Databases and web links

Updated on 07 May 2012 By Marcel Leermakers

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Digital resources by field

    

 

Databases

Databases help you find useful information. Some are specialized, others cover a lot of disciplines. The interface of each database is (also) in English! For your convenience databases in Dutch are left out.
Most databases are linked directly. The manuals and presentations are mainly in Dutch.
A login may be requested; please use your personal Avans Hogeschool login


Overview general and multidisciplinary databases

Academic Search Elite
Full-text access to international journals Academic Search Elite		 Catalogus Avans Hogeschool
Catalogue of all materials in Xplora Catalogus Avans Hogeschool		 HBO Knowledge Base
Graduation theses and publications of Universities of Applied Sciences HBO Knowledge Base
LexisNexisNews in full-text articles from five national newspapers and many international news magazines LexisNexis PiCartaCatalogue of books, articles and e-sources in the Netherlands PiCarta SAGE journals onlineFull-text access to international journals SAGE journals online
ScienceDirectFull-text access to international journals ScienceDirect SpringerLinkFull-text access to international journals SpringerLink Van Dale Grote woordenboekenDictionaries Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish Van Dale Grote woordenboeken
Wiley Online LibraryFull-text access to international journals Wiley Online Library

 

Overview vocational databases

Economics and law
Company.info
Full-text annual reports, budgets and industry information from Dutch organizations Company.info		 Economics and law
Datamonitor 360
Market information, country profiles and reports of companies and industries Datamonitor 360		 Economics and law
MarketLine
MarketLine is replaced by a new database: Datamonitor 360
Economics and law
Business Trends Asia
E-journal about doing business with Asia Business Trends Asia		 Economics and law
WARC
Articles and cases about marketing WARC		 Health care
CINAHL
Index of international nursing literature (mostly abstracts) CINAHL
Health care
Cochrane Library
Entrance to evidence based medicine literature Cochrane Library		 Education
Education Research Complete
Full-text access to journals on international education and research Education Research Complete		 Technology
ACM Digital Library
IT: full-text articles, newsletters and conference proceedings ACM Digital Library
Technology
NEN Connect
More than 60,000 NEN standards fulltext NEN Connect		 Technology
LISTA
Full-text articles about library science, classification and information management LISTA

 

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