Library

Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki (WBN) is a programme for purchasing and providing access to global knowledge resources in the form of e-journals, e-books and databases for Polish academic and scientific institutions. The programme is co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Full-text databases of magazines: EBSCO, Elsevier, Science and Nature, Springer, Wiley,
full-text databases of books: Springer, Wiley,
abstract databases: Scopus, Web of Science,
bibliometric tools: SciVal, InCites.

Databases produced by EBSCO Information Services have been made available since 2010 under a national academic licence. The licence covers a core package of 16 databases, including 7 full-text databases containing scientific journals from various publishers, books, newspapers and other publications

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) – multidisciplinary database offers students an collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.

Agricola
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO) – premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is an essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

ERIC– the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and
research.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals
interested in European works that relate to the Americas.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the
environment.

Health Source – Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries
worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food
sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical
disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer
Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more
than 4,700 brand names.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125
selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes
librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management and more.

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for
nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.

MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international
newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

OpenDissertations

Regional Business News

Teacher Reference Center

Academic Research Source eBooks database is a multi-disciplinary database containing
– over 240 000 electronic books,
– over 3 000 international journals, including about 350 Polish scientific journals
Topics covered include, among others: psychology, humanities, applied sciences, social
sciences, education, mathematics, medical sciences, natural sciences, language learning aids,
dictionaries and lexicons, political sciences, environmental protection, law, literary criticism,
business and economics, chemistry, informatics, engineering and many others.

EBSCOhost Basic Searching Tutorial

Downloading EBSCO eBooks Tutorial

Downloading EBSCO eBooks Tutorial (PowerPoint)

EBSCO Tutorials (EBSCO Information Services Support YouTube page)

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book
chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are
currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters, a content base that is growing at a rate of
almost 0.5 million additions per year.

ScienceDirect Topics create an interactive, seamless and convenient reading experience through in-page embedded links. Each link opens a window on the page so your reading experience is never interrupted.

SpringerLink is one of the world’s leading online information services for scientific, technical
and medical books and journals. You can access more than 1,300 journals with full-text
(marked with green key) on the following subjects: behavior science, business and economics,
humanities, social sciences and law, computer science, mathematics and statistics.

Wiley Online Library

The broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health
and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated
access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and
hundreds

Bibliographic data bases

Web of Science

Explore the world’s leading citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000
high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as
international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Powerful tools include cited
reference searching, Citation Maps, and the Analyze Tool.

Scopus

A multidisciplinary database of abstracts and citation in the field of mathematical-natural
sciences, technical, medical and humanities. The Scopus database also provides the Hirsch
index, which is calculated based on publications from the 1970s.

Bibliometric tools

SciVal

InCites – what is?
Note! Every user who wants to use the tool must have a personal account on the Web of
Science platform.
You can create an account by selecting „Sign In” and then „Register” in the menu, see the
compendium: Access and Login tab. Note: Users who already have a personal Web of
Science account should log out of their Web of Science account before entering InCites for
the first time, then clear their browser details, and log in directly via the InCites website with
the login and password of their personal Web of Science account.