ACL Anthology

ACL Anthology is a digital archive linked to the Association for Computational Linguistics. It currently contains nearly 90.000 conference papers on the study of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

The database is freely available.

On the homepage you can search for conferences of the Association for …

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Acta Sanctorum (Chadwyck) database

Acta Sanctorum is a full text database containing the texts of 68 volumes of the Acta Sanctorum, a series of critical editions of hagiographies, published by Société des Bollandistes between 1643 and 1940. You also have the possibility to search the church writings in the Patrologia Latina at the same …

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Africa-Wide Information (Ebsco)

Africa-Wide Information is a bibliographic database providing access to more than 3.5 million references and abstracts within African studies.

The database is fully accessible within the UGent network (UGentNet).

You can use Boolean operators in all databases on the Ebsco platform to make your search …

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Artstor

The Artstor website is scheduled to be retired on August 1, 2024. Artstor's content, key resources and functionality are moving to JSTOR.

The Artstor image database contains more than one million high-quality digital images that can be used free of charge for scientific purposes, through the Images for Academic …

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BelgicaPress, database of digitised historical Belgian newspapers

BelgicaPress is a new full-text database from the Belgian Royal Library where you can find (as of spring 2018) all the digitised historical Belgian newspapers online (from 1814 to 1970) including the censored press of both World Wars.

Thanks to the application of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the content is …

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Chapterscan: searching and finding references and content tables of books

It is possible for researchers and students at UGent to request chapter scans of some of the books via the catalogue (lib.ugent.be). You can find a blue button "Get chapter scan" if we provide this service on a book.

Here are some tips & tricks to make this …

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Gale Literary Sources (Gale)

Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis) is a full text database (used especially in Literature) combining the following literary sources:

• Gale Literary Index
• Gale Literature Criticism 
• Gale Literature Resource Center 
• Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
• Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Gale Literature: LitFinder
• Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
• Gale Literature: Something …

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JSTOR

JSTOR is a (largely) fulltext multidisciplinary database, originally designed to make the content of academic journals (Journal Storage) easily accessible to universities, but since then supplemented with books and primary sources.

JSTOR employs a 'moving wall': which means that there is a fixed period or gap between the publication …

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MLA International Bibliography & Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)

This bibliographic database contains books, websites, and articles (in English and some 60 other languages) compiled by the Modern Language Association of America beginning in 1926. It includes the following research fields:

Modern literature
Literary theory and criticism
Linguistics
Language teaching
Film, television and theater
Rhetoric and the art of …

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ProQuest: introduction

ProQuest is a portal of scientific databases. Ghent University has access to 17 databases:

• Acta Sanctorum
• APA PsycArticles
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
• Coronavirus Research Database
• Early Modern Books
• Ebook Central
• Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
• MEDLINE
• Patrologia Latina
• Performing Arts Periodicals …

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Scopus (Elsevier)

Scopus is an interdisciplinary bibliographical database with more than 61 million items from 105 countries in over 40 languages. It contains:

• Peer-reviewed journals published from 1823 onwards
• Conference proceedings
• Books (mainly on social sciences, the arts and philosophy)
• Patents

Scopus maintains the following criteria to ensure qualitative resources:

• The publications …

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