
Documents can be downloaded in original JPG format, converted to PDF (including a version for electronic readers) and printed.
EPrints
Access: http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/
The EPrints database provides access to the current journal production of institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a selection of the production of external publishers. It contains full texts of papers from a total of twenty-three periodicals covering a period from 1991 to the present day (this period may differ for individual periodicals). The external publishers represented are the University of Ostrava (Historica), the publishing house Karolinum (Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Oeconomica. Czech Economic Review) and the Society for the History of Sciences and Technology (The History of Science and Technology). The texts of the papers are in the Czech and English languages. A merger with the digital library Kramerius is anticipated in the future.
Webarchiv Akademie věd ČR
Access: http://webarchiv.lib.cas.cz/
This Web Archive is a tool for the archiving and long-term storage of the WebPages of units of the Academy of Sciences. WebPages are saved at monthly intervals dating back to 2009. A total of 41 institutes of the CAS are currently engaged in the Web Archive project.