Remote access to electronic information resources is permitted only to registered users of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences with a valid membership. Registration for remote access to EIR may be performed without visiting the Library of the CAS in person:
- via online form (for users with residence permit within the Czech Republic, who will pay the fee from their own bank account);
- correspondence registration using Czech Post.
The use of these sources is subject to the conditions defined in the pertinent licence agreements.
- The same user name and password as for the library system are used for logging on.
- The content of electronic sources of information is designed only for teaching, studying and academic purposes and for the personal needs of users. In no case can it be used for commercial purposes.
- The downloading or copying of entire editions or titles of electronic journals or other large parts of electronic sources of information is not permitted.
- The use of this information is subject to the usual practice for the creation of academic work, i.e. every work used should be appropriately cited (see, for example, http://www.citace.com).
- User names and passwords are non-transferrable.
You can find further information in the Library Regulations.
If possible, please use Shibboleth access. (What is Shibboleth and EZproxy access?) The identity provider for the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences is a member of the Czech Academy Identity Federation eduID.cz.
- Cookies must be permitted in your browser settings, JavaScript is required, and pop-up windows must not be blocked (in the great majority of cases this will already all be set in standard browser settings). See the guide to the browser you are using for more information.
- Select the required online source in the table given above by clicking on the link in the second or third column to the right. If both types of access are available, i.e. Shibboleth and EZproxy, please use Shibboleth.
- After clicking on the given link, you will first be directed to the identity provider, who will check your identity by asking for your user name and password. You will receive these authentication details when you register your reader’s account (this service is currently designed for registered library readers only).
- If the authentication process is successful, you will automatically be directed to the desired online source and may begin working with it.
- After finishing work with an online source, we strongly recommend you erase your browser history and cookies and close all browser windows. This is particularly important if you are accessing an online source from a public space (computer rooms at libraries and schools, Internet cafés, etc.)!
Possible problems
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A list of online sources permitted for remote access
American Chemical Society
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: journals
- Format: HTML / PDF / expanded PDF with links / equations and graphs available
- Specialisation: chemistry, natural sciences
- Period covered: 1879–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Video guides (English only)
- Support (English only)
Description:
The American Chemical Society is a leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in chemistry and allied sciences.
ACS Publications offers access to the complete production of the American Chemical Society. These titles are divided into five topic sections:
- Macromolecular
- Organic
- Physical
- Inorganic and Analytic
- Biochemistry and Applied Sciences
An interesting feature is the possible use of the “as soon as publishable” service, making the very latest papers available even before they are published in printed form.
Arkyves
- Type of source: database of drawings, paintings and photographs
- Documents: pictorial material
- Interface language: English
- Downloads possible: YES
- Off-line loans possible: NO
- Guide: http://arkyves.orghelp/about
Characteristics:
Arkyves is an on-line research and education platform providing access to an extensive collection of images and texts from a number of world institutions over a unique web interface. This unique interface offers its users the chance of conducting a subject search in a set of more 900,000 items from the collections of a number of leading world institutions (e.g. the Dutch Rijksmuseum, RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Herzog August Bibliothek and university libraries in Milan, Utrecht, Glasgow and Illinois). The multilingual classification system ICONCLASS makes it possible to filter content on a single topic from various sources in the Arkyves database. The user can make a search not just using an ICONCLASS identifier, but also using key words representing many various objects, events, abstract terms or people. Although Arkyves was developed primarily as a reference tool for the study of cultural history, it also serves as an excellent aid to the classification and description of collection items.
Book History Online
- Type of source: bibliographic database
- Documents: books, articles
- Format: text
- Focus: bibliography
- Coverage: the end of the 19th century to the present day
- Publication languages: more than 40 languages (predominantly German, English, French and Dutch)
- Interface language: English
- Downloads possible: NO
- Off-line loans possible: NO
- Guide: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/BHO-How-to-use-Book-History-Online.pdf
Description:
Book History Online is an international bibliographic database specialising in the history of books and libraries. It contains books, articles and reviews concerning the history of printed books, their art, craft and techniques, their economic, social and cultural environment, and their production, distribution, storage and description. It also covers the production of paper, bookbinding, book illustration, typography, typesetting, bibliophilia, book collecting and libraries. The database contains more than 120,000 records and is regularly updated.
BOOKPORT
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: e-books
- Format: PDF / ePub
- Publication language: Czech
- Interface language: Czech
- Downloads available: yes
- Offline loans available: yes (max 6 titles)
Description:
BOOKPORT is a full-text database of czech electronic books – mainly from publishing houses GRADA, GALÉN, JOTA, MuniPress, Portal and Vyšehrad.
Available are collections Medicine and Psychology and Education.
Up to 6 titles can be loaned offline via Bookport Application.
A list of available titles is here.
Cambridge Journals Online – Full Collection
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: journals
- Format: text / PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 2010 (depends on the journal) – present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help
Description:
Cambridge Journals Online provides access to more than 380 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Cambridge Textbooks
Cambridge Textbooks provides access to more than 1,000 textbooks for online reading from world-renowned authors. Textbooks deal with topics such as engineering, mathematics, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
Codices Vossiani Latini Online
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: medieval manuscripts
- Format: JPG
- Focus: bibliography
- Publication language: Latin
- Interface language: English
- Downloads possible: YES
Description:
The database Codices Vossiani Latini Online contains 363 digitalised codices from the world-famous Latin part of the collection of manuscripts of Isaac Vossius at Leiden University Libraries. Isaac Vossius (1618–1689) was not just a philologist and collector of manuscripts, maps, atlases and other printed materials, but also court librarian to Swedish Queen Christina. The collection of 363 manuscripts is supplemented by detailed information drawn from the catalogues of K. A. de Meyier on the content, context and physical appearance of each codex.
EBSCO
- Type of source: bibliographic / full-text database
- Documents: papers / books
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1886–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Swedish, Arabic, Japanese, etc.
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help (English only)
Guides (English only)
Videotutorials (English only)
Description:
EBSCOHost is an interface enabling access to selected bibliographic and full-text databases. The following databases are available under the ASL licence:
- Academic Search Complete – is the world’s most comprehensive multidisciplinary database. It contains over 10,000 full-text journals, of which over 9,000 of them are peer-reviewed and over 6,500 without any time embargo. In addition to the journals, there are also monographs, news, konference proceedings and more than 67,000 videos from the Associated Press.
- Business Source Complete – a renowned bibliographic citation and full-text database specialising in business and covering a period as far back as 1886. It contains more than 3,500 full-text journals, of which over 2,100 of them are reviewed and over 1,400 without any time limitation. In addition to magazines in the database, you can also find company profiles, country reports, case studies, and more.
- Regional Business News – offers comprehensive coverage of regional business publications. It contains publications from all parts of the USA.
- Art Source – covers the world of art and related fields such as architecture and architectural design. It contains full texts of both periodicals and books. It also includes an image gallery.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts contains an index of leading periodicals, books, research reports and anthologies in the areas of librarianship, information science and information marketing.
- GreenFILE is a database focusing on documents related to man’s impact on the environment.
- Education Resource Information Center is one of the principal sources for education. It containsperiodicals idexed in the database Current Index of Journals in Education and the Resources in Education Index.
- MEDLINE is a database of authoritative medical information created by the US National Library of Medicine. The database uses the MeSH branch divisions (Medical Subject Headings) and enables searches for citations from the specialist journals.
- Newswires provides access to current news from the most famous news agencies – Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire and Business Wire. A link in each record enables access to full texts. The database stores news reports from the last 30 days.
EBSCO eBooks
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: books
- Format: PDF / ePub
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1762–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Swedish, Arabic, Japanese, etc.
- Downloads available: yes (limited)
- Off-line loans available: yes (7 days)
- Help (English only)
Guide (Enlish only)
(Video)tutorials (Czech only)
Description:
EBSCO eBooks is a multidisciplinary and multi-genre fulltext digital library. Part of this collection is permanent, while part may change over the course of time. Users who have not set up their own database account may search for and read books on-line, and save, print or send by e-mail selected parts (a maximum of 60 pages). Users must set up an account (free) to download complete books onto their device. The loan period amounts to seven days and the reader may loan a maximum of 50 books at any one time. Books are made available under a single licence, i.e. any given book may be downloaded by just one user at any given time. Users may, however, reserve loaned books.
Emerald
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1988–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help (English only)
Description:
Emerald Premier is a multidisciplinary database that will provide you with access to the full texts of journals produced by the publisher Emerald. The database covers a wide range of disciplines, which are divided into 16 subject categories: Accounting and Finance, Economics, Education, Technology, Health and Welfare, Human Resources and Organizations, Informatics and Knowledge Management, Librarianship and Information Science, Management, Marketing, Asset Management and construction, public policy and environmental management, sociology, strategy, tourism and hospitality, transport. Full title list is available here.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Type of source: encyclopaedia
- Documents: encyclopaedic entries / maps / papers / other
- Format: text / PDF / other
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1768–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes (in part)
- Off-line loans available: no
- Video guide (English only)
- Help (English only)
Description:
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a renowned source of dependable information with a tradition stretching back to 1768.
It provides up-to-date and reliable information in all areas of human knowledge. More than 110 Nobel Prize winners and many other experts contribute to the encyclopaedia. In addition to encyclopaedic entries and biographical records, it also contains an atlas of the world, statistical data on individual countries, the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate dictionary and e-books, videos and other primary sources. Thanks to co-operation with the company EBSCO, it also provides access to the full texts of more than seven hundred periodicals.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
- Type of source: citation database
- Documents: journals / papers
- Format: text
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1988–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Video Guide (Czech)
Supplementary information (Czech)
Video guides (English only)
Support (English only)
Help (English only)
Description:
Journal Citation Reports is a unique citation database fromthe Clarivate Analytics. JCR makes it possible to search for the most cited journals in the given fields, to evaluate the impact of scientific results and to perform further analysis with the help of citation links. The records contain not merely the total number of citations received, but also other indicators such as Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-life and Citing Half-life. The database is divided into two parts: JCR Science Editions and JCR Social Sciences Editions which together cover practically all branches of science.
JSTOR
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1665–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Guides (English only)
Help (English only)
Description:
JSTOR is a digital library containing specialist journals, books and primary sources covering a wide range of fields, though largely the humanities and social sciences. The ASL licence enables access to 17 individual databases – Arts & Sciences I–XV, Biological Sciences a Business IV. Title list is available here.
Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie Online
The Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie (LCI) database is an online version of the printed encyclopedia of the same name, which contains entries on Christian iconography. The individual entries are in German, but the integrated translator allows easy translation into English, French, Italian and Dutch. Each entry has an Iconclass classification and is directly linked to the Arkyves database.
NATO Science for Peace and Security – A, B, C
- Remote access via SpringerLink – EZproxy
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: books
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: security, chemistry, physics, the environment
- Period covered: 2007–2014
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English, German
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help SpringerLink (English only)
Video guide SpringerLink (English only)
Description:
Science for Peace and Security is a programme supporting co-operation between scientists in NATO member states and other co-operating countries. The results of this co-operation are published in the NATO Science for Peace and Security book edition which is divided into five topic series.
Series A: Chemistry and Biology (SpringerLink)
Series A is concerned with the resolution of security risks resulting from the use of atomic, biological and chemical weapons. It takes in such topics as means of detection, protection, the disposal of chemical substances and decontamination. In the fields of medicine and biology, it covers the topics infectious diseases and vaccination, health measures, pharmacology and toxicology, biotechnology, genetics and food safety. This series contains thirty books from 2007 to the present day.
Series B: Physics and Biophysics (SpringerLink)
Series B considers the resolution of security threats arising from the use of atomic and conventional substances and weapons. It focuses on detectors, sensors, the detection of explosions, biosensors and biotechnology, and nuclear safety and protection. This series contains 51 books from 2007 to the present day.
Series C: Environmental Security (SpringerLink)
Series C considers scientific and technological aspects of innovative projects associated with environmental safety, taking in natural and man-made catastrophes, climate change, anticipating and preventing catastrophes, and systems supporting decision-making and risk-assessment. This series contains 111 books from 2007 to the present day.
Series D: Information and Communication Security (IOS Press EBooks)
Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics (IOS Press EBooks)
NATO Science for Peace and Security – D, E
- Remote access via IOS Press Ebooks – EZProxy
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: books
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: security, chemistry, physics, the environment
- Period covered: 2007–2014
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English, German
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help SpringerLink (English only)
Video guide SpringerLink (English only)
Description:
Science for Peace and Security is a programme supporting co-operation between scientists in NATO member states and other co-operating countries. The results of this co-operation are published in the NATO Science for Peace and Security book edition which is divided into five topic series.
Series D: Information and Communication Security (IOS Press EBooks)
Series D focuses on the security of information, information systems and communication networks. It takes in topics such as signal processing, cryptography, informatics, computer security, research and education networks, artificial intelligence and new possibilities for the use of computer networks in, for example, remote learning and telemedicine. This series contains 29 books from 2007 to the present day.
Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics (IOS Press EBooks)
Series E focuses on human society. It considers new challenges in global security, the economic impact of terrorist attacks, the management of science and security in politics and international relations. It also takes in human resources management – education, specialist training, employee mobility, etc.
Nature
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1987–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
The journal Nature is one of the most prestigious and most frequently cited scientific journals in the world. According to Journal Citation Reports its Impact Factor in 2013 amounted to a value of 42.351.
The Library of the Academy of Sciences provides access to full texts covering the period since 1987 to present day.
Oxford Journals Online – Full Collection
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: journals
- Format: text / PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1996–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help
Description:
Oxford Journals Online provides access to more than 400 journals published by Oxford University Press. The journals cover the fields of humanities and social sciences, law and legislation, life sciences, medicine, mathematics.
PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: articles
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1914–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
Description:
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is one of the prestigious, most highly cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals in the world. It presents research results, scientific news, kommentary and podcasts. First number of PNAS was published in January 1915 and it is the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
PressReader
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: periodicals
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: the last three months
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: multilingual
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Video guide (English only)
Guide (English only)
Description:
PressReader is a database containing full texts of more than 6,150 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries around the world, including the Czech Republic. Older editions are available, generally for a period of three months, in addition to current editions.
Titles can be browsed on a web interface or using the application PressReader which also enables their downloading to mobile device or PC. Downloaded titles will then be available without an Internet connection. The application is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Amazon Kindle, Windows and Windows 8. A maximum of three users can access the database at any given time, either in the library itself (web/application) or by remote access (web only).
ProQuest
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers / books / dissertations / newspapers / other documents
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1962–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: multilingual
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Video guides (English only)
More materials
Description:
ProQuest is a multidisciplinary database providing access to the full texts of journals, books, dissertations and other publications. A single interface also provides access to the digital library Ebrary.
The ASL licence provides access to six main databases from the ProQuest Central and ProQuest STM collections:
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is currently the largest aggregated full-text database on the market. In addition to specialised journals, conference proceedings and papers, it also provides access to hundreds of American, Canadian and international newspapers, dissertations and to business information from more than forty countries. Thanks to its broad focus, it serves as a central source for researchers working in all fields. It contains documents from 1971 to the present day.
ProQuest Hospital Collection
Hospital Collection offers an extensive collection of journals, dissertations and other evidence-based sources in medicine.
ProQuest Natural Science Collection
Natural Science Collection is a database focusing on both the natural sciences and education in the natural sciences. Thanks to deep indexing, it enables content searches at the level of individual images, graphs and tables. It includes documents from 1693 to the present day.
ProQuest Science Journals
Science Journal is a source suitable for students and scientists in applied and theoretical science. It features documents covering a period from the middle of the nineteen eighties to the present day.
ProQuest Technology Collection (1962–present day)
Technology Collection covers a complete range of technological research and development thanks to a combination of full texts and an extensive index of global branch literature. It covers a time period from 1962 to the present day.
ProQuest Ebook Central
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: books
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1762–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Swedish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese
- Downloads available: yes (limited)
- Off-line loans available: yes (1-21 days)
- Video guides (English only)
Guides (English only)
FAQ (English only)
Description:
Ebook Central is the multidisciplinary digital library of the company ProQuest. The ASL licence makes available titles from the Academic Complete collection, containing books in all areas of science divided into fifteen groups:
- anthropology,
- business,
- computers and IT,
- education,
- engineering and technology,
- art,
- history,
- languages and literature,
- law,
- natural sciences,
- medicine,
- physical sciences,
- psychology,
- religion,
- social sciences.
Selected titles from the publishing house Karolinum (Charles University) have also been available through Ebook Central since last year.
In addition to on-line reading, Ebook Central also allows off-line loans of whole books on the users own device (for a period of 1-21 days) and the printing, copying and downloading of selected sections. The number of pages available for downloading, copying and printing depends on the policy of the individual publisher and may, for this reason, differ for each book.
SAGE Journals
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: text / PDF
- Specialisation: interdisciplinary
- Period covered: 1999–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help (English only)
Description:
The Sage Journals database contains over 1000 peer-reviewed journals from Sage and other affiliated companies, covering fields such as: medicine, nursing, psychology, religion, sociology, social work and social policy, business and management, education, criminology, geography, communication and media studies, urbanism and spatial planning.
Science
Science has been publishing since its founding in 1880. It is renowned for its highly cited, peer-reviewed research papers, its special strength in life science disciplines, and its award-winning coverage of breaking science news. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its Impact Factor reached a value of 56.9 in 2022. Library of the Czech Academy of Science provides access to readers full text from 2024. Older editions of the journal are available in the EBSCO database or in library´s print collection.
ScienceDirect
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: natural sciences, technology, medicine
- Period covered: 1993–present day
- Publication language: English
- Interface language: English
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Guides (English only):
Browse database – video / text
Advanced search – video / text
Work with search results – video / text
Work with documents – video / text
Description:
The ScienceDirect database from the company Elsevier contains almost a quarter of the world’s peer-reviewed titles with full texts in the natural sciences, technology and medicine. The Library of the Academy of Sciences provides access to the titles from Freedom Collection and other open access journals from the Elsevier ScienceDirect Free Access Journals collection.
Scopus
- Type of source: citation database
- Documents: journals / papers
- Format: text
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1823–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Japanese, Chinese
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Guides (English only)
- Video guide (English only)
Description:
The Scopus database from the company Elsevier is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in the world.
The Articles-in-Press service makes it possible to search for papers from more than 3,750 journals before they have even been published.
The database is arranged by topic into four main areas:
- the natural sciences (agriculture, biology, neuroscience, pharmacology),
- the social sciences (the humanities, business, history, information science),
- the physical sciences (chemistry, engineering, mathematics), and
- the medical sciences (medicine, stomatology, nursing, veterinary medicine).
In addition to standard citation analysis tools, the Scopus database also enables searches in a citation impact index – the Hirsch Index.
SpringerLink
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers / books
- Format: PDF
- Specialisation: natural sciences, technology, medicine
- Period covered: 1997–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English / German
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Help (English only)
Description:
SpringerLink is the most comprehensive on-line collection of journals, books and reference materials in the areas of science, technology and medicine from the publishers Springer and its affiliates. The ASL licence provides access to the Complete Collection containing full texts of journals from 1997 to the present day. The database also contains many other freely accessible books, journals, papers and other documents.
Web of Science
- Availability: bibliographic records / abstracts
- Documents: journals / papers / books / other
- Format: text
- Specialisation: multidisciplinary
- Period covered: 1900–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Guide – search (English only)
Video guide
Description:
Web of Science is an interface providing access to the citation and abstract databases of the company Thomson Reuters. The ASL licence provides access to nine databases:
The Web of Science Core Collection is the main Web of Science database. This multidisciplinary database contains records of impacted journals and konference proceedings from all over the world (including open-access journals. It covers more than 250 branches of science from the year 1900 onwards.
It includes the following citation indexes:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (titles)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (titles)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (titles)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index / Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science
- Book Citation Index
- Current Chemical Reactions
- Index Chemicus (titles)
BIOSIS Citation Index is the world’s most comprehensive reference database for research in the natural sciences. It contains bibliographic records of papers, proceedings, books and research reports, including citation links. It covers documents from 1994 to the present day.
Current Contents Connect contains bibliographic data and the contents and abstracts of specialist journals and books currently published and selected webpages and documents. It provides an overview of the literature currently published on selected topics. The following editions are available under the ASL licence:
- Agriculture, biology and environmental sciences
- Social sciences and behavioural sciences
- Clinical medicine
- Physics, chemistry, Earth science
- Engineering and technology
- The humanities
- Business
- Electronics and communication
Data Citation Index is a database focusing on work with research data, data sets and research reports. It makes it possible to discover useful data associated with a selected topic. The ASL licence provides access to the editions Science and Social Sciences & Humanities.
Derwent Innovations Index makes it possible to conduct quick and accurate searches for patents in chemistry, electrotechnics, electronics and engineering. It contains more than 14.3 million discoveries registered with forty of the world’s patent organisations. Derwent Patent Citation Index also makes it possible to search for links between individual patents using citations. The index covers patents stretching back to 1963, with citations dating back to 1973.
KCI-Korean Journal Database contains bibliographic records on papers from around two thousand specialist journals published in Korea. This includes both pre-subscribed journals and journals published in open-access form. Covering a period dating back to 1980.
MEDLINE is a leading bibliographic database in medicine and related sciences created by the US National Library of Medicine. It indexes content from more than 4,900 branch journals published in thirty languages and a selection of relevant documents from newspapers, magazines and news bulletins. The branch thesaurus Medical Subject Headings and CAS registry numbers of chemical substances can be used for search purposes. Covering a period dating back to 1950.
SciELO Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database providing access to specialist texts published in open-access journals in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. Covering a period dating back to 1997.
Zoological Record is the world’s oldest database in animal biology. It contains 4,719 journal titles and other documents including books, research reports and conference proceedings covering a period dating back to 1994. It also contains an extensive database of animal names which, thanks to its coverage dating back to 1864, makes it possible to study the development of individual naming systems.
Web of Science also makes it possible to access the Journal Citation Reports citation databases.
Wiley Online Library
- Type of source: full-text database
- Documents: papers / books
- Format: text / PDF
- Specialisation: natural sciences, technology, medicine
- Period covered: 1986–present day
- Publication language: multilingual
- Interface language: English / German
- Downloads available: yes
- Off-line loans available: no
- Guides (English only)
Description:
Wiley Online Library is a multidisciplinary database of electronic journals, books and other documents from the publishing house John Wiley & Sons. The ASL licence provides access to the full texts of selected electronic books and to the complete journal production.