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ACM digital library
The ACM Digital Library is a full-text database covering the fields of computing and information technology and includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
AccessAll metadata in the ACM Digital Library is open to the world, including abstracts, linked references …
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database
FEA
FEA - engineering
IEEE Xplore: Digital Library
IEEE Xplore Digital Library is a full-text research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields. It contains material published mainly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and other partner publishers.
AccessAnyone can search IEEE …
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database
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FEA - engineering
PAO: Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
De Periodicals Archive Online is een fulltext databank die honderden tijdschriften uit de geesteswetenschappen archiveert rond volgende onderwerpen:
- Agriculture
- Ancient civilisations
- Anthropology/Ethnology
- Applied arts
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Area studies (Africa/ Asia/ Australasia/ Europe/ Middle East)
- Black studies
- Business/Management
- Economics
- Education
- Fine arts
- Folklore
- Geography
- History (General/ The Americas)
- Humanities (General)
- Jewish …
Project Muse
Project Muse is een full-text databank met peer-reviewed artikelen en boeken uit de geestes- en sociale wetenschappen rond de volgende onderzoeksgebieden:
- Area and Ethnic Studies
- Art and Architecture
- Creative Writing
- Education
- Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
- History
- Language and Linguistics
- Library Science and Publishing
- Literature
- Medicine and Health
- Music
- Philosophy …
Library: Renewal of Online Library Services
As of September 16, 2025, the online library services will be operated via a modernized infrastructure. This update is part of a large-scale overhaul of systems aimed at keeping pace with the evolving needs of researchers and students.
ILL services temporarily unavailable
In the coming weeks, we will work …
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bibliotheek
library
search engines
search strategy
zoekmachine
zoekstrategie
Book: can I borrow a book?
As soon as you are registered as a user in the library system, you can borrow books with your student card, personnel card or visitor's card, unless:
- the book has been borrowed by someone else (out of library)
- the book can only be consulted in the library ( …
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library
OneNote: wat is dit?
OneNote kan je eigenlijk zien als een digitaal notitieblok. Het is perfect om tijdens vergaderingen te gebruiken door middel van touch of pen.
Je kan er:
- notities in maken,
- je ideeën opschrijven,
- afbeeldingen invoegen,
- content als documenten, e-mails, video's en audiobestanden in bewaren.
Een grote digitale map waar je dus alles in kwijt kan …
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academisch schrijven
Book: how to renew the loan term
The standard loan period for books borrowed from Ghent University libraries is four weeks. However, exceptions may apply depending on the faculty (see regulations).
You can renew a loan yourself at the end of the loan period by logging into the library catalogue.
- when you renew, the …
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Book: how to reserve?
You can reserve a book that is already on loan (NB: not at the Faculty of Law and Criminology).
- Go to the catalogue
- Look up the book
- Go to Services
- Click on the button Reserve
- Log in and confirm your reservation
As soon as the book is available, you will …
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library
Book: how and where to find it?
Ghent University holds a very diverse collection of books, journals, theses, heritage material and much more, both in analogue and digital form.
The catalogue gives you an overview of what can be found in which library what is available online for Ugent users.
How do you use the catalogue …
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library
Recources: using Lean Library for e-sources
Lean Library is a tool that provides quick and easy access to online information sources and is a user-friendly alternative to VPN or Athena. With the Lean Library browser extension, you have our e-resources at your fingertips, on any website and from any location.
How does it work?You install …
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library
search strategy
Artstor
The Artstor website is scheduled to be retired on August 1, 2024. Artstor's content, key resources and functionality are moving to JSTOR.
The Artstor image database contains more than one million high-quality digital images that can be used free of charge for scientific purposes, through the Images for Academic …
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database
FEA - architecture
FLW
Reference software: overview of tips
EndNote Starting with EndNote
Importing references in EndNote
- EndNote: importing a Mendeley library
- EndNote: importing references
- EndNote: importing references from Web of Science
Editing references in EndNote Read more
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academic writing
EndNote
refer
Access to full text or database: why do or don't I have access?
A database is a collection of information, and in the context of libraries, it's often a database filled with scientific articles and/or abstracts. You can find those databases in our library's catalogue, lib.ugent.be.
If you're a student, researcher or staff member at Ghent University, you can access the databases …
Read moreArticle: requesting an article from another library
! The ILL service will be temporarily unavailable from December 18, 2025. Read more about it here.
You're looking for an article, but the University Library does not have access to the full text. There are three ways to request the full text :
Web of Science (WoS): introduction
Web of Science (WoS) is a portal of several scholarly databases. Ghent University has access to:
- Science Citation Index (SCI)
- Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)
- Emerging Sources …
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article
database
evaluate
FEA
journal
library
sfx
BelgicaPress, database of digitised historical Belgian newspapers
BelgicaPress is a full-text database from the Belgian Royal Library where you can find (as of spring 2018) all the digitised historical Belgian newspapers online (from 1814 to 1985) including the censored press of both World Wars.
Thanks to the application of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the content is full-text …
Read moreResources: search and find information
Do you need to write a text or do you need to find information and you are looking for the right resources? Follow the step-by-step plan below.
Step 1: define your subject- Narrow down your subject based on the literature you find.
- Explore the subject. You can read a paper …
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academic writing
library
search strategy
Resources: helpful tools to find literature
These tools will help you find literature on the topic of your choice.
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lib.ugent.be
You can find over 4.000.000 references for books, serials, images, theses, and databases in the library catalogue of Ghent University. Many of these can be consulted online, from the comfort of your home.
If you can't …
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academic writing
evaluate
library
search strategy
Chapterscan: searching and finding references and content tables of books
It is possible for researchers and students at UGent to request chapter scans of some of the books, that are eligible for scanning, via the catalogue (lib.ugent.be). You can find a blue button 'Scan request' if we provide this service on a book.
Here are some tips & …
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databank
database
FBW
FDI
FEA
FEA - architecture
FEA - engineering
FEB
FFW
FGE
FLW
FPP
FPS
FRE
FWE
FWO
library
Zotero: how to cite in Word or LibreOffice
The Zotero client also automatically installs a plugin for your word processor. If you want to cite from your Zotero library, always start Zotero first and then Word so that all plugins load correctly. Depending on the word processor you use, the Zotero plugin looks like a tab at the …
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Gale Literary Sources (Gale)
Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis) is a full text database (used especially in Literature) combining the following literary sources:
- Gale Literary Index
- Gale Literature Criticism
- Gale Literature Resource Center
- Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
- Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Gale Literature: LitFinder
- Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
- Gale Literature: Something …
RSpace: how do I use this ELN?
RSpace (software provided by ResearchSpace) is an online tool that allows researchers and students to effectively document their research progress.
Ghent University has made the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) RSpace available for all researchers. Other ELN tools are not supported by DICT.
When to use?You can use Lab Notebooks for …
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integrity
kwalitatief onderzoek
research data management
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
ODNB (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) is een biografische databank met meer dan 60.000 biografieën van personen uit de Britse geschiedenis. Deze nationale biografie bestaat ook in print en wordt 3x per jaar geüpdatet.
Je kan zoeken op naam van de persoon of op andere zoektermen maar ook …
Read moreGrove Dictionary of Art
Grove Art Online is a scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources. Grove Art Online is part of Oxford Art …
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database
FEA - architecture
Acta Sanctorum (Chadwyck) database
Acta Sanctorum is a full text database containing the texts of 68 volumes of the Acta Sanctorum, a series of critical editions of hagiographies, published by Société des Bollandistes between 1643 and 1940. You also have the possibility to search the church writings in the Patrologia Latina at the same …
Read moreEndNote: what is it?
EndNote is software supporting:
- information management: collect information in one place, group in a relevant structure, comment, add keywords and much more;
- referencing, footnotes and a bibliography: add references in a text, using the correct reference style ("output style"), make or change reference styles, set up bibliographic lists.
Using reference …
Read morePlagiarism detection: use of the tool StrikePlagiarism
Where can you find the tool?
Checking articles or other textual work for plagiarism? Recently, it can be done with a new tool, StrikePlagiarism. The new tool is built into the Ufora learning environment.
Teachers are already familiar with it in the context of checking papers or assignments …
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academic writing
article
EndNote
integrity
journal
refer
Reference software: reasons to use it
Reference software, also known as bibliographic software, allows you to collect, manage and use information in a systematic way.
The tool supports you in
- building your own library of references
- coherently integrating references and citations in a text, according to a certain citation style such as APA, Vancouver, MLA
- drafting …
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refer
Sources: primary, secundary and tertiary sources
What are primary sources?
Primary sources are sources written (or made) by an original author. In exact sciences, these are lab logs, articles in which you present your research, the data you gathered during your research, etc. In social sciences these could be novels, paintings, archaeological objects, and so on. …
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article
journal
quality assessment
search strategy
systematic review