The list of specialised databases includes only the most relevant information resources in the fields of engineering and natural sciences. The University of Ljubljana has access to many more different types of information resources. A wider selection of electronic information resources can be found in UL Catalogue of Information Resources, which is part of DiKUL Portal.
For technical information on accessing and using the databases, please call 041 756 308 or e-mail dikul-help@ctk.uni-lj.si. For information on the content of individual collections and to order information retrieval services, please contact the Information Specialists at tel. 01 2003 432 or by e-mail info-center@ctk.uni-lj.si. From 15.00 to 24.00, you can contact us on 01 2003 400 to make an enquiry.
The indicative accessibility of remote access collections is indicated by the colour of the collection name, and detailed access conditions are given in the descriptions of the individual collections:
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In addition to students and staff of the University of Ljubljana, the collection can also be accessed from locations outside the University by other users, members of the University Libraries, CTK and NUK.
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The collection can only be accessed from locations outside the University of Ljubljana by students and employees of the University of Ljubljana, members of the UL libraries, CTK and NUK.
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The collection is not accessible remotely.
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E-resources
A full-text bibliographic collection covering scientific and professional literature in all fields of science. In addition to scientific literature, it also includes current events from the worlds of politics, economics, culture, technology, entertainment.
Accessible from UL, CTK and NUK premises. Remote access for UL students and staff and all members of UL, CTK and NUK libraries.
AccessEngineering is McGraw-Hill's interactive reference and education platform for engineering students and professionals. The platform provides access to a wide range of resources: around 1000 books (manuals, textbooks and reference books) in the broad field of engineering (mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, etc.); more than 1400 instructional videos created by engineering professors showing step-by-step solutions to problems; interactive graphs and tables to help users display and analyse data; and the DataVis tool for searching and displaying data on material properties.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and staff of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK.
The ACM Digital Library is the most comprehensive information resource for the field of computer science and information technology, providing access to bibliographic data and full-text versions of all Association for Computing Machinery publications (scientific and professional journals, newsletters, conference proceedings, proceedings and reports), as well as an extensive collection of bibliographic records of the core literature of various scientific publishers in the field of computer science. For easier searching, the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is available.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The journal collection of the American Chemical Society, publisher of the most prestigious scientific publications in chemistry: organic, inorganic, physical, medicinal, combinatorial and analytical chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, materials chemistry and chemical technology. UL, CTK and NUK users also have access to the journal archive, i.e. the full text of articles of current and previous journal titles from the beginning of the journal's publication.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The collection consists of three parts: the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Index bibliographic collection and the full-text Aerospace Database and Computer Science Database. It provides a starting point for searching technical and scientific literature in the fields of aerospace engineering and advanced solutions in the areas of communication, computer and information technologies, electronics, laser technology, semiconductor materials and devices, etc. It is part of a wider collection of ProQuest Technology Collection, which also covers all types of materials and related technologies.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and staff of UL and NIB who are members of the libraries of these institutions, and all members of CTK and NUK.
The National Agricultural Library's bibliographic collection allows you to search for scientific and technical literature in all areas of agriculture and biotechnical sciences. The NAL thesaurus is also available to help you with your search.
Open-access collection.
AGRIS allows you to search for technical and scientific literature in all areas of agriculture. It is an international collection, created with the collaboration of more than 135 countries (including Slovenia) under the auspices of the FAO. It contains bibliographic data with extracts from articles, books, reports, etc. since 1975. The AGROVOC thesaurus is also available to help with searches.
Open-access collection.
The Analytical Abstracts bibliography (Royal Society of Chemistry) is the premier source of information for all areas of analytical chemistry. It contains entries from the world's scientific and professional literature since 1980 (with abstracts since 1984), of which about 100 are key titles in the field. Approximately 98% of the content of the database consists of records from articles, the rest from other types of sources (monographs, reports, conference proceedings). Advanced search using ready-made indexes allows searching in terms of analytes, matrices and/or analytical methods and techniques. The records contain specific chemical information: CAS registration numbers, substance data, chemical and trade names and synonyms. Selected records can be exported to bibliographic editing tools or forwarded by e-mail.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals contains bibliographic information with abstracts from more than 700 American and international professional and scientific journals, as well as publications of professional associations, catalogues, and newsletters in the fields of architecture, landscaping, urban planning, interior design and design, and architectural heritage conservation. With more than 13 000 records of famous architects who have passed away, it is also a valuable source of biographical information. It covers the period from 1934 onwards, some titles from the beginning of publication (e.g. American Architect from 1876). It also contains the full text of articles, where permitted by the publisher.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and staff of UL and NIB who are members of the libraries of these institutions, and all members of CTK and NUK.
The BAUFO (former FORS) database allows you to search for relevant information (principal investigator or institution, title, project period and brief description, methodology) on more than 36,000 ongoing or completed research projects in the fields of spatial planning, urban planning, environmental protection, traffic management, municipal and housing management in Germany. The database stores data from over 1400 German institutions since 1957.
Open-access collection.
Chemical Hazards in Industry (Royal Society of Chemistry) is an important source of reliable information from the world's scientific and professional literature on the health and safety risks arising from the use of chemicals in the chemical and related industries. It covers chemical and biological hazards, disposal, storage and transport, waste management, protective equipment, the preparation of safety and emergency plans, good practice and legislation.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
ChemSpider is a database of over 34 million chemical structures from over 490 sources, built by a team of experts under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It allows you to search for chemical compounds by entering the text (systematic name, synonym, commercial name, CAS registration number, or with SMILES and InChl compound records) or the structure of the compound, plus a number of additional options in the advanced search.
Open-access collection.
EBSCO's e-book Academic Collection provides annual access to the full text of more than 230,000 e-books in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, natural sciences and engineering. Most titles have no limit on the number of simultaneous users.
You are allowed to print and/or email up to 60 pages per book in pdf format to your email address. Registered users (personal account) can also borrow most of the books for varying lengths of time on portable devices. To read a borrowed book, the free Adobe Digital Editions software must be installed. This collection also includes approximately 400 e-book titles from different publishers and on different subjects, purchased for permanent access by a selection of UL libraries (CEK EF, CMK MF, CTK, ODKJG FDV, FE and FRI, NUK and PEF). These books can only be accessed by one user at a time.
Accessible from UL, CTK and NUK premises. Remote access for UL students and staff and all members of UL, CTK and NUK libraries.
UL users can access approximately 1.500 selected individual e-books, the titles of three collections (Advances in Applied Mechanics, Advances in Computers, Advances in Heat Transfer), a few titles of reference materials and 9 handbooks (Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Energy, Encyclopedia of Information Systems, Encyclopedia of Materials Science & Technology,Encyclopedia of Vibration, Comprehensive Microsystems, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology and Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition). Use the Access type restrictions Subscribed & complimentary and Open Access when searching.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
ICONDA is a continuation of the German RSWB database, which has been translated into English and upgraded. IRB (Informationszentrum Raum und Bau) supports over 25 organisations from all over the world (Europe, North America and Asia) that are building the database by entering records of articles from over 1000 journals dealing with technical, economic and social aspects of the whole field of construction and regional planning. Each record has a title in the original language and in English translation, as well as an abstract, and the database is particularly suited for searching the world's literature and research results, especially those that are still in progress.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and staff of UL, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions, and all CTK members.
ICONDA®CIBlibrary is a digital repository of publications from the CIB (INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION) or its affiliated institutions. It contains bibliographic records and full texts of serial publications and monographs. The ICONDA®CIBlibrary is a joint initiative of the General Secretariat of the CIB in Rotterdam and the Fraunhofer Information Centre for Planning and Construction IRB in Stuttgart, with the aim of promoting the dissemination of research results in the field of planning and construction.
Open-access collection.
The IEEE Xplore or IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) digital library collection includes the text of articles from around 400 journal titles, over 31-000 proceedings, and over 10,000 standards (approx. 3,000 valid, the rest are drafts, invalid, in preparation, etc.) in the fields of computer and information science, electronic components and technology, manufacturing technologies and systems, electrical devices, telecommunications, etc. The content is available from 1988 onwards, and selected documents from as far back as 1872.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
IOP Publishing's premium journal package provides access to the full text of over 100 scientific and professional journals and some conference proceedings from the non-profit Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing. They cover topics in physics, astronomy and astrophysics, mathematics, measurement, materials, electronics, computer science and related fields in engineering, medicine, biology, chemistry. The full text of articles is available in a wide variety of formats, with some journals as early as 1923.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
OPEN PUBLISHING
Transformative Licensing Agreement with IOP Publishing for 2024 Corresponding authors from the University of Ljubljana facilitated by unlimited free publication of articles (vouchers without APC - Article Processing Charge) in open access in hybrid journals from the publisher at Lists A, B and C.
The benefit applies to the following types of publication in the publisher's journals: Paper, Special Issue Paper, Review and/or Letter.
General Terms and Conditions:
- the article is ACCEPTED for publication in 2024,
- only 1 corresponding author is listed on the manuscript, who at the time of submission has the status of an employee, researcher (permanent, temporary, visiting) or student of the University of Ljubljana,
- the correct details (name) of the author's institution,
- Identification of the author by e-mail address with the institution's domain.
Help for corresponding authors to submit publications to the publisher's ScholarOne system in the case of an existing conversion contract: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/submit-under-a-transformative-agreement-guide/. For more information on open access publishing under the transformation contracts with Slovenian institutions, see on the IOP website .
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an archive for searching and reading the full text of scholarly journals (JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection) in various fields such as: anthropology, archaeology, economics and business, philosophy, music, education, linguistics and literature, mathematics, natural sciences, political science, law, sociology, art and art history, history, etc. The focus is mainly on older volumes, which are often available from the beginning of their publication, while access to the most recent volumes is mostly not possible (there is a delay of 2 years or more, on average 4 years).
The entire archive of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-), the second oldest scientific journal, in which the first two original Slovenian contributions by J. V. For example, we have the archives of more than a hundred journals that began publication in the 19th century, more than 300 journals that began publication in the first half of the 20th century, and so on.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
Database covering mechanical engineering.
Open-access collection.
Natural Products Updates (Royal Society of Chemistry) is a service for keeping up to date with new developments in natural products chemistry. It covers the most important primary sources in general and organic chemistry, including topics on the isolation of new natural compounds, biosynthesis, structure determination and studies of biological activity. The entries contain complete bibliographic information on the original article, the structures of the compounds covered, and a link to the original publication by the publisher. The service allows searching by topic, source organism, biological activity or structure type and browsing of the content using classification by source organism, compound class or biological activity. Users can create personal profiles to save their searches and to set up notifications of new content, save compound structures and export selected records to bibliography editing tools.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The journal package includes full-text access to 36 Nature Research journals and 43 academic and society journals published under the umbrella of Nature Publishing Group. Full-text access is available for the current and past 4 years, some even longer. The journals cover the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, biochemistry, biotechnology, materials, physics, ecology and other areas of the life sciences. In addition to searching the bibliographic data and abstracts of all journals on Nature.com, the full texts of the so-called NPJ (Nature Partner Journals) journals are also available open access.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
NAUTOS is a new standards discovery environment that replaces the old Perinorm and e-Norm platforms from Beuth. It allows simple or advanced searches across 57 individually configurable search fields (some in English, German or French) using advanced filtering and aggregation options. It contains extended bibliographic descriptions on national standards and technical regulations of European countries, on international and European standards and regulations, as well as on the most important American, Japanese, South African and Australian standards and other technical regulations. Find out more about the new environment and search options at Nautos - Beuth.de.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
Founded in 1914 to celebrate the National Academy of Sciences' sesquicentennial, PNAS is one of the world's most highly cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,300 research papers annually, covering the biological, physical and social sciences. In addition, it publishes scientific news, commentaries, perspectives, colloquia, podcasts and profiles of NAS members.
PNAS is a subscription magazine, but all content is free after six months. Developing countries have free access to PNAS.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
PQDT Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of PhD and Masters theses. It contains bibliographic data on almost 4 million theses and dissertations since 1637, with an annual growth of around 70,000 records in collaboration with 700 of the world's leading educational institutions. The full texts of over 1 million theses and dissertations since 1997 (in the format contributed by the participating educational institutions) are available for purchase. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase in print. Each thesis added after 1980 contains a 350-word abstract by the author. Master's theses published after 1988 contain a 150-word abstract. Where permitted, PQDT Global provides a 24-page preview of the thesis.
Accessible from UL, CTK and NUK premises. Remote access for UL students and staff who are members of UL libraries and all CTK and NUK members.
RSC Gold provides access to 46 current journal titles, 5 databases (Analytical Abstracts, Chemical Hazards in Industry, Laboratory Hazards Bulletin, Natural Product Updates and Synthetic Reaction Updates), the monograph series Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, and the archive content of the Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Sections A, B and C of one of the world's leading chemistry associations, the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry. It covers the fields of chemistry, biology, biophysics/physics, materials, medicine and pharmaceutics. The full text of the articles is available at different times, for some journal titles since 1997 or, for more recent titles, since the beginning of publication.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The collection covers the literature on damage to buildings (origin, prevention and restoration of damage to buildings, revitalisation of buildings, etc.) and allows the reading of full texts from over 600 specialised books, technical manuals, journals, studies, research reports, etc.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and staff of UL, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions, and all CTK members.
ScienceDirect is a collection of e-journals from one of the world's leading publishers in the fields of engineering, science, medicine and other disciplines. In 2024, University of Ljubljana users have access to journal titles from the Freedom Collection, which contains the majority of Science Direct journals (excluding journals of certain associations, some scientific publishers, especially in the field of medicine, which do not allow access to ScienceDirect subscribers). It contains approximately 2,000 journal titles that are currently available, in addition to about 500 journals that are available for a certain period of time (title change, merger of titles, discontinuation of publication), and more than 1,000 journals in open access. Excluded are journals of certain associations, some scientific publishers, especially in the field of medicine, which do not allow access to ScienceDirect subscribers. Subscribed journals are available from 1995 onwards, or four vintages before the first year of subscription. Unsubscribed titles are generally available for the last 5 years (the last 4 vintages and the current year).
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
At the link Elsevier Webinars for Central & Eastern Europe In the Recorded webinars tab you can watch a set of recorded webinars on Elsevier products (Science Direct, Scopus, SciVal, etc.), literature search, publishing, open access publishing, etc., free of charge. At the same link Elsevier Webinars for Central & Eastern Europe the Upcoming webinars tab lists the planned free webinars you can register for. The webinars are free of charge and in English.
Science is one of the world's most important scientific journals, publishing articles, cutting-edge research, rigorous scientific commentary and insights from a global community of authors on the most important developments in the world of science.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
In 2025, the collection will be available on the new CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform.
To access the collection, you must register using a valid postal address within the UL postal address space.
CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform, the latest information solution from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, includes a number of new features in addition to the existing search capabilities for bibliographic data, substances, reactions, patents and commercial reagent suppliers: results prioritization, display of individual process steps and protocols, mapping and visualization of cited sources, biosequence search, retrosynthetic analyses, patent mapping, improved viewing and navigation of full-text patents with PatentPak®, drawing chemical structures with ChemDoodle on touchscreens and more - all in an easy-to-use interface.
It combines searches of several databases built by the Chemical Abstracts Service: the Chemical Abstracts journal or CA Plus database, the CAS Registry (a list of CAS registry numbers of organic and inorganic substances, protein and nucleotide sequences), the MARPAT database (Markush structures from patents since l. 1988 onwards), CASREACT (information on single- and multi-step chemical reactions), CHEMLIST (information on registered or hazardous substances from the world's most important regulation since 1979) and the CHEMCATS database of commercially available chemicals. It provides bibliographic data with abstracts of articles from more than 50,000 journals from 180 countries since 1907 (partly including older records from the 1800s), as well as data on dissertations, conference proceedings, technical publications and books. Of particular value is the collection of over four million records of patents granted by 64 patent offices, with abstracts in English. Selected patents from nine of the world's most important patent offices are indexed within 2 days of grant. The subject areas covered are chemistry and chemical technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutics, medicine, metallurgy and materials, geology, food technology, agronomy, ecology, physics of matter, etc. SciFinder also allows searching the entire MEDLINE collection from 1951 onwards, including data from OLDMEDLINE (1958-1966) and IN-PRESS records. Consultation with the chemistry information specialists at CTK is recommended, and the following are also available instructions and help materials on the provider's website.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary citation-indexed bibliographic database built by Elsevier B.V., the largest international publisher of scientific literature.Scopus covers the content of around 42,000 journal titles (of which 27,000 are current and around 5,600 are open access) from over 5,000 publishers, and contains more than 77 million bibliographic records (71 million with references for the period after 1969, and about 7 million for the period 1788-1970).
Some journals are only partially indexed in Scopus. Scopus also contains contributions from 850 scientific monograph series, 210,000 books and 9.8 million consultation papers. The search also includes 44 million patents from five patent offices (US Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organisation and UK Intellectual Property Office).
It allows selective and command search, author and reference search, and several ways of limiting the number or analysing the search results and the way the retrieved documents are sorted. It also provides links from the bibliographic record to the full text of the documents, export of search results to bibliographic editing tools (Mendeley, RefWorks and EndNote), and settings for notification of news (by e-mail, RSS or HTML feed). It also offers various tools for analysing authors' citation (h-index) or documents, journal impact (alternative indicators SNIP and SJR) as well as evaluation display or analysis at institutional level. Scopus records are indexed in the global indexes of information discovery tools such as EBSCO EDS and ProQuest Summon and Primo.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
At the link Elsevier Webinars for Central & Eastern Europe In the Recorded webinars tab you can watch a set of recorded webinars on Elsevier products (Science Direct, Scopus, SciVal, etc.), literature search, publishing, open access publishing, etc., free of charge. At the same link Elsevier Webinars for Central & Eastern Europe the Upcoming webinars tab lists the planned free webinars you can register for. The webinars are free of charge and in English.
SpringerLink provides access to around 2,500 scientific and technical journals from various publishers, grouped under the Springer Nature umbrella. About 50 titles from Palgrave Macmillan are also included. The content of the journals covers a wide range of subject areas: biomedical, natural and technical sciences, business and economics, humanities, psychology, sociology, law, etc. The full text of the articles in the e-journals is generally available from 1997 onwards, or less if they were published later. The full texts of over 30,000 books (display and browse by chapters) that are part of the Complete English Language/International Collection purchased between 2005 and 2012 are also available on SpringerLink.
Accessible from the premises of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK. Remote access for students and employees of UL, CTK, NIB and NUK who are members of the libraries of these institutions.
The collection brings together descriptions of methods published over the last 30 years in the well-known Humana Press book series "Methods in ......", as well as methods from various laboratory manuals, e.g. The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook and Springer Laboratory Manuals. It contains over 18.Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Immunology, Radiology, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Neurology, Cancer Research, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Botany, etc.
Comprehensive and clearly structured descriptions make the method easy to use and quick to transfer to your own laboratory. An important feature is the user notes, which show how other researchers have used the methods and what their experiences have been.The latest version of the portal is available at Springer Nature Experiments, where the full texts of the "Springer Protocols" for the period 1988 - 2011 are available.
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The TEMA collection contains bibliographic records with abstracts, keywords or descriptors from international and German scientific and professional literature (journals, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, etc.) in the field of engineering and management. It contains information on developments and research, innovations, new products, equipment and processes in the fields of mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, information technology, energy, materials, textile technology, medical equipment, mining, management and organisation.
It covers the period from 1968 onwards.The bibliographical part of the record is mainly in German, with extracts in German and/or English. Searching is possible using English or German terms, terms from the controlled list of descriptors of the 'Thesaurus Engineering and Management' and codes from the WTI classification.TEMA contains several sub-topics with narrower subject areas, which can also be searched independently (selection on the entry page): DOMA® (Mechanical Engineering), ZDE (Electrical, Electronics and Energy Engineering), WEMA Materials® (Materials), BEFO (Management and Organisation), TOGA® (Textile Technology), MEDITEC (Medical Engineering), BERG (Mining Engineering) and ENTEC (Energy Engineering). TEMotive (electric mobility) is also included in the TecFinder portal.
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The Writing Guides collection consists of 18 books to help early-career PhD researchers (mainly in the fields of technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) to write scientific papers from the perspective of non-native English speakers, to fundraise, to fundraise for grants and to communicate with the general public. It provides a basic selection of literature for students and academics at all levels, including for writing doctoral theses and publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals, for applying for grants and for preparing conference presentations.
- Communicating science: a practical guide for engineers and physical scientists
- Crackle and fizz: essential communication and pitching skills for scientists
- Grant writer's handbook, the: how to write a research proposal and succeed
- Grant writing and crowdfunding guide for young investigators in science, the
- Planning your research and how to write it
- Science research writing for non-native speakers of english
- Science sifting: tools for innovation in science and technology
- Scientific writing 2.0: a reader and writer's guide
- Selling science: how to use business skills to win support for scientific research
- Solving everyday problems with the scientific method: thinking like a scientist
- Thriving professor, the: a guide to a career in universities and colleges
- When the scientist presents: an audio and video guide to science talks (with dvd-rom)
- Science research writing: for native and non-native speakers of english (second edition)
- Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation!
- Enjoy your science meeting!: a practical guide to getting the most out of attending scientific conferences
- What every postdoc needs to know
- Research methods: a practical guide for students and researchers
- Science communication: an introduction
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The Web of Science Core Collection service provides access to three of the most important multidisciplinary bibliographic databases with citation indexes: the Science Citation Index Expanded® (SCI-EXPANDED), the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI) and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index® (A&HCI).
They include data from more than 10,000 of the world's most prestigious and influential scientific journals since 1900. In addition to these most important journals, other citation index collections are available in the Core Collection: Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), Book Citation Index- Science (BKCI-S), Book Citation Index- Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and two collections of citation indexes for chemistry: Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED) and Index Chemicus (IC).
The service also provides access to other collections:
- BIOSIS Citation index - a citation index database for the life sciences, biomedicine;
- Current Contents Connect - complete indexes and bibliographic data of the world's leading scientific and professional journals, books and relevant websites and documents;
- Data Citation Index - a citation index database that includes research data, datasets and studies from international data repositories;
- Derwent Innovations Index - patent information from the Derwent World Patent Index, expanded with citations from the Patents Citation Index;
- KCI - Korean Journal Database - an interdisciplinary bibliographic database of scientific journals from South Korea, maintained by the National Research Foundation of Korea;
- MEDLINE ® - the leading bibliographic collection for the field of medicine, built by the U.S. National Library of Medicine®;
- Russian Science Citation Index - a bibliographic database of citations to articles by Russian researchers from more than 500 scientific journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine and education, built by eLIBRARY.RU;
- ScIELO Citation Index - access to content from leading open access academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities from Latin America, Portugal, Spain and South Africa;
- Zoological Record® - access to the world's oldest and leading reference taxonomic collection for animal biology.
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University of Ljubljana users have access to the full range of journals in the Wiley Online Library, with just over 1,400 titles of Wiley journals currently available. Full-text articles are mostly available from 1996 onwards, or less if the journal was launched later.
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