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These bibliographic and information resources, whether multidisciplinary or thematic, are the ideal tool for conducting scientific research for academic purposes or for writing academic papers. A VPN connection is required to access full-text articles off-campus. The Library Catalogue and the Institutional Repository do not require this connection.
AFRICAN STUDIES SOURCE
Africa Studies Source database offers a collection of scholarly full-text journals and magazines covering the history, culture, politics, education and ongoing research on the African continent. It includes 527 active full-text journals.
BDJUR – Almedina Legal Database On-site access
BDJUR is a database integrated into the Almedina.net platform, which provides access to national and European legislation, case law and consolidated texts of all the Codes and their supplementary legislation in force within the legal system, as well as a collection of thematic legal compendia. It includes Ana Prata’s Legal Dictionary, as well as forms and templates for various procedural documents and other acts relating to the practice of law.
B-ON – Online Knowledge Library
The Online Knowledge Library (b-on) provides research and higher education institutions with unlimited and permanent access to the full texts of thousands of scientific journals and online e-books from some of the most important content providers, through subscriptions negotiated at national level. View the collections.
BIBLIOTECA COMUM
Union catalogue of the libraries of Portugal’s research and higher education institutions.
A service that aggregates the bibliographic content of the catalogues of institutions within the scientific and higher education system, acting as a single point for bibliographic searches and enabling the optimisation and rationalisation of resources and services.
BLOOMBERG On-site access
Bloomberg is a business and financial news website. It provides news on the global economy, shares, market prices and financial advice. Due to limited monthly data allowances, access is restricted to the academic and scientific community at Iscte. Use of the search terminal for this resource is restricted to the Iscte community, who must book it via the Library’s Booking System. [Terms of use].
EIKON/Datastream On-site access
Financial markets database from LSEG – London Stock Exchange Group. Provides information relevant to macro analysis, asset allocation strategy and sector research. To use this resource’s search terminal, you must book it via the Library’s Booking System. [Terms of use].
EMERALD PUBLISHING (eJournal Collections)
> Accounting, Finance & Economics
> Business, Management & Strategy
> Health & Social Care, 2020–2024
> HR, Learning & Organisation Studies
> Public Policy & Environmental Management, 2020–2024
IDS – Iscte Discovery Service resource aggregator
The IDS – Iscte Discovery Service is a content aggregator service that allows you to search, from a single platform, across thousands of content providers and metadata for approximately 70,000 books and 64,000 journals, thereby facilitating your access to relevant information.
IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standards On-site access
Online edition of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Includes International Accounting Standards (IAS), Interpretations (IFRIC/SIC) and related documents.
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
This repository brings together all of Iscte’s academic and scientific output in digital format, with the aim of preserving it, disseminating it and increasing the visibility and impact of its research work at national and international level. It forms part of RCAAP – Portugal’s Open Access Scientific Repositories.
No VPN connection is required to access the repository when off-campus.
LEGIX – Legal databases
LegiX provides access to a total of 23 databases containing over 3 million documents covering national legislation, case law and legal scholarship.
Updated daily, this service is entirely cloud-based, giving you universal access from any system (computer or mobile device) or operating system (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS...).
LIBRARY CATALOGUE
An internal bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records of printed and digital documents that form part of the Library’s collection. It also provides access to full-text documents acquired by the Library, such as e-books or theses and dissertations available via open access in the institutional repository. No VPN connection is required to access the catalogue when off-campus.
MEDIA & ADVERTISING GLOBAL REPORT (formerly the Media & Advertising Yearbook) – Marktest Group On-site acess
An analysis that systematises the most relevant information on media audiences (television, radio, print media and the internet), advertising expenditure (on television, radio, print media and outdoor advertising) and news coverage. The Iscte Library has subscribed to the yearbook since 2006 and, up to 2020, the full text in PDF format is available to read online (exclusive to the Iscte community) in the bibliographic catalogue. From 2021 onwards, the yearbook is available only on the YumiAnalytics Web digital dashboard, featuring analysis of TV audiences and advertising expenditure. Access to this platform is restricted to the library premises.
NIELSEN YEARBOOKS: DRUGS AND FOOD
The Iscte Library has subscribed to these yearbooks since 2013, and the full text is available to read online (exclusively for the Iscte community) in the library catalogue.
OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE
The Oxford University Press Handbooks offer the state of the art in contemporary thought and research. Over a hundred handbooks in Political Science, Sociology and Social Work, constantly updated and available to the Iscte community.
PORTUGUESE AND SOCIAL MEDIA YEARBOOK – Marktest Group
A study by Marktest aimed at understanding the levels of awareness, usage, opinions and habits of the Portuguese population regarding social media. The Iscte Library began subscribing to this report in 2021 and the full text in PDF format is available to read online (exclusive to the Iscte community) in the library catalogue. In 2021, Marktest launched the first edition of the analysis *Social Media: Trends 2011–2021*, a PDF report featuring a graphical analysis of trends in the key indicators collected by the study over the last 10 years, accompanied by an Excel file containing the figures presented therein, which is also available to the Iscte community for online reading via the library catalogue.
PROQUEST CENTRAL
This is the largest multidisciplinary full-text database currently available on the market. It provides access to 47 complete ProQuest databases, covering a variety of content types across more than 175 subject areas, making it the world’s most comprehensive research resource.
PROQUEST ONE BUSINESS (formerly ABI/INFORM COLLECTION)
Contains the ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Dateline databases, providing an international perspective on the business world. It comprises thousands of journals, theses, working papers and reports in full text. Subject areas: Business management; Economics; Accounting and Finance.
PROQUEST ONE PSYCHOLOGY
This expertly curated bibliographic database offers a multi-format collection that includes academic journals, therapy videos and transcripts of counselling sessions. It provides articles, news items and e-books covering psychological conditions, therapy, research concepts and tests. The collection includes over 1,200 academic journals in full text, 3,000 videos (including footage of real counselling sessions), 1,700 transcripts of real counselling sessions, over 5,000 e-books and around 70,000 dissertations.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
PUBLICATION FINDER resource aggregator
The Publication Finder (formerly the A–Z list) is a tool that organises and provides links to the electronic journals to which the Library has access, with easy navigation to full-text content.
SAGE PREMIER
It forms part of the B-ON – Online Knowledge Library collection.
SAGE Premier provides online access to 1,127 peer-reviewed journal titles (over 470,000 articles). With high-quality interdisciplinary content covering a wide range of fields such as the Social Sciences, Humanities, Management, Technology and Medicine, around 65 per cent of its publications are included in the 2015 edition of the Journal Citation Reports.
SCOPUS (Elsevier)
Launched in 2004, this is a peer-reviewed database of bibliographic references and citations. It includes scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus indexes the content of over 25,000 titles from more than 7,000 publishers in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
SCOPUS AI (AI Discovery)
Scopus AI is an AI tool integrated into Scopus that processes the content in Scopus on the basis of a generative language model and provides a summary and answer to research questions.
SPRINGER NATURE eBOOKS
Seven thematic collections of eBooks (monographs, textbooks and reference works) published between 2023 and 2026, comprising tens of thousands of titles that support research, teaching and learning at different levels of study.
> Artificial Intelligence
> Social Sciences
> Management and Business
> Economics & Finance
> Computer Science
> Mathematics and Statistics
> Smart Technologies & Robotics
STATISTA – Statistics Portal
Statista is one of the world’s largest statistics portals, with over 1 million data points, gathering and compiling data from more than 18,000 sources across over 80,000 topics in around 170 industrial sectors. Currently, the portal also includes around 200,000 forecasts, 7,000 dossiers, 41,000 studies, 177 industry reports and 150 country reports.
WEB OF SCIENCE (Clarivate Analytics)
It forms part of the B-ON collection – Online Knowledge Library.
Web of Science, formerly ISI Web of Knowledge, is a citation database covering thousands of journals across all fields of knowledge, enabling bibliometric analysis. It comprises five collections: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (CPCI-S); and Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH).
WEB OF SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
The Web of Science Research Assistant is a generative AI tool that supports lecturers, students and researchers in their research and analysis of scientific literature. Integrated into the Web of Science Core Collection, it enables users to find relevant information more quickly, gain structured insights and identify research trends based on high-quality, reliable data.
