Notice: the method of authorising access to licensed electronic resources from outside the Gdańsk Tech network has been changed - authorisation is based on the Gdańsk University of Technology Account data (Gdańsk University of Technology Central Log-in Point).

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:

  • full-text collection of all ACM publications from 1954 to present (journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books)
  • a collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers
  • ACM Guide to computing literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused on the field of computing
  • a richly interlinked set of connections among authors, works, institutions, and specialized communities

List of titles: link

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

ACS Publications is the publishing division of the American Chemical Society. It is a nonprofit academic publisher of scientific journals covering various fields of chemistry and related sciences. The database provides access to full-text content of articles from journals, which are published on an ongoing basis along with the full archives.

List of journals: link

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a publisher of scientific journals in the fields of the physical and related sciences. AIP Publishing’s portfolio comprises highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals, including a growing portfolio of Open Access titles, that cover all areas of the physical sciences.

Gdańsk University of Technology has access to 10 titles:

  1. Applied Physics Letters
  2. Biointerphases
  3. Chaos
  4. Journal of Applied Physics
  5. Journal of Chemical Physics
  6. Journal of Mathematical Physics
  7. Physics of Fluids
  8. Physics of Plasmas
  9. Physics Today
  10. Review of Scientific Instruments

And to 5 journals published by other research societies:

  1. American Journal of Physics
  2. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  3. Journal of Vacuum Science Technology A
  4. Journal of Vacuum Science Technology B
  5. Surface Science Spectra
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The American Physical Society (APS) publishes journals and books in many disciplines within physiology. These highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals examine major physiological systems from the cellular and molecular to the organ and system level and meet the needs of research investigators, educators, and information specialists interested in the physiological sciences.

Gdańsk University of Technology has access to 13 titles:

  1. Physical Review A
  2. Physical Review B
  3. Physical Review C (częściowo open access w SCOAP3)
  4. Physical Review D (częściowo open access w SCOAP3)
  5. Physical Review E
  6. Physical Review X (open access)
  7. Physical Review Letters (częściowo open access w SCOAP3)
  8. Reviews of Modern Physics
  9. Physical Review Applied
  10. Physical Review Fluids
  11. Physical Review Materials
  12. Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams (open access)
  13. Physical Rewiev Special Topics – Physics Education Research (open access)

And to 4 journals published by other research societies – these journals are accessible only on the Gdańsk Tech campus:

  1. American Journal of Physics
  2. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  3. Journal of Vacuum Science & Tech. A
  4. Journal of Vacuum Science & Tech. B

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Type: e-print repository
Access: http://arxiv.org/

arXiv is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review. It consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical finance and economics. arXiv is operated by Cornell University.

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Type: abstract database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is publishing books and journals on technical sciences and has its own digital library - ASME Digital Collection.

The ASME Digital Collection provides peer-reviewed content:

  • ASME's Journals - from 1959 to the present
  • ASME's Conference Proceedings - from 2002 to the present, plus select proceedings back to 1955
  • ASME eBooks - from 1993 to the present, plus select titles back to 1944

Gdańsk Tech Library provides access to 9 journals "Transactions of the ASME".

 

B
 

Type: bibliographic and abstract database, full-text database
Access: https://bazybg.uek.krakow.pl/bazekon/

BazEkon is current and annotated bibliography on issues in economics and management, based on the content of scientific journals, academic book series, research institutions’ publications. The database provides access to publications issued as early as 1992. Since 2011, full-text articles are also available in the BazEkon database.

 

Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: http://lib.is.gliwice.pl/library/catalog?bibliography

BASPAW is a specialized bibliographic and abstract database created by the library of the Polish Centre for Welding Technology, including articles from world literature on welding and related fields. The database provides access to publications issued in years 1973-2015.

 

Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: https://baztech.icm.edu.pl/

BazTech has been registering articles from Polish journals in science and technology, selected topics in science and environmental protection. BazTech started in 1998 as a bibliographic database and nowdays it is developing towards a full-text citation database. Since 2005 references have been added to bibliographic descriptions and based on agreements with publishers full texts are also included.

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Type: subject gateways
Access: http://baztol.library.put.poznan.pl/baztol_czytelnik/baztol

BazTOL Portal "Polish network stores from the scope of technical studies" is an open field guide to network sources about the controlled quality (subject gateway). Descriptions gathered in the portal (with up-to-date Internet addresses) are an Polish academic publications, databases, shop windows and placed online bulletins. BazTOL stores thematically are connected with technical theories and directed to the fields associated with the area of academic interests.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.uprp.pl/strona-glowna/Menu01,9,0,index,pl/

PUEUP Electronic Services Platform is a single access point to services in the field of industrial property law, provided online by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, i.e. e-Knowledge Base, e-IP Profile, e-Support, e- Registers, e-Payments, e-Search engine, e-Notifications.

The platform is dedicated both to entities with advanced knowledge in the field of industrial property protection (e.g. entrepreneurs conducting innovative activities, lawyers, patent attorneys, etc.), as well as natural persons and entrepreneurs looking for basic information about the objects of protection, applicable procedures or creating a protection strategy IP and exclusive rights management .

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Type: preprint repository
Access: https://www.biorxiv.org/

bioRxiv (established in 2013) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Papers hosted on bioRxiv undergo basic screening and are checked against plagiarism, but they are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/

BioMed Central (BMC) is a publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. Disciplines covered include, among others, all branches of medicine, nursing, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, biology, genomics and ecology. BMC is part of Springer Nature.

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Cambridge University Press (CUP) provides access to journal articles in exact sciences and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences on the online platform. CUP journals are made accessible in the form of collections. The Gdańsk Tech Library subscribes and provides access to FULL Cambridge University Press Collection.

List of titles: xlsx file

 

Type: preprint repository
Access: https://chemrxiv.org/

ChemRxiv is a submission, distribution and archive service free of charge for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. The service gives researchers the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments for improvement.

Preprints submitted to ChemRxiv are not prepared for publication; the files are unedited, and are not peer-reviewed; the basic screen for plagiarism, offensive language, and non-scientific content is conducted. The main purpose is to post scientific findings quickly for broader discussion by the community. During the ChemRxiv posting process preprints receive DOIs. ChemRxiv will add a link to the published version within a few weeks of journal publication.

 

Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: http://www.chemspider.com/

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to structures, properties, and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation, and to integrate it with users’ applications.

Users can register to get private account for:

  • upload their own structure sets online and have their own home page
  • add spectra, additional data, links, videos, audio to compound records
  • ChemSpider SyntheticPages allows publishing of reactions

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal is a searchable database of electronic research theses held in European repositories. The theses listed are open access - publicly available, in full, without charge. The DART-Europe Portal does not store theses, but it aim to provide a link to at least one electronic copy of every thesis listed in our database. Portal is managed by UCL Library Services.

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Type: full-text database
Access: https://www.doabooks.org/

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a service for peer reviewed books published under an open access license. DOAB providing a searchable index, DOAB allows the users to reach the information about the books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website. DOAB is a service of OAPEN Foundation. DOAB is constantly updated with new titles and covers all scientific disciplines, including: art, biology, chemistry, geography and economics.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: https://doaj.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a service indexing and providing access to high quality, peer-reviewed open access journals. The purpose of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility of open access scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages, promoting their increased usage and impact. Database covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. All DOAJ services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

 

E
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

ebookpoint BIBLIO is an online e-book library. The ebookpoint BIBLIO e-books are easily accessible from both on and off campus. The Gdańsk Tech Library provides access to books primarily in the field of computer science, programming, technology and mechanics, as well as economics and business.

How to use the ebookpoint BIBLIO service:

  1. Go to biblio.ebookpoint.pl.
  2. Register for an online account on e-mail in the Gdańsk Tech domain (@pg.edu.pl).
  3. If you have already registered, log in to your existing ebookpoint BIBLIO account.
  4. Find an e-book you want and check it out.

If you have more questions contact:
natwysmy@pg.gda.pl

 

Type: full-text databases and bibliographic databases
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

EBSCO offers access to 16 thematic collections. The databases are available on the EBSCOhost platform and cover a wide range of fields: science, technology, humanities, social, economic, business as well as medical and biomedical sciences.

Available full-text databases:

  1. Academic Search Ultimate
    collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
  2. Business Source Ultimate
    offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world.
  3. Regional Bussiness News
    provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  4. ERIC
    provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
  5. OpenDissertations
    an open-access database includes both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world.
  6. Health Source: Consumer Edition
    collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
  7. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    provides scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, such as: nursing pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
  8. AHFS Consumer Medication Information
    includes descriptions and information on medicines for patients, available in both English and Spanish.
  9. MasterFILE Premier
    designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, also contains full text for reference books and primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
  10. Newspaper Source
    provides cover-to-cover full text for U.S. and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text U.S. newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Available bibliographic databases:

  1. Agricola
    contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for Agricola dates back to 1970. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
  2. MEDLINE
    provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.
  3. GreenFILE
    offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
  4. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
    indexes core journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
  5. European Views of the Americas (1493-1750)
    database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The database is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
  6. Teacher Reference Center
    provides indexing and abstracts for the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database, full-text database
Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/

e-LIS is an international digital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS). The repository collects meny various types of publications: articles, conference papers and other types of pre-prints and post-prints. The open repository houses publications from all over the world and in a numer of different languages, inluding Polish.

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Emerald is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management, business, education, library studies, health care, and engineering.

The Gdańsk University of Technology Emerald subscription package includes 2 collections:

  1. Emerald Management - e-journals collection covering: marketing, accountancy, finance, economy, business, logistics, information and knowledge management and library science.
  2. Emerald Engineering - collection is a high-quality portfolio of full-text journals. The journals cover the following areas: control engineering, robotics, electronics, mathematics, computational mathematics, materials science and engineering.

List of journals: link

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://pl.espacenet.com/

Espacenet is a database of patents offering free access to information about inventions and technical developments from the 19th century right up to today. Espacenet contains data on patent documents from around the world helping users understand whether a patent has been granted and if it is still in force.

Espacenet allows users to:

  • search and find patent publications
  • machine-translate patent documents
  • track the progress of emerging technologies
  • find solutions to technical problems
  • see what your competitors are developing

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F
 

Type: full-text database
Access: https://www.frontiersin.org/

Publisher of peer-reviewed open access scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

List of journals: link

 

H
 

Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.hindawi.com/

Hindawi is an academic publisher of open access journals across areas of disciplines such as:

  • Biological Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Case reports
  • Physical Sciences
  • Social Sciences and Education
  • Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science

List of journals: link

 

I
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Notice: in case of an error (e.g. 400, 404), we suggest use a different browser.

The IBUK Libra platform, owned by Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN), allows users to access electronic publications and other educational resources. The virtual reading room comprises a collection of academic textbooks, scientific monographs or specialist guides and professional publications published by the most important and renowned publishing houses. Thanks to advanced technical solutions and on-line access, readers may use the service round the clock regardless of their location.

The Gdańsk University of Technology has access to e-books, mainly in such fields as:

  • economic sciences (finance and banking, world economy, IT in business, quantitative methods, management, organization, strategies)
  • mathematical and natural sciences (chemistry, physics, mathematics, earth, technology)
  • computer science (applications, databases, Internet, programming)
  • social sciences (sociology, scientific information)
  • medicine and law

Resources may be accessed via a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone and IBUK Libra technology does not require any special software to be installed.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The IEEE Xplore digital library is a scholarly research resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE produces over 30% of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing peer-reviewed journals and magazines, leading-edge conference proceedings and technical standards.

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The database has been developed by Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics, one of the main centers of mathematical research in Poland. The IMPAN database provides full text access to the archival resources of scientific journals (until 2010):

  1. Acta Arithmetica
  2. Annales Polonici Mathematici
  3. Applicationes Mathematicae
  4. Bulletin Polish Acad. Sci. Math.
  5. Colloquium Mathematicum
  6. Dissertationes Mathematicae
  7. Fundamenta Mathematicae
  8. Studia Mathematica

In addition, the Gdańsk University of Technology has purchased full access to the latest years of the Annales Polonici Mathematici.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.intechopen.com/

Intech Open has been the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher. Content is accessible for free, on all electronic devices - no matter where its downloaded and read. Users have access to books from such collections as:

  • Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology
  • Life Sciences
  • Health Sciences
  • Social Sciences and Humanities
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

IOPscience is an online service for journal content. It provides publications through which scientific research is distributed worldwide, including journals, community websites, magazines, conference proceedings and books. IOPscience focus on physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, mathematics and education.

List of journals: pdf file

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J
 

Type: factual base
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Clarivate Analytics. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collections. JCR provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences and social sciences, including impact factors, and it allows the users to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings.

JCR are released annually. Thanks to the options offered by Web of Science the users are able to acquire, analyze, and disseminate database information in a timely manner.

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K
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Knovel provides a searchable database of handbooks, data sets and reference sources in science, technology and engineering. Knovel has data search feature that allows the researcher to find materials that meet specific parameters including physical, mechanical and thermal properties. Productivity tools include interactive charts, graphs, spreadsheets, and equation plotters.

Gdańsk University of Technology Library provides access to 8 collections:

  1. Aerospace & Radar Technology
  2. Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
  3. Electronics & Semiconductors
  4. Marine Engineering & Naval Architecture
  5. Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
  6. Metals & Metallurgy
  7. Oil & Gas Engineering
  8. Plastics & Rubber

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L
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Legalis publishes legal research and law library-related titles. The service contains: Law Acts Database and modules of civil labour, administrative, commercial, public procurement, European Union, tax and intellectual property laws. Legalis offers also specialist modules including, besides Private Law, Administrative Law and Criminal Law Systems, also online comments, translator, explanations concerning human resources and pay systems, financial accounting, occupational safety and health (OSH), public procurement, model letters and contracts including letters and contracts in English, French, German and Russian.

Legalis is also available remotely via the HAN system, limited to 15 simultaneous connections for users.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: https://www.legimi.pl/biblioteka_pg/

The Legimi service is a platform where you can rent e-books, audiobooks and synchrobooks. Students and employees of Gdańsk Tech University with an active library account can receive an activation code that gives them access to thousands of e-books and audiobooks on offer from Legimi.

The service offers mainly fiction - crime fiction, fantasy, novels of manners, romance, children's and young adult books, as well as non-fiction, guidebooks, language learning books, etc.

How can you benefit from Legimi?

  1. Simply send a request to: eresources.bpg@pg.edu.pl to obtain your unique access code.
  2. Once your library account has been verified, you will receive one access code, which you must activate within 30 days.
  3. Enter the code you receive and accept the terms and conditions on the dedicated page: https://www.legimi.pl/biblioteka_pg/ or via the online catalogue.
  4. Then, create an account on Legimi or log in if you already have one. When creating an account, you must provide a username, email address (recommended in the @pg.edu.pl domain) and password.

The service will be active for 3 months or until the purchased pages package is exhausted. If you still want to use the service after this time, apply for another code. To use the offer comfortably, we recommend users download the free Legimi application, available for Android, iOS, or selected e-readers.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

LEX Omega Akademia is an online legal information system containing current legal acts, commentaries, and a number of various types of legal documents. It is a professional platform from Wolters Kluwer company for lawyers that provides access to a complete, updated database of law, case law and legal literature.

 

Type: full-text database
Access: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/

The Library of Science is an Open Access platform that makes available metadata and full texts of articles published in Polish scientific journals and selected scientific books. Resources cover all fields of science.

The majority of scientific books available on the Platform were previously hosted on a separate “Open Book” site. Additional books are added to the Library of Science on a daily basis directly by the cooperating Publishers .

 

M
 

Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

MathSciNet® is an electronic publication being the e-version of Mathematical Reviews provided by American Mathematical Society (AMS). The database contains a fully searchable database with many tools designed to help navigate the mathematical sciences literature, including:

  • reviews written by a community of experts
  • abstracts and bibliographic information dating back to the early 1800s
  • links to articles, journals, and publishers
  • linked reference lists
  • citation information on articles, books, and journals

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Type: electronic journal
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Nature is a British weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research articles in all fields of science and technology. This multidisciplinary scientific journal was first published in 1869. 

Access to the journal is provided under the national license. The license covers access to annuals from 2010 that will be archived on the national server. Selected older annuals are also available, check: A to Z List.

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Type: search engine
Access: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by editorial team. The directory users are able to analyse repositories by subject, location, type, the material they hold and other measures. It is a key resource for the Open Access community and the leader in repository directories.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.plos.org/

Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher of journals featuring quality research across all areas of science and medicine. Each journal is editorially independent and specialized with regard to both its selection criteria and breadth of content.

The collection of PLoS journals includes:

  1. PLOS ONE
  2. PLOS Biology
  3. PLOS Medicine
  4. PLOS Genetics
  5. PLOS Computational Biology
  6. PLOS Pathogens
  7. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Multidisciplinary database covering business, health and medical, social sciences, education, science and technology, and humanities. The collection includes full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

Database list: pdf file

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database, full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The Gdańsk Tech Library subscribes access to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts & Indexes - collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

ProQuest Ebook Central allows users to find scholarly ebooks in multiple subjects from world-renowned publishers and to search for ebooks for your laptop, tablet or phone, and download for offline reading. Users can also create highlights, notes, and bookmarks for later, and share research with others. E-books can be downloaded for reading offline or borrowed. Users must create an account (required e-mail address in a Gdańsk Tech domain) in advance.

Gdańsk Tech Library provides access to electronic books from the following disciplines: control engineering, electronics and electrical engineering, technical information and telecommunications, biomedical engineering, civil engineering and transport, materials engineering, economics and finance, management and quality sciences.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

PubChem is an open chemistry database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (Bethesda). It is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. The database includes information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others. 

PubChem has been considered a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Users can search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules.

Platform consists of 3 databases:

  1. PubChem Substance
  2. PubChem Compound
  3. PubChem BioAssay

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Database comprising citations for biomedical literature and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. It does not include full-text journal articles, however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database, full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The database contains a complete set of data from the previous databases Beilstein (structures and reactions, physicochemical and ecopharmacological properties and bibliography for organic compounds), Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic compounds) and additionally patent data from all English-speaking patent offices and the main Asian patent offices.
The database indexes over 16,000 journals in chemistry and related sciences. In 2017, the Reaxys database received a new user interface, allowing you to enter queries in everyday language.

In 2024, the publisher's offer was expanded to include the Reaxys Academic Edition (RAE) package, which is a complete version of the Reaxys database and which - according to the publisher's announcement - from 2025 will be the only available model of this database. Reaxys Academic Edition consists of the Reaxys Base module, the Reaxys Target and Bioactivity module and the Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis module.

 

Type: bibliographic database
Access: http://repec.org/#general

The main purpose of the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) project is to enhance the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences. Archives have contributed research pieces from journals and working paper series. RePEc collected data of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://road.issn.org/

Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD) is a service offered 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 which is comprised of bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access, assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network (journals, conference proceedings, monographic series, repositories and scholarly blogs). The bibliographic records have been enriched by metadata about the coverage of the resources by indexing, abstracting, citation databases, registries and journal indicators.

Main features:

  • faceted search
  • map search
  • advanced search by country, subject, indexing service, journal indicator and by ISSN
  • presentation of the data sources, whose data are used for enriching bibliographic records
 

Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a professional association in the United Kingdom. The RSC carries out research, publishes peer-reviewed journals, books and a collection of online databases, as well as hosting conferences, seminars and workshops. The RSC publishing portfolio covers the core chemical sciences.

Gdańsk University of Technology has access to selected electronic titles of current and archival journals and to abstract databases.

List of journals: pdf file

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Elsevier is one of the the world-leading publishers of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Gdańsk Tech Library provides access to Elsevier e-journals through the ScienceDirect platform.

According to the agreement for 2022-2024, the national license includes journals (current and archival) from subject collections: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Health Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy (catalogue 2023). The license also covers selected book packages purchased in 2015 and 2016: monographs from 2013 and 2014 and volumes of book series or handbooks from 2011-2015.

Gdańsk Tech also provide access to two thematic collections: Materials Science i Chemical Engineering, which include more than 270 electronic journals covering the disciplines of: materials engineering, chemical engineering, chemical sciences, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, mining and energy. Subscription covering the current yearbook and archive from 2020-2022.

The 2022-2024 agreement with Elsevier includes a programme allowing researchers affiliated with the institutions that have obtained the license to publish in Elsevier Gold Open Access and hybrid journals.

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Type: electronic journal
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Science, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is one of the world's top academic journals (since 1880). The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other matters of interest to scientists and others who are concerned with the wide implications of science and technology.

The national license of the Science covers access to the yearbooks since 1997. Selected older annuals are also available, check: A to Z List.

Science operates on a subscription model only, with a separate Open Access journal for open publishing - Science Advances.

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Scopus is the Elsevier's abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature (journals, books and proceedings). It covers content from all research areas: health sciences, social sciences and physical sciences. Every book or journal before being indexed in Scopus is reviewed using transparent criteria by independent experts. Records consist of citing information, abstract and link to the full text on the publisher's website (but the access to it requires active subscription). Users can also find (where possible) links to research data related to the article.

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Type: full-text database
Access: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv

SocArXiv is an open archive of the social sciences providing a free, non-profit and open access platform for social scientists including working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data. The articles are divided into four categories: arts and humanities, law, education, and social sciences. SocArXiv is housed at the University of Maryland. SocArXiv is directed by sociologists and members of the research library community.

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

SpringerLink is Springer’s online delivery platform which provides access to scientific documents including online collection of books, journals, reference works and protocols covering a range of various disciplines. Users have access to online collection of Science, Technology and Medicine and Humanities and Social Sciences.

According to the agreement concluded for the years 2022-2024 and updated in 2023 and 2024, the Springer license covers access to 2,132 current hybrid or subscription journals in 2024, see the 2024 catalogue. For selected titles, deep archives from before 1997 are available.

As part of the license, e-books are also available. The collection includes all of Springer's English-language books from the first editions in the 19th century to 2019 inclusive, except for the 2016 yearbook and the Intelligent Technologies and Robotics Robotics collection. For the English-language collection, see catalogs:

In addition, the national license includes a collection of archival German-language books 1815-2004.

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Type: full-text database
Access: http://www.springeropen.com/

SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of peer reviewed Open Access journals and has been expanded to include Open Access books. A substantial number of our SpringerOpen journals and ebooks are published in collaboration with learned societies and institutions located around the world and across all areas of science.

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Type: full-text database
Access: https://www.ssrn.com/en/

SSRN is an open-access online preprint platform devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. The service provides opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication. SSRN also provides the online database of early scholarly research.

 

Type: factual database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

The database provides statistics and market data, forecasts, documentation, reports, consumer goods and commerce (advertising and media market, sports and recreation, technology and telecommunications, transport and logistics). It includes company profiles, national and industry reports, economic and market forecasts, descriptions of public opinion polls and demographic trends.

 

Type: bibliographic database
Access: https://gate.bg.pw.edu.pl/F

WUT Libraries Catalogue provides access to information about the pre-conference, conference and post-conference materials from conferences that took place in Poland. Covers the period since 1980-2014.

 

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Taylor & Francis Group publishes journals and books. It publishes in all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, science, technology and medicine sectors. It's one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, text books and reference works.

The Gdańsk Tech Library has provided access to three collections:

  1. Science & Technology (ST) - includes journals from exact sciences, in areas such as chemistry, physics, computer science, as well as mathematics and statistics.

    List of titles: xlsx file

  2. Social Science & Humanities (SSH) - includes journals in the field of social sciences and humanities. The texts from the SSH collection cover such areas as education, economics, geography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, political science, law, psychology, sociology, sport and tourism.

    List of titles: xlsx file

  3. Medical Library - includes journals in the field of medicine and related sciences, which covers content in a number of areas such as endocrinology, pharmaceuticals, gynecology and obstetrics, general medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, oncology, orthopedics, dentistry and public health.

    List of titles: xlsx file

 

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Type: bibliographic and abstract database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Web of Science (WoS) is an online subscription-based scientific global citation database for many different academic disciplines. WoS is currently maintained by maintained by Clarivate Analytics. WoS is described as a unifying research tool which enables the user to acquire, analyze, and disseminate database information in a timely manner. The licence includes two citation index packages - Core Collection and Citation Connection - as well as Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from the year 1997 and Essential Science Indicators.

The main collection called Core Collection indices:

  1. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from the year 1945
  2. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from the year 1956
  3. Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) from the year 1975
  4. Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) from the year 1990
  5. Book Citation Index (BCI) from the year 2010
  6. Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) from the year 2005
  7. Current Chemical Reactions (CCR) from the year 2010
  8. Index Chemicus (IC) from the year 2010

WoS gives also access to collection Citation Connection with additonal databases:

  1. Biosis Citation Index od 2010
  2. Data Citation Index (DCI) do 2010,
  3. Dervent Innovation Index (DII) od 2010
  4. Current Contents Connect od 2010
  5. Zoological Records od 1864
  6. Medline od 1950
  7. Preprint Citation Index
  8. ProQuest Dissertation & Theses i SciELO

The name of journals indexed in Web of Science are accessed on Master Journal List. On the Web of Science platform, we can also access to other tools:

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Type: full-text database
Access: Gdańsk Tech network and remotely via the HAN system

Wiley is a publishing company which specializes in academic publishing. Wiley Online Library is a subscription-based library containing online resources covering life, health, physical sciences, social science and the humanities.

The 2024 Wiley national license includes 491 journals selected from the full Wiley collection, with vintages dating back to 1997, available on the publisher's Wiley Online Library. Until 2021, the Wiley license provided access to the Full Collection (1383 titles). However, starting in 2022,  the license was limited to 491 selected journals. This selection comprised 469 journals with the highest number of downloads under the national license in 2021, along with 22 additional journals due to reduced package funding that included titles from the first group (see the 2022 catalogue).

The list has been updated in subsequent years. In 2023, 37 discontinued journals—either transferred to other publishers or converted to open access—were removed and replaced with new titles. In 2024, an additional 7 journals were updated.

The Wiley national license also includes 2,450 e-books published between 2009 and 2015,see the catalogue of books, which were purchased in 2016.

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Type: full-text database
Access: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/

World Bank OKR is the World Bank’s open access repository containing a variety of research outputs and knowledge products in digital form. Thanks to the repository the Bank encourages the users to turn Bank knowledge into solutions to so called development problems that will help improve the standards of living of people all around the world. OKR’s content is available under a set of Creative Commons licenses.

The OKR contains thousands of research works including:

  • World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies
  • books published by the World Bank Group including flagship publications, academic books and practitioner volumes
  • all World Development Reports (WDRs) plus recent WDR background papers
  • journal articles published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), two journals published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
  • accepted manuscripts of Bank-authored journal articles from selected external publishers
  • Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP) | a series of papers that disseminate findings of work in progress in order to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues
  • Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies | a series of analytical reports prepared by Bank staff. ESWs gather and evaluate information about a country’s economy and/or a specific sector
  • Knowledge Notes, providing short briefs that capture lessons of experience from Bank operations and research
  • the latest Country Opinion Surveys done in client countries for feedback on World Bank Group activities

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