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

More information can be found at here.

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

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing 1.663 arts and humanities journals. It provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 to the present and the subject areas covered are: archaeology, architecture, art, asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television & film, religion, theater. (Alternative access through NDC).

Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies, including archaeology. This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publications, from 1990 to the present.

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.

The International Aristotle Bibliography Online  is a comprehensive research tool and gives access to books, articles, book reviews and dissertations on the philosopher Aristotle.  The International Aristotle Bibliography Online  covers more than 100 years of publication. It presents an invaluable resource for all those interested in (ancient) philosophy. Under the continued editorship of Richard Ingardia, the bibliography will be updated with hundreds of the most recent publications, as well as with additional entries from previous years.

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.

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. 

The Philosopher’s Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education It contains research published since 1940 including over 680 journals from more than 50 countries with content representing a variety 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.

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.

It contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

If you wish to access the TLG, in addition to the IP address, you must create a user profile.

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.