The Directory of Open Access Journals was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains ca. 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
With its worldwide coverage and simple search features, Espacenet, database of EPO European Patent Office, offers free access to information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
Espacenet is accessible to beginners and experts and is updated daily. It contains data on more than 95 million patent documents from around the world. Supporting information can help you understand whether a patent has been granted and if it is still in force.
Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives. It is recognized specifically for:
Web of Science Core Collection is a comprehensive interdisciplinary, bibliographic database with article references from journals, books, proceedings, i.a. out of:
Sciences and Technology
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Includes or is also known as: Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Web of Knowledge.
Updated weekly. Covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject areas.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community, with complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from leading university presses and scholarly societies; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. In some cases, current issues are included in JSTOR.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed when you choose Scopus.
Indexes scholarly literature on Western art and is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
This authoritative database provides selective indexing of historical articles from thousands of journals in a wide variety of languages. Coverage includes world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and much more.
This essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), indexes more than 500,000 articles from 340 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
