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Access to (Belgian) legal databases
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the above databases are temporarily available for consultation off-campus.
From which location can you access the main Belgian legal databases Jura, Stradalex and Jurisquare :
Jura- only available at the Faculty of Law & Criminology and at the Faculty of Economics & Business Administration (Tweekerken) …
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 moreAfrica-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 broader …
Read morearchINFORM
archINFORM is an online database for international architecture, originally emerging from records of interesting building projects from architecture students from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). It has become a large online database about world-renowned architects and buildings from past to present. The database contains information (including plans and images) about …
Read moreArtstor
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 Publishing (IAP) programme.
On the homepage you can enter a search term in the search field. You also have the option to browse …
Read moreAvery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The database "Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals" is published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. It offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, …
Read moreBeck-online (legal database)
Beck-online is a legal database of the German publisher C.H. Beck Verlag. It contains case law, (law) commentaries and handbooks in the field of German law and almost all journals published by Beck. You will also find laws and regulations and the commented German Bundesrecht published by Nomos.
SearchesUsing …
Read moreBelgicaPress, database of digitised historical Belgian newspapers
BelgicaPress is a new 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 1970) including the censored press of both World Wars.
Thanks to the application of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the content is …
Read moreBHA: Bibliography of the History of Art (Getty)
The BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) is a bibliographical database that contains publications about European and American visual art, published between 1975 and 2007.
AccessThis database is freely accessible.
Search Operators- You can use the Boolean operators AND OR NOT.
- In the Advanced search mode you can …
CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) was founded in 1983 to enhance the quality of economic policy-making within Europe and beyond, by fostering high quality, policy-relevant economic research, and disseminating it widely to decision-makers in the public and private sectors.
Access
This database is fully accessible online within …
Read moreCERN Document Server
The CERN Document Server (CDS) is the institutional repository that provides acquisition, search and collaborative tools to manage collections of documents produced at CERN. The collections include HEP documents, multimedia documents, bulletins, administrative (directorate, HR, finance) documents, EU project documents (OpenAire, EMi), library and project document types.
The database contains …
Read moreChapter scan: 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 via the catalogue (lib.ugent.be). You can find a blue button "Get chapter scan" if we provide this service on a book.
Here are some tips & tricks to make this …
Read moreCommunication Source
Communication Source is hosted on the Ebsco platform. It is a bibliographic database containing references with abstracts and full text articles about communication science, linguistics, speech and language pathology, media studies, etc.
This database also includes a thesaurus.
AccessThis database is fully accessible within the UGent network (UGentNet …
Read moreDalloz (legal database)
Dalloz is a legal database containing French legal resources: case law, annotated legislation, encyclopedias, journals and a number of basic works (Dalloz Action). The Codes Dalloz contains up-to-date annotated legislation. In the Encyclopédie you can find extensive basic articles, useful as an introduction to a particular topic; the …
Read moreEmbase: comparison with PubMed and tips & tricks for searching
Embase is regarded as the European equivalent of PubMed/MEDLINE. When using the Embase search engine, you automatically browse not only the Embase database but also articles in PubMed/MEDLINE that have already been assigned MeSH terms.
AccessEmbase is only accessible via the UGent network.
Search operatorsEmbase can be …
Read moreEndNote: how can you import references?
You can import references into EndNote from many different databases. In the clips below, we explain how to import references from the four most commonly used ones: the library's catalogue, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
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Finding Belgian legislation
You can find Belgian (federal) legislation on the platform Belgian Legislation. Via a single interface you can search the database of the index of legislation as well as the database of the consolidated legislation.
Belgielex is the intersection of the Belgian laws where you can find federal as well …
Read moreFinding European legislation
In EUR-Lex you can find
- EU law,
- EU case law,
- other European public documents,
- and the authentic electronic version of the Official European Journal,
available in the 24 languages of the European Union.
More informationOverview of online sources on European law and legislation on the website of the faculty …
Read moreGale Literary Sources (Gale)
Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis) is a full text database (used especially in Literature) combining the following literary sources:
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
- Literature Criticism Online
- Literature Resource Center - LRC
- LitFinder
- Scribner Writer Series
- Something About the Author Online
- Twayne's Authors Series
The database is fully …
Read moreGoogle Books: what is it?
Google Books is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and scientific works. Google formed the collection via contracts with publishers and by scanning the collections of libraries all across the world.
You can find a part of the collection of Ghent University Library in Google Books. Only print works without copyright …
Read moreGoogle Scholar
Google Scholar is the scientific counterpart of Google. You can search for books, (peer reviewed) articles, reports, conference papers, and so on. You can narrow down your list of results by selecting a time period and/or language in the left-hand column.
Note that Google Scholar does not check the quality …
Read moreGrove Dictionary of Art
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001).
Grove Art Online is a scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory …
Read moreHeinOnline (legal database)
HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a legal database with a large collection of American and international legal journals, case law (primarily US and Canada) and other specific legal content such as Criminal Justice & Criminology, World Constitutions, etc. The Law Journal Library, for example, contains over 3100 fully searchable American and international …
Read moreIEEE 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 Xplore and …
Read moreInternational Philosophical Bibliography - IPB
The International Philosophical Bibliography is a bibliographic database in the field of philosophy and the successor of:
- Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie
- Bibliografisch Repertorium van de Wijsbegeerte.
The database includes all branches of philosophy and is updated four times a year.
You can search:
- by historic period or major field …
JSTOR
JSTOR is a (largely) fulltext mutidisciplinary 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 of …
Read moreJura (legal database Kluwer)
In Jura, Kluwer's virtual legal library, you will find both Belgian and international legislation and case law. You will also find as the full text of many Belgian legal journals and publications. A number of compilations and models as well as the Commentaries on Articles can also be found …
Read moreJurisquare (legal database)
Jurisquare is an online legal database. It contains a selection of important Belgian legal journals. You can also find the full text of a large number of Belgian legal publications, mainly from Intersentia and die Keure/la Charte. Jurisquare is available in Dutch, French and English.
SearchesUsing Search in library, …
Read moreKluwer Navigator (legal database Kluwer)
Kluwer Navigator is a Dutch legal database from Kluwer. In addition to laws, regulations and case law, it contains a number of Dutch legal journals. You will also find the Asser series, the Lexplication series and the Tekst en Commentaar series.
SearchesYou can use the search bar to search …
Read moreLegal Intelligence (legal database)
Legal Intelligence is an integrated database for Dutch legal sources. It contains the journals and other publications of Dutch publishers (e.g. Boom juridisch, Wolters Kluwer, etc.) that you can access through Ghent University. It also contains freely available legislation and case law.
SearchesWhen entering a keyword, the search bar …
Read moreLexis 360 Intelligence (legal database)
Lexis 360 Intelligence is a LexisNexis database for French legal resources. It contains legal journals, encyclopedias, case law, and laws and regulations (French, European and international). Under Encyclopédies you will find the JurisClasseurs, basic works of French law. The Codes contain up-to-date (commented) legislation. The Synthèses provide an introduction …
Read moreLinguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) is a bibliographic database of international literature on linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences (e.g. applied linguistics, learning disabilities, phonology, psycholinguistics, etc.).
LLBA contains a thesaurus in which you can select search terms from a controlled vocabulary and include them in your search. …
Read moreMLA International Bibliography & Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)
This bibliographic database contains books, websites, and articles (in English and some 60 other languages) compiled by the Modern Language Association of America beginning in 1926. It includes the following research fields:
Modern literature
Literary theory and criticism
Linguistics
Language teaching
Film, television and theater
Rhetoric and the art of …
MyNBN
All Belgian and European standards published by NBN, Bureau for Standardization, are collected in the database MyNBN.
AccessSearch for the database in the Library catalogue of Ghent University. Click on "View online". UGent has a 'read-only' access to MyNBN. Select "educational establishment: Ghent University" in the login …
Read moreProQuest: introduction
ProQuest is a portal of scientific databases. Ghent University has access to 17 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
- MEDLINE
- Patrologia Latina
- Performing Arts Periodicals …
PubMed: why and how to search
You can search for biomedical references using the PubMed search engine. References and abstracts in PubMed are freely accessible to everyone.
Our information sheet about PubMed on the Knowledge Centre for Health Ghent (KCGG) website will provide more information.
AccessReferences and abstracts in PubMed are freely accessible to everyone. …
Read moreRemote access & VPN
For copyright reasons, most electronic resources (databases and journals) can only be consulted within the UGent network. In the library catalogue they'll be indicated with "UGent only". You don't have to be on campus to be able to access these resources.
Off-campus access via Athena
Off-campus access is …
Read moreScholarly article: where to find it?
Search a bibliographic database
The best way to find qualitative scholarly articles is to use a bibliographic database. There are multidisciplinary databases (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science) as well as discipline-specific databases (e.g. PubMed for health sciences). These databases give an overview of published scholarly information, whether …
Read moreScopus (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 …
Scopus: introduction
Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographical database. The video below is an excerpt from a tutorial and explains some of the basic features, such as:
- How do I access Scopus?
- How do I use the basic search feature in Scopus?
- How do I sort and filter my search results?
- How do …
Searching: what is a citation search?
A citation search can go forward or backward in time. If you go forward in time, you look for the sources that cited your original article. If you go back in time, you look for the sources cited by your original article (also called "snowball search").
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Searching: what is the snowball search method?
The snowball search method is a way of tracking down related works by using the bibliography or reference list at the end of an article as your starting point. After all, there is a good chance that the sources the author has consulted while writing will be relevant to your …
Read moreStrada lex (legal database Larcier)
Strada Lex is the legal database of Larcier. This database is available in Dutch, French, and English. It contains legislation, case law and the journals of the publishers Larcier and Bruylant to which Ghent University has a subscription. On the bookshelf you will also find the digital version of the …
Read moreTranslation Studies Bibliography (TSB)
Translation Studies Bibliography is an annotated bibliography of the vast field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. TSB includes a thesaurus where you can include search terms from a controlled vocabulary in your search.
AccessThis database is fully accessible within the UGent network (UGentNet).
Boolean operatorsYou can …
Read moreUllmann's encyclopedia of industrial chemistry
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work related to industrial chemistry. As of 2016 it is in its 7th edition. This reference work provides the most current and trustworthy knowledge in everything that relates to the chemical industry, including processes, chemicals, products, analytical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and much more. …
Read moreWeb 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 …
Web of Science: how to find the impact factor and ranking of a journal?
Open Web of Science
Go to the library catalogue lib.ugent.be > Databases > WoS : Web of Science.
Click "Products" in the top right corner to open a dropdown menu. Then click "Journal Citation Reports (tm)."
Enter the title, the short title, …
Read moreWeb of Science: what is My Research Assistant (app) and how do I use it?
Web of Science (Clarivate) developed a new app to help you access their database from wherever you are. Once you're set up, you don't need to be connected to the Ghent University network anymore! But what can you do with it exactly, and how can you start using it?
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Read moreWestlaw (legal database Thomson Reuters)
Westlaw is a legal database by Thomson Reuters with a focus on the United States, and a selection of international materials. It contains an extensive collection of American case law (on federal and state level) and a large quantity of secondary sources on more than 30 subjects. The international materials …
Read moreWestlaw UK (legal database Thomson Reuters)
Westlaw UK, a legal database of Thomson Reuters, provides access to case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentaries, topical alerts and UK legal materials. It also contains a selection of materials (e.g., case law, legislation) related to the EU. In Westlaw UK, some of the International Materials from the …
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