The electronic resources we have licensed include full texts and bibliographic information (partly with abstracts). Full texts of e-books and e-journals can be retrieved, read, printed or temporarily stored for scientific purposes. Depending on the platform, e-books can be printed and downloaded as a complete PDF, chapter and/or section.
With a few exceptions, the contents of our e-resources can be researched in Olav. In addition, the following platforms are available for your research.
If articles or e-book chapters are not available, they can be ordered via our interlibrary loan service.
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Electronic resources with content in German can be found here.
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The ABI/INFORM Collection database contains thousands of articles, case studies, company profiles, country reports, dissertations, etc. from the field of economics, mainly in English.
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On the AWMF online platform you can find informationsabout up-to-date and ongoing Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) made by the member societies of AWMF (Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany).
CINAHL with full text is the electronic form of the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. As a comprehensive research tool for nurses and healthcare professionals, the database provides access to the full texts of over 600 journals and nearly 4 million references. Access is campus-wide and limited to 1 user. There is also access to the eBook Nursing Collection with more than 600 care e-books.
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Thomson Scientific's Derwent Innovations Index is a web-based database containing patent literature from more than 40 patent offices.
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With the Business Collection, more than 24,000 predominantly English-language e-books from the field of Business & Economics are available campus-wide.
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The Electronic Journals Library is a service for the effective use and clear presentation of scientific full-text journals on the Internet.
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Inspec is a reference database containing bibliographic references and abstracts of international literature on physics and technology.
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The IOP Science database on physics offers access to all full texts of current and archived journals of the renowned Institute of Physics (IOP) and partner publishers from 1874 onwards.
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The JSTOR platform offers the specialist collections Economic Sciences I and Mathematics & Statistics with access to older journal volumes.
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The Nature Publishing Group (npg) provides the full texts of the following journals and volumes:
Nature (1869-2007)
Nature Biotechnology (1983-2007)
Nature Genetics (1992-2007)
Nature Medicine (1995-2007)
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (1994-2007)
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The portal Pressreader offers access to over 7,000 daily newspapers and magazines from various countries. Included are, for example, daily updated issues of Washington Post, The Guardian, The Observer, Forbes, Standard, Presse, NZZ or FAZ. This offer is made possible thanks to a generous donation from a patron of the FH Vorarlberg.
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PubMed is a free search engine comprising more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed is provided by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).
More than 400 e-journals are available on the SAGE platform. In addition to social sciences and humanities journals, the range of topics also includes journals from the fields of "Business & Management" and "Media and Communication Studies".
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With the Subject Collection "Physical Sciences and Engineering", the ScienceDirect platform, the web portal of the Elsevier publishing house, provides approx. 800 full-text journals from the fields of technology and computer science from 1995 onwards.
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The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) is the world's leading specialist society in applied research on optical technologies. The SPIE Digital Library contains over 400,000 documents from conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals.
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On the SpringerLink platform you will find e-books and e-journals on various topics.
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The Statista portal bundles statistical data from different institutes and sources on a wide variety of topics.
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TEMA Technology and Management (formerly FIZ Technology) offers literature references with abstracts in German and international publications in the fields of mechanical and plant engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, materials science, energy technology, plant management and organization, medical technology, industrial information technology, mining and textile technology.
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The ABI/INFORM Collection database contains thousands of articles, case studies, company profiles, country reports, dissertations, etc. from the field of economics, mainly in English.
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CINAHL with full text is the electronic form of the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. As a comprehensive research tool for nurses and healthcare professionals, the database provides access to the full texts of over 600 journals and nearly 4 million references. Access is campus-wide and limited to 1 user. There is also access to the eBook Nursing Collection with more than 600 care e-books.
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With the Business Collection, more than 24,000 predominantly English-language e-books from the field of Business & Economics are available campus-wide.
Print and download functions are available for chapters and/or sections.
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The JSTOR platform offers the specialist collections Economic Sciences I and Mathematics & Statistics with access to older journal volumes.
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To the platform via Shibboleth
The portal Pressreader offers access to over 7,000 daily newspapers and magazines from various countries. Included are, for example, daily updated issues of Washington Post, The Guardian, The Observer, Forbes, Standard, Presse, NZZ or FAZ. This offer is made possible thanks to a generous donation from a patron of the FH Vorarlberg.
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More than 400 e-journals are available on the SAGE platform. In addition to social sciences and humanities journals, the range of topics also includes journals from the fields of "Business & Management" and "Media and Communication Studies".
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To the platform via Shibboleth
On the SpringerLink platform you will find e-books and e-journals on various topics.
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The Statista portal bundles statistical data from different institutes and sources on a wide variety of topics.
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Thomson Scientific's Derwent Innovations Index is a web-based database containing patent literature from more than 40 patent offices.
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With the Business Collection, more than 24,000 predominantly English-language e-books from the field of Business & Economics are available campus-wide.
Print and download functions are available for chapters and/or sections.
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Inspec is a reference database containing bibliographic references and abstracts of international literature on physics and technology.
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The IOP Science database on physics offers access to all full texts of current and archived journals of the renowned Institute of Physics (IOP) and partner publishers from 1874 onwards.
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The portal Pressreader offers access to over 7,000 daily newspapers and magazines from various countries. Included are, for example, daily updated issues of Washington Post, The Guardian, The Observer, Forbes, Standard, Presse, NZZ or FAZ. This offer is made possible thanks to a generous donation from a patron of the FH Vorarlberg.
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With the Subject Collection "Physical Sciences and Engineering", the ScienceDirect platform, the web portal of the Elsevier publishing house, provides approx. 800 full-text journals from the fields of technology and computer science from 1995 onwards.
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The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) is the world's leading specialist society in applied research on optical technologies. The SPIE Digital Library contains over 400,000 documents from conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals.
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On the SpringerLink platform you will find e-books and e-journals on various topics.
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The Statista portal bundles statistical data from different institutes and sources on a wide variety of topics.
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TEMA Technology and Management (formerly FIZ Technology) offers literature references with abstracts in German and international publications in the fields of mechanical and plant engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, materials science, energy technology, plant management and organization, medical technology, industrial information technology, mining and textile technology.
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