Academic Search Ultimate by EBSCO, 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

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 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.

 LeapSpace, an AI-powered research workspace, empowers researchers to explore topics, conduct literature reviews, and identify relevant materials, authors, and funding opportunities, significantly reducing the time required for these tasks.

As an extension of ScienceDirect AI, LeapSpace is fueled by data from ScienceDirect, Scopus, and full-text scientific articles from various publishers. This integration ensures high reliability and minimizes the risk of inaccuracies (hallucinations) by leveraging a combination of different Large Language Models (LLMs).

With LeapSpace, the academic and research community can explore, compare, and highlight insights from the full texts of millions of peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters, with content that is regularly enriched and updated.

Key features that distinguish LeapSpace from existing AI systems include:

• Natural Language Querying: Retrieve the desired information simply by asking questions in natural language.

• Concise Summaries with Citations: Receive succinct answers featuring in-text citations that link directly to the source content and integrate seamlessly with the Mendeley reference management platform.

• Article-Level Analysis: The ability to summarize, analyze, and answer specific questions regarding individual articles.

• Dynamic Follow-up Capability: Support for follow-up questions, making interaction with LeapSpace dynamic and conversational.

• Experimental Comparison: Tools to compare experiments both within a single publication and across different papers.

• Comprehensive Synthesis: The ability to summarize objectives, materials, methods, and results across multiple publications.

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

The PsycINFO , database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

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

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.

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts from more than 3.007 journals across social sciences disciplines. The subject areas covered are: anthropology, history, industrial relations, information & library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, sociology, substance abuse. (Alternative access through NDC)

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.

Statista is a leading data and research platform that supports academic teaching and research with reliable, expert-curated content. It provides access to millions of statistics, charts, infographics, reports, and market and consumer insights, covering more than 170 industries and 150 countries, with full source transparency and clear citations.

With its user-friendly search interface and Research AI, which helps quickly identify relevant data and contextual information, Statista enables students, researchers, and academic staff to efficiently locate trustworthy information and confidently strengthen their academic work.

Access via Single Sign-On (SSO)

Access to Statista is available exclusively via SSO (Single Sign-On) by following the steps below:

1. Go to https://www.statista.com

2. Select Login (top right)

3. Choose Campus access

4. Select your institution → University of Crete

5. Log in using your institutional credentials

Access Confirmation

Once logged in successfully:

• At the top of the page, you should see the message:
  “You are using the account of
  Welcome to Statista, Access provided by HEAL-Link for the University of Crete”

• The main search bar should appear in the center of the page.

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.