Cd-Roms at the School of English Library

Aristotle University On Line Resources

• Electronic Journals of Greek Academic Libraries through HEAL-Link
• OCLC Bibliographic Databases through HEAL-Link
• Bibliographic and Full-Text Databases (i.e. indexes of journal articles and other material)
• Citation Indexes
• Bibliographic and Full-Text Databases of Digital Dissertations
• Databases in Greek Language
• National Documentation Centre (ΕΚΤ) Greek Databases

Searching the Aristotle University On Line Reseources

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Cd-Roms at the School of English Library

The Library obtains the following electronic sources on Cd-Roms. Users may ask for these sources at the reference desk and use them only inside the library.

• Britannica CD Ultimate Reference Suite (incl. MW dictionary & atlas)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Black History
• Exploring Short Stories
• Exploring Novels
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
• The Comprehensive Shakespeare Dictionary
• William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
• The New England Transcendentalist
• Collins Cobuild English Collocations on CD-ROM
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - Deluxe Audio Edition
• Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
• Merriam-Webster's Word Crazy
• TESOL Quarterly-Digital (1967-1998)
• TESOL Journal-Digital (1991-1998)

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Aristotle University On Line Resources

• Electronic Journals and Bibliographic databases
  accessed through HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries - Link)
  
  HEAL-Link operates as a Consortium and comprises the 32 Higher Education Institutes of Greece (18 higher education institutes and 14 techological education institutes), the Academy of Athens and the National Library of Greece. The purpose of HEAL-Link is to offer electronic services to all Academic Libraries of the country.
  The following services are offered through HEAL-Link site in the address http://heal-l.physics.auth.gr.
  
  

  PUBLISHERS AND PROVIDERS	ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE	CONTENTS - SUBJECT AREAS
  Elsevier	ScienceDirect	more than 1100 full-text journals in the subject fields of Arts and Humanities, Phychology, Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, Computer Science, Decision Sciences, Economics and Finance.
  Kluwer	Kluwer Online	approximately 400 full-text journals related to Archaeology, Arts, Education, Humanities, Linguistics, Philosophy, Phychology, Social Sciences, Operations Research/Management Science, Computer and Information Science.
  MCB	Emerald	119 full-text journals in the subject fields of Education, Continuing Professional Development, Training, Management, Library and Information Sciences, Marketing, Accounting, Auditing & Economics.
  Wilson	OMNI MegaFile	2.500 journals 1100 of which are full-text covering topics of Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business and General Sciences.
  Blackwell	Blackwell Publishing	journals in the subject fields of the Arts, Arts and Humanities, Social and Behavioral sciences.
  Oxford	Oxford University Press	journals in the subject fields of Area Studies, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics, Communication Studies, History, Language Studies, Linguistics and Philosophy, Literary Studies, Music, Philology, Phychology and Psychiatry.
  Cambridge	Cambridge Journals Online	162 full-text journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanitities.
  Taylor & Francis	Taylor & Francis Group	journals in the subject fields of Arts and Humanities, Education, Phychology, Social Science.
  Wiley	Wiley Publishers	journals in the subject fields of Education and Psychology.
  Springer	SpringerLink	more than 400 full-text journals which cover the subject fields of Phychology, Statitstics, Economics and Management Sciences, Computer Sciences and more.
  OCLC	FirstSearch	11 bibliographical databases.

  
  
  
  
  OCLC First Search Service - Base Package
  
  This service provides access to 11 online bibliographic databases, covering all human knowledge and offering the final information in various formats.
  Free access is provided to:
  - files connected with various OCLC collections
  - available full-text files
  
  More specifically these databases are:
  • WorldCat: contains all the records catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Offers over 48 millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages from 11th century to the present. [research guide]
  • ArticleFirst: includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. For most items it also provides a list of libraries that contain the journal title as well as the full text of the article if it is available. The database includes over 12,000 journals and over 14,3 million records covering the time period between 1990 to the present. Subjects: humanities, popular culture, social science, business, science, technology, medicine. [research guide]
  • ContentsFirst: includes tables of contents of over 12,000 journals covering a wide range of science subject fields.
  • ECO (Electronic Collections On Line): includes all the original contents and images of articles as well as the bibliographic information for all journals. The database lets you view the abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes. It includes over 4,000 journals and over 1,3 million records covering the time period from 1995 to the present. Subjects: literature, philosophy, education, psychology, language, social sciences, history science, fine arts, library science, business, economics, et. al. [research guide]
  • Union List of Periodicals: contains all the journal records catalogued by OCLC member libraries and includes information in each record about specific periodicals and the libraries that contain them. It also enables you to search your own library holdings for journals issues. The database includes over 8 million number of records.
  • PapersFirst: covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Center. The database includes over 4,400,000 number of records covering the time period between 1993 to the present.
  • ProceedingsFirst: covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Center. Each record contains a list of papers presented at each conference. The database includes over 135.000 records covering the time period between 1993 to the present.
  • ERIC: includes bibliographic information of published and unpublished material covering educational and relevant topics from 1966 to the present. The database includes over 2,000 titles and over 983,000 number of records.
  • World Almanacs: offers a fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike. It includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. The database contains over 32,000 records covering the time period between 1998 to the present.
  • GPO: covers all types of U.S. government documents and provides a bibliographic citation in each record. The database includes over 522,000 records covering the time period between 1976 to the present.
  • MEDLINE: includes information covering all fields of medical sciences.
    
    
  
  
  
  
• Bibliographic and Full-Text Databases (i.e. indexes of journal articles and other material)
  
  
  Bibliographic Databases
  
  
  • ABES (Annotated Bibliography for English Studies)
    (contains more than 25000 records of articles, books, videos and web pages about English Language and Literature. It also covers secondary literature in English Studies in the widest possible sense. Four main subject areas are identified: Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Film Studies.)
    Online access available.
  • BHI : British Humanities Index
    (An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.)
    Online access via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Internet Database Service (CSA - IDS).
    
  • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
    (provides extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition to journal articles, it also provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.)
    Online access via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Internet Database Service (CSA - IDS).
    
  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
    (contains journal articles and books about literature, language and education)
    Online access available.
    
  • ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
    (is an indexing and abstracting tool covering psychology, sociology, race relations, education, economics and politics. ASSIA currently contains records from 650 journals in 16 different countries, including the UK and the US.)
    Online access via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Internet Database Service (CSA - IDS).
    
  • LLBA : Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
    (assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, systax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.)
    Online access via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Internet Database Service (CSA - IDS).
    
  • Sociological Abstracts
    (abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database includes journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers.)
    Online access Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Internet Database Service (CSA - IDS).
    
  • Scopus
    (Scopus is an abstracts database of 27 million records covering articles from 14,200 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers – the world's most extensive database of its kind. Scopus is the most comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science point of access containing all relevant literature.)
    Online access available.
    
    
    Full-Text Databases
    
    
  • Academic Search Premier
    (is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,040 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database which is updated on a daily basis.)
    Online access via EBSCO.
  • Wilson Web
    (article index of 2.500 journals, 1100 of which are full-text, covering topics of Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business and General Sciences.)
    Online access via Wilson.
  • SwetsWise
    (Article index of e-journals - AUTH print subscriptions which are also available online and HEAL-Link subscriptions).
    Online access available.
    
  
  
  
  
  
• Citation Indexes
  A citation index is an index of journal articles in which works cited during a specific year are listed alphabetically by name of the author cited, followed by the names of the citing authors.
  Citation indexes allow us to determine whether a particular article or author has been cited by other scholars.
  More information about citation indexes.
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (contains current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (contains current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines)
    Online access to the Citation Indexes is also avaliable via internet using ISI Web of Science service.
    
  • Academic Search Premier
    Online access via EBSCO.
  • Scopus
    Online access available.
    
  • Journal Citation Reports: science and social science
    Online access available.
    
  
  
  
  
• Bibliographic and Full-Text Databases of Digital Dissertations
  
  
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Digital Dissertations Database
    (includes the full text of dissertations submitted in the Aristotle University from 2003 forward. Access to the database is only provided via the University local network.)
  • Hellenic Dissertations Database (EKT)
    (The database consists of the national archive of the Hellenic Dissertations (approximately 3.500 records). It includes elements for dissertations written in Greek universities as well as for dissertations written abroad by Greek Doctors from 1985 till today (5% of the collection is from 1932- 1985). The database covers 80% of the published dissertations and is being continually updated. The material is currently available only in print format from the National Documentation Center. Online access to the full text of dissertations in digital format is temporarily unavailable. )
  • ProQuest Digital Dissertations
    (includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses published in the US, Canada, Australia and other countries. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials accepted from 1861 till today. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts. Online access to the full text of dissertations in digital format is available for titles published from 1997 forward.)
  • The Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
    (Bibliographic database of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.)
  
  
  
  
  
• Databases in Greek Language
  
  
  • Full-Text Database of Newspaper and Journal Articles
    (includes book presentations, book reviews, interviews of intellectual people and creators of the period 1976-2000.)
  • Yearbooks of the Faculties of Philosophy in Athens / Thessaloniki, years 1925-1997
    (includes the full text of publications by the Faculties of Philosophy in Athens / Thessaloniki during the years 1925-1997.)
  • The Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ)
    (access to the full text of the Government Gazette. Use of the database only via the Electronic Information and Interlibrary Loan Unit of the Aristotle University Library System since an access code is required.)
  
  
  
• National Documentation Centre (NDC) Greek Databases
  (access to nineteen (19) greek bibliographic databases.)
  
  

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Searching the Aristotle University On Line Resources

• Ιχνηλάτης
  
  Search tool which allows simultaneous searching of all the electronic sources of the University.
  You can use it to find books and journals, the full text of journal articles, bibliographic references and more.
  
  
• Guide for Searching Sources available in the Aristotle University / School of English Library
  
  
  
  

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