http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ Information about the library website en © Vrije Universiteit Brussel: bibliotheek webmaster.biblio@vub.ac.be webmaster.biblio@vub.ac.be 720 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. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:05:05 GMT Monday February 6 the Central Library and the GBLJ will exceptionally be closed. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:05:05 GMT From Monday 2 January until 7 Saturday the Central Library also has extended opening hours! http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/pdf/2012 uitbreiding openingsuren.pdf Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:05:05 GMT The latest version of the digital press database has an improved usability. 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(IPhone, Android device, Blackberry, etc...). http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/images/bibliotheekmobile_en.JPG Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:05:05 GMT Due to technical problems, our cd-rom server is disabled. Use as alternative for Judit the database Jura! http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_database_alpha_en.html#J Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:05:05 GMT Follow us at Twitter for interesting news messages! http://twitter.com/#!/LibraryVUB Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/pdf/2011uitbr_openingsuren.pdf Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:05:05 GMT The Literary encyclopedia provides information about literature through history and in different countries (mainly European countries, but e.g. also Japan). http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=LIE Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=ART Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:05:05 GMT Marc Verpoorten 1945-2009 http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/pdf/marc.pdf Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:05:05 GMT There will be limited external access to Jura from 2 November to 31 December and from 1 March to 15 May. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_ezproxy.html#d Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?SearchMethod=Tree_1 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=SQU Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?SearchMethod=Tree_1 Mon, 25 May 2009 09:05:05 GMT Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals contains the text of and expert commentaries on the most important decisions of international tribunals. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=ALC Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:05:05 GMT Students and staff members of the VUB have external access to the database Mediargus to 30 June 2009. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=GUS Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:05:05 GMT Recently Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes are added to the Citation Databases within ISI Web of Science. Coverage from 1990 onwards. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=WOS Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=VSP Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=JST Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:05:05 GMT As of June 30, 2008 links to journals on Blackwell Synergy automatically redirect to Wiley InterScience. Temporary access problems are still possible. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition.html Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:05:05 GMT 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 http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=PDE Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:05:05 GMT 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 http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=MEC Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=MEC Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:05:05 GMT Intuitive navigation system to high-resolution cross-sectional images from the U.S.National Library of Medicine's Visible Human (Male) project http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=ACL Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:05:05 GMT Produced by Elsevier it contains over eight million articles from over 2000 journals, including titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=VSP Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:05:05 GMT Multilingual interface - My ADB - revised presentation of search results http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=ADB Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:05:05 GMT Transfer data to your personal EndNote Web reference library. EndNote Web works together with EndNote X and - requiring a plug-in - with word processors. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=WOK Mon, 21 May 2007 09:05:05 GMT The Institutional Repository (IR) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel will be operational this academic year. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/pdf/OA-eng.pdf Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:05:05 GMT Sort search results by title, author and/or year; ISBN-13 searchable http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?OpacLanguage=eng Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:05:05 GMT On this page you find a short introduction to the library services of the VUB. Suitable for new users. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_new_users_en.html Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_vspaces_en.html Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?OpacLanguage=eng Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=MLA Wed, 24 May 2006 09:05:05 GMT Via this index you can search for documents that have a specific keyword in the context of an UDC-number. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?OpacLanguage=eng Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:05 GMT Chinese e-journals freely available until 01/01/2007 in Elsevier ScienceDirect (also via V-link). http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/journals/china/ Tue, 9 May 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=SQU Wed, 3 May 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.awi-vlaanderen.be/workshops/index.php?id=164 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:05:05 GMT Chris Zagar of EZproxy wins LITA award http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaresources/litascholarships/06butler.htm Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT Online library about various health issues. Only accessible via the VUB campus. (free trial until 21 April) http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=BSL Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=EOL Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT Interviews and reviews of Dutch literature (1900+) http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=LIT Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT Information on novels and stories from Belgium and abroad http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=FIC Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT Search in a database with references to studies on women and gender http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=SWA Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers) consists of bibliographic records pertaining to physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=WOK Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT Journal Citation Reports (JCR) http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vubissmartweb/Vubis.csp?Profile=ANT Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:05:05 GMT New version of V-link available http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/HELP/help-frame_en.htm Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:05:05 GMT 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- http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_trial_alpha_en.html Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:05:05 GMT SciFinder Scholar 2004 for Windows will no longer be available after March 31, 2006! Please install the new version. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/campuscheck/scifinder/index.html Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:05:05 GMT VLIR library project - University of Nairobi - official launch http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_uonbi_en.html Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:05 GMT Directory of Open Access repositories. http://www.opendoar.org Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:05 GMT Scifinder 2006 available (Windows version) http://biblio.vub.ac.be/campuscheck/scifinder/index.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:05:05 GMT New version of Web of Knowledge available http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=WOK Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:05:05 GMT Electronic version of the Treasure trove of Latin Language http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=TTL Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:05:05 GMT National Dutch Bibliography with titles of books, journals and dissertations : version 2005/3 http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=BNK Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:05:05 GMT Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=LIS Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:05:05 GMT Consolidated Belgian legislation (Bruylant) - French language only. Maximum one user. Only accessible via the VUB campus. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=COD Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=SOK Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:05:05 GMT During the winter holidays the Medical library (campus Jette) will be open between 10 and 15h on December 26-28/12/2005 http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_access_en.html Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:05:05 GMT No more access to Nature Reviews in 2006. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_news_en.html Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:05:05 GMT De presentaties van de studienamiddag op 3 oktober 2005 nu online http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_presentations_en.html Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:05:05 GMT Electronic database from the International Monetary Fund: version 10/2005. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=IFS Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT Judit contains about legislation and law published since 1980. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=UJN Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT Judit contains about legislation and law published since 1980. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=UJF Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.future-drugs.com Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues in modern healthcare. http://www.futuremedicine.com Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://aleph.library.tudelft.nl/ Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.vub.ac.be:2048/login?url=http://portal.acm.org Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT The Leisure Tourism Database is the leading database on leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation information. http://www.vub.ac.be:2048/login?url=http://www.leisuretourism.com Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:05:05 GMT National Dutch Bibliography with titles of books, journals and dissertations : version 2005/2 http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=BNK Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:05:05 GMT The University Library has now access to the complete Wiley package. These 412 titles have been added to the ADB catalogue. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/browsebyproduct?type=1 Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:05:05 GMT The University Library has now access to the complete Springer package, archive included. These 2383 titles have been added to the ADB catalogue. http://www.springerlink.com Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.vub.ac.be:2048/login?url=http://web5 Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://www.vub.ac.be:2048/login?url=http://web5 Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:05:05 GMT 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. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=AVE Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:05:05 GMT IBTD is a new theatre and dance database with full text from 100 journals and 50 books. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/vlink/WWWURN.csp?ID=IBT Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:05:05 GMT SSM, an extra module added to the SciFinder, gives scientists unparalleled substructure access to the largest and most current chemical databases. http://biblio.vub.ac.be/campuscheck/scifinder/index.html Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:05:05 GMT