Bibliographic Databases of NKUA - Trial Access
On this page, one can find the bibliographic databases (if any) to which the NKUA has trial access for a limited period of time (please note, that access is possible only through the network of the University of Athens, as well as using services such as VPN, Proxy server, etc.). Αan updated list or trials can be found here.
Trial access to Embase of Elsevier
Trial access has been granted to the full content of Embase, by Elsevier, through December 1st, 2024.
This limited trial access is provided for product testing purposes only and will be subject to the terms set forth in the Elsevier terms and conditions, including but not limited to the usage restrictions and limitations of liability set forth therein (https://www.elsevier.com/legal/elsevier-website-terms-and-conditions).
Embase is the most comprehensive source for biomedical literature incorporating millions of records from peer reviewed journals and conference abstracts, as well as content not available in MEDLINE.
- Support material on using Embase can be found on: https://service.elsevier.com/app/home/supporthub/embase/
- A Quick User Guide is available here
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- Don't forget to Register on Embase (while using NKUA network and IPs) in order to have a more personalized user experience and be able to save searches as well as receive alerts, news, announcements, RSS feeds etc.
Please Note! Access is provided either, by physical presence on the NKUA premises, using the computers that are connected to the University's network, with IP address control, or by username authentication at the NKUA User Authentication Service (for more information follow the link: www-en.lib.uoa.gr/services/access-to-e-resources.html)
ProQuest One Psychology
Trial access is granted to the full content of ProQuest One Psychology through December 14th 2024.
ProQuest One Psychology is the most comprehensive and user-friendly survey available today, designed to support the unique demands of psychology and psychology degree programs on teaching and learning.
For more information please consult the related presentation.
Access is provided via the URL: https://trials.proquest.com/access?token=yHerIQdTiXsVuQyJDmtrwWjhe
Alternatively, access can be achieved through the federated access portal to all Proquest Databases that NKUA is currently subscribed to or having trial access to: https://search.proquest.com
Note: It is necessary to accept cookies, captcha, etc., that you'll be likely to be prompted to, in order to have proper access to the databases.
ProQuest One Education
Trial access is granted to the full content of ProQuest One Education through December 14th 2024.
ProQuest One Education was designed to support the unique needs of students, researchers and faculty in the education sciences. It makes accessible the content required for study and research in the education industry, in a specialized, intuitive and user-friendly interface.
For more information please click here or consult the related presentation.
Access is provided via the URL: https://trials.proquest.com/access?token=yHerIQdTiXsVuQyJDmtrwWjhe
Alternatively, access can be achieved through the federated access portal to all Proquest Databases that NKUA is currently subscribed to or having trial access to: https://search.proquest.com
Note: It is necessary to accept cookies, captcha, etc., that you'll be likely to be prompted to, in order to have proper access to the databases.
Trial access to CNKI Express
Thanks to Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link), a trial access has been granted to the CNKI Express database, through July 15th, 2024.
It is the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database developed by Tsinghua University. It includes academic sources from China, such as journals, dissertations and theses, conference proceedings, newspapers, yearbooks, etc. Machine translation into English is provided for selected publications.
Thematic categorization is also available:
- Mathematics/ Physics/ Mechanics/ Astronomy,
- Chemistry/Metallurgy/Environment/ Mine Industry ,
- Architecture/Energy/ Traffic/ Electro mechanics etc.,
- Agriculture,
- Medicine & Public Health,
- Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/Military
- Affairs/ Law,
- Education & Social Sciences,
- Electronic Technology & Information Science,
- Economics & Management
You may find educational material in the following webpage while for more details you may consult the related leaflet.
Connecting to the database is achieved via IP adress recognition (see here for more information), while two access points are offered:
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https://oversea.cnki.net/ for the whole content of the database (journals, theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspapers, etc.),
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https://ar.oversea.cnki.net Academic Reference (AR), for resources (books, journals, abstracts) available only in English.
Coronavirus Research Database
The Coronavirus Research Database by ProQuest, provides coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak by curating openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
Alternatively, you can search the database by using the federal search service on all ProQuest databases we are currently having an active subscription: https://search.proquest.com
Access to additional collections of JSTOR journals, primary sources and ebooks
JSTOR, in the context of actively supporting distance education activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, offers its subscribers access to additional content (in excess of existing active subscriptions), in the following manner:
- Until June 30th 2022 (extended expanded access form the original ending date of December 31st, 2020 which was originally extended by June 30th 2021), to 21 collections of journals, 3 thematic collections and 4 collections of primary sources (view more information at: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-collections/)
- Until June 30th 2021 to 26 journal archives in Public Health (view more information at: https://about.jstor.org/l/public-health/)
- Until June 30th 2021 to 6,000+ selected journal articles related to COVID-19 — articles cover important topics such as coronavirus, communicable disease control, distance education, health surveillance, and more (view more information at: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/free-covid-19-articles/)
- Until August 31st, 2020, to more than 32,000 ebooks by more than 40 publishers (view more information at: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/expanded-access-to-ebooks/)
List of trials
The databases that we already have had trial access to, are the following:
Elsevier's Embase (12/11-1/12/2024), ProQuest One Psychology (14/10-14/12/2024), ProQuest One Education (14/10-14/12/2024), Complete Anatomy by Elsevier (7/10-31/12/2024, through HEAL-Link), Embase (1-21/4/2024), De Gruyter eBook collection (1/2-30/4/2024), CNKI Express (15/1-15/7/2024), ProQuest Early Modern Books (περιλαμβάνει τις βάσεις Early European Books και Early English Books Online) (3/10-2/11/2023), Gale Primary Sources και Gale Research Complete (15/9-14/11/2023), CAS SciFinder Discovery (15/5-15/6/2023), CAB Abstracts Full Text (2/5-1/7/2023), eHRAF World Cultures (5/1-5/3/2023), ProQuest Global Newsstream (27/10/2022-11/12/2022), ProQuest One Business and ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection (30/9/2022-29/11/2022 - extended through 30/12//2022), Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive (1-29/6/2022), Statista (14/1-15/2/2022), RetroNews (5/10-5/11/2021), Med Journal by Cell Press (20/9 - 31/12/2021), Legal Source, Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text and Political Science Complete (10/5-8/6/2021), Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry (15/4-1/5/2021), Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials (12/4-11/5-2021), Statista (25/3-24/4/2021), GeoRef and GeoScienceWorld Journal Collection (13/1-28/2/2020), Academic Video Online by Alexander Street of ProQuest (23/11-31/12/2020), Academic Search Ultimate (ASU) from EBSCO (5/11-31/12/2020), De Gruyter eJournal collection (5/10-30/12/2020), Artstor Didital Library (1/8-31/12/2020 - extended until 30/6/2021), Additional collections of JSTOR journals, primary sources and ebooks (1/6-31/8/2020 - extended until 30/6/2021), The New York Times and New York Times in Education (27/5 - 31/7/2020), De Gruyter eBook collection (25/5-30/6/2020 - extended until 31/7/2020), MedOne Plastic Surgery by Thieme Publishers (25/5-31/7/2020), Translated Texts for Historians E-Library by Liverpool University Press (22/5-22/7/2020), AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical (19/5-18/7/2020), Gale Reference Complete (20/5-31/7/2020 .. extended through 30/9/2020), SPIE Digital Library (19/5-17/7/2020), Oxford Reports on International Law/Oxford Scholarship Online/Oxford Handbooks Online by Oxford University Press (15/5-14/7/2020), Psychiatry Online (POL) from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Publishing (13/5-7/7/2020), AccessSurgery from McGraw-Hill Medical (10/5-9/7/2020), Complete Chicago Package by The University of Chicago Press (4/5-6/7/2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (4/5-5/7/2020), 3 Dentistry Journals by Elsevier (4/5-4/6/2020), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ONLINE (29/4-28/6/2020), GeoScienceWorld eBooks (28/4-30/6/2020), Embase (28/4-26/5/2020), Camridge Core collections (23/4-31/5/2020), Duke University Press mathematical journals via Project Euclid (22/4/-2-/7/2020), Duke University Press eBooks/eJournals (22/4 - 20/7/2020), MIT Press Direct eBooks (22/4-31/5/2020), Berghahn Journals (21/4-30/6/2020), SAGE Video/Research Methods Video/Knowledge (15/4/15/7/2020), Bloomsbery Digital Resources (21/4-31/5/2020), The Literary Encylcopedia (14/4-30/6/2020), IΕΕΕ elearning (μέσω ΣΕΑΒ/HEAL-Link 2/4-30/6/2020), ProQuest One Academic, ProQuest One Literature, Music and Dance Online Alexander Street (31/3-30/6/2020), Loeb Classical Library (23/3-30/6/2020), JoVe Education (20/3-15/6/2020), Statista (1-31/3/2020), BrowZine by Third Iron (22/1 - 20/2/2020 - extended untill 31/12/2020), Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry by Elsevier (2/12/2019 - 31/5/2020), ProQuest One Academic and ProQuest Research Companion by ProQuest ( 1/11 - 31/12/2019), All Prepols Publishers Dataases (21/10 - 19/11/2019), International Journal of Sports Medicine by Thieme Publisher (9/9 - 31/12/2019) GeoScienceWorld (7-31 / 5/2019), JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments (22/3 - 25/4/2019), all magazines of Bentham Science Publishers (18/3 - 18/6/2019), zbMAth by Springer Nature (18/2 - 18/4/2019), ProQuest Art and Architecture Archive and Art, Design & Architecture Collection (26/11 - 26/12/2018), AVON-Academic Video Online (09 / 11 - 21/12/2018), ProQuest Central (10/11 - 15/12 2018), 6 additional e-book collections by Springer Publisher (via HEAL-Link until 12/9 - 30/11/2018), MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost, 7/2 - 10/3/2018), OECD iLibrary (via HEAL- Link, 23/1 - 30/6/2018), ProQuest's Criminology Collection (25/1 - 24/2/2018), Brill's Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Collection (15/1 - 13/2/2018), The collections of "Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820", "Women and Social Movements, International" and "AVON-Academic Video Online" by Alexander Street (14/12 / 2017-26 / 1/2018), All journals (2016 and 2017 issues) by Future Science Group (7/3 - 31/12 2017), The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek by Brill (21/2 - 22/3 2017), Climate Change and Law Collection Brill House (18/1 - 16/2 2017), Bentham Science Journals (16/1/15 2017), International Maritime Boundaries Brill House Online (23/11 - 22/12 2016), Brill House United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (23/11 - 22/12 2016), ProQuest eBook Central (20/10 - 31/12) 2016), South Asia Archive (20 / 5-20 / 6 2016), Reaxys & Reaxys Medical Chemistry (15 / 4-15 / 5 2016), All IGI GLobal Home bases (6 / 4-6 / 5 2016) , All the Databases of Brill Publishers (20 /1-28 / 2 2016).