E-resources by discipline
E-resources by discipline
These e-resources will be most usefull for faculty students and stuff.
Media and journalism
Communication and Mass Media collection (via EBSCO)
EBSCOhost provides online access to bibliographic and full-text research databases and thousands of e-journals on unified platform and include Communication and Mass Media collection.
Factiva provides not only business and economic information. Top news sources include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post and Le Monde.
The Infobank is a set of databases of the current CNA news service, its archives, texts from the Czech newspapers and magazines, and other documentary databases. The resource is available only from computers in the Hollar building (Faculty of Social Sciences) - single user license.
The largest media archive in Central Europe stretching back to 1996, covering press, television, radio and the Internet. MediaSearch media archive contains print sources* (nation-wide and regional periodicals, social and professional magazines), news from hundreds of websites and an extensive database of TV and radio programme transcripts.
Newton media thematic monitoring
Monitoring about media from Czech news, for researchers mostly
PressReader (formerly Library Press Display) is full-text database of daily news from all around the world. The database provides access to current issues of Sun, Washington Post, Guardian, Mladé Fronty and much more. There is also available 3 months archive.
Provides online access to bibliographic and full-text research databases and thousands of e-journals on unified platform and include special Communication & Media Studies collection.
Economy
Factiva provides business and economic information. It offers collection of the world’s top media outlets, web media, trade and consumer publications and more. Factiva gives you immediate access to thousands of sources in 28 languages from nearly 200 countries, 35 years’ worth of articles, analyst reports and tweets. Top news sources include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post and Le Monde. The resource is available only for 5 simultaneous users.
Sociology
The Digizeitschriften provides online access to the core German research journals.
JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students and provides access to collections of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Users can search the full text, titles, authors, and abstracts, or browse by journal title or discipline. The resource is available only from computers in the Faculty of Social Sciences buildings - single user license.
Digital library which provides access to collections of scholarly journals also in the Sociology.
SocINDEX with Full Text covers a broad range of studies, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work. In addition to full-text journals, SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Complete with extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, the database also includes searchable cited references.
Wiley Online Library provides access to fulltext scientific journals, book series, books, and reference works in medicine, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts published by the Wiley.
Amongst documents available for Charles university are:
- journals - full texts articles are available from 1997 to the present
- books – permanent purchase of selected titles in psychology, medicine, mathematics, computer science.
Political Sciences & International Relations
Daily news service covering Balcan countries, including more detailed analytical content - investigations, comment and analysis from the countries of the region.
CEEOL provides access to subscribed and open access e-journals in humanities and social sciences from Central and Eastern Europe.
Political Science Complete (via Ebsco)
Political Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product, such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features full-text reference books and monographs, and full text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus to provide subject searching guidance to researchers.
Digital library which provides access to collections of scholarly journals also in the Politics & International Relations.
Humanities
CEEOL provides access to subscribed and open access e-journals in humanities and social sciences from Central and Eastern Europe. All content in CEEOL either has its origin in Central, Eastern or South-Eastern Europe and/or is considered relevant to the region, its histories, cultures, languages, as well as, its political and social problems and discussions for possible solutions.
Information resource from the Russia region, Baltic states and other states of the former Soviet Union.
Web of Science (WoS) is a leading bibliographic and citation database covering the most impactful global and regional scholarly journals, books, and proceedings from the fields of technical and natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and the humanities. It focuses on the essential data from across more than 250 disciplines, finds and tracks scholarly citations, provides tools for viewing journal impact factor, for finding author names using ResearcherID, a unique identifier which enables researchers to manage their publication lists, tracks times-cited and h-index, and identifies potential collaborators.