General and thematic links - The Cracow University of Technology Library

General and thematic links

This page includes a list of links to websites, encyclopedias, dictionaries, terminology dictionaries, institutions and scientific associations available online, prepared for the CUT faculties.

Scientific resources of the Internet can also be browsed using aggregated catalogues and scientific search engines.

Libraries' catalogues

• NUKAT (new window) – The Union Catalogue of Polish Research Library Collections, integrates the collections of Polish scientific and academic libraries. It provides access to directories of authority headings (Central Master of Authority Headings). Includes, among others, books, periodicals, sound recordings, music prints, films, cartographic documents, documents of social life

• KaRo (new window) – Distributed Catalogue of Polish Libraries is a search tool collecting information from many Polish bibliographical catalogues

• WorldCat (new window) – catalogue of library collections from around the world

• Multisearch (new window) – allows simultaneously searching printed and electronic resources, available in the form of bibliographic descriptions, as well as full texts provided by the CUT Library. If the item you are looking for is not available in the CUT Library collections, you can order it via the Interlibrary Loans (or use other services)

Selected scientific search engines

• Arianta (new window) – detailed information about Polish scientific and professional electronic journals

• BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (new window) – scientific publications in journals, repositories and e-collections of proven quality, about 60% of indexed resources available in OA

• British Library EThOS (new window) – PhD theses defended at British universities, OA

• Crossref (new window) – gives you the ability to search metadata for articles, books, datasets, technical reports and other sources

• CEON (new window) – Repository of the Center for Open Science - contains publications of Polish scientists in Open Access

• DART-Europe E-theses Portal (new window) – service created with the cooperation of European libraries, access to doctoral theses

• Dataset Search (new window) – searching for datasets posted in repositories

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (new window) – worldwide journal catalogue

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (new window) – full-text scientific books

• Free FullPDF (new window) – search engine for full scientific texts in OA, in fields such as social sciences and humanities, health, physics, mathematics

• Google Books (new window) – allows you to search excerpts and full texts in books

• Google Patents (new window) – search for patent publications and other technical documents and books

• Google Scholar (new window) – a public search engine for a wide variety of scientific papers, theses, court opinions and more; allows searching from many fields and sources (including publishers, associations, repositories, universities), includes publication citation statistics

• SciCentral (new window) – search for available online resources in science, engineering and medical sciences

• Science.gov (new window) – a catalogue and search engine for scientific resources created by U.S. government organizations

• Virtual Learning Resources Center (new window) – searching databases, scientific portals and university and public library services recommended by librarians and teachers