Alternative: A-Z Click on one of the subjects to view the corresponding files. AgricultureSearch in a database with references to agricultural articles and books.
Top of the page Applied sciencesABSIS is a database with records from articles about architecture, construction and urbanism. It contains projects from Belgian and Dutch designers, and from foreign designers in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Association for Computing Machinery is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
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The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a bibliographical database (of + 2,500 US and foreign journals) for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history.
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Top of the page Applied sciences - engineeringProvides Access to bibliographic and abstracted records of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publications since 1973.
Top of the page Art historyArt Full Text consists of abstracts of journals concerning art history, antiques, archaeology, architecture.... Full texts are added for a part of the titles
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Top of the page AstronomySearch in a database with references to astronomical articles and books. For some journals papers can be obtained in electronic format.
Search in a database with references to astronomical articles and books.
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Top of the page Chemistry For physical properties of common chemical compounds. You may enter a chemical name, formula, molecular weight, or CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) Registry Number.
Provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.
SciFinder Scholar provides integrated, user-friendly, point-and-click access to several Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases.
! Maximum one user.
! Only accessible on the VUB campus.
Top of the page Communication SciencesCommunication Abstracts contains abstracts of the major journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
Top of the page EconomicsBel-First contains financial information on more than 1 million economic entities from Belgium and Luxembourg, and provides detailed financial information on more than 330,000 companies, with up to 10 years of history.
! Only accessible in the Central Library.
! Maximum 10 simultaneous users!
! Access after identification with your VUB Net ID and password!
Business Source Premier, contains 2,710 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc.
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The new interface of Business Source Premier allows for better browsing of all different sources of full text material, especially country, market, and industry reports are now easily browsable too.
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EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
The OECD Future Studies Information System, Future Trends, covers thousands of published and unpublished sources in over a dozen languages. This unique collection of citations is a vital resource for those looking into long-term issues facing the public and private sectors.
! No remote access.
This database contains (research) reports and strategic information from the Gartner Group in the field of information and communication technology and its use in the industrial and medical sectors and education.
! Access after identification with your VUB Net ID and password.
Search for the annual accounts or consolidated annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium in the last five calendar years and the current calendar year.
OECD Factbook is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/labour force, trade and investment, taxation, public expenditure and R&D. Data are provided for all OECD member countries with area totals, and for selected non-member economies.
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The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard brings together the latest internationally comparable data to explore the growing interaction between knowledge and globalisation at the heart of the ongoing transformation of OECD economies. It draws mainly on OECD databases, indicators and methodology developed by the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Reference work written by the world's most influential economists. The updated on-line format covers full text of the print edition with additional browse and search facilities (hyperlinked cross-references, links to related sites, etc.).
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World Banking Abstracts is a database of abstracts coming from 400 international financial journals.
! You can access this database only through the Blackwell-Synergy portal.
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Top of the page Exact sciencesEprint archive (preprints and postprints) of Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences and Computer Science.
Elsevier ScienceDirect offre l'accès à des articles des sciences exactes et biomedicales.
Top of the page GeneralitiesAbraham is an online bibliography of newspapers printed in Belgium in the period 1830-1950, kept in Flemish institutions.
Academic Search Elite provides (scanned) full text for over 1,530 academic journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers abstracts for 2,720 journals.
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Descriptions of articles published in more than 14.000 important periodicals. When available, abstract and/or full text is shown.
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ResearchIndex (also known as CiteSeer) is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
A free Interdok database of conference proceedings.
General access to the EBSCO databases.
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Includes the complete encyclopaedia (with more than 72 000 articles, 10 000 illustrations, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year).
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General encyclopaedia in French
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L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert: encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers.
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Access to the Financial Times online (FT.com).
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The Frantext database consist of 3737 text in the domain of science, arts, literature,...which cover 5 centuries of literature (centuries XVI-XX).
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In this union catalogue you can find the books, journals, articles and series of the libraries of the federal public sevices.
Google Scholar is not an ordinary search engine, but was especially developed for higher education and sciences. Now with V-link!
Infotrieve is a database of current article information taken from well over 20.000 multidisciplinary journals.
IngentaJournals is a database of current article information taken from over 2600 journals. In March 2000 ingenta merged with the UnCover Company.
JCR Web provides access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals (citation data on journals).
! Do not forget to log out after a JCR session! The number of simultaneous users is restricted.
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JSTOR offers full text access to journals in several scientific disciplines. The organization digitizes articles from the first volume onwards. In agreement with the editors, the last volumes are not accessible.
The collections Arts and Sciences I and Arts and Sciences II contain 243 journals in fifteen disciplines.
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Mediargus is a multimedia press database including all Flemish newspapers and numerous of other newspapers, magazines and multimedia publications. All publications have a two-day delay.
! Login after registration with a valid VUB-emailaddress!
Access to the archive of 7 Flemish newspapers and the Roularta publications (everything older than two days). This version is no longer technically supported and will finally disappear the 9th of July 2012. It is recommended to switch to the new version.
! Only accessible on the VUB campus.
Find magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals.
This database contains more than 52 million references to articles, books, reports, conference proceedings within the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences. From 1823 until today (updated daily).
The Short-Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV) is an online bibliography of books printed in Flanders during the Ancien Régime.
With V-spaces, the user can search multiple information resources simultaneously through a single interface and a single query. Search results are subsequently presented in a single, integrated, list. V-spaces also ensures that the search results are always up-to-date. In principle, the system does not create indexes of its own or maintain local copies of external databases. Search results are therefore as current as the information resources in which the records are found.
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Access to the Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal, the professional dictionaries German, English and French and the elementary dictionaries Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
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Web of Knowlegde is the new ISI interface through wich VUB-users can access the Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, INSPEC and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
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Web interface providing access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.
! Don't forget to log out after completion of your WoS-session. The number of simultaneous users is restricted!
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Top of the page HistoryOver 2,000 journals published since 1954 covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
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Bibliographic database of publications (books, articles) covering all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity.
! Only available in the Centre for Study and Guidance (CSB-A)
Top of the page Industrial property Use the esp@cenet network to search patent applications in their original language and patent applications with an English abstract and title.
The Online Register contains data on all published European patent applications and international applications designating the EPO. As well as this bibliographic data, it also provides information about the grant procedure and the legal status of individual applications, from the date of publication to the grant of the patent, and about any opposition or appeal proceedings.
Trademarks.
Patents.
This database contains the first page data (bibliographic data, abstract and drawing) of published PCT applications.
Top of the page Industrial psychology Search in a database with references to ergonomics articles and books.
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Top of the page International affairsColumbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) includes access to working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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Top of the page LawAnnotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals contains the text of and expert commentaries on the most important decisions of international tribunals.
! Only access on the VUB campus.
Jura.be is a legal database containing all sources of law and up-to-date information about legislation, jurisprudence and legal doctrine.
! Limited external access(more information - only in Dutch).
Jurisquare is a database which contains data from a 100 legal journals from different Belgian publishers.
! Full text articles only accessible via the Central Library (exceptional off campus access full texts between 2 April and 8 June).
! Access to references available via the VUB network.
This legal instruments database contains legal instruments and important policy documents on children's rights at the international, regional, Belgia and Flemish level.
Portal site to Larcier publications. Cross search and online access to the full text of Larcier journals and lawbooks. Hyperlinks to free access external sites.
! Full text articles only accessible in the Central Library (exceptional off campus access between 02/04 and 08/06).
! Access to references available off campus.
Warenwetgeving contains European, federal and regional texts of law and implementing orders on food.
! Maximum one user.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
Westlaw International offers full text of legislation, case law, treaties and law reviews of the USA, Australia, Canada, the Uk and the European Union
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Top of the page Library and Information ScienceLibrary, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Top of the page Library and Information ScienceLibrary, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Top of the page Linguistics and literatureInformation on novels and stories from Belgium and abroad.
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The Literary encyclopedia provides information about literature through history and in different countries (mainly European countries, but e.g. also Japan). The database offers biographic and bibliographic information and adds recommenended secondary reading.
! Accessible on campus; consultation off campus only after registration with a VUB emailaddress.
Interviews and reviews of Dutch literature (1900+).
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The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
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MLA (Modern Language Association of America) International Bibliography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Top of the page Mathematics(Belgian Mathematical Society) databank With links to more than 30 mathematical journals.
Mathematics arXiv (Cornell University). The arXiv has 35654+4940 mathematics articles (primary+secondary) as of December 9, 2004.
(American Mathematical Society) Content: Guides to the Mathematical Literature, Mathematical Literature on the Web, Mathematics by Points of View, Mathematics People, Reference Literature, Web servers, Related Resources.
MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present).
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A tool for verifying references and for adding links to MathSciNet.
Search in a database with references to mathematical articles and books. Equivalent of the Zentralblatt für Mathematik / Mathematics Abstracts on paper.
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Top of the page MedicineBioMed Central is an independent publishing house providing open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Future Drugs provides healthcare practitioners and research professionals with a source of information on emerging trends in healthcare and advances in the major therapeutic areas through the Expert Review series.
information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues in modern healthcare.
INVERT (Index van de Nederlandstalige verpleegkundige tijdschriftliteratuur) is an index to the literature published in Dutch and Flemish nursing journals.
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NLM (National Library of Medicine) Gateway (formerly known as Internet Grateful Med) simultaneous searches in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. Further access to other NLM databases.
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, HealthSTAR, as well as Publisher-Supplied citations.
Toxicology Literature Online (National Library of Medicine): a databases on toxicology.
A database of Clinical information, primarily in the domain of Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics.
! Access only on campus Jette.
Top of the page PedagogicsSearch in a database with references to educational articles and books.
This full-text source of education scholarship provides coverage for a wide range of topics, including adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, secondary education, teaching methods and much more.
Educational Research Abstracts Online contains abstracts for over 700 educational periodicals.
Search in a database with references to educational articles and books.
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Information about social and medical nonprofit organisations in Flanders.
Wilson Education Index contains abstracts for over 475 educational periodicals and offers full text access to more than 150 titles.
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Top of the page PharmacologyThe European Pharmacopoeia is an official listing containing directions for preparing and testing pharmaceutical products in the European Community.
! No remote access.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
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A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
A database with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
Top of the page PhiliosophyThe International Philosophical Bibliography is confined to philosophical literature published in the following languages: Dutch - English - French - German - Italian - Latin - Portuguese - Spanish and Catalan. It lists titles of books - congress proceedings - articles - critical notices and review articles published in the analysed periodicals.
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The philosopher's index is a bibliographic database with abstracts from books and journals in philosophy published since 1940.
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Top of the page PhysicsINSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers) consists of bibliographic records pertaining to physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology.
! Only accessible via the VUB network.
Top of the page Political sciencesIPSA provides abstracts of political science articles. Topics include method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; political and administrative institutions; political processes (public opinion, attitudes, parties, forces, groups, and elections); international relations; and national and area studies.
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Top of the page PsychologyPsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Hogrefe Publishing Group.
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PsycINFO consists of bibliographic records pertaining to psychology.
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Top of the page Recreation - Entertainment - Games - Sport SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, sports medicine and science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, sport law & legislation, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, health, and much more. With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
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Top of the page Social sciencesBibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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The Leisure Tourism Database is the leading database on leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation information.
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Top of the page SociologySearch in a database with references to sociological articles and books.
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Search in a database with references to studies on women and gender
Top of the page TheatreIBTD is a new theatre and dance database with full text from 100 journals and 50 books.
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