This is a collection of electronic books covering many scientific fields with more than 234,000 titles from a variety of publishers (more than 170 of which are university presses).
Many (around 33,900) titles do not have digital rights management (DRM) attached to them. While the vast majority of the ebooks are in English, Academic Complete does include access to approximately 19,300 non-English titles in more than 40 different languages.
In a simple and pleasant interface, users can search for books on the following topics (alphabetically):
ARTS
Architecture, Fine Arts
BUSINESS
Business/Management, Economics
EDUCATION
Education, Juvenile Literature
GENERAL
General Works/Reference, Geography/Travel, Home Economics, Library Science, Museums, Tourism/Hospitality
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Health, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology
HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE
History, Political Science
LAW
Law
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
Fiction, Journalism, Language/Linguistics, Literature, Publishing
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy, Religion
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social Science, Military Science
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Agriculture, Computer Science/IT, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, General Engineering, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, Science, Anatomy/Physiology, Astronomy, Biology/Natural History, Botany, General Science, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Zoology
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Title | Academic Complete (ProQuest) - Trial access until 26th April |
Description | This is a collection of electronic books covering many scientific fields with more than 234,000 titles from a variety of publishers (more than 170 of which are university presses). Many (around 33,900) titles do not have digital rights management (DRM) attached to them. While the vast majority of the ebooks are in English, Academic Complete does include access to approximately 19,300 non-English titles in more than 40 different languages. In a simple and pleasant interface, users can search for books on the following topics (alphabetically): ARTS BUSINESS EDUCATION GENERAL HEALTH & MEDICINE HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE LAW LITERATURE & LANGUAGE RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY More information can be found at here. |
Subject | Psychology |
Philosophy | |
History, Archaeology, Fine Arts | |
Business, Finance | |
Sociology | |
Political Science, Law | |
Education | |
Language, Literature | |
Mathematics | |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Chemistry | |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Medicine | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Multilingual |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented 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
ADS is a NASA-funded project offering search services in 3 bibliographic databases related to Astronomy, Physics and preprints in Astronomy (ArXiv). It provides searchable records and selected full-texts of astronomical literature and access or pointers to external resources, such as articles, data catalogs etc.
Search is also available through a modern form: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
Subject Coverage: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Solar Physics, Physics, Geophysics.
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Title | ADS Astrophysics Data System (SAO/NASA) |
Alternative title | SAO/NASA ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM |
Description | ADS is a NASA-funded project offering search services in 3 bibliographic databases related to Astronomy, Physics and preprints in Astronomy (ArXiv). It provides searchable records and selected full-texts of astronomical literature and access or pointers to external resources, such as articles, data catalogs etc. Search is also available through a modern form: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ Subject Coverage: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Solar Physics, Physics, Geophysics.
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Subject | Astronomy, Physics |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles since 1962, from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database Libguide.
Subject coverage: Aeronautics and astronautics, Aerospace engineering, Applied physics, Artificial intelligence and robotics, Atomic and molecular physics, Circuits and logic, Communications and networks, Computer applications, Computer programming, Computer security.
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Title | Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (Proquest) |
Description | The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles since 1962, from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database Libguide. Subject coverage: Aeronautics and astronautics, Aerospace engineering, Applied physics, Artificial intelligence and robotics, Atomic and molecular physics, Circuits and logic, Communications and networks, Computer applications, Computer programming, Computer security. |
Subject | Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
ArXiV is created and maintained by the Cornell University and it is the first open access electronic archive with research articles. It started in August 1991 and provides access to the full text.
Subject Coverage: physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics.
It is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources and is operated by Bielefeld University Library. It hosts metadata of all kinds from more than 5.000 academically relevant resources - journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc and provides more than 100 million documents. The full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents can be accessed without restriction.
Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press, with over 1.8 million journal articles and 46,000+ books in a variety of subject areas.
It includes more than 7.000 open access scientific journals of multiple disciplines. It is possible to search articles and in all cases directly access the full text.
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Title | E-print Network |
Alternative title | EPRINT NETWORK |
Description | It provides access to electronic preprints on the area of sciences.It provides also alerting services through E-print Alerts . |
Subject | Astronomy, Physics |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Mathematics | |
Chemistry | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
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Title | Emerald (MCB University Press) |
Alternative title | EMERALD MCB UNIVERSITY PRESS |
(through HEAL-Link) | |
Description | It includes the journals that are published by the MCB Press.It provides access to the full text and searching facilities. |
Subject | Astronomy, Physics |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Education | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Medicine | |
Business, Finance | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Espacenet offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
IOP Science platform of the publisher Institute of Physics, offers easy access to the full text of journals and books that publishes, with scientific, technical and medical content. Access is possible to more than 100 titles of scientific journals.
Subject Coverage: Atomic and molecular physics, earth and environment, optical physics, materials, physics education, semiconductors, superconductivity, super-resolution microscopy, biosciences, mathematical physics, measurement and instrumentation, quantum technology
It offers bibliographic search in the databases
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1970-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1970-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) --2015-present
Access to the abstracts and the citations of the articles are available.
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive resource that allows to evaluate and compare journals (Impact Factor) using citation data drawn from over 10.500 scholarly and technical journals of all the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles since 1965 from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching are available at the Materials Science & Engineering Database Guide.
Subject coverage: Aerospace and aircraft engineering, Automotive engineering, Bonding, brazing, soldering, and welding, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biomaterials and biomedical engineering, Casting and molding, Ceramics, Chemical and electrochemical properties, Chemical engineering, Chemistry.
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Title | Materials Science & Engineering Database (ProQuest) |
Description | The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles since 1965 from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching are available at the Materials Science & Engineering Database Guide. Subject coverage: Aerospace and aircraft engineering, Automotive engineering, Bonding, brazing, soldering, and welding, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biomaterials and biomedical engineering, Casting and molding, Ceramics, Chemical and electrochemical properties, Chemical engineering, Chemistry.
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Subject | Astronomy, Physics |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Chemistry | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Oceanic Abstracts database is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, covering biological, environmental, technological and legislative topics, since 1981.
Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access.
Subject coverage: Biological Oceanography, Ecology, Physical and chemical oceanography, Marine geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Marine pollution, Nonliving marine resources, Navigation and communications, Maritime law.
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Title | Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest) |
Description | Oceanic Abstracts database is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, covering biological, environmental, technological and legislative topics, since 1981. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Subject coverage: Biological Oceanography, Ecology, Physical and chemical oceanography, Marine geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Marine pollution, Nonliving marine resources, Navigation and communications, Maritime law.
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Subject | Biology, Botany, Zoology |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
A full text-only database that contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines. Full-text articles are available from approximately 2,700 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed.
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
Through OvidSP access provided to the databases :
Journals@Ovid : bibliographic search, abstracts, fulltext to the subscribed titles
YourJournals@Ovid : bibliographic search, abstracts, fulltext
Philosopher's Index: bibliographic search and abstracts
Throug Proquest platform, access is provided to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I database and SciTech Premium Collection database with the science and technology publications.
Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Proquest Libguides.
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Title | Proquest |
Description | Throug Proquest platform, access is provided to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I database and SciTech Premium Collection database with the science and technology publications. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Proquest Libguides. |
Subject | Biology, Botany, Zoology |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Medicine | |
Chemistry | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Proquest Dissertations and Thesis Global Libguide.
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Title | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database A&I |
Alternative title | DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS |
Description | Proquest Dissertations and Theses database is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, since 1743. It provides access to the citations and abstracts from over 3,000 graduate schools and universities. Free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format are also available in several cases.
Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Proquest Dissertations and Thesis Global Libguide. |
Subject | Philosophy |
Education | |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Chemistry | |
Psychology | |
Sociology | |
Mathematics | |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Business, Finance | |
History, Archaeology, Fine Arts | |
Medicine | |
Political Science, Law | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Language, Literature | |
Citations, Indexes, Patents | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts from more than 3.772 major journals and includes all cited references captured. It provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1970 to the present and the subject areas covered are: agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, pharmacology, physics, plant sciences, zoology. (Alternative access through NDC).
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Title | Science Citation Index Expanded |
Alternative title | SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED |
Description |
The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts from more than 3.772 major journals and includes all cited references captured. It provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1970 to the present and the subject areas covered are: agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, pharmacology, physics, plant sciences, zoology. (Alternative access through NDC). |
Subject | Citation Indexes - Impact Factors |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Citations, Indexes, Patents | |
Medicine | |
Mathematics | |
Chemistry | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Science Direct is a platform created by Elsevier publisher, in order to provide peer-reviewed scholarly literature of all disciplines. It includes journals, books, handbooks and reference material and access is possible to the subscriptions of the University of Crete, that exceed 3000 titles in total as well as open access material.
Subject Coverage: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities
The SciTech Premium Collection is a full text database with abstracts and controlled vocabulary. It is consisted of the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world since 1946, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching are available at the SciTech Premium Collection Libguide.
Subject coverage:Advanced technologies, Aerospace engineering, Agriculture, Aquatic sciences, Atmosphere, Automotive engineering, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biology, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Civil engineering.
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Title | SciTech Premium (Proquest) |
Description | The SciTech Premium Collection is a full text database with abstracts and controlled vocabulary. It is consisted of the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world since 1946, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching are available at the SciTech Premium Collection Libguide. Subject coverage:Advanced technologies, Aerospace engineering, Agriculture, Aquatic sciences, Atmosphere, Automotive engineering, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biology, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Civil engineering. |
Subject | Biology, Botany, Zoology |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Medicine | |
Chemistry | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
Scopus is a database that provides search bibliography in more than 22.000 journal titles of more than 5.000 publishers. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Furthermore, it includes advanced services, such as bibliography management, search results analysis, citation information and personalization for setting preferences, alerts etc. Scopus Quick Reference Guide is available online.
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Title | Scopus |
Alternative title | (through HEAL-Link) |
Description | Scopus is a database that provides search bibliography in more than 22.000 journal titles of more than 5.000 publishers. Links to the electronic subscriptions of the University of Crete SFX@UOC are also provided to check full text access. Furthermore, it includes advanced services, such as bibliography management, search results analysis, citation information and personalization for setting preferences, alerts etc. Scopus Quick Reference Guide is available online.
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Subject | Citation Indexes - Impact Factors |
Citations, Indexes, Patents | |
Education | |
Biology, Botany, Zoology | |
Chemistry | |
Psychology | |
Sociology | |
Mathematics | |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Business, Finance | |
History, Archaeology, Fine Arts | |
Medicine | |
Philosophy | |
Political Science, Law | |
European Union | |
Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology | |
Language, Literature | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
SpringerLink is a platform created by that publisher, in order to provide access to peer-reviewed scholarly literature of all disciplines. It includes journals, books, series, protocols and reference works and access is possible to the subscriptions of the University of Crete, that exceed 3400 titles in total, as well as open access material.
Subject Coverage: Biomedicine, Business and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environment, Geography, History, Law, Life Sciences, Literature, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Sciences, Statistics.
The Technology Collection is a full-text database with abstracts and controlled vocabulary. It includes the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, Materials Science & Engineering Database and Military Database and provides full-text titles from around the world since 1962, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Subject coverage: Advanced technologies, Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Civil engineering, Communications, Composites, Computer science, Construction materials.
Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Technology Collection Libguide.
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Title | Technology Collection (Proquest) |
Description | The Technology Collection is a full-text database with abstracts and controlled vocabulary. It includes the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, Materials Science & Engineering Database and Military Database and provides full-text titles from around the world since 1962, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Subject coverage: Advanced technologies, Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, Bioengineering and biotechnology, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Civil engineering, Communications, Composites, Computer science, Construction materials. Detailed information and useful tips for effective bibliography searching is available at the Technology Collection Libguide. |
Subject | Computer Science, Mechanics, Technology |
Astronomy, Physics | |
Type | Databases |
Language | Non Greek |
Format/ MIME | Webpage (text/html) |
It offers bibliographic search in the databases
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1970-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1970-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) --2015-present
Access to the abstracts and the citations of the articles are available.
Wiley Online Library is a platform created by that publisher, in order to provide peer-reviewed scholarly literature of all disciplines. It includes journals, books and reference works and access is possible to the subscriptions of the University of Crete, that exceed 6900 titles in total, as well as open access material.
Subject Coverage: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities
Zenodo is an open access repository that provides access to research publications and data of various kinds (books, articles, dissertations, reports, images, videos etc), available for researcher that wish to publish their work. It was created in 2013 on behalf of the European Commission, by CERN and OPENaire european program, in order to serve open science.