Social Sciences, Philosophy, Political Science, Communication and Culture, History
Subscribed resources
B-on
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 with these publishers.
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EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
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.
Philosopher’s Index with Full Text
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 available with no embargo.
Full Text Finder
Full Text 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.
JSTOR
STOR 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, e Mathematics & Statistics Collection.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts indexes core journals, nearly; 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.
OECD iLibrary
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.
OpenDissertations
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Provide a span of time from the early 20th century to the present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary website that provide access to Elsevier publisher. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and book chapters.
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Scopus
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.
Web of Science
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.
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Open Access resources
DeGruyter Open
DeGruyter publishes fully open access journals across scientific, technical, medical, humanities and social sciences.
Frontiers
Frontiers is a multidisciplinary editor of Open Access journals.
Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão (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. The latest works are available free of charge at the Digital Library of Foundation electronic portal.
MDPI
MDPI is a multidisciplinary publisher of peer-reviewed and open access journals.
OAPEN Library
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.
OpenEdition Books
OpenEdition Books is an open access platform for books in the humanities and social sciences.
Online Library of Liberty
The purpose of the Online Liberty of Library is to promote access to books and articles by key authors in various areas of interest such as human rights, French liberalism, anti-federalism, among others. Its contents reveal a concern with ideas about individual freedom, free markets or peace.
OpenEdition Journal
OpenEdition Journals is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. 95% of articles are available in full-text access.
PQDT (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open)
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge from several scientific areas.
RCAAP (Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal)
RCAAP portal collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories.
Biblioteca virtual de Polígrafos
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).
SciELO
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
SpringerOpen offer open access content, books and journals, from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
Statistical information
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe. Eurostat 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.
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
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
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.
Off-campus access
To access the subscribed resources outside the University campus it is necessary to proceed with the configuration of your equipment. More information at:
Bibliographical Reference Manager
To facilitate the management of information resources and the elaboration of bibliographic references, several solutions are available at no cost. The UCP Libraries suggest the use of Mendeley.
Off-campus access
To access the subscribed resources outside the University campus it is necessary to proceed with the configuration of your equipment. More information at:
Bibliographical Reference Manager
To facilitate the management of information resources and the elaboration of bibliographic references, several solutions are available at no cost. The UCP Libraries suggest the use of Mendeley.