The IEEE Xplore is a powerful database in scientific and technical field, published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and other publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides access to over 3 million full-text materials from some of the world’s most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. There are also more than 2 million documents in HTML format. The IEEE Xplore has 170+ journals, 1,400+ conference proceedings, 5,100+ technical standards, around 2,000 eBooks. Approximately 20,000 new documents are added to IEEE Xplore each month.
Science Direct (SD) is Elsevier’s leading database for academic communities. It comprises full-text scientific, technical and health publications with updated documents to keep users informed in their fields. SD conveys over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 book titles. We are currently provided to access to 1,876 journals dated from 2007 to 2019, and 284 ebooks.
ProQuest Central is the largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database in the market today, totaling over 170 subjects, making the database the broadest research resource in the world.
SpringerLink is the world’s most comprehensive online database of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works. There are over 9 million scientific documents in the collection.
Gale Research Complete provides access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources, connects users to trusted, up-to-date content from leading magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals and eBooks. Empowering users at all academic levels, from the undergraduate students to the experienced researchers, and covering nearly every research area and discipline, Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative and unique content. The collections are easy to access, and with interactive tools, users can save, download, listen to and share.
Gale Research Complete includes:
Gale Academic Onefile
Gale General Onefile
Gale Onefile: News
Gale Business Insights
Gale eBooks
Link for access: Gale Research Complete(no password required when accessing the resources on VGU campuses.
Accessing Gale Research Complete outside VGU: log in with VGU email accounts
Searching Gale via separate databases above or via Library OneSEARCH
MathSciNet® is an electronic publication offering access to an easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet® contains over 3 million items and over 1.7 million direct links to original articles.
Link for access: MathSciNet® (accounts provided via emails)
Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, Sage focuses on publishing impactful research and enabling robust research methodology. They produce high quality educational resources that support instructors to prepare the citizens, policy makers, educators and researchers of the future.
Sage Journals are the natural home for leading authors, editors and societies. Publishing more than 1,000 journals, from a wide range of disciplines, SAGE is here to meet your needs.
Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a scientific citation indexing database originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) that provides a comprehensive citation search, citation mapping and citation reports. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which enable in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields in any disciplines. (Source: Web of Science (WoS))
We are sorry for limited access as currently we do not have a subscription to access to WoS for article abstracts, citations and beyond.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus has smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. (Source: Scopus)
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains over 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available. (Source: DOAJ)
The Springer Open portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Publishing with Springer Open makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint. (Source: Springer Open)
Science Direct (SD) is Elsevier’s leading database for academic communities. It comprises full-text scientific, technical and health publications with updated documents to keep users informed in their fields. SD conveys over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 book titles. We are currently provided to access to 1,876 journals dated from 2007 to 2019, and 284 ebooks.
For over a decade Sage has played an active role in Open Access, seeking to build bridges to knowledge in the research community. From their extensive author service to their flexible OA publishing routes, SAGE is here to empower you as researchers, librarians and readers. In an ever-changing landscape, they are here to respond to library needs with our innovative Open Access Agreements. In line with structural equity, they strive to offer sustainable open research, which is accessible to all. (Source: Sage)
Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. It embodies nearly 300 journals, more than 2,500 books and over 450 teaching cases. Disciplines covered by Emerald are accounting & finance, economics, education, management, library,. Resources are available only for 2007.
IMF (International Monetary Fund) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
The International Trade Centre has developed a suite of online tools to make global trade more transparent and to facilitate access to markets. These tools enable business actors to identify export and import opportunities, compare market-access requirements, monitor national trade performance and make well-informed trade decisions.
The Market Analysis Tools suite covers the world’s largest databases on trade statistics, tariff data, and rules of origin related to applicable free trade agreements. Additional tools offer export potential estimations, market price information, regional trade and investment data and much more.
Account for access ICT Tools: Please register from the Market Analysis Tools Portal to have your own account or use the library shared account sent to your emails to access the following ICT Market Tools:
Trade Map, https://www.trademap.org, (trade statistics) to use indicators on export performance, to see international demand as well as exporting companies’ details, to identify alternative markets.
Market Access Map, https://www.macmap.org, (tariffs) for analysing market access conditions worldwide, including applied and bound tariff rates, trade agreements and non-tariff measures.
Export Potential Map, https://exportpotential.intracen.org, based on ITC trade potential and diversification assessment methodology, to see products, markets and suppliers with untapped trade potential.
Market Price Information, https://mpi.intracen.org, is an online tool to track most recent market price information from multiple sources and geographic areas. It provides daily or weekly prices and market news for more than 300 agricultural products.
Investment Map, https://www.investmentmap.org, to see the sector breakdown of foreign direct investment and foreign affiliates’ information to support investment attraction strategies.
Sustainability Map, https://www.sustainabilitymap.org, to analyse and compare voluntary standards promoting sustainable development applied to the production and trade of goods and services.
Procurement Map, https://procurementmap.intracen.org, to see detailed information over 150 000 public tenders. This tool offers a route to foster entrepreneurship and to seek new market opportunities.
Rules of Origin Facilitator, https://findrulesoforigin.org, to see in a single gateway: trade agreements, duty rates, preferential and non-preferential rules of origin, origin certificates and customs procedures.
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online. It comprises 106571 titles from all areas of research, 24899 of which are available online only. In addition, 136368 journals, which are provided by aggregators, are listed. The EZB contains 70747 journals which are accessible free of charge to anyone. Furthermore, the participating libraries provide their users access to the journals they subscribe to.
The journals are presented in lists sorted by research area. An updated list is generated by the database according to the member library’s specifications each time it is accessed. The availability of full-text access is indicated by traffic-light symbols according to the license situation of each member library.
Ingenta is the largest supplier of technology and related services for the publishing industry. IngentaConnect is multidisciplinary, academic and professional database, providing millions of article citations and electronic full text articles.
Link for access: Ingenta (accounts provided via emails)
AGORA (set up by FAO and major publishers) enables developing countries to gain open access to an outstanding collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and social sciences. AGORA provides over 6,100 journals and 5,800 e-books.
Link for access: AGORA (accounts provided via emails)
OARE (managed by UNEP, Yale University and over 60 publishers) provides access to up to 6,500 journals, over 18,000 e-books, and up to 60 other information resources in a wide range of disciplines relating to environment.
Link for access: OARE (accounts provided via emails)
ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) is coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization together with its publishing partners. ARDI provides access to up to 5,100 journals, up to 19,000 e-books, and up to 20 other information resources in diverse fields of science and technology.
Link for access: ARDI (accounts provided via emails)
How to use ARDI: Guide (Guides at the bottom of the page)
ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a system given by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register (such as bibliographic records, journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories. Its primary purpose is to provide a single access point to a wide range of scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work (Source: Digital Commons Network)
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors. Additionally, the OAIster records are included in search results for those libraries with WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local “quick start”. (Source: OAIster)
The aim of FreeFullPDF.com is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific journals, theses, posters and patents. All scientific subjects are covered and all content are freely available in PDF format. FreeFullPDF.com was developped by KnowMade SARL. KnowMade is a Technology Intelligence company specialized in the research and analysis of scientific and technical information. (Source: FreeFullPDF)
WorldWideScience is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. (Source: WorldWideScience)
CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all. (Source: CORE)
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. (Source: BASE)