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E-resources

Strong points: books in Catalan, Spanish and English , visual and highly intuitive design, academic content you can trust, access from all types of devices, additional options such as creating your own virtual bookshelf.

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Browse books on art, education, science, technology, law and communication. Examples:

ProQuest Ebook

Over 1,000 books from prestigious sources. Read them online and even download them.

Strong points: highly specialized information, prestigious sources, option to download full-text documents (select the Full-text access filter).

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Over 2,000 full-text publications in English. With ScienceDirect you learn directly from the professionals. Examples:

ScienceDirect

The secret to this collection’s success is: prestigious authors and content reviewed by experts. Publications specializing in medicine, science and technology.

Strong points: a collection of print journals in high quality, downloadable electronic format (PDF or TIFF), the publications start in 1800, advanced search option.

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An article from 1895 about international trends in caricatures that talks about the style of French artist Toulouse-Lautrec or an analysis of the problems making a film in the 1940s.

JSTOR

A digital repository for print journals. This database has articles and ebooks on the humanities and social sciences.

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Strong points: high-definition images with zoom so you can see all the fine details, general information about the paintings, options for downloading and sharing the files

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You’ll find hundreds of images on the internet, but on ArtStor you can view and download high-quality images. Examples: Portrait of Van Gogh, loaned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Dance Lesson by Edgar Degas, loaned to the National Gallery of Art

Artstor

An online art gallery with around 2 million images, donated by leading archives, artists and museums. If you need to know more about Frida Kalho or Dalí, then this is the collection for you.

Strong points: visual design and highly-intuitive operation, a full collection containing information about the latest trends in each discipline; Emerald Group Publishing collaborates with institutions and professionals around the world.

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With a nod to the fields of business, marketing, engineering and library science. Examples:

Emerald

A group of coloured icons welcomes you to this resource. It contains books and journals on a wide range of disciplines.

Strong points: a compilation of research in Spanish and Portuguese, EBSCO seal of quality, covers publishers from a specific region.

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With particular emphasis on agriculture, economics, history, law, literature and sociology. Examples:

• Archives of the CEMLA newsletter (1955 to the present day)

Information about money and financial matters in Latin American and the Caribbean.

• Full archive of the Darwiniana journal (1922 to the present day)

Argentinian journal that specializes in botany.

• Revista Enfoques: Ciencia Política y Administración Pública

Chilean journal about political science, public administration and political philosophy.

Fuente Académica

Made-to-measure tool for research or projects with a Spanish, Latin American or Portuguese focus. It offers full-text access to 500 e-journals on all disciplines.

Strong points: 100%-reliable sources, very complete search system, texts can be downloaded in PDF, information about the impact of the publication and additional functions, such as alert settings to discover new content.

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Examples:

• Psychological Science

An official publication of the Association for Psychological Science.

• New Media & Society

Journal about key themes in new media development.

• Urban Studies

The journal for professionals whose work relates to academic research into cities and urban planning.

Sage Journals

Searching for content on Humanities or Social Sciences? Use Sage Journals to access over 400 full-text publications on these subjects.

Strong points: regular updates, preview of documents in PDF, free sign-up to its newsletter, additional options such as exporting citations to reference managers and consulting the recommended results.

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Examples: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and AntimicrobialsInternational Journal of Computer Vision

SpringerLink

One of the leading e-information platforms for science, medicine and social sciences. It contains different types of publications, such as books, journals, reference works and protocols.

Strong points: a range of content, reference tool, complementary audiovisual collection.

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It’s perfect for completing your knowledge and enhancing your projects with completely reliable data. Examples: Interactive atlas, a comparator of statistics by country and a collection of 420,000 documents including articles, e-books and images, biographies and the Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.

Britannica Academic

Dictionaries, maps, statistics by countries and almost half a million multidisciplinary documents. A virtual encyclopaedia that focuses knowledge in a single portal.

Strong points: collaboration with academic and professional societies around the world, content that has a huge impact on academia.

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Examples:It includes different subjects from the Arts and Humanities, Law and Science.

Oxford Journals

Quality and impact in a single collection. Over 200 journals published by one of the world’s most prestigious universities.