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Africa-Wide Information (Ebsco)
Africa-Wide Information is a bibliographic database providing access to more than 3.5 million references and abstracts within African studies.
AccessThe database is fully accessible within the UGent network (UGentNet).
Search operatorsYou can use Boolean operators in all databases on the Ebsco platform to make your search …
Read moreChapterscan: 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 & …
Read moreJSTOR
JSTOR is a (largely) fulltext multidisciplinary database, originally designed to make the content of academic journals (Journal Storage) easily accessible to universities, but since then supplemented with books and primary sources.
JSTOR employs a 'moving wall': which means that there is a fixed period or gap between the publication …
Read moreProQuest: introduction
ProQuest is a portal of scientific databases. Ghent University has access to 19 databases:
- Acta Sanctorum
- APA PsycArticles
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- Coronavirus Research Database
- Early Modern Books
- Ebook Central
- Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
- MEDLINE …
Scopus (Elsevier)
Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographical database with more than 61 million items from 105 countries in over 40 languages. It contains:
- Peer-reviewed journals published from 1823 onwards
- Conference proceedings
- Books (mainly on social sciences, the arts and philosophy)
- Patents
Scopus maintains the following criteria to ensure qualitative resources:
- The publications …