Due to maintenance of the library system on 08/02/2012 there will be no lending, returning items and ILL. The VUB library catalogue will be available, yet without online user activities. On 09/02/2012 ADB will be temporarily unavailable.

Monday February 6 the Central Library and the GBLJ will exceptionally be closed.

From Monday 2 January until 7 Saturday the Central Library also has extended opening hours!

The latest version of the digital press database has an improved usability. Also searches and result displays are optimized thanks to many new features.

For the academic year 2011-2012, the publisher has made some changes regarding the off campus access.

A database that contains financial information of companies from Belgium and Luxembourg. Now available from the Central Library

During the academic year 2011-2012, registration for loan in the University Library will be free of charge to all VUB personnel, students and alumni. This also applies to all academic staff members and students of other universities and colleges residing in Brussels.

Our website is now easier to read on your mobile device. (IPhone, Android device, Blackberry, etc...).

Due to technical problems, our cd-rom server is disabled. Use as alternative for Judit the database Jura!

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From August 16 until September 15 the opening hours of the Central Library will be extended until 8 pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The Literary encyclopedia provides information about literature through history and in different countries (mainly European countries, but e.g. also Japan).

The database Wilson Art Full Text replaces Wilson Art Abstracts. The reference work not only includes abstracts from articles from art journals, but also contains the full text of selected publications.

Marc Verpoorten 1945-2009

There will be limited external access to Jura from 2 November to 31 December and from 1 March to 15 May.

The University Library has electronic access to more than 370 medical books thanks to the purchase of the LWW Medical Book Collection 2009. The titles have been added to the catalogue.

Since 10 February 2009 the VUB offered off campus access to Jurisquare as a trial. Negociations to consolidate the external access have failed. Therefore Jurisquare can only be consulted on the campus from now on.

The University Library has electronic access to more than 12500 Springer books and to the 29 publications in the LWW Doodys Essential Collection 2008. The titles have been added to the catalogue.

Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals contains the text of and expert commentaries on the most important decisions of international tribunals.

Students and staff members of the VUB have external access to the database Mediargus to 30 June 2009.

Recently Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes are added to the Citation Databases within ISI Web of Science. Coverage from 1990 onwards.

Article Database (ADB) is a huge interdisciplinary database containing descriptions of articles published since 1993 in +20,000 scientific periodicals. At this time the database contains 30 million article descriptions. The database is growing every night with some 8,000 articles.

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.

As of June 30, 2008 links to journals on Blackwell Synergy automatically redirect to Wiley InterScience. Temporary access problems are still possible.

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.). ! Only accessible through the VUB campus

Platform to a range of databases with up-to-date information about medicines, and with rules and guidance concerning their use. ! Only accessible via the VUB campus

Bibliographic 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.

Intuitive navigation system to high-resolution cross-sectional images from the U.S.National Library of Medicine's Visible Human (Male) project

Produced by Elsevier it contains over eight million articles from over 2000 journals, including titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron

Multilingual interface - My ADB - revised presentation of search results

Transfer data to your personal EndNote Web reference library. EndNote Web works together with EndNote X and - requiring a plug-in - with word processors.

The Institutional Repository (IR) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel will be operational this academic year.

Sort search results by title, author and/or year; ISBN-13 searchable

On this page you find a short introduction to the library services of the VUB. Suitable for new users.

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.

The option Google Books in V-link leads you to a lot of Internet information about the book you're looking for, e.g. reviews, a few full pages or even the text from the entire book. For instance find a book title in the VUBIS online catalogue and click the V-link button.

Nearly 40 years of retrospective content is added to the MLA International Bibliography database covering the years from 1926 to 1962. All of this new content is available via EBSCOhost.

Via this index you can search for documents that have a specific keyword in the context of an UDC-number.

Chinese e-journals freely available until 01/01/2007 in Elsevier ScienceDirect (also via V-link).

Jurisquare allows you to search all journals by keyword, full-text, date, author, legal source or applicable law. If the University Library has a subscription to one of the journals, you will be able to access the full-text online. No remote access.

This AWI - VOWB - VVBAD workshop (15/05/2006) focuses on the what and why of Open Archives. It shows some good practices and is organized to offer scientists and librarians a better insight in the system.

Chris Zagar of EZproxy wins LITA award

Online library about various health issues. Only accessible via the VUB campus. (free trial until 21 April)

The Encyclopedia Of Life Support System (UNESCO) is an integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopedias. It deals in detail with interdisciplinary subjects about the relationship between nature and human society.

Interviews and reviews of Dutch literature (1900+)

Information on novels and stories from Belgium and abroad

Search in a database with references to studies on women and gender

INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers) consists of bibliographic records pertaining to physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

New version of V-link available

The Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library 1936-, the Treaties and Agreements Library, the U.S. Supreme Court Library (1754-), the US Attorney General Opinions 1791-

SciFinder Scholar 2004 for Windows will no longer be available after March 31, 2006! Please install the new version.

VLIR library project - University of Nairobi - official launch

Directory of Open Access repositories.

Scifinder 2006 available (Windows version)

New version of Web of Knowledge available

Electronic version of the Treasure trove of Latin Language

National Dutch Bibliography with titles of books, journals and dissertations : version 2005/3

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

Consolidated Belgian legislation (Bruylant) - French language only. Maximum one user. Only accessible via the VUB campus.

Database with addresses and detailed info about institutions and organisations relevant for the social sector in Flanders and Brussels. Maximum one user. Only accessible via the VUB campus.

During the winter holidays the Medical library (campus Jette) will be open between 10 and 15h on December 26-28/12/2005

No more access to Nature Reviews in 2006.

De presentaties van de studienamiddag op 3 oktober 2005 nu online

Electronic database from the International Monetary Fund: version 10/2005.

Judit contains about legislation and law published since 1980.

Judit contains about legislation and law published since 1980.

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.

ABSIS 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.

The Leisure Tourism Database is the leading database on leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation information.

National Dutch Bibliography with titles of books, journals and dissertations : version 2005/2

The University Library has now access to the complete Wiley package. These 412 titles have been added to the ADB catalogue.

The University Library has now access to the complete Springer package, archive included. These 2383 titles have been added to the ADB catalogue.

IPSA 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.

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.

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.

IBTD is a new theatre and dance database with full text from 100 journals and 50 books.

SSM, an extra module added to the SciFinder, gives scientists unparalleled substructure access to the largest and most current chemical databases.