Information Resources
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers through subscriptions negotiated nationally. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content, including sources from top subject indexes, high-end full text, and the entire library collection. |
ProQuest Central is comprised of several comprehensive databases in various subject areas. These include Management and Economics, Health and Medicine, Languages and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion and Philosophy. It also provides full-text access to thousands of newspapers from all over the world. |
ABI/INFORM includes thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers and periodicals in Management and Economics, country- and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. |
Access Medicine is an online medical resource that provides access to more than a hundred e-books from McGraw Hill's medical collection as well as to a set of other study tools such as free copyright images, surgical procedures’ videos and a drug database. |
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection makes available more than a thousand publications in the areas of Accounting, Taxation, and Finance. |
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database. It provides full-text publications worldwide, covering academic journals, specialized journals, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It covers aeronautics and astronautics, aerospace engineering, applied physics, artificial intelligence and robotics, astrophysics, communication networks, programming, and more. |
The Agriculture Science Database provides the leading agricultural journals published in North America, with coverage from 1998 to the present. It includes full text and images of reference titles such as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and Plant Physiology. It covers agricultural economics, engineering, animal sciences, biotechnology, botany, nutrition, biodiversity, and land use. |
AMBOSS (Only available for Católica Medical School users) |
Resource that supports medical education and clinical practice. It provides summaries, notes and question banks to assist with the preparation for national entrance exams in various countries. For more information on how to access this resource, please contact the UCP Libraries: bibliotecas@ucp.pt |
American Chemical Society Publications comprises the collection of journals published by ACS, covering a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. |
The AEA is a scholarly association dedicated to discussing and publishing economics research. It provides access to relevant scientific journals, such as AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Economic Perspectives. |
Annual Reviews provides access to the publisher’s journals, which includes reviews of significant primary research and the latest developments in more than 45 specific areas. |
The Arts & Humanities Database is a database of full-text journals that complements the CSA Illumina portfolio in the areas of Arts and Humanities. It provides access to academic titles and commercial publications covering art, design, archaeology, architecture, history, philosophy, languages, music, and cultural studies. The database includes more than 500 titles, emphasizing the visual arts, applied arts, and cultural studies, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of study in the humanities. |
Asian & European Business Collection provides resources for studying business and finance topics in Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, information on companies, markets, international trade, and business conditions and practices in these regions. |
ACM Digital Library provides access to the ACM's bibliographic collection, including scientific and technical journals and ebooks. |
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) makes unlimited and permanent access available to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
Biological Science Database provides abstracts and citations of a wide range of interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology, including some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Covering more than two dozen areas, it provides access to literature from more than 6,000 journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, and patents. It covers AIDS, bacteriology, behavioral ecology, bioengineering, aquatic organisms, antibiotics, and autoimmunity. |
Business Market Research Communication provides market research on companies and industries, with information from reference sources such as Hoover's Company Profiles, US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports by Barnes Reports and Snapshots. |
CINAHL Complete is a collection of full text for nursing and allied health journals, indexed in CINAHL. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937. |
Clinical Key Student Medicine is an online medical resource with more than two hundred e-books from Elsevier's clinical collection. |
The Cochrane Library is a clinical evidence resource comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL). |
Complete Anatomy (Only available for Católica Medical School users) |
Complete Anatomy is a three-dimensional anatomy platform that provides access to interactive anatomy models, clinical video animations and virtual dissection tools. For information on how to access this resource, please contact the UCP Libraries. |
Computer Science Database offers specialized coverage in computer science, covering thousands of publications, many of which are full text. It covers areas such as computer science, information systems, computer security, database design, software development, e-commerce, local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, and the Internet. |
Consumer Health Database offers magazines and publications covering various health topics. It includes content on women's health, food and nutrition, obstetrics, eye care, dentistry, and children's health. |
The Criminal Justice Database provides information on crime from 1981 to the present, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, and trends in litigation and crime. This database is designed to meet the needs of academic programs in criminal justice, public safety, and related fields, offering thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other scientific publications. It covers areas such as criminology, criminal law, criminal justice, law enforcement, addictions, family law, industrial safety, and rehabilitation. |
DCM Analytics/Loan Analytics (Only available for Porto Regional Centre users) |
DCM Analytics is a competitive benchmarking system covering the Global Debt Capital Markets. Reporting packages include Bookrunner and company rankings by Industry and Region, deal lists and profiles of individual transactions. General user conditions: Access to the DCM and LOAN Analytics tools is done on the computers available for this purpose on the 1st floor of the Porto Campus Library. For more information, contact the library by email: biblioteca.porto@ucp.pt. |
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source is a full-text database that contains full-text articles from more than 300 journals in the field of dentistry. |
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database is a full-text database with selected and indexed content using a controlled vocabulary. It includes academic and industrial publications, technical reports, and conference proceedings, covering areas such as aquaculture, astrophysics, atmospheric dynamics, climatology, conservation, extraterrestrial geology, fisheries, and weather forecasts. |
Collection that provides unrestricted access to more than 4000 ebooks in the fields of medicine and nursing. |
Collection that provides unrestricted access to more than 700 ebooks in the field of Nursing. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content—including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection—all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
Education Database supports the study and practice of education at all levels, including early childhood education, primary, secondary, and higher education. With content from 1988 to now, it provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other relevant academic sources. It covers adult education, home education, special education, and teacher training. |
Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for academic periodicals, books and monographs, education-related conference papers, book reviews and controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing. Subject matter includes Adult Education, Continuing Education, Distance Learning, Government Funding, Multicultural/Ethic Education, Social Issues, Student Counseling, Vocational Education as well as many others. |
EIKON: Thomson Reuters (Only available for Porto Regional Centre users) |
Access an incredible depth and breadth of financial analysis data to make smarter decisions. Eikon is a flexible, open platform that’s purpose-built for trade innovation and lets you connect with the world’s largest directory of verified financial professionals. |
Emerald is an international editor with scientific peer-reviewed publications. Its online library includes areas as Finance, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Public Policy, Tourism, Hospitality and Education. |
Environmental Science Database is an interdisciplinary resource that provides full-text content on global literature in environmental sciences and related disciplines. It presents one of the most comprehensive resources to support research and teaching in this field, with content selected from various specialized sources. It covers climate change and global warming, conservation, species at risk, environmental education, environmental engineering, environmental health and safety, environmental legislation and policies, environmental management and protection, land use, and plant science. |
Access the Financial Times electronic version (UK and International) and ePaper (UK, Europe, US, Asia and Mid East). The Financial Times also offers a wide range of resources such as blogs, videos and commentaries, financial market analysis, business databases and special reports related to the economy and international management. To access this resource, a registration with the institutional email (xxx@ucp.pt) is required. |
Healthcare Administration Database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in healthcare administration, including journals and dissertations. It covers healthcare administration, professions, hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business, management, personnel, and ethics. |
HeinOnline is a premier online database of historical and government documents. It contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more. |
IBFD Tax Research Platform is a portal of the International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation that provides access to a comprehensive compendium of international and country-specific tax materials, searchable by format, topic, or country. |
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for the discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE and its publishing partners. It provides web access to publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. |
Bibliographic database in the field of Philosophy. Updated four times a year, it currently contains over a million records, including books, book chapters, scientific articles, and other contributions. |
IOPscience provides access to the full text of more than 100 journals in the field of Physical Sciences. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
The Online Jurisprudence Collection contains all the rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice, the European Court of Appeal, and the Courts of the European Union, published in the Journal since 1993. All contents are carefully selected and analyzed by Judges, and Counselors of the Editorial Board of the Jurisprudence Collection. |
Kluwer Law Online is a database of scientific Law journals. |
Legix is the market leader of juridical databases and used by the largest law firms in Portugal. With the same search engine is possible to find Diário da República, JORAA, JORAM, IGFEJ, European Comission document database, among others. The access to this database is a result of a protocol between Priberam and Universidade Católica Portuguesa. To access the available resources, users will first have to register, using the institutional email (xxx@ucp.pt). |
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, businesses deals, and legal publications. The outstanding news coverage includes deep archives and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. |
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts indexes core journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
Library Science Database provides complete access to publications relevant to information science and librarianship. It covers a variety of titles and topics related to the theoretical and applied study of information science, including commercial publications and academic journals. The database covers areas such as artificial intelligence, computer applications, information centers, information management, information science, data storage, and information technology. |
The Linguistics Database includes full-text journals and other sources in the field of linguistics, with many titles indexed in the Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) reference database. It covers all aspects of language study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The database covers anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics, descriptive linguistics, discourse analysis, language (pathological and regular), learning disabilities, non-verbal communication, phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. |
The Materials Science Database offers specialized and comprehensive coverage in the field of materials science - aerospace and aircraft engineering, aluminum, automotive engineering, bioengineering and biotechnology, biomaterials and biomedical engineering, casting and molding, ceramics, chemical and electrochemical properties, and chemical engineering - bringing together thousands of publications, many of which are full-text. |
MarketLine (Only available for Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics) |
MarketLine is a robust business intelligence platform that delivers extensive data and analyses on industries, companies, and countries. Frequently used for market research, strategic planning, and competitive analysis, the platform provides a diverse array of reports, including SWOT analyses, industry and company profiles, along with detailed financial information and market forecasts. |
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. |
MEDLINE Complete provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE. |
Military Database covers various topics related to all branches of government and the military, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, and civil engineering. It includes academic journals, trade and industrial magazines, periodicals, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It covers aeronautics, aerospace engineering, armed forces, civil engineering, communications, computer security, criminology, foreign policy, government branches, internal security, and terrorism. |
Consult the journal Nature, as well as other science and medical periodicals, including various Nature subject-specific and Nature Reviews journals. |
Nursing & Allied Health Database provides information on nursing, health professions, and alternative and complementary medicine. This database is designed to meet the needs of academic programs in nursing and related fields, offering thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other scientific publications. It covers nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, cytology, histology, physiology, anatomy, gerontology, and geriatrics. |
Evidence-based platform for nursing practice. It provides access to clinical records on diseases and treatments, as well as information on medications and procedure videos. |
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions. |
Osmosis (Only available for Católica Medical School students) |
Osmosis is a platform that provides explanatory videos, among other digital learning tools, covering not only a wide range of topics in the Fundamental Sciences of Medicine, but also various organ systems, as well as interpersonal and communication skills in patient care. For more information on how to access this resource, please contact the UCP Libraries. |
The Palliative Care Formulary provides unrivalled and independent drug information for health professionals when caring for adult patients facing progressive life-limiting diseases and their care givers. This trusted source goes beyond standard drug reference works, empowering health professionals to select the right drugs and treatment regimens at the point of care to help improve quality of life. |
The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text is the leading full-text database covering all major fields of philosophy and related disciplines. It provides hundreds of full-text philosophy journals from around the world, many of which are available with no embargo. |
Political Science Database provides access to hundreds of reference journals in political science, public policy, and international relations. It includes full-text theses and dissertations on political science topics, conference proceedings, country reports, public policy documents, and other relevant sources. This database covers various areas, such as political science, international relations, comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, human rights, and migration. |
PsycArticles is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present. |
PsycBooks from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes chapters in PDF from books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a database of scientific journals on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
Psychology Database provides information on various areas of psychology, such as behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, and social psychology, as well as personality, psychobiology, and psychometrics. This database supports academic programs in Psychology and related areas, offering thousands of full-text titles, abstracts, and other scientific publications. It covers behavioral psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, neurology, psychometrics, psychobiology, and social psychology, among others. |
The Public Health Database has access to over 800 publications, of which more than 500 are in full text. It covers nutrition, population studies, environmental health, epidemiology, substance abuse, and occupational safety. It includes essential journals such as the American Journal of Public Health and The Lancet, providing over 9,000 dissertations on key public health topics. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
Qualfood (Only available for Porto Regional Centre users) |
Qualfood is the largest national database on Food, Environmental and HST Quality and Safety, which aims to: organize, systematize and update all relevant information for those involved in the food area. |
Regional Business News incorporates regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. |
Religion Database is a database that provides full-text periodicals and other sources for the study of religions and spirituality. Since 1986, it has covered topics of general interest, from formal theological studies to commentaries, reflecting perspectives from diverse religious traditions worldwide. It includes titles from academic journals, religious bodies, and non-denominational organizations. The database covers many faiths and traditions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, Bahaism, Sijism, Shintoism, and Jainism, supporting global research into religion. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to RCS Publishing journals, books and databases, containing more than one million articles, chapters and records relating to the various fields of the Chemical Sciences. |
Sabi contains comprehensive information on companies from Spain and Portugal. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis. |
Sage's research interface, which provides access to more than a thousand scientific journals. |
The Science Database is a key source for students of applied sciences. Covered since 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features more than 1030 titles, of which more than 760 are available in full text. It allows you to search more than 2.7 million records. It covers science, engineering, computer science, physics, telecommunications, transportation, and military affairs. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scitation hosts books, journals and conference materials from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, covering a variety of topics from physics and related disciplines. |
Scopus is a metadata and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Social Science Database is a full-text database with comprehensive coverage of various Social Science disciplines, including Anthropology, Communication, Criminology, Economics, Education, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology. This database is an essential tool for research in the Social Sciences, providing access to a wide range of academic publications. |
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) provides access to books, journals, and conference materials in the field of applied mathematics and computer sciences, published by SIAM. |
The Sociology Database covers international sociology and social work literature, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology, and population studies. It provides hundreds of full-text academic journals, dissertations, and other sources. The database covers areas such as community and mental health services, crisis intervention, family and social welfare, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social services in addiction, social work education, professional social work practice, and violence, abuse, and neglect. |
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the source of full text for sports medicine journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985. |
Access the collection of all Medicine books published by Springer in the last four years, without any access restrictions. |
The Springer Nature journal collection offers complete access to more than ninety titles under the Nature Publishing Group label, aimed at various disciplines, focusing on Biomedicine, Dental Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Social and Human Sciences. |
Statista (Only available for Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics) |
Statista is a leading data and business intelligence platform that provides access to statistics, and reports from various industries and markets. It offers data from trusted sources, including government agencies, industry reports, and market research firms, covering topics such as consumer behavior, digital trends, finance, and economic development. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
Education full text journals collection. It provides access to more than 230 peer-reviewed journals. |
Telecommunications Database is a database on the telecommunications industry and technology. The database allows you to search more than 600,000 records, covering 1995. It is a valuable tool for keeping up with the latest news on emerging technologies and the leading players in the telecommunications sector. It provides access to more than 140 titles, of which more than 115 are available in full text, covering areas such as wireless communications, radio, television, data transmission systems, and electronic data processing. |
The Economist (Only available for Porto Regional Centre users) |
Access The Economist archive, since 1997, and the economic reports. Request login and password by e-mail to: biblioteca.porto@ucp.pt. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Westlaw is an online legal research service for US and UK lawyers and legal professionals. Information resources include databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, legal reviews, treaties, legal forms, among others. |
Westlaw UK is a source for jurisprudence, legislation, news, legal magazines, commentary, current awareness alerts and ever-growing, dynamic, easily searchable EU legal materials. |
WRDS is a data base in the areas of business intelligence and data analysis, including the areas of accounting, banking, economics, ESG, finance, healthcare insurance, marketing and statistics. With more than 350TB of reviewed and validated data about its partners, WRDS offers users confidence to create data models, taking examples from the real world. To access this resource, you must register with your institutional UCP email (xxx@ucp.pt). |
Wiley’s research interface, which provides access to more than 1200 scientific journals. |
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The Arts & Humanities Database is a database of full-text journals that complements the CSA Illumina portfolio in the areas of Arts and Humanities. It provides access to academic titles and commercial publications covering art, design, archaeology, architecture, history, philosophy, languages, music, and cultural studies. The database includes more than 500 titles, emphasizing the visual arts, applied arts, and cultural studies, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of study in the humanities. |
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks. |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE and its publishing partners. It provides web access to publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts indexes core journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provides access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metainformation and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
The Springer Nature journal collection offers complete access to more than ninety titles under the Nature Publishing Group label, aimed at various disciplines, focusing on Biomedicine, Dental Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Social and Human Sciences. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Open Access resources
DeGruyter publishes fully open access journals across scientific, technical, medical, humanities and social sciences. |
Dialnet is a database of hispanic scientific journals, mainly focused on the fields of Humanities, Legal and Social Sciences. |
Frontiers is a multidisciplinary editor of open access journals. |
Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. Available online since 1997, each week it is enriched with millions of new products, making available millions of documents. |
MDPI is a multidisciplinary publisher of peer-reviewed and open access journals. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes scientific open access content from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published in Open Access. |
Subscribed electronic journals
For a complete list visit our Bibliographic Catalog |
Subscribed resources
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis with these publishers. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks. |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
Education Database supports the study and practice of education at all levels, including early childhood education, primary, secondary, and higher education. With content from 1988 to now, it provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other relevant academic sources. It covers adult education, home education, special education, and teacher training. |
Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for academic periodicals, books and monographs, education-related conference papers, book reviews and controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing. Subject matter includes adult education, continuing education, distance learning, government funding, multicultural/ethic education, social issues, student counseling, vocational education as well as many others. |
OpenDissertations is a database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Coverage in the database extends back to the 20th century |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
PsycArticles is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present. |
PsycBooks from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes chapters in PDF from books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a database of scientific journals on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
Psychology Database provides information on various areas of psychology, such as behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, and social psychology, as well as personality, psychobiology, and psychometrics. This database supports academic programs in Psychology and related areas, offering thousands of full-text titles, abstracts, and other scientific publications. It covers behavioral psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, neurology, psychometrics, psychobiology, and social psychology, among others. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metainformation and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
The Springer Nature journal collection offers complete access to more than ninety titles under the Nature Publishing Group label, aimed at various disciplines, focusing on Biomedicine, Dental Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Social and Human Sciences. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
Education full text journals collection. It provides access to more than 230 peer-reviewed journals. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Open Access resources
Frontiers is a multidisciplinary editor of open access journals. |
MDPI is a multidisciplinary publisher of peer-reviewed and open access journals. |
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. |
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
OpenEdition Books is an open access platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. |
OpenEdition Journals is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. 95% of articles are available in full-text access. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published in Open Access. |
Subscribed electronic journals
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Subscribed resources
Access Medicine is an online medical resource that provides access to more than a hundred e-books from McGraw Hill's medical collection as well as to a set of other study tools such as free copyright images, surgical procedures’ videos and a drug database. |
AMBOSS (Only available for Católica Medical School users) |
Resource that supports medical education and clinical practice. It provides summaries, notes and question banks to assist with the preparation for national entrance exams in various countries. For more information on how to access this resource, please contact the UCP Libraries: bibliotecas@ucp.pt |
American Chemical Society Publications comprises the collection of journals published by ACS, covering a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. |
ACM Digital Library provides access to the ACM's bibliographic collection, including scientific and technical journals and ebooks. |
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
CINAHL Complete is a collection of full text for nursing and allied health journals, indexed in CINAHL. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937. |
Clinical Key Student Medicine is an online medical resource with more than two hundred e-books from Elsevier's clinical collection. |
The Cochrane Library is a clinical evidence resource comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL). |
Complete Anatomy (Only available for Católica Medical School users) |
Complete Anatomy is a three-dimensional anatomy platform that provides access to interactive anatomy models, clinical video animations and virtual dissection tools. For information on how to access this resource, please contact the UCP Libraries (pesquisa.bibliotecas@ucp.pt). |
Consumer Health Database offers magazines and publications covering various health topics. It includes content on women's health, food and nutrition, obstetrics, eye care, dentistry, and children's health. |
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source is a full-text database that contains full-text articles from more than 300 journals in the field of dentistry. |
Collection that provides unrestricted access to more than 4000 ebooks in the fields of medicine and nursing. |
Collection that provides unrestricted access to more than 700 ebooks in the field of Nursing. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Healthcare Administration Database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in healthcare administration, including journals and dissertations. It covers healthcare administration, professions, hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business, management, personnel, and ethics. |
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE and its publishing partners. It provides web access to publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. |
MEDLINE Complete provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE. |
Nursing & Allied Health Database provides information on nursing, health professions, and alternative and complementary medicine. This database is designed to meet the needs of academic programs in nursing and related fields, offering thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other scientific publications. It covers nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, cytology, histology, physiology, anatomy, gerontology, and geriatrics. |
Evidence-based platform for nursing practice. It provides access to clinical records on diseases and treatments, as well as information on medications and procedure videos. |
OpenDissertations is a database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Coverage in the database extends back to the 20th century. |
Osmosis (Only available for Católica Medical School users) |
Osmosis is a platform that provides explanatory videos, among other digital learning tools, covering not only a wide range of topics in the Fundamental Sciences of Medicine, but also various organ systems, as well as interpersonal and communication skills in patient care. |
The Palliative Care Formulary provides unrivalled and independent drug information for health professionals when caring for adult patients facing progressive life-limiting diseases and their care givers. This trusted source goes beyond standard drug reference works, empowering health professionals to select the right drugs and treatment regimens at the point of care to help improve quality of life. |
PsycArticles is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present. |
PsycBooks from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes chapters in PDF from books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a database of scientific journals on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
The Public Health Database has access to over 800 publications, of which more than 500 are in full text. It covers nutrition, population studies, environmental health, epidemiology, substance abuse, and occupational safety. It includes essential journals such as the American Journal of Public Health and The Lancet, providing over 9,000 dissertations on key public health topics. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
Qualfood (Only available at Porto Regional Centre) |
Qualfood is the largest national database on Food, Environmental and HST Quality and Safety, which aims to: organize, systematize and update all relevant information for those involved in the food area. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to RCS Publishing journals, books and databases, containing more than one million articles, chapters and records relating to the various fields of the Chemical Sciences. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scitation hosts books, journals and conference materials from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, covering a variety of topics from physics and related disciplines. |
Scopus is a metainformation and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) provides access to books, journals, and conference materials in the field of applied mathematics and computer sciences, published by SIAM. |
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the source of full text for sports medicine journals. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985. |
Access the collection of all Medicine books published by Springer in the last four years, without any access restrictions. |
The Springer Nature journal collection offers complete access to more than ninety titles under the Nature Publishing Group label, aimed at various disciplines, focusing on Biomedicine, Dental Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Social and Human Sciences. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Open Access resources
Bentham Open publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. |
Biomed Center publishes nearly three hundred open access peer-reviewed journals covering the fields of science, technology, engineering and medicine. |
DeGruyter publishes fully open access journals across scientific, technical, medical, humanities and social sciences. |
Drugs.com is a trusted resource for drug and related health information, widely recognize within the medical community. |
Free Medical Journals site was created to promote the open access full text medical journals on the Internet. |
Frontiers is a multidisciplinary editor of open access journals. |
Guide to Pharmacology is a pharmacological information center that provides a searchable database with quantitative information on drug targets and the prescription medicines and experimental drugs that act on them. |
Health for All database brings together the indicators that are part of major monitoring frameworks relevant to the region, such as Health 2020 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The indicators cover basic demographics, health status, health determinants and risk factors, as well as health care resources and more. HFA database allows access to regional, national and some subnational indicators and metadata, which are visualized through interactive online tools in the Health for All explorer. Data, metadata, graphs and maps can be exported or shared online and on social media. |
MDPI is a multidisciplinary publisher of peer-reviewed and open access journals. |
National Center for Biotechnology Information provides access to biomedical and genomic information. |
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. |
Pharmacology Education Project is a resource center for pharmacological information, valuable for those developing investigation in industrial, clinical or academic settings and for students who are starting to explore drug mechanisms. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
PubMed is the gateway to Medline, one of the world’s most significant bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information, covering research, diagnostics and therapies in the areas of medicine, nursing, public health, biomedicine, microbiology, pharmacology, odontology and numerous other established and developing biomedical scientific areas. PubMed also includes a set of citations for full text articles from PubMed Central, and for books and individual chapters available on Bookshelf. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
Teaching Resource Centre Database is a pharmacology resource regarding mechanisms of drug action in the context of physiology and pathophysiology. |
Subscribed electronic journals
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Subscribed resources
BBiblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
The Criminal Justice Database provides information on crime from 1981 to the present, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, and trends in litigation and crime. This database is designed to meet the needs of academic programs in criminal justice, public safety, and related fields, offering thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and other scientific publications. It covers areas such as criminology, criminal law, criminal justice, law enforcement, addictions, family law, industrial safety, and rehabilitation. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
HeinOnline is a premier online database of historical and government documents. It contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, as well as other databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more. |
IBFD Tax Research Platform is a portal of the International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation that provides access to a comprehensive compendium of international and country-specific tax materials, searchable by format, topic, or country. |
The Online Jurisprudence Collection contains all the rulings and opinions of the Supreme Court of Justice, the European Court of Appeal and the Courts of the European Union, published in the Journal since 1993. All contents are carefully selected and analyzed by Judges, and Counselors of the Editorial Board of the Jurisprudence Collection. |
Kluwer Law Online is a database of scientific law journals. |
Legix is the market leader of juridical databases and used by the largest law firms in Portugal. With the same search engine is possible to find Diário da República, JORAA, JORAM, IGFEJ, European Comission document database, among others. The access to this database is a result of a protocol between Priberam and Universidade Católica Portuguesa. To access the available resources, users will first have to register, using the institutional email (xxx@ucp .pt). |
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, deals, and legal publications. The outstanding news coverage includes deep archives and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. |
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metadata and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Westlaw is an online legal research service for US and UK lawyers and legal professionals. Information resources include databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, legal reviews, treaties, legal forms, among others. |
Westlaw UK is a source for jurisprudence, legislation, news, legal magazines, commentary, current awareness alerts and ever-growing, dynamic, easily searchable EU legal materials. |
Open Access resources
The LII offers free access to a comprehensive collection of judicial decisions, as well as detailed information about U.S. legislation and procedural rules. It is an excellent resource for both federal and state case law. |
Complete list of treaties of the European Council. |
Dialnet is a database of hispanic scientific journals. |
Find Electronic Journal of the Republic – I e II Series daily updated. |
DigiZeitschriften is a digitized collection of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences areas. The subject areas include law, arts, history, philosophy and religion. |
Portal that gathers information on Succession Law from 22 countries of the European Union. |
This platform is a content aggregator that allows the search of organized jurisprudence simultaneous in all portuguese public databases. |
EUR-Lex provides free access to the authentic Official Journal of the European Union, EU law, EU case-law, international agreements, EFTA documents and other public documents. |
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) is a recognizable, readable and understandable standard by both, humans and computers, which can be assign to all court decisions of all national or European courts. It aims to facilitate the unambiguous citation of judgments and to improve the cross-border accessibility of case law by creating a common system of identification, citation and metadata of the jurisprudence generated within the EU. |
Published in 23 languages, it aims to provide easy access to information on different justice systems and justice in general in the EU. |
FindLaw is a platform that provides free access to an extensive collection of judicial decisions from federal and state courts. It is a valuable resource for finding case law related to various areas of law. |
Google Scholar includes a dedicated section for searching U.S. judicial decisions, making it a useful tool for researching case law. |
Managed by the European Court of Human Rights, this platform allows you to consult judicial decisions related to compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. |
Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice |
IZA is a private entity that conducts national and international market research in the area of Labor Law, operating as a non-profit company that has financial support from research activities. |
Justia provides free access to a wide range of federal and state case law in the United States. Users can search by keywords, courts, or fields of law. |
Legal-Documentary Basis of the Ministry of Justice (Jurisprudence) |
Legal and Documentary Basis, managed by the Institute of Financial Management and Justice Equipment (IGFEJ), in which it is possible to find decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice, and other documents from several entities. You can also consult documents available in the various libraries of the Ministry of Justice. |
This webpage provides access to Constitutions of OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) participating States. |
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and it is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
Oyez is a specialized website focused on decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States. It offers detailed information about cases, including audio recordings of oral arguments and summaries of decisions. It also integrates resources from the Legal Information Institute (LII) and Justia. |
PACER is the official system for accessing court documents in the United States, providing an extensive database of decisions from federal courts. However, access to most documents requires a subscription. |
Legislative databases from the Lisbon District Attorney General. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
Digitization of the collection of Portuguese legislation from 1603 to 1910 and the 5 volumes of Ordenações Manuelinas that D. Manuel I promulgated in 1521. |
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published in Open Access. |
Statewatch: monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union |
Statewatch is a non-profit voluntary group founded in 1991 to monitor the development of the EU State and civil liberties. It is formed by lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists. Its European network of contributors embraces 18 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe in fields like the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness. |
Subscribed electronic journals
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Subscribed resources
ABI/INFORM includes thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers and periodicals in Management and Economics, country- and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. |
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection makes available more than a thousand publications in the areas of Accounting, Taxation, and Finance. |
The AEA is a scholarly association dedicated to discussing and publishing economics research. It provides access to relevant scientific journals, such as AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Economic Perspectives. |
Asian & European Business Collection provides resources for studying business and finance topics in Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, information on companies, markets, international trade, and business conditions and practices in these regions. |
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
Business Market Research Communication provides market research on companies and industries, with information from reference sources such as Hoover's Company Profiles, US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports by Barnes Reports and Snapshots. |
DCM Analytics/Loan Analytics (Only available at Porto Regional Centre) |
DCM Analytics is a competitive benchmarking system covering the Global Debt Capital Markets. Reporting packages include Bookrunner and company rankings by industry and region, deal lists and profiles of individual transactions. Loan Analytics is a competitive benchmarking system covering the Global Syndicated Loans Market. General user conditions: Access to the DCM and LOAN Analytics tools is done on the computers available for this purpose on the 1st floor of the Porto Campus Library. For more information, contact us by email: biblioteca.porto@ucp.pt. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
EIKON: Thomson Reuters (Only available at Porto Regional Centre) |
Access an incredible depth and breadth of financial analysis data to make smarter decisions. Eikon is a flexible, open platform that is built for trade innovation and lets you connect with the world’s largest directory of verified financial professionals. |
Emerald is an international editor with scientific peer-reviewed publications from areas such as Finance, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Public Policy, Tourism, Hospitality and Education. |
Access the Financial Times electronic version (UK and International) and ePaper (UK, Europe, US, Asia and Mid East). The Financial Times also offers a wide range of resources such as blogs, videos and commentaries, financial market analysis, business databases and special reports related to the economy and international management. To access you’ll need to activate your account first, for which the respective institutional email @ucp.pt must be used. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
MarketLine (Only available for Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics) |
MarketLine is a robust business intelligence platform that delivers extensive data and analyses on industries, companies, and countries. Frequently used for market research, strategic planning, and competitive analysis, the platform provides a diverse array of reports, including SWOT analyses, industry and company profiles, along with detailed financial information and market forecasts. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
Regional Business News incorporates regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
Sabi contains comprehensive information on companies from Spain and Portugal. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metainformation and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Statista (Only available for Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics) |
Statista is a leading data and business intelligence platform that provides access to statistics, and reports from various industries and markets. It offers data from trusted sources, including government agencies, industry reports, and market research firms, covering topics such as consumer behavior, digital trends, finance, and economic development. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
The Economist (Only available at Porto Regional Centre) |
Access The Economist archive, since 1997, and the economic reports. Request login and password by e-mail to: biblioteca.porto@ucp.pt. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
WRDS is a data base in the areas of business intelligence and data analysis, including the areas of accounting, banking, economics, ESG, finance, healthcare insurance, marketing and statistics. With more than 350TB of reviewed and validated data about its partners, WRDS offers users confidence to create data models, taking examples from the real world. To access this resource, you must register with your institutional UCP email (xxx@ucp.pt). |
Open Access resources
Working Paper Series (WPS) disseminates economic research relevant to the various tasks and functions of the ECB, and provides a conceptual and empirical basis for policy-making. They are addressed to experts, so readers should be knowledgeable in economics. |
It is a research center that has provided working papers that analyze the Spanish economy since 1985. |
These Working Papers contain contributions to discussion, mainly in English, of current research by the ifo Institute and the Center for Economic Studies. They present research results for further suggestions and revisions before being submitted to peer-reviewed journals. |
Market Access Database (MADB) gives information to companies exporting from the European Union about import conditions in third country markets. |
NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies. |
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and it is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes open access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
The Office of Strategy and Studies of the Ministry of Economy publishes the GEE Papers series with which it intends to disseminate academic works on the Portuguese economy. This series of working papers is dedicated to the publication of empirical studies with implications for economic policy developed by the Ministry of Economy, covering areas such as economic growth and conjuncture, international trade, investment, innovation, competitiveness, business dynamics, sectors and regions. |
Subscribed electronic journals
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Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database. It provides full-text publications worldwide, covering academic journals, specialized journals, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It covers aeronautics and astronautics, aerospace engineering, applied physics, artificial intelligence and robotics, astrophysics, communication networks, programming, and more. |
The Agriculture Science Database provides the leading agricultural journals published in North America, with coverage from 1998 to the present. It includes full text and images of reference titles such as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and Plant Physiology. It covers agricultural economics, engineering, animal sciences, biotechnology, botany, nutrition, biodiversity, and land use. |
Biological Science Database provides abstracts and citations of a wide range of interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology, including some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Covering more than two dozen areas, it provides access to literature from more than 6,000 journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, and patents. It covers AIDS, bacteriology, behavioral ecology, bioengineering, aquatic organisms, antibiotics, and autoimmunity. |
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers through subscriptions negotiated nationally. |
Computer Science Database offers specialized coverage in computer science, covering thousands of publications, many of which are full text. It covers areas such as computer science, information systems, computer security, database design, software development, e-commerce, local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, and the Internet. |
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database is a full-text database with selected and indexed content using a controlled vocabulary. It includes academic and industrial publications, technical reports, and conference proceedings, covering areas such as aquaculture, astrophysics, atmospheric dynamics, climatology, conservation, extraterrestrial geology, fisheries, and weather forecasts. |
Environmental Science Database is an interdisciplinary resource that provides full-text content on global literature in environmental sciences and related disciplines. It presents one of the most comprehensive resources to support research and teaching in this field, with content selected from various specialized sources. It covers climate change and global warming, conservation, species at risk, environmental education, environmental engineering, environmental health and safety, environmental legislation and policies, environmental management and protection, land use, and plant science. |
The Materials Science Database offers specialized and comprehensive coverage in the field of materials science - aerospace and aircraft engineering, aluminum, automotive engineering, bioengineering and biotechnology, biomaterials and biomedical engineering, casting and molding, ceramics, chemical and electrochemical properties, and chemical engineering - bringing together thousands of publications, many of which are full-text. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
The Science Database is a key source for students of applied sciences. Covered since 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features more than 1030 titles, of which more than 760 are available in full text. It allows you to search more than 2.7 million records. It covers science, engineering, computer science, physics, telecommunications, transportation, and military affairs. |
Subscribed resources
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) makes unlimited and permanent access available to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is the considered to be one the most comprehensive sources devoted to the Bible and its reception, being an indispensable reference for theology and religious studies, the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. The encyclopedia contains the most up-to-date information on the origins and development of the Bible in the canons of Judaism and Christianity and the history of biblical interpretation and reception in non-Western religious traditions and movements. |
Bibliographic database in the field of Philosophy. Updated four times a year, it currently contains over a million records, including books, book chapters, scientific articles, and other contributions. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts indexes core journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
Library Science Database provides complete access to publications relevant to information science and librarianship. It covers a variety of titles and topics related to the theoretical and applied study of information science, including commercial publications and academic journals. The database covers areas such as artificial intelligence, computer applications, information centers, information management, information science, data storage, and information technology. |
The Linguistics Database includes full-text journals and other sources in the field of linguistics, with many titles indexed in the Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) reference database. It covers all aspects of language study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The database covers anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics, descriptive linguistics, discourse analysis, language (pathological and regular), learning disabilities, non-verbal communication, phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. |
Military Database covers various topics related to all branches of government and the military, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, and civil engineering. It includes academic journals, trade and industrial magazines, periodicals, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It covers aeronautics, aerospace engineering, armed forces, civil engineering, communications, computer security, criminology, foreign policy, government branches, internal security, and terrorism. |
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions. |
The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text is the leading full-text database covering all major fields of philosophy and related disciplines. It provides hundreds of full-text philosophy journals from around the world, many of which are available with no embargo. |
Political Science Database provides access to hundreds of reference journals in political science, public policy, and international relations. It includes full-text theses and dissertations on political science topics, conference proceedings, country reports, public policy documents, and other relevant sources. This database covers various areas, such as political science, international relations, comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, human rights, and migration. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metadata and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Social Science Database is a full-text database with comprehensive coverage of various Social Science disciplines, including Anthropology, Communication, Criminology, Economics, Education, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology. This database is an essential tool for research in the Social Sciences, providing access to a wide range of academic publications. |
The Sociology Database covers international sociology and social work literature, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology, and population studies. It provides hundreds of full-text academic journals, dissertations, and other sources. The database covers areas such as community and mental health services, crisis intervention, family and social welfare, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social services in addiction, social work education, professional social work practice, and violence, abuse, and neglect. |
The Springer Nature journal collection offers complete access to more than ninety titles under the Nature Publishing Group label, aimed at various disciplines, focusing on Biomedicine, Dental Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Social and Human Sciences. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
Telecommunications Database is a database on the telecommunications industry and technology. The database allows you to search more than 600,000 records, covering 1995. It is a valuable tool for keeping up with the latest news on emerging technologies and the leading players in the telecommunications sector. It provides access to more than 140 titles, of which more than 115 are available in full text, covering areas such as wireless communications, radio, television, data transmission systems, and electronic data processing. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Open Access resources
The Authors Virtual Library brings together about 900 Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American and Brazilian authors (including writers of science, literature, thought, economics and other sciences). |
DeGruyter publishes fully open access journals across scientific, technical, medical, humanities and social sciences. |
Frontiers is a multidisciplinary editor of open access journals. |
Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão (FUNAG) |
FUNAG is a public foundation linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, established in 1971. Leader in the number of published works on foreign policy, international relations and Brazilian diplomatic history, its latest works are available free of charge at the Digital Library of the Foundation's electronic portal. |
MDPI is a multidisciplinary publisher of peer-reviewed and open access journals. |
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. |
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. |
The purpose of the Online Liberty of Library is to promote access to books and articles by key authors in various areas of interest regarding human rights, French liberalism, anti-federalism, among others. |
OpenEdition Books is an open access platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. |
OpenEdition Journals is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. 95% of articles are available in full-text access. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes scientific open access contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published in Open Access. |
SpringerOpen offers open access content, books and journals, from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. |
Subscribed electronic journals
For a complete list visit our Bibliographic Catalog |
Subscribed resources
Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online – b-on (Online Knowledge Library) gives unlimited and permanent access to full texts from scientific international publications from several publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis. |
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) brings together the most comprehensive collection of content — including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection — all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. |
Search and view the full text of eBooks. |
Muldisciplinary collection that provides access to more than 38 000 ebooks, published by more than 90 academic publishers. |
The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is the considered to be one the most comprehensive sources devoted to the Bible and its reception, being an indispensable reference for theology and religious studies, the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. The encyclopedia contains the most up-to-date information on the origins and development of the Bible in the canons of Judaism and Christianity and the history of biblical interpretation and reception in non-Western religious traditions and movements. |
JSTOR allows access to digitized articles from a variety of scientific fields: Arts & Sciences III Collection (Language & Literature, Music, Film Studies, Folklore, Performing Arts Religion, Art & Art History, Architecture & Architectural History), Business Collection, and Mathematics & Statistics Collection. |
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Database coverage dates back to the 20th century. |
Publication Finder delivers a predictive search experience and includes a host of features from responsive auto-complete ranked by popularity of titles, to known-item search, to full-text linking, relevance ranking, and discipline-specific browsing. |
Religion Database is a database that provides full-text periodicals and other sources for the study of religions and spirituality. Since 1986, it has covered topics of general interest, from formal theological studies to commentaries, reflecting perspectives from diverse religious traditions worldwide. It includes titles from academic journals, religious bodies, and non-denominational organizations. The database covers many faiths and traditions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, Bahaism, Sijism, Shintoism, and Jainism, supporting global research into religion. |
ProQuest Research Library provides unique access to thousands of full-text journals covering more than 150 subjects and topics in various fields. |
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publications. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters. |
Scopus is a metainformation and citations database of peer-reviewed publications, such as scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It provides a comprehensive view of international scientific production in the areas of technology, medicine, social sciences or arts and humanities. Scopus features tools such as advanced search, analysis and results visualization. Through the citation index it is possible to analyze the number of citations of publications or authors. |
Taylor & Francis’ research interface, which provides access to more than 1900 scientific journals. |
With the Web of Science platform, you can access an unrivalled breadth of world-class research literature linked to a rigorously selected core of journals and uniquely discover new information through meticulously captured metadata and citation connections. |
Open Access resources
The Holy See Portal. |
BiBIL is one of the most valuable and useful online resources for biblical scholars. |
National service that aggregates the bibliographic resources of Higher Education and Science and Technology Institutions. |
Platform that contains a variety of materials, mostly related to biblical and liturgical studies, intended for scholars, teachers, students, pastors, believers, seekers, and others. Many pages contain writings and photographs, some were created by students, and some are collections of links to other websites. |
The mission of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) is to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. |
One of the largest bibliographic portals in the world, whose main mission is to give visibility to Hispanic scientific literature. Focused fundamentally on the fields of Humanities, Legal and Social Sciences. |
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. |
Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The site provides translations and commentaries for these sources, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian references. |
This portal contains pointers to archives related to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history. |
Network of 24 institutions that work in a coordinated way to gather and disseminate information on scientific journals produced in their country, also integrating those that disseminate Ibero-American studies around the world. |
Leuven Institutional Repository and Information Archiving System |
Lirias (Leuven Institutional Repository and Information Archiving System) is the institutional repository of the KU Leuven Association. |
OpenEdition Books is an open access platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. |
OpenEdition Journals is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. 95% of articles are available in full-text access. |
Origène allows the simultaneous search in five bibliographic catalogs of Catholic Universities libraries: Angers, Lille, Lyon, Paris and Toulouse. |
Guide to online Papal and other official documents of the Catholic Church. |
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses from several scientific areas. |
Rachel: Réseau Européen des Bibliothéques Judaica et Hebraica |
Rachel is one of the most important bibliographic sources in the field of Jewish culture. It contains 200 000 entries, representing the holdings of the member libraries: Library of the Alliance israélite universelle (AIU), Library of the Séminaire israélite de France (SIF) and Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library. |
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal) |
RCAAP portal collects, aggregates and indexes Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories. |
The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of scientific journals. The Project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. The content is published Open Access. |
SpringerOpen offers open access content, books and journals, from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. |
Sudoc is a French collective catalogue created by Higher Educational and Research libraries and resource centres. There are nearly 13 million bibliographic records in this catalogue describing all kinds of documents (books, dissertations, reviews, electronic resources, audio-visual documents, microfiches, maps, scores, and manuscripts). |
The New Testament Gateway is the directory of academic resources on the New Testament. Browse or search annotated links connected with the academic study of the New Testament and Christian Origins. |
The Center aims to stimulate and foster research on the Scrolls, particularly the great task of integrating the new information gained from the Scrolls into the body of knowledge about Jewish history and religion in the Second Temple period. Such integration affects the study of the Bible, Jewish literature and thought of the Second Temple Period, earliest Christianity and the New Testament, early rabbinic Judaism, and more. |
Resources such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, links to websites and lists of databases relating to the theological studies. |
Unione Romana Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche offers a list of 18 bibliographic catalogs of religious libraries. |
VThK allows to search on the collections of scholarly religious libraries or theological collections in libraries of state universities or other state libraries, all in German-speaking countries. |
Subscribed electronic journals
For a complete list visit our Bibliographic Catalog |
AMECO is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. The database is used for analysis and reports produced by the directorate general. |
The portal provides access to open data from international, EU, national, regional, local and geo data portals. |
Web archive to preserve the websites of EU institutions, agencies and bodies published since 1996. |
EUR-Lex provides free access to the authentic Official Journal of the European Union, EU law, EU case-law, international agreements, EFTA documents, other public documents. |
Eurobarometer surveys are the official polling instrument used by the European Parliament, the European Commission and other EU institutions and agencies to monitor regularly the state of public opinion in Europe on issues related to the European Union as well as attitudes on subjects of political or social nature. Eurobarometer provides quality and relevant data for experts in public opinion, researchers, media and the public. |
Access documents by the EU institutions, bodies and agencies, including legislative texts, official documents, meeting minutes and agendas. |
Europeana provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage material. |
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and the mission is to provide high quality statistics and data on Europe. |
The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies. As such, it is a central point of access to EU law, publications, open data, research results, procurement notices and other official information. |
Here you can find various types of Commission documents such as proposals, impact assessments, communications, delegated and implementing acts and other Commission decisions, agendas and minutes of meetings held by the College of Commissioners. |
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal' of the EU, dedicated to European public procurement. |
Other Resources
Canadian Newsstream is a database that provides full access to over 400 Canadian news sources from the country's leading publishers. It includes articles, feature columns, editorials, reports, and retrospective electronic archives for most newspapers. Most titles are updated daily, and some archives date back to the late 1970s, offering comprehensive coverage of Canadian news. |
Global Breaking Newswires is a database that provides real-time access to the world's leading news agencies and is an essential source of current information. In the face of increasing pressure on traditional media, newswires are often the only news coverage available for vast regions of the world. This database offers continuously updated news content and a growing archive, indexed and accessible through the ProQuest platform, allowing for fast and effective searching. |
International Newsstream is a database that provides access to recent news content from around the world, outside the US and Canada, with archives going back several decades. It includes newspapers, newswires, and full-text news sites, providing information from more than 660 leading international newspapers, such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal and the BBC Monitoring series. |
U.S. Newsstream is a database that provides access to recent news content from the United States, with archives dating back to the 1980s. It includes newspapers, newswires, blogs, and full-text news sites and offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. It also provides one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers. |
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe. This platform offers a whole range of important and interesting data that governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use for their work and daily life. |
INE produces, in an independent manner, high-quality official statistical information, relevant for the society, while promoting the coordination, the analysis, the innovation and the dissemination of the national statistical activity and ensuring integrated data storage. |
PORDATA collects, organizes, systematizes and disseminates data on multiple areas of society, for Portugal and its municipalities, and for the European countries. The reported statistics derive from official and certified sources, with data production skills in the respective areas. |
Over the years, institutions and individuals have donated archival and old book collections to the Universidade Católica Portuguesa Libraries with the intention that they will be carefully kept, catalogued, shared, and consulted. The nature of these funds, both in terms of their documentary type and their scientific and historical foundation, as well as their state of preservation, are highly variable.
Fund | Type | Location |
Ação Social Democrata Independente - ASDI | Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Special collection and archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Special collection | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Colégio dos Inglesinhos | Special collection | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Cónego Falcão | Special collection | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Special collection | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Dalila Pereira da Costa | Archive | Paraíso Library (Porto) |
José Coelho | Special collection | José Pedro da Silva Library (Viseu) |
Eduardo Coelho | Special collection and archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Francisco Videira Pires | Special collection | Braga Regional Centre Libraries |
Special collection | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
João Franco | Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Luís Couto dos Santos | Special collection | Braga Regional Centre Libraries |
Maestro Ivo Cruz | Archive | Paraíso Library (Porto) |
Special collection and archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Special collection and archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) | |
Padre Fino | Special collection | José Pedro da Silva Library (Viseu) |
Projeto A e B (Reforma Agrária e PREC) | Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
Archive | João Paulo II University Library (Lisbon) |
For additional information about the special funds of the UCP Libraries or how to access the funds, please contact the corresponding Library.
Tools
1. Go to Google Scholar and click the three-line menu in the top left corner of the page.
2. Click on Settings at the bottom of the side navigation menu.
3. Select the "Library links" option on the left side of the page and in the search box, look for "Universidade Católica Portuguesa":
4. Check the box next to "Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Texto integral UCP” and click on the Save button to save your new settings:
5. Run your searches on Google Scholar and click on the UCP Full Text option to access the resource. In the case that you are not already authenticated, you’ll be redirected to an Office 365 authentication page, where you should login with your UCP credentials (xxx@ucp.pt):
For the development of evidence synthesis works in the Health Sciences, the UCP Libraries recommend a set of reference materials.
Guidelines
The official guide for preparing Cochrane systematic reviews. This handbook contains information on standard methods that apply to all types of reviews (planning, search, study selection, data collection, risk of bias assessment, and result interpretation). |
Platform that allows to search within a set of methodological guidelines aimed at the development of different types of health research. |
Designed to provide authors with a comprehensive guide to conducting JBI systematic reviews. It describes in detail the process of planning, undertaking, and writing up a systematic review using JBI methods. |
Initiative that developed a set of tools and guidelines for the reporting of evidence-based syntheses, such as the PRISMA Checklist, the PRISMA Flow Diagram and the PRISMA Checklist for Scoping Reviews. |
Thesauri
CINAHL specific thesaurus, designed to assist in more effectively searching in this database. Although based on MeSH, it is recommended, if applicable, to always check whether the MeSH terms collected for the investigation correspond or not to the preferred terms of CINAHL. To search the thesaurus, go to the upper menu and select the CINAHL Subject Headings option. |
Descritores em da Saúde (DeCS) is the controlled vocabulary used for indexing research outputs and other documents in the biomedical field. It corresponds to the Virtual Health Library’s translation of the MeSH vocabulary. |
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is the National Library of Medicine controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed. |
Search process
Set of guiding items for the development of systematic reviews of intervention and meta-analyses. |
Representative diagram of the studies selection and screening phases in evidence synthesis works. |
Set of guiding items for the development of scoping reviews and corresponding protocols. |
Results screening
Free and open-source software to store, organize, manage, and share bibliographic references, also allowing to automatically create citations and the respective bibliographies. |
This free web-based tool was created to assist researchers conducting systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other knowledge synthesis projects by significantly speeding up the screening and selection process. |
Protocol register
Repository for preserving research data produced during the project lifecycle. For each submission, a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) is assigned, which makes the stored items easily citable. |
International platform for the register of evidence syntheses protocols. A fee must be paid to register, update and assign a DOI to the protocols. |
Free platform that allows the collaborative management of research projects throughout their lifecycle. The deposit of research data and protocols facilitates their reproducibility. For each submission, a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) is assigned, which makes the stored items easily citable. |
PROSPERO accepts registrations for systematic reviews, rapid reviews and umbrella reviews. PROSPERO does not accept scoping reviews or literature scans. |
Open repository that allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artefacts. For each submission, a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) is assigned, which makes the stored items easily citable. |
To facilitate the management of information resources and the elaboration of bibliographic references, the UCP Libraries suggest the use of reference management softwares:
Web and desktop version; |
Web and desktop version; |
Education
- UCP2 Mental Health
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Education
- UCP2 Mental Health
- UCP4SUCCESS
- Libraries
- Identification Card
- Studios and Laboratories
- UCEditora
- Smart Charging
- Other Campus Facilities
