Open Access Resources

Database	Field	Description
Knihovny.cz	general	Gateway to Czech libraries, their catalogues and sources.
Biographical Dictionary of Cieszyń Silesia	Silesia	Electronic biographical dictionary of Cieszyn Silesia - Elektroniczny słownik biograficzny Śląska Cieszyńskiego.
Medvik, BMC	medicine, healthcare	BMC (Bibliographia Medica Cechoslovaca) and Medvik contains bibliographic records of articles and books dealing with medicine, health service and similar fields of study. Records of primary documents are being processed from 1977 to the present.* It also includes the thesaurus MeSH - guided dictionary of biomedical terms created since 1969by the National Library of Medicine, USA.
Czech National Bibliography	general	It is an integrated resource of information sources  published in the Czech Republic. It contains these databases: Czech Books, Articles in Czech Newspapers, Journals and Proceedings, Dissertations, Authority File, Periodicals Published in the Czech Republic, Special Documents and Foreign Bohemica.
ANL articles	general	Bibliography - selection of articles in Czech newspapers, magazines and proceedings.
Theses.cz	general	National register of university theses.
ASEP - publishing activities of the Czech Academy of Sciences	general	It records the publishing activities of the staff of the Czech Academy of Sciences .
Geobibline	geography	Czech geographical bibliography online - database of documents dealing with geographical issues of the Czech Republic.
Google Scholar [Google]	general	Professional and scientific texts search engine.
NUŠL - National Repository of Gray Literature	general	Project of the National Library of Technology in Prague. One of the goals of the project is to create an interface for searching for unpublished and semi-published publications.
Manuscriptorium	manuscripts	This database of rare manuscripts, ancient books and maps resulted from the digitalisation project in the Czech Republic and Europe. For documents that have been digitized, their image copies are also available online.
National Library of the Czech Republic	general	Bases of the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Pedagogical Bibliographic Database	pedagogy	It contains annotated bibliographic records of articles and monographs (Czech and foreign) dealing with pedagogy.

 

Foreign Databases

 

Database	Description
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)	A search program focused primarily on open access academic resources. 70% of indexed documents are available in full text.
DART-Europe	Portal for access to more than 600,000 university works at 586 universities in 28 European countries. The database is administered by University College London.
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek	The German digital library makes national cultural heritage preserved in about 30,000 German cultural and scientific institutions. It captures over 18 million digital objects.
DiVa	Portal allowing access to research publications and university works from 40 universities and research institutions in Scandinavia. It was founded in 2000.
DOAJ	DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals.
Electronic Theses Online Service - EthOS	The database contains about 400,000 doctoral theses from the UK from over 120 institutions, of which about 160,000 are in full text. Built by the British Library.
ERIC	Education Resources Information Center - extensive online educational resource: bibliographic records of articles from over 1.3 million, especially peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings, scientific and educational materials. The ERIC database also includes selective full texts of articles and other publications.
The European Library	The European Library provides a central gateway to access the online catalogues and digital collections of Europe's national libraries. It allows to search through the resources of more than 20 national libraries. Resources can be either digital or bibliographical.
EZB - Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek [Universität Regensburg]	Access to full-text electronic journals (free resources only - green dot).
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog - KVK	Virtual union catalogue of German, Swiss and other foreign libraries.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations - OATD	It captures nearly 3 million university papers from over 1000 universities and research institutions in different countries in full text. Originally it contained only the works of American universities.
Open Gray	The bibliographic database contains over 800,000 gray literature records produced in European countries. Contains unpublished or semi-published documents, such as conference materials, college works, etc.
Portal GetInfo	Portal especially for technology and science. It covers about 170 million documents. Enables simultaneous search of many professional databases, publishers' bids, and library catalogues. The portal is being built by the Technische Informationsbibliothek in Hanover, which serves as the central library in Germany for technology, architecture, chemistry, informatics, mathematics and physics.
PQDT Open	Access to full texts of open access university Access to full texts of open access university works. ProQuest product.
PubMed	This resource makes millions of records of biomedical literature available from the MEDLINE database, Life Science magazines and e-books. PubMed quotes and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, part of behavioural science, chemical science, and bioengineering. Records can contain full text lines.
Science.gov	The portal searches 60 databases and more than 2,200 websites of US federal scientific institutions.
WorldWideScience.gov	The gateway searches about 100 databases from 70 countries. It also searches the database of the Czech Academy of Sciences.