Access to electronic resources

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Frederick University maintains subscriptions to various electronic resources such as electronic journals and e-books. Students can access these resources anywhere within the university network. Students can also gain access to the material from outside the Frederick Network by using their Frederick credentials (username and password).

You can download academic papers and e-books from the following publishers:

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ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)

The ABI/INFORM collection features full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country- and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest )

The Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection helps researchers locate results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

ACM Digital Library

The ACM DL is a collection of citations and full texts from the Association of Computing Machinery journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

AGRIS – Agricultural Science and Technology Information

AGRIS is a global public database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology. AGRIS contains over 8 million bibliographic references on agricultural research and technology & links to related data resources on the Web.

Open Access

AMS – American Mathematical Society (books online)

E-Books published by the American Mathematical Society on the history of mathematics and the AMS. In PDF format - Adobe Acrobat required.

Open Access

Archives Hub

The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of archive collections. Within the collections there is a huge diversity of content, from the archives of industries, institutions and researchers to the letters and manuscripts of writers and poets. New descriptions of archives are being added all the time.

Open Access

Arts & Humanities (ProQuest)

Arts & Humanities Database complements the ProQuest Arts and Humanities portfolio, providing online access to 400 contemporary specialist arts titles combined with journals from related fields including ethnic studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies, and more.

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arXive.org

arXiv.org is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library.

Open Access

Asian & European Business Collection (ProQuest)

The Asian & European Business Collection provides information for the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Australia & New Zealand Database (ProQuest)

The Australia & New Zealand Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by institutions located in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study include business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, literature, history, and others.

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Bartleby.com

A collection of modern reference books, and historical anthologies of poetry, fiction and non-fiction titles. Browseable and searchable.

Open Access

BBC Archive

The BBC archives include themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs from as far back as the 1930s.

Open Access

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity to make that literature available for open access and responsible use. The BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 100,000 titles and over 170,000 volumes. The BHL Portal allows users to search the corpus, read the texts online, or download select pages or entire volumes as PDF files.

Open Access

Biology Database (ProQuest)

This database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

BioMed Central

A Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals. Journals span all areas of biology, medicine and health, including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Malaria Journal and BMC Infectious Diseases. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Nature.

Open Access

BAILII – British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Freely available access to British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material. The annual Society of Legal Scholars and BIALL Survey shows that BAILII is the most popular free website with legal content which assists teaching staff and students in their law studies and which they access frequently.

Open Access

British Library

Virtual books, online exhibitions, photographs and images from the British library, including sacred texts, maps, and historical documents.

Open Access

British Pathé

Α newsreel archive of 85,000 films of historical and cultural significance, spanning the years from 1896 to 1976. The collection includes footage of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture. The material is used by broadcasters, production companies, publishers, teachers and researchers.

Open Access

Business Market Research Collection (ProQuest)

The Business Market Research Collection provides company, industry, and geopolitical macroeconomic market research from three sources: Hoover’s Company Profiles, OxResearch, and Snapshots Series.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

 

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Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core is the platform for Cambridge University Press's books and journals. Our new online platform has been designed to help readers and researchers to make fast and easy journeys to a vast range of valuable content. Cambridge Core is a place of valuable research and academic information, including over 1 million journal articles and 30,000+ books.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (ProQuest)

Canadian Business & Current Affairs database is Canada’s comprehensive and diverse full-text online database. It provides broad coverage from a Canadian perspective spans agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Canadian Newsstream

Canadian Newsstream provides users with access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Career & Technical Education (ProQuest)

The Career & Technical Education database is a source for vocational information. The database includes more than 700 titles available in full text. Both students and instructors can access the database to research technical topics, including computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.

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ChemSpider – Search and Share Chemistry

A freely available searchable resource of millions of chemical molecular structures, with access to other online services for the chemistry community. From the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Open Access

CiteSeerX

CiteSeerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries.

Open Access

Computing Database (ProQuest)

This database is a resource for access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes numerous titles, most of them in full text.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

CORE

CORE (Connecting Repositories) aggregates open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide.

Open Access

Continental Europe Database (ProQuest)

This database features content published in various European countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. All major areas of study are represented allowing researchers to access the latest scholarly articles from their region.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Criminal Justice (ProQuest)

Criminal Justice Database supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. The database provides information geared to those interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Cy Law – Κυπριακή Πηγή Νομικής Πληροφόρησης

Το CyLaw είναι η διαδικτυακή υπηρεσία του Παγκύπριου Δικηγορικού Συλλόγου που προσφέρει ελεύθερη και μη κερδοσκοπική πρόσβαση στις κυπριακές και σε διεθνείς πηγές δικαίου. Οι βάσεις δεδομένων του CyLaw περιλαμβάνουν όλη τη νομολογία του Ανωτάτου Δικαστηρίου, την ενοποιημένη και αριθμημένη νομοθεσία καθώς και τους θεσμούς πολιτικής δικονομίας, μέρος της δευτερογενούς νομοθεσίας και αποφάσεων διαιτητικών οργάνων.

Open Access

The Cyprus Oral History & Living Memory Project

Objective of the project is to address the controversy in teaching historical events in Cyprus that emphasize a single narrative and interpretation and to illustrate alternative approaches in 'teaching the conflict' and doing peace education by engaging a wide range of people’s narratives. The aim is to create an oral history archive, and preserve the narratives of people, in order to add depth and nuance to the historic record.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

CYS – Κυπριακός Οργανισμός Τυποποίησης

Στη βάση δεδομένων του CYS βρίσκονται τα διεθνή, ευρωπαϊκά και εθνικά πρότυπα. Παρέχει πρόσβαση σε διεθνείς βάσεις προτύπων για διερεύνηση σε θέματα Τυποποίησης για προϊόντα και υπηρεσίες. Διαθέτει σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή όλα τα πρότυπα των Διεθνών Οργανισμών Τυποποίησης των οποίων είναι ο αποκλειστικός προμηθευτής στην Κύπρο.

Personal registration from within the Frederick University computer network is required

 

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DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB is a discovery service for open access monographs. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Open Access

DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) contains over 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

Open Access

DSpace@MIT

DSpace@MIT is a growing collection of MIT’s research that includes peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, working papers, theses and more. End-user downloads of the 80,000+ items regularly exceed one million per month.

Open Access

 

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East & South Asia Database (ProQuest)

The database provides full-text academic journals that are published in East and South Asia countries, including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Major subject areas of study include business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, political science, law, and humanities.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

East Europe, Central Europe Database (ProQuest)

Features ongoing full-text academic journals published by scholarly organizations and educational institutions located in the East and Central Europe region. Major subject areas include business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, literature and history.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

ECOLEX – The Gateway to Environmental Law

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law. It combines the environmental law information holdings of FAO, IUCN and UNEP. The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.

Open Access

Education Collection (ProQuest)

The Education Collection provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full-text Education Database. Together they provide abstracts, indexing, and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading education journals.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Educause Library

An international repository for information concerning the use and management of Information Technology in higher education.

Open Access

Electronic Medicines Compendium

The Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use. The eMC has more than 11,000 documents, all of which have been checked and approved by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines.

Open Access

ERIC – Institute of Education Sciences

Access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1.4 million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents.

Open Access

EThOS – Electronic Theses Online Service

Over 250,000 digitised versions of British theses, available for free download. May also be purchased on DVD, or print. Registration required for first use only.

Open Access

EUR-Lex – European Union Law

The EUR-Lex site is designed to keep users up to date on legislation in force in the European Union and new legislation as it is enacted. The site has 8 sections: Treaties, The Official Journal, Legislation, Legislation in preparation, Parliamentary questions, Documents of public interest, Preparing Enlargement and Case-law. The site is available in all official European Community languages. The full-text of many documents is available to download.

Open Access

Europeana Collections

Open access to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. Contributed to by 1500 institutions, including national libraries and art galleries.

Open Access

Eurostat

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It provides high quality statistics for Europe that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Eurostat offers a whole range of important and interesting data that governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use for their work.

Open Access

 

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Family Health (ProQuest)

This database offers international coverage dating back to 1988 on a range of public health subjects, including pandemics, disaster preparedness, and obesity. The topics covered in the collection range from sports injuries to women’s health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

FAOSTAT – Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN

FAOSTAT is an online and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery, Food Aid Shipments.

Open Access

 

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HathiTrust Digital Library

This is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

Open Access

Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)

The Health & Medical Collection is a comprehensive medical information resource for researchers, students, faculty, and healthcare professionals. Inside users will find biomedical content from MEDLINE®, built on a core of premier scholarly journals in full text such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The BMJ.

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Health Management (ProQuest)

The Health Management Database is designed for researchers studying the field of health administration. This healthcare management content provides reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.

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IISH - International Institute of Social History

Collects data on the global history of labour and labour relations. The IISH is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The collections, some of which concern politically sensitive materials, are the property of or have been issued on standing loan to the independent IISH Foundation.

Open Access

IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. IMSLP also includes public domain and licensed recordings in its scope, to allow for study by ear.

Open Access

India Database (ProQuest)

The India Database includes ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published in India. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, medical, science, technology, engineering, and social sciences.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

InTechOpen - Science, Technology and Medicine

InTechOpen is a large Science, Technology and Medicine open access book publisher. With a goal to provide free online access to research since 2004, InTechOpen has published 2,799 books and 45,739 scientific works.

Open Access

INIS – The International Nuclear Information System

INIS represents a wealth of experience and an extensive pool of information in the nuclear field. INIS has grown into one of the most successful and comprehensive information systems on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

Open Access

International Journal of Communication

TheInternational Journal of Communication is a, multi-media, academic journal. An interdisciplinary journal centred in communication, while open to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads of communication studies.

Open Access

International Security Forum

The International Security Forum is an independent global think tank registered in Cyprus since 2009. It is concerned with regional and global peace, security and governance issues.

Open Access

International Newsstream

International Newsstream provides recent news and extensive backfiles from outside of the U.S. and Canada. A collection that features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive offers over 10,000,000 fully accessible books and texts.

Open Access

IRIS – Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory

IRIS publishes information on all legal and law related policy developments relevant to the European audiovisual sector. The Observatory is a European public service body and operates within the legal framework of the Council of Europe. It works alongside a number of partner organisations, professional organisations from within the industry and a wide network of correspondents.

Open Access

 

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Kluwer Law Online (Journals)

Kluwer Law Online publishes a high-quality collection of peer-reviewed journals on international legal matters in many different practice areas, written by experts from around the world.

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Latin America & Iberia Database (ProQuest)

The Latin America & Iberia Database includes ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published in a number of Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer)

The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science.

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Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Springer)

This series reports on new developments in all areas of mathematics and their applications - quickly, informally and at a high level.

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Leginet - Cyprus Legal Portal

The Cyprus Legal Portal providing easy access to several topics and links of primary interest to users with a special interest in Legal matters and also hosts the three large subscription-based databases of "Legislation", "Cases" and "Subsidiary Legislation" of the Republic of Cyprus.

For access please contact the Head Librarian

Legislation.gov.uk

A searchable database of original and revised UK legislation and statutory instruments from 1988.

Open Access

Library Science (ProQuest)

This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles included in Library and Information Science Abstracts. Coverage: 1970 - current

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Linguistics Database (ProQuest)

Full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

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MedlinePlus – Encyclopaedic Information on Health and Drug Issues

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.

Open Access

Middle East & Africa Database (ProQuest)

The Middle East & Africa Database features full-text academic journals published in a number of Middle Eastern and African countries. Content covers major areas of study, including business, science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Military Database (ProQuest)

The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. This database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

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MPRA – Munich Personal RePEc Archive

This repository is intended to disseminate research papers of economists who want to make their work freely available through the RePEc networkand are not affiliated with any institution that provides that furtherance.

Open Access

 

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National Academies Press

Freely available collection of reports issued by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The NAP publishes on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Many titles are in digital PDF format.

Open Access

NationMaster

A database of facts, figures, flags and maps of all countries, and statistics on a wide range of topics, including media, transport, crime, health, and industry. Maps and graphs may be generated form the statistics. Sources include the CIA World Factbook, UN and OECD.

Open Access

NCBI Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.

Open Access

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.

Open Access

NHS Evidence

A service that enables access to authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. Managed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Open Access

Nursing & Allied Health

The Nursing & Allied Health Database supports students, instructors, researchers, and nurses with a diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations.

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OAPEN – Online Library and Publication Platform

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Open Access

OATD – Open Access Theses and Dissertations

A resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

Open Access

Open Humanities Press

OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication.

Open Access

Old Bailey Online - Proceedings, 1674-1913

A fully searchable edition of a body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Open Access

Open Archives Gr

Στο openarchives.gr ο χρήστης μπορεί από ένα ενιαίο σημείο πρόσβασης να πραγματοποιήσει αναζήτηση σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά και αρχεία περιοδικών, ερευνητικές δημοσιεύσεις, διδακτορικές διατριβές, διπλωματικές εργασίες, φωτογραφικό υλικό, χάρτες, κ.ά, που καλύπτουν μία ευρεία γκάμα θεματικών όπως την Ιστορία, τη Μουσική, τα Οικονομικά ή το Marketing.

Open Access

OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories

This service lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for freely available academic research information. Full texts are available for most results.

Open Access

Open Music Library

The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street to build the world’s most comprehensive open network of digital resources for the study of music. It brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections.

Open Access

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online is a gateway into art research and the access point to Oxford art reference titles.

Accessible only from within Frederick University computer network or via a VPN account

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online is a gateway into music research and the access point to Oxford music reference titles.

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Oxford Reference

A cross-searchable collection of over 280 language and subject dictionaries and encyclopaedic reference works.

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Peace Process: Layers of Meaning

This is a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (Peace III). It aims to collect 100 heritage interviews of the recollections and views of key figures in the Peace Process. It is also developing an online directory of all extant interviews relating to the Peace Process (LOMOND). With links to related resources.

Open Access

PLOS One – Scientific Journals

PLOS One is a multidisciplinary open access journal that accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. It provides a platform for primary research, including interdisciplinary studies within science and medicine.

Open Access

Political Science Database (ProQuest)

The Political Science Database gives users access to over 450 leading political science and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent, full-text, political science dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities and other sources such as country reports and policy papers.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 ebooks to download or read online. Most were previously published by bona fide publishers.

Open Access

ProQuest Central

ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Thesis Global

ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global simplifies searching for dissertations and theses via a single access point to explore an extensive, trusted collection of 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text.

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PQDT Open – Open Access Dissertations and Theses

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access and make their research available for free on the open Web.

Open Access

PubMed – US National Library of Medicine

PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Open Access

Psychology Database (ProQuest)

The Psychology Database is ProQuest’s highly accessible full-text resource for students, teachers, and researchers. Health and social care professionals will also find this database useful and accessible. The Psychology Database combines high impact full text from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, with diverse sources of content including dissertations and training videos.

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Public Health Database (ProQuest)

The Public Health Database is the ideal starting point for public health information for students, teachers, researchers, and professionals. It delivers core public health literature from thousands of publications, much of it in full text. With journals, dissertations, videos, news, trade publications, reports, and more, the database covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business to biological sciences.

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Religion Database (ProQuest)

The Religion Database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from nondenominational organizations.

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Research Library (ProQuest)

Research Library is a truly multidisciplinary resource featuring a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the top 150 subject areas.

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RIBA – Architecture.com

Here you'll find information on the RIBA as an organisation and its corporate structure and history.

Open Access

 

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Sage Journals

SAGE publishes Journals within the categories: Business & Management, Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Education, Geography, Earth & Environmental Science, Health & Social Care, Media, Communication & Cultural Studies, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Sociology.

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Social Care Online

Social Care Online is the UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. It includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey (informally-published) literature, books, text books and journal articles. The database is updated daily and contains around 155,000 records.

Open Access

Science Database (ProQuest)

This database is a resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text, dating back to the mid-1980s.

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ScienceDirect

One of the world’s leading scientific resources and the electronic outlet of scientific and medical research published by Elsevier. It hosts over 15 million pieces of content from about 4,000 Journals. These journals are grouped into four main categories: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Social Science Collection (ProQuest)

This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

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Sociology Database (ProQuest)

This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.

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Springer Link

Provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

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SpringerLink eBook Collection (over 120,000 full-text titles)

Springer eBooks provide access to a most comprehensive collection of scholarly Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) titles available today.

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SpringerLink Journals

The Springer journal collection includes more than 2.500 English-language and close to 200 German-language journals.

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SpringerLink Reference Works

Springer References are multi-volume encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and atlases on specific subjects aimed not only at researchers, but also at scientists from related areas and junior scientists.

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SSRN – Social Science Research Network

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis is a leading publishers in cross-disciplinary knowledge and specialty research in humanities and social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.


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Telecommunications Database (ProQuest)

A resource for researching the industry and its technology: for the latest news on WAP technology, following market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players in this field. The database includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text.

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Travelers in the Middle East Archive

The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogues, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus.

Open Access

Trove – Australian archives, books, newspapers and more

Trove helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It's more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small. A list of contributors and partners whose collections are included in Trove can be viewed online.

Open Access

Turkey Database (ProQuest)

This database provides full-text academic journals that are locally published in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

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UCL Press

UCL Press is the first fully Open Access University Press in the UK. Grounded in the Open Science/Open Scholarship agenda, UCL Press will seek to make its published outputs available to a global audience. UCL Press focuses on scholarly monographs, scholarly editions, textbooks, edited collections and journals.

Open Access

UK & Ireland Database (ProQuest)

The U.K. & Ireland Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

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UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

Provides a unique resource for the teaching, studying and researching significant legal instrument on international law. It is accompanied by audiovisual materials. Contains a permanent collection of lectures on subjects of international law and extensive online international law materials, including treaties, jurisprudence, documents, legal publications, research guides and selected scholarly writings.

Open Access

US Newsstream

US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.

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VADS – Visual Arts Data Service

The Visual Arts Data Service is an image repository and provides access to over 140,000 images contributed for non-commercial use in education, by museum, library and archive collections across the UK.

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Wellcome Library

A major resources for the study of medical history. Offers a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society.

Open Access

Wiley Online Library

Hosts one of the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 6 million articles from over 1500 journals, over 19,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

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The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR also increases the range of people who can discover and access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.

Open Access

WorldCat-OCLC

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.

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Ανέμη – Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών

Η Ανέμη προσφέρει μια πλούσια συλλογή βιβλιογραφικών πληροφοριών, ψηφιοποιημένων βιβλίων και άρθρων με έμφαση στο Νεοελληνικό πολιτισμό. Δύο εκατομμύρια ψηφιοποιημένες σελίδες σπάνιων βιβλίων και νεότερων εκδόσεων, των οποίων οι συγγραφείς επέτρεψαν την ψηφιοποίηση και ελεύθερη διάθεση στο διαδίκτυο.

Η Αργώ: ΕΚΤ – Βάσεις Δεδομένων Εθνικού Κέντρου Τεκμηρίωσης

Η Αργώ είναι περιβάλλον ανοικτής πρόσβασης σε βιβλιογραφικές πηγές πληροφόρησης που διατίθενται στην Ελλάδα όσο και αλλού, με δυνατότητες αναζήτησης για αρχάριους και έμπειρους χρήστες. Απευθύνεται κυρίως σε χρήστες από την επιστημονική, ερευνητική και εκπαιδευτική κοινότητα, που αναζητούν βιβλιογραφία σε διάφορους θεματικούς τομείς.

ΑΣΚΙ – Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας

Αρχειακά τεκμήρια αναφορικά με την εγκατάσταση των προσφύγων και την αγροτική πολιτική, την περίοδο της Αντίστασης (1941-1944), από όλο το πολιτικό φάσμα της εποχής, αρχειακές συλλογές από την Μέση Ανατολή και την Κυβέρνηση του Βουνού, τεκμήρια από τη δράση αντιδικτατορικών οργανώσεων (1967-1974), συλλογές τεκμηρίων για το Κυπριακό ζήτημα, κλπ.

Αρχείο Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων

Περιλαμβάνει: Πρακτικά Συνεδριάσεων Ολομέλειας, Ημερήσιες Διατάξεις Ολομέλειας, Εκθέσεις Κοινοβουλευτικών Επιτροπών, Νομοθεσία, Εκκρεμούντα Σχέδια Νόμου, Εκκρεμούντες Κανονισμούς, Εκκρεμούντα Θέματα, Εκθέσεις Πεπραγμένων.

 

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Γραφείο Τύπου και Πληροφοριών (Ανακοινωθέντα, 1962- )

Η βάση περιέχει περί τις 500,000 ψηφιοποιημένα ανακοινωθέντα, τα οποία καλύπτουν την περίοδο 1962-2015 και αποτελεί εργαλείο για ερευνητές και μελετητές της σύγχρονης ιστορίας της Κύπρου.

 

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ΕΑΔΔ – Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών

Στο Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών (ΕΑΔΔ) συγκεντρώνεται το σύνολο των διδακτορικών διατριβών που έχουν εκπονηθεί στα ελληνικά Πανεπιστημιακά Ιδρύματα, καθώς και οι διδακτορικές διατριβές που έχουν εκπονηθεί από Έλληνες διδάκτορες σε Πανεπιστημιακά Ιδρύματα του εξωτερικού.

ΕΚΕΒΙ – Εθνικό Κέντρο Βιβλίου (Λογοτεχνικά περιοδικά)

Σελίδες από τα περιοδικά «Νέα Εστία», «Οδός Πανός», «Πλανόδιον», «Περίπλους», «Το Δέντρο», «Η Λέξη», «Οροπέδιο» και «Intellectum». Πρόκειται για τα περιοδικά που ψηφιοποιήθηκαν τα παλαιότερα τεύχη τους, ξεκινώντας από το έτος ίδρυσής τους μέχρι την ημερομηνία που όρισε το κάθε ένα από αυτά.

ΕΛΙΑ – Ελληνικό Λογοτεχνικό και Ιστορικό Αρχείο

Οι συλλογές του ΕΛΙΑ καλύπτουν την εξέλιξη της Ελλάδος κατά τον 19ο και 20ό αιώνα. Μια συλλογή περισσότερων από 1000 αρχείων ιστορικού, λογοτεχνικού, οικονομικού και καλλιτεχνικού περιεχομένου. Παράλληλα διαφυλάσσει πλούσιο οπτικό και εικονογραφικό υλικό: φωτογραφίες, επιστολικά δελτάρια (καρτ-ποστάλ), χάρτες, παλιές διαφημίσεις, ποικίλα εφήμερα, κλπ.

ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ – Μονάδα Πληροφόρησης Διεθνών Σχέσεων

Το ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ είναι βήμα για δημόσιο και πολιτικό διάλογο σε θέματα ευρωπαϊκής ολοκλήρωσης και διεθνών σχέσεων και να διεξάγει επιστημονικές έρευνες που συμβάλλουν στην τεκμηριωμένη γνώση του ευρωπαϊκού και διεθνούς περιβάλλοντος.

ΕΟΑ – Εθνικό Οπτικοακουστικό Αρχείο

Μπορείτε να περιηγηθείτε στις ψηφιοποιημένες συλλογές του ΕΟΑ και στην τεκμηρίωση των οπτικοακουστικών έργων που τις απαρτίζουν. Εκτείνονται χρονικά σε όλο σχεδόν τον 20ο αιώνα, περιλαμβάνοντας οπτικοακουστικό υλικό για γεγονότα και πρόσωπα που διαμόρφωσαν την ιστορική, κοινωνική, οικονομική και πολιτισμική πραγματικότητας της Ελλάδας.

Ελληνική Ψυχολογική Εταιρία – περιοδικό «Ψυχολογία»

Αρχειακό υλικό του περιοδικού «Η Ψυχολογία».

ΕΠΣΕΤ – Εθνικό Πληροφοριακό Σύστημα Έρευνας και Τεχνολογίας

Το ΕΠΣΕΤ προσφέρει περιβάλλον με δυνατότητες αναζήτησης και πρόσβασης σε πλούσιο επιστημονικό περιεχόμενο και υπηρεσίες πληροφόρησης για την ερευνητική δραστηριότητα. Περιέχει το σύνολο των ηλεκτρονικών αποθετηρίων στην Ελλάδα.

ΕΡΤ Αρχείο

Πλούσιο οπτικοακουστικό αρχείο που αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό μέρος της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς της Ελλάδα. Το περιεχόμενο του διαρκώς εμπλουτίζεται και ανανεώνεται με ντοκιμαντέρ, εκπομπές ενημερωτικές, ψυχαγωγικές, ρεπορτάζ, ειδήσεις, φωτογραφίες, ηχητικά ντοκουμέντα από το ραδιοφωνικό αρχείο και έγγραφα όπως, παρτιτούρες.

 

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Ηλεκτρονική Ιστορία της Κύπρου – Αρχείο Π. Παπαδημήτρη

Αρχείοστο οποίο μπορείτε να αναζητήσετε μια περίοδο 8.000 ετών Ιστορίας της Κύπρου. Διευθύνεται από τον συγγραφέα της δεκαεξάτομης Ιστορικής Εγκυκλοπαίδειας της Κύπρου, Παναγιώτη Παπαδημήτρη.

 

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Ίδρυμα Ερευνών και Μελετών Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος

Το Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών και Μελετών «Ελευθέριος Κ. Βενιζέλος», στο πλαίσιο δημιουργίας ενός ενιαίου εικονικού αρχείου για τον Ελευθέριο Βενιζέλο και τη νεότερη ελληνική ιστορία, ανέλαβε την τεκμηρίωση και ψηφιοποίηση του Αρχείου Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου.

Ίδρυμα Ευγενίδου – Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη

Πρόσβαση στα ψηφιακά βιβλία του Ιδρύματος Ευγενίδου του οποίου οι εκδόσεις συμβάλλουν στην επιστημονική και τεχνική εκπαίδευση.

Ίδρυμα Σύλβιας Ιωάννου – Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη

Η Συλλογή περιλαμβάνει σπάνια βιβλία και χάρτες που αφορούν την ιστορική διαδρομή της Κύπρου από το 1571 έως τη μεταβίβαση της από την Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία το 1878. Η συλλογή καλύπτει ένα ευρύ φάσμα υλικού για την Κύπρο.

 

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Κάλλιπος – Ελληνικά Ακαδημαϊκά Ηλεκτρονικά Συγγράμματα και Βοηθήματα

Το Αποθετήριο «Κάλλιπος» είναι ιστοτόπος συλλογής συγγραμμάτων, βοηθημάτων και μαθησιακών αντικειμένων, που καλύπτει όλο το φάσμα της Τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης.

Κοσμόπολις – Φιλολογικά και Λογοτεχνικά περιοδικά (1834-1930)

Η ψηφιακή συλλογή Κοσμόπολις περιλαμβάνει το πλήρες κείμενο 14 φιλολογικών και λογοτεχνικών περιοδικών που κυκλοφόρησαν στο ελληνικό κράτος, αλλά και στους ευρύτερους ελληνόφωνους πληθυσμούς, από το 1834 ως το 1930.

 

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Πάνδημος – Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο

Χώρος ηλεκτρονικής δημοσίευσης της συγγραφικής δραστηριότητας των μελών της επιστημονικής κοινότητας του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου.

 

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ΨΕΒΕ – Ψυχολογική Εταιρία Βορείου Ελλάδος

Σκοπός της Εταιρείας είναι η προαγωγή της επιστήμης της ψυχολογίας και η διάδοση της ψυχολογικής γνώσης. Η πρόσβαση στο πλήρες κείμενο των άρθρων γίνεται μέσω της επιλογής του τίτλου του άρθρου στη σελίδα όπου εμφανίζεται η περίληψη του.