For licensed databases, access rights are indicated by the abbreviation of the faculty, institute, or unit of the University of South Bohemia (USB).
USB staff and students can connect to databases marked with AK-JU availability from computers outside the university using a VPN concentrator.
Please report any access issues to:
Please state the name of the database and the IP address from which you are accessing the database. It will enable us to solve the problem quickly.
For databases that allow access without VPN, i.e., via institutional login using Shibboleth, the Shibboleth icon is shown in the database details. You can log in from any computer with internet access. To log in, select 'institutional login' or a similar link under 'Sign in,' 'Log in,' etc. Then search for eduID.cz and select University of South Bohemia. Your username and password are the same as for STAG.
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A multidisciplinary full-text database containing more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
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A full-text database containing the complete texts of 68 printed volumes of Acta Sanctorum published over 300 years. It includes materials on the lives of saints from the beginnings of Christianity up to the 16th century, mapping the development of Christian attitudes and thought in historical context.
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A bibliographic database of literature related to technical, economic, and social aspects of agriculture, including forestry, animal production, water management, and nutrition. In addition to traditional documents, it includes special documents (scientific and technical reports, dissertations, etc.).
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is a leading index for journal articles, book reviews, and essay collections in all areas related to theology and religious studies. It also includes an online collection of theological journals published by ATLA. Contains more than 620,000 citations of articles from over 1,746 periodicals (currently 575 indexed), over 250,000 citations of essays from more than 18,000 collections, and more than 570,000 citations of book reviews.
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A full-text database designed for Bible study. It contains biblical texts in many languages. Access is provided within the Litterae Ante Portas database. Passwords can be obtained at the TF library.
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Description: BioOne Complete is a full-text database containing more than 200 high-quality scholarly titles in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. The database consists of two collections of full-text peer-reviewed journals and other publications, many considered essential in their fields.
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A database of e-books from Czech publishers of professional literature.
Bookport provides unlimited access to more than 5,200 titles from over ten Czech publishers.
Books can be read online in a browser or offline in mobile apps for Android and iOS.
Users can highlight text, add notes, search within books, and perform full-text searches across the database.
Up to 6 titles can be downloaded for offline reading at once, and up to 3 devices can be registered.
Login: via Shibboleth (eduID.cz → University of South Bohemia).
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13 specialized reference sources (encyclopedias and dictionaries) focused on natural sciences.
More information: https://www.aip.cz/produkty/2074-cab-reference-book-collection/
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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus with Full Text is a full-text database focused on nursing and allied health professions, available on the EBSCOhost platform.
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A publicly accessible database on the website of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, containing more than 10,000 online biograms of Czech literary figures.
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A bibliographic database capturing Czech national production with retrospective coverage from 1980 for books, from 1990 for newspapers and periodicals, and from 1989 for dissertations and abstracts.
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A bibliographic database created from professional journals subscribed to by the Antonín Švehla Library (from 1993 to the present). It contains records of articles from selected Czech periodicals and proceedings in agriculture, food industry, and related fields. The database is continuously updated with an annual increase of over 7,000 records. Records are richly indexed using the AGROVOC agricultural thesaurus.
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A multidisciplinary database of full-text scholarly journals available on an Open Access basis.
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EBSCOhost – an interface providing access to databases supplied by EBSCO.
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A multi-search tool across the library’s electronic resources, guaranteeing users easy and efficient access to information sources from a single search interface. It includes content from selected subscribed electronic databases and information about articles and other documents from online sources not subscribed by the library. Full-text availability depends on the licensing terms of individual databases.
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A collection of selected electronic books from various fields. Books can be viewed online or downloaded for offline reading. For offline downloads (e.g., to e-readers), users must install Adobe Digital Editions (free) and register on the EBSCO website. All e-readers supporting Adobe Digital Editions are compatible. Users can set the loan period (1–7 days). After expiration, the book cannot be opened. Maximum of 15 books can be borrowed simultaneously.
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Description: The e-library contains mainly books, scripts, and teaching materials published by the University of South Bohemia and its faculties.
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A comprehensive online resource in the field of education. It contains more than 1.3 million records and links to over 323,000 full-text documents from 1966 onward.
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Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is a tool focused on evaluating science through the analysis of published articles. ESI measures significance and impact using both total citation counts and average citations per paper. It tracks only journals indexed in Web of Science.
Instructional videos: Clarivate LibGuides
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The Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, EZB) offers convenient and easy access from a single location to all full-text scholarly electronic journals available to the library through various subscriptions or freely accessible on the internet.
Detailed information on using the database: http://ezb.nkp.cz/
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InCites is an analytical tool that performs analyses of scientific outputs at institutional, disciplinary, and global levels based on citations of publications indexed in Web of Science.
To use InCites, you need to register with your email address as your login name or use your personal Web of Science account if you have one. Account registration must be done from university premises or via VPN.
Instructional videos: Clarivate LibGuides
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A multidisciplinary resource for evaluating journals, part of the Web of Science platform. It contains statistical data and quantitative tools for comparing scholarly and scientific journals. It uses the Impact Factor, which can be used to estimate the prestige of scientific journals.
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A multidisciplinary database of digitized full texts of selected journals. Each journal is fully digitized from the first issue of the first volume up to a moving wall of three to five years from the present. The university now has a subscription model providing access to all licensed archival journals and primary sources in one collection.
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The Knihovny.cz portal provides unified access to the services of Czech and Moravian libraries – for anyone, from anywhere, at any time.
Availability: TF – USB (on request)
Students of TF obtain a password at the TF library. Access for others at USB is provided by Ing. Jurášová. To use the database, you need to install the Netman client program.
A server of databases for studying and researching Greek and Latin authors of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. It provides access to bibliographic and full-text databases in classical literature and Latin medieval studies. Intended primarily for classical philologists, biblical scholars, medievalists, historians, theologians, and specialists in related fields.
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Literature Online contains full texts of more than 350,000 English-language prose, poetry, and dramatic works from the 8th century to the present. In addition to primary sources, it offers essays, literary criticism, reference materials, author biographies, encyclopedic entries, audio and video recordings of works, and scholarly journals (over 75% peer-reviewed).
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A part of the Digital Library of the National Library of the Czech Republic, preserving and providing digital versions of documents (prints, maps, manuscripts, etc.).
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MEDLINE is one of the most important sources of information in medicine and related life sciences. The complete MEDLINE bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine contains over 23 million records from 1946 to the present. It includes citations and abstracts of worldwide medical literature, covering research, clinical practice, administration, policy aspects, and health protection services. Records include bibliographic descriptions and abstracts from about 5,600 journals in 40 languages.
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A database covering nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, speech therapy, social work, and nutrition. Available on the EBSCOhost platform.
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The NDK-DNNT service offers full texts of books published in the Czech Republic up to 2003 and periodicals published up to 2013. These are documents protected by copyright (i.e., less than 70 years since the author’s death) and unavailable on the market, including other editions or electronic versions. Also includes works that are legally free (no longer under copyright). The service is provided under a license agreement between the National Library of the Czech Republic and collective copyright administrators.
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Oxford University Press publishes highly cited and authoritative journals in collaboration with many influential scholarly and professional societies. The Oxford Journals Full Collection includes more than 370 prestigious journals across various disciplines.
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ProQuest Central is one of the most extensive multidisciplinary databases, providing access to various types of information sources across all major disciplines. The collection includes thousands of full-text journals, newspapers, reports, books, conference materials, theses, and other gray literature.
The University of South Bohemia has now gained access to the extended version ProQuest Central Premium as part of the CzechElib project.
Within the ProQuest environment, in addition to traditional databases, it is also possible to search for videos from Alexander Street publishers or electronic books (ProQuest Ebook Central).
The built-in AI Research Assistant helps to analyze search results more effectively, tailor them to specific needs, evaluate, and organize documents.
Title list available for download here.
Information brochure: https://pq-static-content.proquest.com/collateral/media2/documents/brochure-proquestcentral.pdf
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A specialized service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine focused on medicine and related fields. Includes links to full-text articles from MEDLINE and other biomedical sources.
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A distributed digital archive focused on economics. Includes e-prints (preprints and postprints) of scholarly articles, research reports, books, chapters, software components, etc. The database contains metadata from more than 1,900 participating archives, including major publishers and research centers.
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The USB repository operated on open-source software DSpace. It contains full texts of theses (bachelor’s, master’s, dissertations, rigorous and habilitation works) and scripts published at USB. Scripts are not publicly accessible; login is required.
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A multidisciplinary database of journals published by Elsevier.
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SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is an international consortium of more than a thousand libraries and research organizations promoting open access to scientific articles in nuclear and particle physics. The project is coordinated by CERN.
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A bibliographic database enabling searches across more than 14,000 journal titles, mainly of European origin. Covers natural sciences, agriculture, environment, social sciences, medicine, psychology, economics, etc. Offers abstracts and links to cited and citing articles.
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A multidisciplinary full-text and bibliographic database of articles from scientific and scholarly journals published by Springer. Includes mainly information from natural sciences, medicine, environment, computer science, economics, and engineering.
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The Social Science & Humanities Library from Taylor & Francis includes full texts of more than 1,400 peer-reviewed journals in social sciences and humanities, forming the largest T&F collection in this area.
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Web of Science Core Collection is a database service by Clarivate Analytics. It allows searching 55 million bibliographic records from top journals, conference proceedings, and scholarly monographs in natural, technical, and social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factor source).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY NETWORK:
- Go to www.webofscience.com
- If you do not see the login page right away, click on Sign in in the top right and then on Sign in again.
- On the login page, click the Institutional Sing in drop-down menu.
- Select Czech academic identity federation eduID and confirm with the Go to institution button. (SEE PICTURE)
- Select the University of South Bohemia.
- Enter your credentials for STAG.
- If you also have a personal registration with Wos (it is free and allows you to save your search history, create notifications for new records according to the specified criteria, etc.), then log in to your personal registration by clicking on the Sign in link at the top right.
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A multidisciplinary database of journals published by Wiley.
