Elsevier's Social Sciences e-book collection: trial

To provide our users with access to complete and exclusive resources, Universidade Católica Portuguesa is offering a trial of Elsevier's Social Sciences eBook collection.

Access will be available from March 13th to April 12th and includes areas such as Language and Linguistics, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Psychology, Geography, Applied Ethics, Education, Library and Information Science, and Asian Studies.

This collection includes more than 1,900 titles, including 1,926 monographs, 29 book series and 17 encyclopedias, including, for example, the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, among many other reference works.

Access can be made directly through the ScienceDirect platform, available in the Resources by Area section of our Portal, using your institutional credentials. The entire collection is also searchable through our discovery engine, EBSCO Discovery Service.

If you have any questions, please contact the UCP Libraries at pesquisa.bibliotecas@ucp.pt.

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